Little Inventors- Competition Winner!

5th June 2023Victoria Cartmell

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!

Click here to see the winning entries!

Gardening award!

10th May 2023Victoria Cartmell

This half-term, our gardening club have already achieved their Level 1 award, from the Royal Horticultural Society!

Working in the school garden, we are aiming to get some edible produce (fruits and vegetables) planted, ready to harvest and taste test ourselves.

Adding to our level 1 award, we have also officially been given our School Gardening member plaque and are continuing to work our green fingers, to reach levels 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Well done gardeners, keep up the fantastic work!

A very special delivery to Reception!

24th April 2023K Richardson

Last week we had a very special delivery of 10 eggs, so far 9 of them have hatched, 1 boy and 8 girls. The children have loved watching them hatch and are really enjoying learning about the life cycle. 🥚 🐣 🐤 on Friday we held them. The children were amazing, so gentle and kind. They were able to tell us how to carefully look after them, how we keep them safe and what they need to stay healthy. They also discussed why their feathers are so soft and fluffy. 🐥👏🏻⭐️🐥👏🏻⭐️

 

Nursery visit some fluffy friends in Reception!

21st April 2023Hayley Tampin

This week, we went along to Reception to see the chicks. 10 eggs were delivered earlier in the week, in their special, warm incubator… and 9 of them have hatched already!

We talked about the life cycle of a chicken and how the chicks use their special egg tooth to break out of the egg.

One of the chicks is light yellow (that’s the boy) and the others are darker (they are the girls). It was very funny watching them climb on each other and cheep loudly!

A spring walk and fun on the trim trail

24th March 2023Hayley Tampin

This week, the nursery children enjoyed a spring walk around the school grounds. We were looking for signs of spring. Although it was windy, it was quite a mild day – a sure sign that we are waving goodbye to winter and have some warmer weather on the way! We found flowers and noticed new leaves growing on the trees. We even saw bumblebees on the hunt for flowers, just like us!

While in the main school yard, we took the opportunity to practice our climbing and balancing skills on the trim trail and enjoyed playing on the play equipment too!

Nursery PM

4 Blue – Little Inventors Challenge

14th March 2023s begum

On Monday, 4 Blue were busy taking part in the ‘Little Inventors Challenge’. We had to design a wind powered invention that would solve a problem, make something better or just create something fun. To help us with our designs, we created a graffiti wall of wind powered ideas. Then we took part in a hovercraft race. We made a wind powered hovercraft using a balloon, a sports bottle cap and some blu-tack. We all had a great day!

 

Year 1 know all about plants!

9th March 2023L Chisholm

In our theme of Unity In The Community we have been looking at our local area and discussing what we can see around us daily.  The children realised that their area has lots of trees and plants and we discussed what these plants needed to grow.  We then planted our own Lima bean and we can’t wait to see if we get beans from it.  We then labelled a plant and if  you ask us,

we can tell you the difference between an Evergreen tree and a Deciduous tree (Yes we are that clever!)