This week in our ‘Light Up The World’ theme we have been looking at light and dark; what creates a shadow and how shadows change over time. The children have measured shadows throughout the day, made their own shadow puppets and figured out that a solid object does not let light through and that is how a shadow is formed. They had great fun using the torches to create big and small shadows.
In Year 2’s Going Wild theme we have been focusing our art skills on animal prints.
We used things like pencil, oil pastel, chalk pastel and paint, along with some more unusual media such as shaving foam, netting, sponges and cutlery to recreate different animal patterns. We took inspiration from these patterns to create our very own, unique animal print.
Here’s all the information you’ll need to find out how to get to school by public transport:
Travelling to school | nexus.org.uk
Planning your journey
· Use our interactive Live Travel Map to see the next bus, Metro, train and Shields Ferry times from every stop and station in Tyne and Wear and to plan your journey. Simply enter your school’s name, your home postcode and journey time to find your bus and Metro options. Bus times are Real-Time where available – which means it’s the time the bus is expected to actually leave your stop.
· To find the school bus services for your school, simply click here and then go to ‘In this section’ for school buses in your area.
· Or, if you know the number of the bus you need, click here to find the timetable.
· Metro timetables are here
Tickets and passes.
· Get your Under 16 Pop card to save money on child fares.
· Or buy a School Pass so you don’t have to find change for fares every day.
Getting help
· Call Nexus Customer Services on 0191 20 20 747 for all public transport advice and information or send them a query here.
· School Travel Fact File, attached, about getting to school by public transport. It’s aimed at Year 6 pupils, and children moving to middle or high school, but is useful for all pupils who are planning to travel independently.
As part of our LMTW theme ‘Picture our Planet’, we researched four of the highland games, shotput, caber toss, hammer throw and tug ‘o’ war. We found out about the games’ history, the rules and how to play. Then we taught each other how to play the different games.
We had so much fun taking part in the games, bring on sports day!
This week in Year 3, we have been looking at soundscapes in music. In our theme ‘Under The Canopy’ we have been learning all about the Amazon Rainforest and what types of sounds we would here if we went there. We learned a new musical term called ‘acapella’ which is where sounds are created using no instruments. We had a go at creating our own acapella soundscape of rainforest noises. We used our voices and our bodies to create the sounds of water droplets, the wind, monkeys, tigers, waterfalls, thunder and many more!
Year 1 went to the Centre for Life as part of our theme ‘Light Up The World’. We had a really great day exploring our universe. We completed some map work by looking at different continents and which animals came from which country. We then took part in a ‘Gross Bodies’ theatre show where we discovered what horrible things our bodies do to keep us healthy. We explored space, its planets, a space rocket and mission control; then took at tour through the stars in the planetarium. We explored different machines and how they worked and what a great brain we have. It was a brilliant day and we have learnt so much!
1 Blue had a fabulous trip to the Life Centre in Newcastle. This trip linked to our theme ‘Light Up The World’. The children did lots of exploring and learning through play. Their behaviour was amazing throughout the day and were a credit to the school.
Back in February, South Tyneside Council and Dogger Bank Wind Farm teamed up with Little Inventors to bring us ‘Powering the Future: South Tyneside and Beyond!’
Both our Year 4 and %ear 5 pupils took on an invention challenge, created for their year group.
This challenge focused on the role and uses of wind and kinetic energy- both forms of renewable energy.
All of our entries were amazingly creative and bursting with innovation!
Incredibly, out of the 167 ideas posted into the competition, our very own Tommy (4 Red) had his invention selected as a winning entry; he was then invited to meet the designers and have his invention brought to life!
