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! 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!
School council and some of their friends attended the Armistice Day memorial service at the cenotaph in Monkton Village. They then laid a wreath on behalf of our school. They were absolutely amazing and a credit to our school .
Oxford Owl have produced a website, aimed at parents and carers to help with learning at home with their child’s reading, writing and maths and the great thing about it is that it is split up into different age groups. There are lots of top tips and useful information on there that is easy to access and what’s more it’s free.
Year 2 have been learning about the famous scientist Thomas Edison, who invented the lightbulb.
They used their investigation and problem solving skills to complete a circuit and power a light bulb.
The determination paid off and lit up their smiles too!
