Class 3 have been using base ten resources in Maths to help us solve problems with an answer bigger than ten. Some super mathematics!
Class 3 and 4 have loved their dance lessons with Miss Skiggs this half term. Please see below for their final performances. Enjoy!
Class 3
Class 4
We had another fantastic celebration assembly this morning hearing about all the amazing work that the children have completed. We loved how happy the winner of the special golden token was too, I’m sure he’s going to enjoy reading his book this weekend.
Children at West Boldon Primary celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week this week (February 7th – 13th 2022).
Mrs Askwith (our pastoral and wellbeing mentor) spent some time with each class, talking about our own wellbeing, spreading kindness, and focussing on this year’s theme ‘Growing Together’.
Children also took part in a yoga session where they channelled all of their energy, worries and anxieties. Everyone came out of their session incredibly calm!
Finally, on Friday, to round off the week, children were invited to come to school wearing their most expressive outfits to ‘Dress to Express’, sharing their individuality and celebrating their uniqueness.
What a wonderful week we have had!
Reception
Year 1
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Year 6 also watched the video below and created their own artwork based on it.
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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.
This week we have celebrated National Storytelling Week in lower KS2.
As a school we already share a class story each day at 3pm but Miss Fraser asked us to try some extra activities from the list to celebrate.
Year 3 have been reading James and the Giant Peach in Guided Reading. We put our summarising skills to the test this week by making mini-books of the story so far.
We worked hard to design a suitable front cover, and drew some amazing illustrations to go alongside our writing.
Year 4 chose to celebrate with Harry Potter Day (Miss Ingoe’s favourite). We watched some clips about the potions class and created an ideas board of the ingredients we could use in our own potions. The children decided what their potion was for and wrote instructions on how to make it, while listening to some magical music for inspiration. Their ideas were fabulous such as a potion ‘to make me lucky’, ‘to make me meet the Arctic Monkeys’, ‘to make me be a princess’ and my least favourite ‘to make the teachers be quiet!’.
Finally, they wrote them neatly (some children even illustrated them) in their spell books we made before Christmas.
We also had a great time with paired reading today. We chose a book to share with a friend and either listened to the story or took turns to read the story. It was brilliant to hear!
The Year 1 children are currently learning about Dr Barnardo and how he worked to try to help the Street Children of Victorian London.
The children have already learnt a lot about his life and work and the terrible situation many people lived in. They have also discovered how they can use some historical sources of information, made predictions as well as learning to place events on a timeline.
We plan to end our topic next week by asking if the children in Year 1 could donate one small toy to our collection to be given to the Barnardo charity.
The children in Class 4 continue to astound with their learning with Power Maths.
Today they were learning how to add two single digits by making ten. Using their manipulatives, they quickly noticed that deconstructing the number sentence to make ten and some more, made adding a breeze.
Class 4 had a lovely surprise today when the penguin from the story we are studying came to visit.
We found out that she was called Polly Penguin and she just loved to have adventures.
The children asked Polly questions to find out about her adventure from the story Lost and Found.
Polly Penguin noticed our story map and showed us how to adapt the map to make it tell the story from her point of view.
The children then all had a go at creating the story map themselves, pretending they were the penguin!
Year 3 finished off their Africa topic with a week of art. In their topic they have learned all about the Big Five animals, what life is like in Africa, including the landscape, the traditions and the wildlife.
They then designed and created masks inspired by the film The Lion King. The designed their masks on paper first, before drawing their design and cutting out cardboard to create the manes. They then papier-mached the outside to harden it up.
Once the papier-mache was dry, they primed their masks by coating it in white paint, before painting it with their planned colours.
Scroll down to see the end result!
Papier-Mache-ing
Priming
Painting
The finished products!
