Some of our year 5/6’s recently attended the South Tyneside Quadkids tournament at Monkton stadium. They were truly amazing! We’ve just got the results back and one if our teams has qualified for the regional finals. Well done everyone!
This week Year 3 attended the Rugby Tournament organised by Boldon School. All 3 teams played incredibly well, showed great skill and sportsmanship, and we had teams place 4th, 2nd and 1st!
Some of our year 3/4 pupils had a great day out on Friday at the South Tyneside Quad kids sports competition. The gave their all at Monkton Stadium and put in some amazing performances but unfortunately it wasn’t our day. Maybe next year!
Year 5 went to Boldon Comp to compete in the annual rugby tournament. They showed fantastic teamwork, resilience and confidence in their matches. We are so proud how they represented the school and themselves. Our teams came 1st and 2nd!
Well done everyone!
A few weeks ago Boldon Library asked our eco-committee to create an eco-art project as part of their ‘Earth Day’ event. There would be a competition between some local schools.
Our eco-warriors rose to the challenge, they discussed what they wanted to make, collected the resources we would need and set about making some wonderful creations. And guess what?…WE WON!!
Gail and her colleagues visited our school to present the children with a certificate, trophy and prize! Well done to our fabulously creative eco-committee 👏🏼
Year 4 have been making congratulations cards in DT! The cards were to say well done at Annabelle who won our class vote for class leader during our lessons on democracy in our Law and Order topic ! We learnt that a lever is a mechanism to create movement, and then we made a small practise lever. We then designed our own congratulations cards with a moving part. Then, we used our new skills to create a larger lever in our cards to create moving rainbows, stars, moons and planes etc. The children’s cards were really effective and they really enjoyed making them.
Today as part of World Book Day we joined a crowdcast with author Julia Donaldson and author/illustrator Axel Scheffler. We enjoyed listening to stories read by both authors and then we joined in with a draw along with Axel. I’m sure you will agree we have some amazing potential illustrators of the future.
Year 3 are enjoying their Commando Joe missions this half term, focusing around the explorer Ernest Shackleton and his expedition to Antarctica aboard Endurance.
Today, they split into 4 teams. Each team was stationed on their ship (a crash mat), and the rest of the hall represented the Southern Ocean. One at a time, a member of each time had to row across the ocean to collect supplies. Yellow items represented first aid supplies and medical kits, blue items represented drinking water, the wooden blocks represented canned and tinned food, green items represented fresh fruit and vegetables, and red items represented entertainment items such as video games/TV/computers etc.
Each team had to think about what they needed for the expedition rather than what would be fun to have, and they had to make sure the items they collected on their ships were organised for the expedition ahead. Teams were then scored on how many items they collected, and points were deducted for items they didn’t need as much.
All of the teams showed great teamwork skills but Emerald house were the winning team with the most items. Diamond house came a close second as they didn’t collect ANY of the less essential items at all! Well done Year 3!
In our “Come Fly With Me…to the Arctic” we have been learning about some of the traditional customs of the Inuit people who live within the Arctic Circle.
Today we learnt about the custom of Inuit Throat singing. A custom the woman would have taken part in while the men were away hunting. Standing very close to each other the ladies would replicate noises with their own voices that they would hear in nature. The partners would sing rhythmically but try to be the individual that could sing the longest.
Our ultimate class Throat singer was able to keep singing without stopping for breath or laughing against everyone including the teachers!
Year One drawing club have drawn some lovely festive pictures tonight. A reindeer and an elf on the shelf
