Safer Internet Day 2024

9th February 2024s begum

Safer Internet Day is a global campaign to promote the safe and responsible use of technology to help create a better internet. The year’s theme is ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online’. 

Using the internet safely and positively is a key message that we promote at Hebburn Lakes Primary School and celebrating Safer Internet Day is a great opportunity for us to re-emphasise the online safety messages we deliver throughout the year.

Our Computing Lead, Miss Begum led an assembly to promote online safety and why it is important. Later on in the week, we will be getting involved with activities aimed at helping us to understand how to keep safe online and how to make the internet better.

 

Mental Health Week in 7 Blue

9th February 2024N Fada

For Mental Health Week, 7 Blue have been learning about feelings and emotions and why it is important to look after our Mental Health.  We then took part in a yoga workshop where we made yoga poses to match our emotions.  We ended the week writing our own Mental Health and Wellbeing acrostic poems.   

 

Jungle landscape artists in the making

9th February 2024ashleigh clark

Today in English, 3 Blue have been creating their own jungle landscapes using paint. Our class book (which we don’t yet know the name of as Miss Clark won’t tell us) describes an old man dreaming about “a jungle full of wild forest animals” so we decided to have a go and create our own jungle landscapes. We looked at two jungle landscape artists: Henri Rousseau and Paul Gaugin for inspiration. We were so proud of out work and had so much fun!

 

 

Year 4 are budding politicians

9th February 2024L Davison

Over the last few weeks, as part of our LMTW theme Law and Order, Year 4 have been learning about how different countries are run. This week we have been learning about democracy and dictatorships. We split up into ‘Parties’ and wrote our own campaigns in order to govern our Year 4 class. Then we voted for the party we thought would govern our class most effectively and fairly.

Decimals In Action In Year 6 Maths

7th February 2024C Campbell

6 Blue Maths were exploring decimals this week by trying our hand at some classroom world records. We began by thinking about why decimals are useful in the world – many sports use tenths and hundredths of seconds to time races and some sports even require milliseconds! From trying on T-shirts in the quickest time possible to building towers and typing the alphabet on a qwerty keyboard, the children enjoyed the challenges and it helped us to use and apply decimals in real-life contexts. Well done everyone – we might need some practice with breaking some of the records, particularly Mr Campbell!

 

 

 

 

Childrens Mental Health Week in 1 Red!

6th February 2024L Chisholm

As part of Mental Health Week we have been looking at self compassion and that if we don’t take care of ourselves we won’t have any energy to help or take care of others around us. We took part in Yoga and then completed a self compassion mirror where we looked at how amazing we are and why we are so special.

Editing Stations in 7 Blue

5th February 2024N Fada

We have been learning to edit and redraft our work in English. The children worked in pairs and travelled around the class visiting 4 different Editing Stations; Grammar Grove, Punctuation Point, Spelling Square and Add More Avenue.  Everyone made improvements to their writing.  Well Done 7 Blue!

 

Amazing Maths 1 Red

1st February 2024L Chisholm

This week in Maths we have been learning to count on from a previous number.  We have ‘experienced’ and ‘played’ with it.  We know we can put a larger number in our heads and count on, do you know you don’t always have to start counting at 1?