We have been enjoying the last of the warm weather in our garden recently. We are learning how to share resources and follow the rules. But most importantly, we have been making tonnes of new friends!
This half term, Year 3 will be reading ‘Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura. The story revolves around a young boy who finds himself back in time in the Stone Age! He meets a young girl and they become friends, having lots of interesting adventures together.
In our literacy lessons we will be focusing on narrative. We will be using this story to write our own retelling following Talk for Writing, then eventually we will write our own narrative where the main character travels in time.
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Children in Year 2 will be looking at the text ‘Wild’ by Emily Hughes.
A little wide eyed girl stares out from the cover of this beautiful picture book. The child found in the jungle is taught to talk by the birds, eat by the bears and play by foxes and she is ‘wild’.
Then she meets the humans…
Over the next half term, children in Year 2 will be making exciting predictions about who the girl is, writing a letter of persuasion and talking about the beautiful setting of the story.
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This term in Year 1 and 1/2 we are going to be reading ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ by Judith Kerr.
We love this story and cannot wait to start doing some fantastic activities.
We are going to be looking at speech and thought by talking about how each character feels and what they say in the story. We will be using speech and thought bubbles to explore this in our writing. We will also be looking at conjunctions to extend our sentences, which will help us towards the end of the term in our story retell. We will be creating our own story maps, exploring different characters and even making our own invitations to tea for very own tea party!
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4th September 2020
Dear Parents/Carers,
I hope you have all had a great summer break.
Taking on board the Government and Local Authority advice and guidelines, all children will return to school on Tuesday, 8th September, 2020 on a full-time basis. We are very excited that we will be able to see all of the children in school and we want to make everyone feel as safe as possible, whilst making the school as normal as possible.
I have included below some of the measurements and systems we will be putting in place. These will of course be under constant review and parents will be kept up to date with changes at every opportunity.
It is important that only one parent brings their child/children to school to reduce the amount of people coming to school to ensure we can keep to social distancing measures as best as possible. Please see the table below for start and end times together with their entrance for your child’s year group.
Start and End Times:
| Year Groups | Start Times | End Times | Entrance |
| YR | 9:00am | 3:15pm | Main Gate (buzzer) |
| Y1 & Y1/2 | 8:45am | 3:00pm | Lower Side Gate (Burn) |
| Y2 | 8:45am | 3:00pm | Main Gate (buzzer) |
| Y3 | 9:00am | 3:15pm | Upper Side Gate (Hindmarch Drive) |
| Y4 | 9:00am | 3:15pm | Lower Side Gate (Burn) |
| Y5 | 8:45am | 3:00pm | Upper Side Gate (Hindmarch Drive) |
| Y6 | 9:15am | 3:30pm | Main Gate (buzzer) |
Further Information:
- Children should attend school in correct school uniform, Children should bring 1 bag, 1 named water bottle, 1 coat.
- PE kits must be brought into school and left for the half term
- Communication with your child’s teacher can be done via email or telephone appointments
- Parents should only attend the school office if absolutely necessary and preferably by appointment
- Children will be taught in their classes and have access to a full and varied curriculum
- Children will be given their own equipment and desks will face forwards
- Reception teaching will operate as normal with access to age-appropriate provision
- Lunchtimes will be staggered and children will eat with their year group bubble
- Enhanced cleaning will be carried out during the school day
- Children will be encouraged to wash their hands on entry and continuously throughout the school day (They also have access to hand sanitisers in all classrooms and corridors)
We are all looking forward to the children returning to school and enjoying their lessons again alongside their teachers and friends.
Mrs Garr
Year 3 enjoyed our Sports Relief circuit training today run by Mr Darby and some Year 5 children. We competed in house colours on four different activities; hockey shot, throwing, step ups and skipping. We all worked fabulously as a team to get as many points as possible, cheering each other on all the way. The overall winner for Year 3 was blue house, well done Blue house!
As part of British Science Week, Year 4 have been learning about cargo ships and transporting goods around the world. We found out about the Cutty Sark which was built in 1869 and the children discussed how the ship managed to transport tea from China to England all those years ago.
The children were split into small teams and challenged to investigate the best shape, size and materials to use to keep a boat afloat. All teams made a rectangle shaped boat from paper as an initial test and investigated how many pennies the boat could hold before the boat sunk.
The groups had a fantastic afternoon and made wonderful boats in numerous shapes, sizes and used materials such as cardboard, plastic, paper, foam, foil and material. The children recorded their findings and found that larger boats could distribute the weight better and therefore took longer to sink and waterproof materials helped to stop the boats letting in water.
Despite the current situation in the UK, our staff have still been working and we have been open to the children of Key Workers. We are proud to provide support to these children and their families during this time. The children who have been in school this week have been such great fun and have taken part in a variety of activities.
On our walk back from the library this week we were very excited to spot not one but two rainbows. On Thursday this week we investigated are rainbows all around us?
We gathered together at Learning Challenge Headquarters to discuss this big question. The children talked about how they thought rainbows are made.
Some children suggested that rainbows are made from the rain, others thought it had something to do with a sunny day. Some children even thought it was unicorns magical horns that created the rainbows!
We talked about the weather on Tuesday and how this might have helped to create the rainbows we saw.
We watched a science clip that introduced us to the idea that the lights we see are made up of all of the colours, but when it is bent the colours appear.
We were introduced to the scientific word ‘refraction’ – how light can be bent as it passes through another object causing the spectrum of colours to appear.
The children were then challenge to answer the questions Can you find the colours of the rainbow in our garden? Can we see a rainbow? Can you make a rainbow?
Some children went in to the garden to investigate the colours in the natural world around us. They collected samples from the garden and compared them to the colours of the rainbow. They then explored what colours they could extract from these natural things.
Other children were very excited to use torches and CDs to explore light refraction. they were amazed to see the colours appearing in the reflective surface. The children noticed that by moving the torch they could change the shape and strength of the colours.
Some children chose to investigate how they can combine paints to make new colours to create a rainbow.
We finished our investigation by once again gathering together to review our activities. We found that some of the colours in the rainbow are around us in our garden and one child was even able to say that the colours in the garden change over the year. The children who investigated making their own colours of the rainbow were able to talk about how they combined the colours. The children who investigated can you see a rainbow, explained how they were able to bend the light to create rainbows. We are now waiting for a beautiful sunny day to investigate if we can bend the light with water in the garden.
Class One and Two visited East Boldon Library on Tuesday. After a very windy walk , the children were shown around the library. They had time to look through the children’s section and select their own book. They then took their book to be stamped. It was many of the children’s first visit to the library and they had lots of questions to ask about what things were and why things happened.
We are looking forward to making lots more trips to the the library in the future.
