We went on our trip today to West Boldon Lodge. It was absolutely fantastic and we loved every minute. We have done lots of new activities including making a journey stick, den building, looking for signs of spring, using tools to chop wood, fire building and our best bit…..roasting marshmallows over our fire. We have learnt new skills and worked together as a team brilliantly.
1 Blue had an absolutely fabulous trip to West Boldon Lodge. They made name badges, built dens, toasted marshmallows, found fairy houses and explored the forest school area!
4 Red had an excellent day on Thursday, when they had a visit from Williby Roc’s. We went into the garden to help plant some trees. We made bee bombs to encourage more wildlife into our garden and we even had time for a scavenger hunt.
We have some new additions to Reception! We have frog spawn. We have been observing the changes to our frogspawn and we now have some tadpoles! We have written captions, discussed the lifecycle of a frog, labelled it and used frogs for number bonds of 10 in our maths
Year 5 have thoroughly enjoyed World Book day today, based on the famous author Roald Dahl!
We are blown away by the effort and creativity of the costumes and characters that our children have chosen to be this year, from the BFG, Matilda, Miss Trunchbull, Charlie Bucket, Willy Wonka and more!
We have spent the day doing lots of wonderful book related activities, especially reading (George’s Marvelous Medicine). Year 5 even created their own revolting recipes and mixed up a special concoction that had us “fizzing” with excitement.
We have hunted down Golden Tickets, went on a trail for book covers, played a class quiz and spent our afternoon trawling through Mr Twits’ disgusting spaghetti.
We cannot wait for next year already!
This week year 1 spent some time with Williby Roc’s in our school garden. They listened to the story of Superworm then they went on a bug hunt. We then all created the signs ‘ACHIEVE’ and ‘TOGETHER’ which will form part of our school motto.
With the help and expertise of Williby Rocks, Year 2 were selected for the first session in transforming our school garden into a Well-being Garden.
The children had an opportunity to take part in a bug hunt and explore the mini-beasts in the garden at this time of year, as well as encourage more wildlife by creating bug hotels.
Our current Learning Means The World theme is ‘Ticket To Ride!’ We have been using this throughout our learning. In maths we have looked at numbers, 1 more and 1 less, number bonds, shape and positional language. We have gone on magical train rides telling our friends where we would go and why. We used our sounds and made transport words such as van, bus, truck, sub etc And of course some snowy fun!
We have just finished our current theme- May The Force Be With You. We have been learning all about forces. We have been learning about pushes, pulls, gravity and magnetism. We even created our own maths fishing game using magnets and paper clips. We searched for magnetic and non- magnetic metals and recorded our findings on Venn diagrams. We also designed and made our own moving vehicle to investigate which surface would slow them down. It if safe to say we have all really enjoyed learning all about forces.
This week in Science, we explored and investigated different types of soils. We looked at chalk soil, clay soil and sandy soil. We found out what soil is made up of and why it is important.
