Our Year 1 and 2 children have been exploring primary and secondary colours. Today, we investigated paint mixing and made predictions about what would happen when two primary colours were combined. The children took great care with their painting, experimenting thoughtfully and enjoying the magic of new colours appearing on their palettes. This learning will continue throughout the week as we explore how to create different shades and tints by adding white or black.
What an incredible day we’ve had celebrating World Book Day at West Boldon Primary! Our school has been filled with amazing characters from the wonderful world of books, and we have been blown away by the creativity and effort that has gone into the costumes. The children – and staff! – all look absolutely fantastic. From classic storybook characters to modern favourites, it has truly brought our love of reading to life across the school.
As part of today’s fantastic World Book Day celebrations, Mandy and her amazing catering team also created a truly magical Alice in Wonderland-themed lunch for all of our children! The dining hall was transformed into a wonderful Wonderland feast, and the food looked absolutely unbelievable. From the creative presentation to the delicious treats on offer, it was a lunchtime our children will definitely remember!
In the afternoon, celebrations moved outdoors to our fantastic fire pit area, where the children enjoyed a truly special reading experience. Wrapped up in the fresh air, they toasted marshmallows over the fire while chatting with friends about their favourite stories and characters.
The children also had the chance to relax with a delicious hot chocolate while spending time reading their books together — the perfect way to celebrate a day dedicated to the joy of reading.
Days like today are a brilliant reminder of just how important reading is. Reading opens the door to imagination, builds vocabulary, develops creativity and allows children to explore new worlds, ideas and adventures. Encouraging a love of books at a young age helps set children up with skills that will benefit them for life.
A huge well done to everyone for making such a fantastic effort today, and thank you to our families for helping create such brilliant costumes. We hope today inspires even more children to pick up a book and discover their next great story!
As part of Careers Week, we were thrilled to welcome the education team from Nissan into school today!
The children learned all about the enormous Nissan factory — including an amazing fact that really blew their minds… You could fit the Metrocentre inside the Nissan factory 20 times over!
We also discovered that the factory employs 6,000 people alongside 6,000 robots, and the children asked some brilliant questions about:
– How long it takes to assemble a car
– How many cars are made each day
– How many are produced in a year
After learning that 2,000 cars are made every day, the children put their maths skills to work, using mental maths to calculate how many cars the factory could produce in a year — fantastic problem-solving on show!
To finish the session, the children were set a design challenge to create a car of the future… thankfully using LEGO rather than real machinery!
A huge thank you to Robyn at the Nissan education team for an inspiring and eye-opening visit
Our Favourite Time of the Week! Fridays at West Boldon Primary always end on a high with our Star of the Week & Golden Coin Assembly.
It’s such a pleasure hearing about the amazing ways our children are meeting the Gold Standards – from brilliant attitudes to learning, to real improvements in effort, behaviour and progress.
Celebrating these successes together reminds us just how hard our pupils work every day. We’re incredibly proud of them all!
Later on, Class 10 took part in a country-wide TTRS challenge for Number Day.
What a fantastic day of learning and fun! The Year 1/2 children took part in a wide range of exciting, hands-on maths activities, exploring numbers through games, problem-solving and teamwork.
There were lots of smiles, brilliant thinking and wonderful enthusiasm as the children worked together to complete challenges and show off their growing confidence with numbers. A great day celebrating that maths can be fun, engaging and for everyone!
Over the past few weeks, the Year 4 children have been learning about Banksy and his distinctive style of street art. They explored some of his most famous pieces, as well as the tools and techniques he uses. After sketching and planning their own artwork inspired by Banksy – and linked to their Dimensions topic on slavery – the children created their stencil designs. Today they used these stencils to paint their slavery-themed artwork. Next week, they will build on this by applying their calligraphy skills to add key vocabulary related to slavery.
Today, Dave Brown from Be Safe spoke to our Year 5 and 6 pupils about how to stay safe at home, online, and in the wider community.
The sessions covered:
Pupils also learned about knife crime and county lines in an age-appropriate and sensitive way, helping them understand the risks, consequences, and the importance of walking away and speaking to a trusted adult.
An important and empowering session that reinforced key safeguarding messages and supported pupils to make safe, responsible choices.
It was fantastic to see all of our children back in school after the Christmas break. The smiles, enthusiasm and positive attitudes have made it a great start to the new term.
We were also really pleased to hear just how many children are meeting our school Gold Standards, which we celebrated in our Friday Celebration Assembly. Well done to everyone for such a positive return to school – keep it up!
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