‘What I wish my parents or carers knew…’: A guide for parents and carers on managing children’s digital lives
Today in English we introduced our new text which is ‘Goodnight Pirate’. The text also links heavily with our new Learning Means the World theme ‘Never Eat Shredded Wheat’. The children will learn all about pirates as well as navigating the world using a compass and an atlas. To launch both our text and theme we played a game of ‘guess what is in the box?’ I described an object and the children had to identify it and try and say what it is used for or its purpose. We had a go at sounding out and writing the names of the objects too. It was a great lesson and a fabulous hook for the next few weeks. The children all seemed really excited, enthusiastic and ready to learn about it.
The children in our KS2 Choir had a brilliant time performing their carols at Campbell Court residential home as well as Hebburn Comp’s Christmas fayre last week!
They showed courage, confidence and lots of Christmas spirit while singing their hearts out for the residents and staff.
We are so proud of them all!
If you’re child is in receipt of benefit-related free school meals, see the link on the poster to book onto lots of lovely FREE activities over the Christmas holidays. 
In Learning Means the World ‘Come Fly with me Arctic Circle’ we have been looking at the arctic habitat which is known as a tundra. The children learnt that the arctic tundra is cold and often made up of sea and snow. This week we have been focusing on the design and technology element of the curriculum. The children all drew their own tundras then created an animal slider to move on it. If it was a land animal it was on the snow if it was a sea animal it was in the water. The children all did an amazing job and had great fun designing and making them.
The half term in PE, we are looking at gymnastics. This week, we looked at how to make our bodies narrow so we can move under and over various equipment. We learned that in order for our bodies to be narrow, our legs and feet need to be together and our arms can either be by our sides or above our heads. We had lots of fun and especially liked performing the narrow jumps off of the small podium.
