Christmas has come to West Boldon Primary School this week and our beautiful Christmas tree is ready to bring Christmas joy to everyone who walks by!
In PSHCE, Year 1 have been learning about relationships and friendships. After exploring what we think a good friend is and deciding how we think we can be good friends, we wrote our very own recipe for a good friend. It is lovely!
In geography, Year 1 have been exploring the question ‘why can’t penguins live near the equator?’.
We have investigated the features of hot and cold places and designed our own animals that are especially suited to living in either a hot or a cold place.
In Art, Year 1 have been looking at colours, particularly hot and cold colours.
We have created a colour wheel and labeled which colours are ‘hot’ and which are ‘cold’.
We have also made some handprints with paint that show we understand how we can mix primary colours together to make new secondary colours, purple, green and orange!
‘TO GIVE, TO HELP, TO BE KIND AND CREATE HAPPINESS’
The Giving Project is in full swing in school this week! Here are some updates:
We’ve had another delivery of beautiful cakes to the local food bank.
Year 2 have painted Christmas tree decorations to give to a friend, and Year 3’s pom pom snowmen are coming along a treat!
Also, some children were kindly helping to decorate our Christmas tree in the school hall. Here are some Reception children hanging their baubles on the tree.
Today in R.E. Class 7 created their very own Christian Advent calendars. In R.E. lessons this half term we have been working towards answering the question: ‘How and why is Advent important to Christians?’
We discussed the meaning of Advent, and recapped the candles on the Advent wreath. Then the children created their own Advent Calendars for each week of Advent. Inside each door, they drew a picture of something related to Christmas and Christmastime. The end results are beautiful!
Today two of our school governors attended their last meetings at West Boldon Primary School.
Councillor Alison Strike and Councillor Joanne Bell in their roles of chair and vice chair have given over 50 years between them to our fabulous school and we very much appreciate them both. Over the years they have both constantly strived to ensure that your children get the best education we can provide. They will both be a big miss but we know they will always hold a special place in their hearts for our school.
A message from Joanne:
“After more than 30 years on the Governing board at the school I have left today. I would like to say a huge thank you to all the wonderful staff and fantastic children for the beautiful flowers and card I received. It really meant a lot to me and was a big surprise.
I’d like to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Best Wishes for the future
Cllr Joanne Bell”
In Maths, for the next few weeks, Year 5 are building on our knowledge of multiplication and division. We have been looking at multiples, factors and common factors. Striping back to basics, we have used four gets to create arrays to visualise numbers, which has really helped support our learning.
In Science this week, Year 5’s CSI team have been trying to discover what substance was put into Professor Brainstorm’s tea.
Continuing with our topic of properties and changes of materials, we looked at how to separate mixtures using sieving, evaporation, filtration and magnetism processes. The children also established that some changes are reversible and irreversible.
It turned out that someone had put sodium chloride in the professors tea… the investigation is ongoing. Check back next week for any case updates!
This week, Class 11 have been learning breakfast nouns in French. They tucked into a continental French breakfast consisting of: crossiants, pain au chocolat, orange juice and apple juice. This was a great experience for the children and they learnt lots of new words as well as the opportunity to practise their manners in French. Magnifique!
