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 🚀
Our Eco-Warriors have been busy today. We have been tidying up our Secret Garden ready for the summer. The warriors have been weeding, planting and litter picking ♻️🍃🌺
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.
Our children are very special and are all superstars, this week though some have gone above and beyond with their learning. Well done to this weeks ‘stars’ of the week and our special golden token winner. 🎉⭐️🌟
Year 4 started a new topic in French this week- parts of the face and body!
They started the session recapping their last topic on animals. Then looked at the head, the children were introduce to the words for head, ears, eyes, nose, mouth and hair. They played several games to learn and practice saying and seeing the words in both French and English.
Then they put our listening skills to the test. The children had to listen to a description of an alien and draw it. They used the new words for face and used their prior knowledge of French numbers to work out whether the aliens needed 1 or 13 eyes! Take a look at their aliens.
Year 3 have been doing lots of work on fractions of an amount and number. We have been making unit and non-unit fractions using place value counters. In groups we had to read the fraction, identify how many equal groups there were and then make the fraction using counters. This also recapped on our prior learning of place value such as ‘exchanging’ to be able to share equally.
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