Reception had a fantastic World Book Day!
Everyone made so much effort and some amazing imagination went into some of the costumes. We decorated alien biscuits, made alien headbands, face masks and designed alien underpants! We drew using a Youtube tutorial and also tried to dance like an alien. In our STEM session we looked at how our bodies create electricity and created rockets using effervescent vitamin tablets. A truly fabulous day for us all.
Unity In The Community is a lovely theme which teaches us all about our surrounding areas and to look at them in different ways. We have been looking at not taking our lovely area for granted and to think about it with positivity. We had a look at some very boring signs that we often see in the area around us and we decided to allocate each sign a sound. After a while we realised that we had become composers and had created a musical story. We then used 2Simple to generate our story and listened to our creations. Look out Top Of The Pops!
This week in school we have been talking about children’s mental health. We discussed how it is just as important to have a healthy mind as it is to have a healthy body. We also thought about who we should talk to if we are worried, scared, cross or upset and how it is okay to have these feelings but so important to talk to someone about it. We discussed ways to help us keep calm, relaxed and happy. We used these strategies in class:
We gave each other compliments!
Here are some of our comments:
We are kind.
We give good cuddles.
We share with our friends.
We listen to our friends.
We make people laugh and smile.
We play with friends.
We look after everyone.
We drew using the Youtube tutorials, did some Cosmic Kids Yoga and read the story ‘The Dot’ discussing resilience and how we should not give up!
Our Reception Classes are really enjoying our ‘Little Movers‘ sessions this term. Working with Pip our specialist leader, the children have been learning a range of physical development skills to boost their movement, balance and coordination across the curriculum. The children have loved the games and songs too – they have been really fun to be involved with and the smiles on our children’s faces is lovely to see. Well done everyone!
It was a successful afternoon overall today at a sunny Hebburn Comprehensive School for our Year 5/6 Girls’ Football Team.
The girls are still at an early stage of their development as a team, but we won one and drew one of our four league games today.
Well done girls – you were all awesome!
6 Blue have been really progressing their dance skills this half-term. We have been enjoying our Complete P.E. ‘Samba School‘ unit of learning, in which we have learned about some of the basic key steps of this Latin-American dance before adding our own group interpretations to create a short choreographed sequence to music. We will be refining our routines further over the next few weeks before our final dance showcase. Well done everyone!
Some of our Year 3 children attended the South Tyneside Multi-Skills Festival at Temple Park this week. The children took part in events such as football shooting, basketball dribbling and throwing & catching. The children had a great experience and won two of the events – the target practice and the football shooting. Well done everyone – it was a real privilege to take you along and your behaviour was exemplary.
Reception had their first ‘Little Movers’ PE session today. Lots of dancing and following routines, team work and balancing skills! We all had a fabulous time and feel super fit.
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.
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!
