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

Aerial views using Kapla blocks

19th November 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

As part of Class 3’s Dimensions Geography work, the children learned about aerial views and used Google Maps to see the school from above. They used the Kapla blocks to build an aerial view of our classroom. Some children then drew how their bedroom would look from above.

Class 3's aerial view

Fundraise and Recycle!

18th November 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

You may have noticed the new clothing container on school grounds.

We have signed up to the ‘Fundraise and Recycle Ltd’ scheme in a bid to reduce waste, recycle and reuse unloved clothing and goods. Our school will then earn money for every full container.

Please make use of this facility, bring in your unwanted clothing (but still in decent condition) and help us fundraise for our school at the same time!

Fundraise and Recycle Logo Our new clothing container

Factors and Prime Numbers

18th November 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 5 have been learning about factors and prime numbers in Maths. They have learnt that a factor is a number that divides into another number exactly and without leaving a remainder. They also now understand that a prime number only has two factors – the number itself and 1.

Year 5 children working to find factors using counters Year 5 children working to find factors using counters

Maths Week England

13th November 2021Miss K. Wilkinson
Maths Week England

As a school we recognised Maths Week England this week, with each year group completing a different maths challenge. Here are some things we got up to…

Year 1

Class 4 enjoyed our Maths Week Challenge this week. The children had to create three robots and use the vocabulary big, bigger, biggest to describe them. Some of the children extended their own learning by adding the length of the robots legs, body and head together. It was a tricky task to add three numbers together so they chose to use numicon to help them

Class 4's maths work for Maths Week England Class 4's maths work for Maths Week England Class 4's maths work for Maths Week England Class 4's maths work for Maths Week England Class 4's maths work for Maths Week England Class 4's maths work for Maths Week England
During maths week Class 3 took on the challenge of seeing how many different ways we could sort the houses. The children were really good at grouping the houses and talking about the similarities and differences. Some children even recorded their findings in a list.

Sorting in Year 1 Sorting in Year 1 Sorting in Year 1 Sorting in Year 1 Sorting in Year 1 Sorting in Year 1 Sorting in Year 1
Year 3 and 4

Year 3 and 4 recognised Maths Week by taking part in a Times Table Rockstars Competition. They were able to play for 1 hour a day to earn points. The children loved the competitive element and we have some fantastic mathematicians in Lower Key Stage 2!

At the end of the week, the scores were totalled and below are the leaderboards for the pupil totals (top 10 players) and the class totals. Well done to all of the children who took part!

Times Table Rockstars pupil leaderboard Times Table Rockstars class leaderboard

 

Year 6

As part of Maths Week England, Year 6 have taken part in fun maths activities all week. We have participated in the daily challenges and worked in groups to solve some ‘magic maths’, where we learnt the magic of number through cards. Great fun was had on Mangahigh as we took part in a live lesson on geometric properties.

Year 6 taking part in Maths Week Year 6 taking part in Maths Week  Year 6 taking part in Maths Week
Year 6 taking part in Maths Week Year 6 taking part in Maths Week Year 6 taking part in Maths Week

Rugby skills

12th November 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

Class 14 throughly enjoy our weekly rugby sessions with our amazing rugby coach, John. We have learned so much from his training and enthusiastically take part in practice tag rugby matches.

Year 6 enjoying their rugby lessons with John Year 6 enjoying their rugby lessons with John
Year 6 enjoying their rugby lessons with John
Year 6 enjoying their rugby lessons with John

Bring It On Net Zero 2021

12th November 2021Miss K. Wilkinson
Bring It On Net Zero 2021

Year 6 took part in the Bring It On Net Zero 2021 virtual event. We became engineers and generated ideas for companies to become more environmentally friendly. Throughout the day, we listened to the career paths of many different types of companies and were inspired by the wealth of STEM opportunities there are. Our Year 6 pupils are extremely creative and inventive: we hope you like our ideas….

Year 6's work from Bring It On Net Zero Year 6's work from Bring It On Net Zero Year 6's work from Bring It On Net Zero Year 6's work from Bring It On Net Zero Year 6's work from Bring It On Net Zero Year 6's work from Bring It On Net Zero

Fun with chalks

12th November 2021Miss K. Wilkinson

At lunchtime play today, the children enjoyed working together to brighten the school yards up with drawings of a range of beautiful flowers using chalks. The flowers looked so colourful and the children were very proud of their drawings.

KS2 children enjoying using the chalks to draw during their lunch break KS1 children enjoying using the chalks to draw during their lunch break

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