Our gardeners found something very interesting indeed when looking for bugs today in the Secret Garden. The children have named him Jeffery and wanted you to see him, hopefully we’ll see him again next week
Year 3 Gardening Club have been busy weeding the flowerbeds and planting sunflowers this week!
They’re looking forward to looking after them over the next few weeks and seeing how they grow!
Year 4 have been working hard this year on their Times Tables – some even choosing to attend Times Tables Club after school on a Thursday.
Each session starts with a bit of healthy competition – playing each other on TTRS! Then we finish off by getting up and moving, playing times table games or dancing along to BBC Supermovers!
Keep Fit Club had great fun this week as Miss Ingoe brought in a giant parachute!
We worked as a team to lift the parachute in time, creating a mushroom and played games like cat and mouse and shark attack! There was a lot of laughter 😂
Year 6 children have been enjoying their Monday evening drawing club with Mrs Sloanes. We definitely have some budding artists in the making!
It has been a busy start to our new gardening club.
We have looked around our school environment and worked out what we could do to improve it. We talked about how to improve our school grounds. Suggestions from the children included putting more bins around school for rubbish, encouraging more wild life and what sort of plants might be needed. We also talked about making things out of recycled objects and keeping the place environmentally friendly.
We did our own litter pick and found some interesting things but also lots of things that were bad for the environment.
We have also recorded the sounds outside and were able to use to listen to what different noises birds make so if we went outside and closed our eyes we could still identify what birds we could hear. We used binoculars to watch for birds around the school. We did a tally chart and sent off the survey to the RSPB- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The children received a certificate for showing interest and helping research in our local environment.
We have been also discussed what plants need to grow and planted cress. The children have been given their cress to take home with them and to look after and care for their plants. Instructions were given in how to care for their cress properly and we will bring the cress back into club next Thursday and judge who has done the best job of looking after their plant.
West Boldon Cinema aired ‘Goosebumps’. Years 5 and 6 enjoyed watched the movie with friends, all snuggled in their pjs. We had interval snacks of hotdogs, popcorn and juice. Stay tuned for our next showing!
We have not only been reading some fabulous stories, but have been talking about the love of books and reading.
We look at the pictures, we read the blurb and even predict what will happen. Recently we have been looking at Julia Donaldson stories such as the classic Gruffalo and The Stick Man.
We have been having great fun acting out the Gruffalo and Mrs Sloanes does some very funny voices!
We are looking forward to our special Christmas Reading Club where we will get cozy around the tree with hot chocolate and snacks whilst Mrs Sloanes reads us some Christmas stories!
