This week 1 Blue have been designing and making their own mechanisms. They used their skills to make a moving picture of the Arctic using a slider mechanism.
In our theme ‘Come Fly With Me Asia’ we have travelled to India. We looked at some artefacts and placed a Bindi on our foreheads. We have been trying out some Bollywood dancing and found out about the ceremony of Rakhi. The children then made some Rakhi bracelets and we have started to make Indian flags 🇮🇳. We also investigated some of the spices used in traditional Indian foods. The children used their senses to look at, smell and taste them. We were so impressed that most children wanted to try them!
2 Purple had a great time learning how to be chefs with Mrs Hudson.
The results were something to be proud of!
Our Year 5 School Sports Organising Crew (SSOC) visited Temple Park this week to take part in the first session of their leaders’ training programme. The children took part in a range of challenges including dodgeball, tower-building and problem-solving before being presented with their Crew T-shirts and goodie bags! The children will learn more about leading sports and PE-based activities across the year so that they can have a real impact with school sport and playground games. Our first challenge was also set – we are to create a special SSOC display board in school so watch this space! Well done to Jayden, Freya, Taylor and Corey and special thanks to Mr Molloy for his support too.
This week we have looked at the physical features of the Arctic and named them. We then created our own Arctic pictures using chalk. We included the features such as icebergs and mountains in our artwork.
Our Upper Key Stage Two Girls made their competitive debut in this season’s Primary Football League this week. It was the girl’s first time playing together and not only were they up against some experienced teams, it was also extremely windy at Hebburn Comprehensive School! The girls certainly gave their all and were seconds away from winning their first points of the season in the last game of the day. We will be practising more in school before our next games after Christmas but we are so proud of the girls’ efforts so far. Well done girls!
Throughout this theme of ‘Come Fly With Me: Arctic’ we have been looking at the different animals and how they survive in a harsh environment. We discovered that many Arctic animals have blubber to keep them warm. We decided that we wanted to see what difference blubber makes to an animal. We became scientists and we placed our hands in icy water. We then placed our hands in blubber (zip pocket with butter in) and put them back in the water. We concluded that the blubber stops the animal feeling cold. It was great fun!
In Science this week, we have been learning all about ‘The Digestive System’.
This is week two of our visit to 🇨🇳 China! Â We enjoyed exploring noodles with chopsticks, making money wallets, creating Chinese flags, making dragon heads and then having a dragon dance around our school, Chinese writing and of course the food tasting! What a busy week!
