Article of the Week (Week 4)

28th January 2022Miss K. Wilkinson
UNICEF Right of the Week

This week’s Articles of the Week are: Articles 2, 13 and 17!

Article 2- You have the right to protection against discrimination.

Article 13- You have the right to find out things and say what you think, unless it breaks the rights of others.

Article 17- You have the right to collect information from the media and to be protected from information that may harm you.

This month is LGBT History Month. Perhaps you can reflect upon why it is important to listen to, learn from and celebrate people’s differences in school and in our community.

Dividing 2-digits by 1-digit

27th January 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

This week Year 3 started their new maths concept of division.

They used the place value counters to practically create a 2-digit number and then divided it by a 1-digit number.

They drew their own place value charts on the tables in pairs (which made it very exciitng!)

They had to remember to make sure their groups were equal and to share out the tens first and then the ones.

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A Gift

26th January 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

Design Technology provides children with unique opportunities to develop skills, knowledge and understanding of designing and making functional products for particular purposes and uses. The children in Year 2 are choosing one of the famous people they have studied and design and make a gift for them. As part of this task, they have the opportunity to stretch their imaginations, to design and problem solve and to understand the needs of other people.

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Teamwork and communication in Year 1

26th January 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

During our Commando Joe lessons we have been thinking about the Lion King film. Today one of the characters was stranded in unknown territory. It was our job to work as a team to cross the river and rescue our friend without touching the floor!

Some awesome team work and communication skills from Class 3 today 🌟

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Introducing… the Eco-Committee!

26th January 2022Miss K. Wilkinson
Eco warriors logo

Mrs Davidson has assembled an incredible team of Eco-warriors to be our new Eco-Committee! They will meet once every half term to think of new green ways to improve our school.

Eco-Committee 2022

In their first meeting, the committee decided they are going to be ‘light savers’ and it is their job to turn off the classroom lights before lunch and home time to save some wasted energy.

Light savers turning off the lights to save energy

Sketching symbols of freedom

24th January 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

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Year 4 have been learning all American slavery in their topic Cry Freedom.

We have studied the way the slaves were treated and how they became slaves. This week we began to look at their journey to freedom.

We had a lovely art lesson looking at sketching symbols of freedom. The children chose up to 3 symbols to represent freedom such as birds flying, chains breaking and following the constellations.

Here are some examples of our work:

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Year 4's artwork Year 4's artwork

Year 5 Dodgeball Festival

24th January 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

On January 24th the Year 5 Dodgeball team attended the annual festival at Boldon School. They faced off against Hedworth Lane, East Boldon, Forest View and Biddick Hall in a bid for the much coveted gold medals.

Selected at random from widespread interest in Year 5, the side have been attending a few weeks of after-school sessions with Mr Houmark. Designed to get them into the game, working as a team and planning their tactics for use against other schools.

After a tough start against both East Boldon teams, they fought back with wins against Biddick Hall and Forest View. Eventually finishing 5th in the group. Over the coming week, the school will decide upon a new sport to offer after-school for KS2.

Year 5 dodgeball team

Lost and Found

24th January 2022Miss K. Wilkinson

In literacy, this term we are studying the story Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers.

We explored the beginning of the story through drama – trying to recreate the scenes from the story and contemplate how the characters might be feeling and what they might be thinking.

The children were able to generate some amazing adjectives to describe how the penguin might feel when he was lost.

They were also able to imagine how the boy felt when he opened the door to see a penguin there and what he might have thought.

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