Anti-Bullying Week 2021

19th November 2021Miss K. Wilkinson
Anti-Bullying Week: One Kind Word

At West Boldon we celebrated Anti-Bullying Week during the week 15th-19th November 2021.

This year’s theme is ‘One Kind Word’. Kindness is more important today than it has ever been. The isolation of the last year has underlined how little acts of consideration can break down barriers and brighten the lives of the people around us.

Our children were able to come to school wearing odd socks on Monday 15th November to recognise and celebrate all of our individual differences.

Year 1's odd socks for Anti Bullying Week Year 2's odd socks for Anti Bullying Week

Each year group took part in a different activity throughout the week to recognise and understand the importance of Anti-Bullying Week.

As part of Year 3’s lesson they made notes of some ideas of ways they could show kindness and respect to one another:

“smile at people”
“play with them”
“you can keep an eye out for them”
“tell them a joke”

Year 3's ideas to be kinder to one another

Year 5 also showed their understanding of what bullying is. Here are their ideas:

Year 5 anti-bullying week activity

Remembrance Day 2021

12th November 2021Miss K. Wilkinson
Children gathering to show their respect at 11am We will remember them...

Whilst we aren’t able to hold full school events inside due to COVID, we were thankfully still able to go outside to recognise Remembrance Day.

We heard the Last Post and stood in silence for two minutes to show our respect.

Children gathering to show their respect at 11am Children gathering to show their respect at 11am Children gathering to show their respect at 11am Children gathering to show their respect at 11am Year 1 children with their wreathChildren gathering to show their respect at 11am Children gathering to show their respect at 11am Children gathering to show their respect at 11am Children gathering to show their respect at 11am Children gathering to show their respect at 11am
Each class has created their own wreath and we have also created our own school wreath that will be placed at the Boldon cenotaph.

West Boldon Primary Schools wreath for the Boldon cenotaph All of the wreaths made by the children A wreath made by the children A wreath made by the children Year 4's wreath Year 3's wreath A wreath made by the children A wreath made by the children
Class 14 also created remembrance artwork for commemorate Remembrance Day. They used the medium of charcoal to create an image of what we may see over the top in no man’s land, whilst listening to Remembrance music. We hope you like our artwork:

Children in Year 6 creating their charcoal drawings  Children in Year 6 working on their charcoal drawings Year 6 children working on their charcoal drawings
Year 6's charcoal drawings for Remembrance DayYear 6's completed drawings

Chinese New Year

7th February 2020R Smith

Class 1 and 2 had great fun this term learning about Chinese New Year.

We learnt about the traditions around the celebration and talked about how there were similarities to our recent Christmas celebrations.  We noticed that families prepared for Chinese New Year by cleaning and decorating their homes.  The children were given gifts of money and new clothes.

We learnt that the lucky colours for Chinese New Year were red, gold and yellow.  We used this knowledge to create our own dragon.

We had great fun performing our own dragon dance and scaring away any bad luck that was lingering in our school!

We learnt that Chinese writing looks different to how we are learning how to write and we all had a really great try at writing rat – the animal this year is named after.

We loved having the opportunity to prepare and eat our own Chinese stir fry.  Everyone helped to cut and slice the vegetables.  All of us tasted the stir fry, some us thought it was so delicious we had two helpings!

Remembrance Day

15th November 2019R Smith

Class 1 and Class 2 spent some time this week learning about Remembrance Day.  We started from the question the children had all been asking Why do we wear poppies?

The children discovered that they help us remember the brave soldiers.  We also watched the Cbeebies short film Poppies and found out that poppies appeared in the fields once the fighting ended.

We were very proud of how our children made and wore their own poppies with pride.