We’ve reached the end of yet another fantastic week at West Boldon. Well done to all of our fantastic stars this week and congratulations to our Golden Coin winner. Look how happy he is to receive his book from the book vending machine!
Class 4 embarked on the design technology project of our Dimensions “happily ever after” theme this week.
We have been asked to design a bag for a fairy. We have completed a needs analysis. Looked at a variety of human sized bags and considered the pros and cons of each style of bag.
Today we shared ideas on how we thought our bags might look and then spent some time designing.
A few of us began making our fairy bags. We’re all looking forward to finishing them and sending them to the fairies in the secret garden.
Year 1 had a brilliant afternoon at St Nicholas’ Church on Thursday.
The children were excited to spot the spire as we approached the church and simply beside themselves to meet Reverend Paul “from the tele”
Reverend Paul and Emma showed us all around the church and answered all of our questions. The children were full of awe and wonder as they explored the beautiful old church.
We are thankful for Rev Paul and Emma for giving up their time to help us with our RE question this term “What can we learn about Christianity from visiting a church?”
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Year 3 love a practical maths lesson!
Today they had to compare objects using our place value knowledge, using concrete objects (base 10).
They identified the numbers, made the numbers, and then formed a number sentence using ‘greater than & less than’. Some of the children even moved on to using inequality symbols.
They were then challenged by answering questions such as ‘What is 1,10 or 100 less or more than’ a given number.
Year 4 have received a visit from the police this week. They came to talk to them about being safe online as part of their current topic. The children had to guess the age limits on games, they discussed their digital footprint, took part in a quiz and had a chance to ask questions.
Maybe we have a few budding officers of the future in our class!
As part of our Dimensions topic, “That’s All Folks”, Year 3 are learning about animations.
Using their computing skills they worked in pairs to log onto the chromebooks, open Google Classroom and research films created by Pixar and Dreamworks. The children can now name so many films made by each animation studio! This also gave them lots of ideas for their own animations which they will plan and create later in the topic.
We also discovered the first fully computerised animation – Toy Story (we all love that film).
On Friday some of our staff and children began using the TV studio equipment we are currently renting from the OpenZone to film our very first Subject Ambassador video!
Over the course of the year, our chosen Subject Ambassadors will work with our Curriculum Lead (Miss Swales), Subject Ambassador Leads (Miss Wilkinson and Miss Ingoe) and resident film expert (Mr Mills) to talk about their chosen subject, their favourite things about the subject, the topics they have covered, and the skills they have learnt during their time at West Boldon.
Here are the Computing Subject Ambassadors having their turn under the spotlight!
Video coming soon…
Year 1 have been using the text ‘Owl Babies’ by Martin Waddell in their Guided Reading sessions. On Friday, the children worked in pairs to order pictures from the story and used them to retell the story in their own words. After they practised with their partner, we retold it as a whole class, adding in more detail and interesting vocabulary.
Celebrating the end of another wonderful week at West Boldon! Our Friday afternoon assemblies are always a treat to see and hear all about the children who have worked hard all week. Here are this weeks winners!
Year One have been back in The Secret Garden this week. We made a hedgehog village out of bricks and wood and we each made a clay hedgehog to take home for our own garden. We then picked some sunflower seeds out of one of our dead sunflowers, we will replant them next Spring. We also loved using the power drill to make a hanging bug hotel.
