The countdown is on… Only 2 days until the launch of the St Oswald’s Shaun the Sheep on the Tyne art trail!The fabulousflock of 115 big and little sheep will take to the streets of the NorthEast for ten weeks ofcelebration in support of St Oswald’sHospice.
The trail map and app will launch very soon, so watch this space if you’re hoping to find them all – including our very own sculpture, lovingly named “Olor” by the children (“Olor” is the Latin word for Swan).
We had a fantastic fun day. We explored the ‘fun bus’. Then we danced and played games with ‘startastic’ characters, had ice cream and mastered the assault course!
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!
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 1 – https://forms.gle/36svumFTukRzyDuYA
Wk 2 – https://forms.gle/fpeuyuJJRq5WgJUR7
Wk 5 – 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!
In 1 Red this week we have been looking at ways in which we can show information. We decided to ask our friends their favourite fruit and then discussed the best way to show this. We decided a tally chart was a good way but after a while this became confusing as we couldn’t be sure that we hadn’t already counted that answer. We then decided that creating a bar chart was the easiest and best way to show our results. We are fantastic!
