England Rocks TTRS Champions!

18th November 2024Victoria Cartmell

This week, Hebburn Lakes have taken part in an epic battle of Times Tables, against the rest of England!
We have worked incredibly hard to earn coins and points, increasing our times table knowledge and speedy recall!
Whilst we didn’t come top of the England leaderboard, we have had some friendly competition within school- across each Key Stage!

After an intense battle, with the leaderboard constantly changing, our top Rock Star champions were:

2 Blue – Key Stage 1

4 Blue – Lower Key Stage 2

6 Blue – Upper Key Stage 2

A huge congratulations to all the children for their achievement!

In addition, we have three individual Rock Star shout-out’s, to those children who reached the top three spots, in the overall school:

1st – Cameron (6 Blue)

2nd – Esme (5 Blue)

3rd- Tyler-Jae (4 Blue)

Well done to all of the children, who took part and remember, keep practicing those times tables; they really do help to support your Maths learning, skills and progress!

 

Year One Outdoor Maths!

18th November 2024N Sikka

The children in year one love exploring the outdoor area during the continuous provision to consolidate any Math’s work they have done in class. This week we have been focusing on number bonds to 10 and this was clearly evident in the children’s play outdoors.

Getting Arctic Creative!

18th November 2024N Sikka

The children in 1 Red have been so enthusiastic about our Learning Means the World theme ‘Come Fly with me Arctic Circle’ and are loving learning about the habitats, people and animals that live in the Arctic. Today we learnt all about an Inuit (Eskimo) and it’s life within the Arctic circle. The children had Design and Technology lesson where they had to use appropriate materials to design and make their own Inuit. They discussed the different materials they used and used the associated vocabulary to describe them. Some of these Inuit’s may be found on the catwalk as their outfits are simply amazing!

Anti-bullying week in Reception

15th November 2024K Richardson

Today we talked about Anti-bullying week. We said how it is so important to show everyone respect and to always show kindness to everyone. We celebrated ways we are kind to our friends and family. We also talked about how everyone is different and how it is important to celebrate this.  We then designed some odd socks celebrating their differences! ❤️❤️

 

Arctic Explorers!

11th November 2024N Sikka

In Year One we have become ‘Arctic Explorers’ as part of our theme ‘Come Fly with me Arctic Circle’. The children are really enjoying role-playing in our Arctic area. They have to use associated language and ‘act out’ living as an Inuit in the Arctic. They are having great fun reading and writing about all things Arctic too!

A visit from Reverend Ian from St John’s Church

8th November 2024K Richardson

We had a visit from Reverend Ian at St. John’s church. He talk about Remembrance Sunday. He mentioned how we remember things (like playing a memory game) and how it is so important to remember people who went to war. He then explained how in the bible it mentions peaceful people dying for good people and that we should not take peace for granted.

 

Reception first week back!

8th November 2024K Richardson

A fabulous first week back! We have been looking at China in our Learning Means The World theme ‘Come fly with me Asia’. We have been looking at Chinese artefacts, writing our names in Chinese and we even made a Chinese restaurant in our home corner! We also talked about Remembrance Sunday and made poppies, our tree is looking amazing!

 

Tremendous Tumbling!

7th November 2024L Chisholm

We took part in our first gymnastics PE session with the coach.  We looked at the correct form and posture needed to create a safe and controlled forward, pencil, tuck and backwards roll.  We had a great time and can’t wait for next week to learn new skills.