On Friday 13th December children came to school in their Christmas Jumpers or non-uniform. These are some from 6GA.
On Friday 13th December 30 children from Year 4 attended the “Skip into Christmas” skipping festival at Temple Park. The children took part in a variety of skipping activities to develop fitness and have fun. We all had a great time and loved learning new skills.
On Wednesday 4th December year 6 visited West Harton Methodist Church to take part in a Christmas Labyrinth. We went around 9 stations finding out about the journey that Mary and Joseph took in the Christmas nativity story. It was interesting to find out about what Christians beliefs are about the event that lead up to the birth of Jesus.
The volunteers who ran the event said that were very well-mannered and they were extremely impressed with our behaviour and enthusiasm.
On Tuesday 27th November, 28 children from Year 5 went to Temple Park Leisure Centre to take part in a sports hall athletics competition. There were 6 track events including running and obstacle relays and 6 field events including javelin and standing long jump. We all had a great day and enjoyed pushing ourselves in events that were new to us.
Year 6 visited the Life Science Centre and took part in a light workshop along with other activities including visiting the Creativity, Wow, Space and Brain Zone. We also visited the Planetarium where we found out about star constellations and planets. It was a great day and learned a lot about light!
For ‘Children in Need,’ pupils came to school in non-uniform and donated £1 for this worthy cause. They enjoyed completing various activities.
On Tuesday 12th November, Year 5 visited Durham Cathedral. We have been studying the Northern Saints in RE and this is the place in which several of them are buried. We acted out some of the stories linked to Saint Oswald and the lessons that we could learn from them. We are also studying architecture in Art and Durham Cathedral has some of the finest examples of architecture in England. We had an interesting tour around the cathedral and learned that it took 40 years to build and that it was all done by hand. The huge pillars were made and carved in pieces that were put together like a big jigsaw. One of our favourite things were the stained glass windows which were stunning. Some were very old, some were religious and told stories and some were more abstract and made you think. We thought it was a wonderful place and we are looking forward to making a leaflet on Durham Cathedral with what we learned.
4CL visited the Sunderland Wintergardens. We investigated the layers of the rainforest thinking about animals and plants.
We walked around answering questions to follow a trail. This was followed by sketching and colouring the plants.
Afterwards we went into Mowbray Park and completed questionnaires with members of the public about how they use the park.
We all had a fantastic day.
Year 3 children took part in Divali workshop. We found out about how Hindus celebrate Divali and some of us dressed up. We found out about the importance of the goddess Lakshmi for Hindus.
Father Mervyn joined us to celebrate our Harvest Festival at Biddick Hall Junior school. Thanks you to all our parents and carers who donated food items. They were distributed to two local foodbanks. They were very grateful that you shared your harvest gifts with them.
