As part of year 5’s PSHE lesson today the children were given Scrabble tiles to make words. The main focus was to see who worked ‘collaboratively’. It was interesting to see who made their own and who worked as a team to make a Scrabble board. We discussed how to improve and work collaboratively and the children began to make group boards by using each other’s alphabet tiles.
The Year One children this term are following a topic theme called “Going Wild”. In art we have had to explore the technique of printing. We found a little out about Andy Warhol, especially his series of work called “endangered species”. We then explored animal patterns and tried sketching out some of our own. We picked our favourite pattern and then transferred it on to styrofoam to make our own printing tile. We finished our work by exploring how to use a brayer and printing ink to create our own printed patterns. The children had a lot of fun and were amazed at their creations.
For Arts Week we have been using the text ‘It’s Up to Us’ as a focus, each year group picking a different element of environmental issues to draw attention to with their artwork. Children in Year 3 sketched polar bears.
First, the sketched them out and coloured them, before painting a background using water colours. Finally, they will draw their polar bears again and cut them out to place on the watercolour background. We can’t wait to see the final results!
Class 3 took advantage of the lovely weather this afternoon. We took our art lesson outdoors, where we sketched different animal patterns as part of our ‘Going Wild’ topic.
Some of our year 3/4 pupils had a great day out on Friday at the South Tyneside Quad kids sports competition. The gave their all at Monkton Stadium and put in some amazing performances but unfortunately it wasn’t our day. Maybe next year!
Year 5 went to Boldon Comp to compete in the annual rugby tournament. They showed fantastic teamwork, resilience and confidence in their matches. We are so proud how they represented the school and themselves. Our teams came 1st and 2nd!
Well done everyone!
Year 3 were overjoyed to take their Lion masks home recently! As part of the Come fly with me Africa topic we learned lots of information about food chains, the lion’s teeth and animation with ‘The Lion King’.
In DT we designed and made our own lion mask using papier-mâché!
Year One came together to celebrate Pyjamarama with cosy blankets, hot chocolate and some of our favourite bedtime stories read by Miss Smith
Class 4are learning about the famous palaeontologist Mary Anning this term in history. Today they recreated one of her famous fossil finds – the ithyosaur. The children estimated how long 5.2metres was and then used a trundle wheel to measure the distance out. They then used the Kapla blocks to build the likeness of the ithyosaur.
As part of our dimensions topic ‘War of The Worlds’ year 5 went on a trip to Eden Camp.
The children learnt how the modern history museum was originally a prisoner of war camp. They explored the the different huts which covered different aspect of the war, starting with the rise of the Nazi Party, Hitler and The Outbreak of War. Other topics include: Rationing, Evacuees, The Blitz, Air Raid, Animals at War and Women at War ect.
The trip allowed the children to deepen their understanding of history and the impact of WWI & WWII. Overall, they had a great day out with a few ice creams and gifts from the gift shop.
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