Here are some photographs of the children enjoying lunchtime play today, they are especially enjoying playing the games that are newly painted on the yard!
The children were also inspired by the upcoming Queens Jubilee celebration and they used the chalks to draw the Queen and her crowns on the school yard.
Today Year 5 attended the annual Castle View Academy cricket tournament in beautiful sunshine. Having attended a few weeks after school training we came 4th out of 8 teams. Winning 3 of the 5 games played. Well played Yr5! 🏏☀️
In Class 3, we had the challenge of finding all possible combinations of robots, using different heads, bodies and legs. the body parts included length measurements which we have recently covered in maths. We had to make the tallest and shortest robots. We than had to calculate the overall length of the robots.
The children worked systematically and shared their methods with the rest of the class!
Year 3 enjoyed a wonderfully arty afternoon yesterday when, as part of their Dimensions topic on the Stone Age, they learnt about cave paintings.
They learnt that in the Stone Age, the people did not write and so drew pictures to communicate ideas and stories. They then each drew their own cave painting on the cave walls (overturned tables!).
Their designs were brilliant. Some drew hunter-gatherers hunting for animals to eat, some drew them cooking on the fire, and some drew them celebrating and spending time together.
All of the children had a lot of fun showing off their knowledge of the Stone Age, as well as their artistic skills. They also learned just how tricky it would have been to draw at that angle!
Well done to the children who won the Strive for 5 raffle today. They received a special prize to celebrate their excellent attendance this week.
Strive for 5 is one of our attendance initiatives. If children attend school for 5 consecutive days and arrive on time all week, each Friday their name will be put into a raffle. A winner from each class will be selected.
Class 4 celebrated 100% attendance today, for the second time in three weeks!
The Yeah 4 and 5 STEM club started tonight. The children were tasked with fixing a companies problem with a broken bridge. Each group spent time looking at different bridges and deciding on a shape before creating their own bridge.
We then tested each bridge by placing weights on it until it collapsed: 2 bridges held over 1kg!!!
A great evening had by all! Roaring Rockets next week 🚀
Year 1 had a great time exploring at the Great North Museum. They learnt all about fossils and hunted for artefacts. This was a great start to our new topic on Mary Anning 🦕
They took part in a workshop where we were able to touch and explore real fossils. They were shocked when they were given some fossilised dinosaur poop to explore! The children’s knowledge and theorising were super impressive and Jo from the museum thought they were palaeontologists of the future.
The children worked in small groups to match the equivalent fractions. This was interesting as the fractions were all represented in different ways.
They had to use their knowledge of unit and non-unit fractions to find all the groups, but also explain and justify their choices.
The children identified there were representations of one half, one third, one quarter and three quarters.
After matching in their groups, they then played a card game whereby they had to pick a fraction and gather all the cards that showed that fraction by only giving away one card each.
This half term year 3 will be learning all about The Stone Age.
Today we had an exciting lesson looking back at the different types of houses: Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic. We looked at the unique features, materials and styles of the dwellings. We also discussed the way of life and talked about how it’s developed over the years.
The children had a great time re-creating their own Stone Age house with many of them choosing the Mesolithic style. We think they look great and they had great fun learning about History, which is what it’s all about.
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