Year 6 have been learning the song Swing Low, Sweet Chariot as part of their Dimensions topic on Culture.
Here is their final rendition.
To finish their ‘I Have a Dream’ Culture unit, Year 6 have written speeches and shared them with the whole school as part of their class assembly.
I’m sure you’ll agree that their perfect worlds sound just incredible. Well done Year 6!
Year 6 have been learning a new skill in Rugby this half term – tackling. As always, a huge thank you to John Pickering for his wonderful coaching sessions, the children LOVE it!
Year 6 children are enjoying their new Commando Joe unit this half term; centred all around secret keeping and spies!
Class 7 love story time at the end of the day. Today three of the children wanted to read our end of the day text to the class, rather than listen to Miss Wilkinson!
We love reading for pleasure!
This week Year 3 started their new maths concept of division.
They used the place value counters to practically create a 2-digit number and then divided it by a 1-digit number.
They drew their own place value charts on the tables in pairs (which made it very exciitng!)
They had to remember to make sure their groups were equal and to share out the tens first and then the ones.
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.
During our Commando Joe lessons we have been thinking about the Lion King film. Today one of the characters was stranded in unknown territory. It was our job to work as a team to cross the river and rescue our friend without touching the floor!
Some awesome team work and communication skills from Class 3 today 
We have studied the way the slaves were treated and how they became slaves. This week we began to look at their journey to freedom.
We had a lovely art lesson looking at sketching symbols of freedom. The children chose up to 3 symbols to represent freedom such as birds flying, chains breaking and following the constellations.
Here are some examples of our work:
On January 24th the Year 5 Dodgeball team attended the annual festival at Boldon School. They faced off against Hedworth Lane, East Boldon, Forest View and Biddick Hall in a bid for the much coveted gold medals.
Selected at random from widespread interest in Year 5, the side have been attending a few weeks of after-school sessions with Mr Houmark. Designed to get them into the game, working as a team and planning their tactics for use against other schools.
After a tough start against both East Boldon teams, they fought back with wins against Biddick Hall and Forest View. Eventually finishing 5th in the group. Over the coming week, the school will decide upon a new sport to offer after-school for KS2.
