In Year 4, our current topic is “Picture our Planet,” where we are learning about contrasting localities around the world.
First, we learnt all about Brazil in terms of its location in the world, climate, physical and human features and traditions.
We are now learning about Scotland and today we learnt a traditional Scottish reel dance. The children all worked so hard learning the steps and then performing for Mrs Garr.
Some of the Science club have had a really exciting week looking at fire starting. They now understand the fire triangle (heat, fuel and oxygen) and how if you take one away the fire will go out.
The children practiced using a flint and steel and realised the friction caused a spark (heat) to light the cotton pad. After many goes we all had the hang of it and were rewarded with a campfire to toast marshmallows.
Class 3 were enlisted to rescue some endangered koala bears stuck up the trees, as part of our Steve Backshall inspired Commando Joe mission. We have been learning about the term ‘endangered’ so knew we needed to think carefully about how best to solve this problem.
As always they worked well as a team, demonstrating great communication skills, resilience and perseverance.
Our Year 5 and Year 6 students took part in the swimming gala at Boldon Comp today giving their best efforts in different swimming routines/relays. They won third place with first place only three points away.
Well done West Boldon!
Well done to all of our amazing stars this week!!
Attendance Winners this week
Golden Coin winner this week
Stars of the Week for 1st July 2022
Year 3 enjoyed a fabulous afternoon today. Rob from ZooLab came to visit us as part of our rainforests topic to show us different animals that call the rainforest their home.
We met animals from the forest floor, the understorey, the canopy layer and the emergent layer. The children were so brave and handled all of the animals with great care. They listened very intently to what Rob had to say and asked so many insightful questions!
Mrs Garr even popped in to meet some!
Yesterday, 27th June, our rounders team took part in a rounders competition at Boldon School. Our two teams competed very well and played some great rounders. The children behaved very well and really enjoyed themselves. We eventually finished fourth – a great achievement. Well done everybody.
Today Year 3 went on their trip to the Hindu temple, which was lead by the lovely Kirtida.
We have learnt about Hinduism in the Autumn and now Summer term. Religious Education (RE) makes a major contribution to the education of our children here in West Boldon Primary. It helps pupils develop knowledge and understanding of religion and of the differing religions and non-religious beliefs represented in Great Britain today.
The children were able to show off their Hinduism knowledge so far, ask lots of questions and try on some Hindu clothing- sari, bangles, bindis and turbans. They learnt some dancing, musical instruments (Surbahar) and even how to play the Mridangam.
Year 1 had fun at Kirkley Hall Zoological Gardens this week. They had a tour of the zoo looking at all of the different animals, watch the meerkats at feeding time, got to touch a bearded dragon and a cockroach!
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