We’ve had so much fun in gymnastics today. As you can see we’ve enjoyed completing our challenges and gained so much confidence in trying new things.
We have been looking at the Inuits and their way of life in our Learning Means The World Theme of ‘Come Fly With Me: Arctic Circle. We have been looking at how they expressed various art forms and we have discovered that they used rocks and stones to make markers in the area. These markers then became symbols and ways of celebration. We created our own Inukshuk art. We have also looked at their art of dance and music and we have learnt some amazing origional Inuit dances and have been learning how to play the drums, which is a big part of any Inuit celebration.
This week in music, Year 4 have been looking at call and response drumming, as part of our Africa theme.
We learned that Africans often used music as a form of communication, especially across different tribes, where they may speak a different language.
Well done to the first winners of our new maths ‘Problem of the Week‘ activity which encourages children to apply their maths reasoning skills to solve a question from their key phase. From the many correct entries received across Key Stage One and Key Stage Two, congratulations to Tiegan and Darcie whose names were drawn out with the correct answer!
Well done everyone and make sure you all enter next week!
The School Council had a meeting with the Local Authority regarding the infrastructure surrounding the school. Attached are the results so far, watch this space!
In our ‘Learning Means The World’ theme ‘Come Fly With Me: Arctic’ we have been researching animals that live there and how they survive. We have looked at the Inuit people and have created a collage of their clothing using the correct materials that have the qualities that that piece of clothing needs eg waterproof. We also created a ‘Slider’ which was a moving picture and we made this by completing a design and technology task. I’m sure you’ll agree that our work is brrrrilliant!
A massive well done to Jessica, on her contribution to charity and fundraising in her own time!
With the help of friends, Jess has organised craft days , ran stalls at the event, held games on the microphone with the DJ’s and came up with lots of ideas to raise money!
Amazingly, a ‘Kids rave’ (organised by Jess) has raised over £1,000!
Money which will all be donated to local charity, Hebburn Helps, and will support many families during financial difficulties, including enabling children waking up to presents on Christmas morning- a true gift of kindness and generosity.
We are beyond proud of the selfless act of kindness you have displayed, and hope you continue to raise money for amazing causes!
Well done Jess!
Year 2 were so incredibility lucky to have an amazing afternoon with Mark Bryant from Media Partnership. He spoke to the children about his experiences working within the media industry, and all of the different roles there are. He also demonstrated some of the equipment the company uses for filming, and then explained how Green Screen works.
As you’ll see from the photographs, the children had an amazing experience linking real life to their current Learning Means The World theme- Inter-Nation Media Station.
As part of our Learning Means the World theme, Zero to Hero, 2 Blue carried out an artist study on Christy Brown.
The children looked at his fabulous paintings and discussed their opinions before learning that Christy Brown actually painted these using a paint brush he held between his toes!
After overcoming their shock and amazement, the children tried it for themselves with great success!
As part of our theme Come Fly With Me, Asia we have been learning about India. Today we made a delicious curry! We have some budding chefs 😊 The children used their senses to describe how the ingredients in the curry felt, tasted, looked like and most importantly tasted after being cooked! We ate the curry with rice and naan bread and it was delicious. We were blown away by how many children tried it and enjoyed it.
