Here are some pictures of the fun day that we all really enjoyed, especially the ice cream!
This half term, thirty of our year 5 and 6 pupils were lucky enough to take part in this years STEMFest event.
STEMFest is an annual festival, aiming to encourage and inspire young people from North East schools, into STEM subjects and career goals. This year, over 50 North East businesses delivered hands-on activities- showcasing the range of careers and job roles available in the STEM sector in our region.
Whilst at the event, our children were able to explore four zones: Space, Technology (including cyber attacks and piloting), Environment and Manufacturing.
We left feeling inspired and inquisitive about our future careers in the STEM field of work!
Hebburn Lakes Remains a ‘Good School’
I am pleased to say, that today we have recieved our recent inspection report, which will be coming home with your child tonight.
If at the start of the inspection, I had been asked to describe our school in a few words, It would have looked very similar to that of the opening line.
“Hebburn Lakes is a welcoming, inclusive school where pupils thrive”
The report will also be published on the school website and Ofsted’s own page in the coming days.
Thank you all for your support in ensuring we can Work, Learn and Achieve Together while ‘aiming to be the best we can be’.
Mrs Moody and The Hebburn Lakes Team
Please find below 3 links to our confirmed summer sports camps in South Tyneside.
These include 30 FREE places per day for those in receipt of Free school meal benefits.
There are also 15 PAID places per day for those not on FSM.
Summer Sports Camp 2023
Wk 1Â –Â https://forms.gle/36svumFTukRzyDuYA
Wk 2 –Â https://forms.gle/fpeuyuJJRq5WgJUR7
Wk 5 –Â https://forms.gle/pgZtM1An4Kr7dDxz6
Many thanks and I hope you all have a great final few weeks of the school year!
Chris & the Team at Start 2 Finish
This half term, Year 5 Navigators are embarking on a new Learning Means The World theme, titled ‘The Rescuers’.
Focusing on the catastrophic tragedy of The Titanic, we have delved into our research about this, once majestic ship, nicknamed ‘Queen of the Sea’ and ‘Unsinkable’… to name a few.
We have thoroughly enjoyed learning about The Titanic… so much so, that no sooner had our home learning menu been taken home, we had some of our 5 Blue Navigators use their research, to create phenomenal, scaled-down models of the majestic vessel, just as an engineer or designer would have done, back in 1912!
We decided it would be nice for the children to get a butterfly garden kit so we could grow our own butterflies.
The kit came with a tub of tiny caterpillars and some food. Over a couple of weeks the children enjoyed watching the caterpillars grow as they ate up all of their food in the tub.
The caterpillars then climbed to the very top of the tub and turned into a chrysalis. The children found this stage very interesting and enjoyed watching as a harder shell formed around the caterpillar.
After less than a week, the butterflies emerged from their chrysalis. We put some fresh orange and sugar water out for the butterflies to eat and over the next few days we let them build up their strength before releasing them into the world.
Some of the children were lucky enough to get to hold the butterflies before they flew off!
To mark the Coronation, we were sent a packet of wildflower seeds to celebrate His Majesty the King’s love of nature. The packets of seeds included native annual wildflower species such as cornflower, corn poppy, corn chamomile, corncockle, corn marigold and night-flowering catchfly.
We were thrilled to take part in this initiative and sow wildflowers to celebrate the Coronation. It is a great opportunity for our children to connect with nature and make a wildflower habitat that supports wildlife. We can’t wait to see the wildflowers bloom and provide food for bees, butterflies and other pollinators in our school garden.
