Well done to the children who won the Strive for 5 raffle today. They received a special prize to celebrate their excellent attendance this week.
Strive for 5 is one of our attendance initiatives. If children attend school for 5 consecutive days and arrive on time all week, each Friday their name will be put into a raffle. A winner from each class will be selected.
This week we celebrated 25 years of World Book Day by coming to school dressed as our favourite book characters.
All around the school, children had a fantastic time completing activities related to World Book Day, reading with their friends and discussing their love of reading!
Here are some photos of us in our costumes…
On Monday 28th February, the children of West Boldon Primary School wore red to raise money for local charity CHUF.
CHUF stands for Children’s Heart Unit Fund which is based at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle. The charity supports the children and families who receive treatment at the Freeman and the many other hospitals providing cardiac care for patients throughout the North-East of England. They raise vital funds for pieces of equipment, facilities, aftercare, salaries and research. Freeman Hospital is also one of only two hospitals in the UK performing heart transplants for babies and children.
To raise money, children took part in a cake sale, and a ‘guess the hearts in the jar’ game. Altogether we managed to raise a huge £302.95 – all heading straight to CHUF to make some miracles happen!
Don’t we all look amazing in red!
On Tuesday 8th February 2022, children in West Boldon Primary recognised Safer Internet Day.
In their PSHE lessons, they discussed this year’s theme: ‘All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online’. Here are some thing they have been doing to recognise and learn about this important day.
Year 1 listened to a story about Digiduck and how to behave kindly online and how to keep ourselves safe. They discussed and sorted out things we should and shouldn’t do online and pretended to be Digiduck and Wise_Owl to help others to know what to do or not do online.
Watch the video below to see Year 2 play Internet Traffic Light game for internet safety day. If they think an app/website is green (right for them) they can step forward twice, if they’re unsure (yellow) and if they think it is not right for then (red) they stand still.
Children explained why they chose each traffic light for each app/website and how they can be safe online.
Children in Year 3 thought about their online community, and their online world. They learned that their community refers to the people they know in real life, such as friends and family, and their world refers to the people they don’t know in real life, such as celebrities, footballers and Youtubers.
They wrote down 3 people from their community, and 2 people from their world – thinking for each about how they connect with these people online. They then talked about how we communicate with others in many different ways.
As part of Safer Internet Day Year 4 looked at how our actions and words can harm others.
We learned about norms and how our community has lots of norms to help us stay happy and healthy.
In small groups we created a norm that would help us stay safe on the internet. We then signed it to pledge that we would stick to it.
Year 6 read Sita’s story and discussed how they would respond, if they were her, to the different scenarios. They thought about the best ways to keep safe, while also benefit the friendship.
Children at West Boldon Primary have been dressing up for digits this week to raise money for the NSPCC. Here’s what each year group have been getting up to…
As part of Digit Day, Year 1 took part in a variety of Maths activities. These included using the Hit the Button game online and also playing our new favourite game, ‘Get out of my house!’, which helped us to practise addition and quick recall of number bonds.
Children in Year 2 were having to really think about partitioning numbers to work out how to win the game! Amazing competition!
Year 3 celebrated number day with a problem solving treasure hunt task. They had to find the pieces of a key which were hidden around the room, the location of each key was only revealed when children solved a maths problem. They had to work in teams to assemble the key.
Then, they took part in some solvemoji problems, before writing some of their own for their friends to solve. Some of them were really tricky!
It was great to see the children dressed up today. There was sports shirts, dance tops, year tops, some awesome home made ones and some very clever uses of numbers from movies etc.
With it being digit day we had to get involved with some awesome maths activity. Year 4 took part in a special NSPCC Times Table Rockstars competition (which was available only today on digit day).
We also took on some really difficult solve emoji puzzles. The children worked in pairs and it took some real brain power. They needed to use their logical thinking, their problem solving ability and skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division!!!
Some of them even had a trick element in! Every pair worked so hard and as a class we competed nearly 70 puzzles!
Year 6 spent the morning solving maths riddles, decoding and following directions on a compass. We have also solved codes, played countdown and challenged each other in a dice game. We’ve used problem solving and reasoning skills. Year 6 have thoroughly enjoyed the challenge.
Design Technology provides children with unique opportunities to develop skills, knowledge and understanding of designing and making functional products for particular purposes and uses. The children in Year 2 are choosing one of the famous people they have studied and design and make a gift for them. As part of this task, they have the opportunity to stretch their imaginations, to design and problem solve and to understand the needs of other people.
Year 2 are looking at art created by Christy Brown who painted pictures with his foot. It made perfect sense for the children to have a go too!
At West Boldon Primary we celebrated Christmas Jumper Day this year on Monday 13th December 2021.
Children were invited to come to school wearing their Christmas jumpers or T-shirts on this day to share some Christmas cheer!
This morning, Year 1 and Year 2 (Key Stage 1) took a wintry Christmas walk to St Nicholas’ Church. Once there, the children sung some of their favourite Christmas carols in this beautiful environment and talked with Reverend Paul about how Christians celebrate Christmas.
Reverend Paul was very impressed with some of the questions relating to the church itself.
All of the children were so impeccably behaved and are a real credit to our school!
At West Boldon Primary School, we value the rights of our learners and strive to keep them at the heart of our ethos and culture. To support us in doing this, we successfully applied to become a ‘Rights Respecting School’ at Bronze Award level, which is given on behalf of Unicef UK.
Unicef is the world’s leading organisation working for children and young people and their rights. In 1989, governments across the world agreed that all children have the same rights by adopting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, based on what a child needs to survive, grow, participate and fulfil their potential. Children at West Boldon Primary will learn about their own rights, the rights of others and how they can be a force for change and equality in both their time at school and in their own futures.
As part of our work towards this award, we will be hosting a ShoeShare event, where we ask for donations of old or unwanted shoes (no holes or broken soles, please!). These shoes are then donated for re-use through a local Clarks store, earning a donation towards Unicef’s work and supporting those in need. This event will take place during the week beginning 13th December. Shoes can be brought to the Main Office or given to your child’s class team.
We really hope that you will be able to support our school on our journey towards becoming a Unicef UK Rights Respecting School.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask or visit unicef.org.uk/crc or www.unicef.org.uk/rrsa.
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