Science Council had fun at club doing some chemistry: they worked with acids and alkalis in the form of bicarbonate of soda and vinegar to create a reaction and change of property.
We attended a RAP event which was about reducing accidents at play. Within this afternoon there were workshops about electricity safety (Northern Power grid), water safety (RNLI), travelling safely on the metro (Nexus), Anti-social behaviour (Northumbria police) and fire safety (south Tyneside Brigade). We learned a lot and had great fun.
On 26th September, we celebrated ‘European Day of Languages’. We talked about the importance of learning different languages and discussed all of the benefits it brings.
We then took part in a range of activities linked to Spain and the Spanish language. We watched videos about Spanish-speaking countries; completed fact-files; undertook puzzles and wordsearches; practised saying Spanish greetings and even made some flags and Spanish fans.
We decided upon this focus as in Year 6, we now undertake some Spanish taster sessions. It is also useful because many of us will study Spanish when in the comprehensive school. Additionally, Spain is still a popular holiday destination.
We ended the day by taking part in a competition, designing a t-shirt to celebrate the theme of ‘Language opens hearts and minds’.
On Friday 19th September, Emma Lewell (The Labour MP for South Shields), visited our school and met with our newly elected School Council. She told the children about her job and why she enjoyed it – getting to meet people from South Shields (including children) was one of the top things. She said that she liked to ask people if they were happy with the job she was doing and if not, what changes they would like to see. Our School Council are going to be doing this within school, making sure that all of the children in their classes get to make suggestions for improvements to our school. Emma told us that she was elected in 2013 at the age of 35 and before becoming a member of parliament, she has many other jobs including cleaning, working in restaurants, answering phones in call centres and as a social worker. The children had the chance to share with Emma some suggestions that they thought would improve South Shields, including children 11 and under being able to travel free on buses and for things to be a bit cheaper for people to buy.
Our School Council are looking forward to getting started on making a difference to Biddick Hall Junior School 2025-26!
Year 4 enjoyed getting messy whilst making a model digestive system.
We used different objects to represent the mouth, teeth and small intestine.
In Music, Year 5 have been looking at the length of notes. We have been learning a song called ‘Egypt – Gift of the Nile’ which we can sing really well and we identified the notes of different length. Then we looked for the different notes on an instrumental score and tried to play them using glockenspiels. It was tricky to leave long enough pauses to represent the length of each of the notes. We managed brilliantly and can fluently and confidently play the chorus as well as some of the verse. We are looking forward to our Music lesson next week!
We read part of the twits and found out about some of the tricks Mr and Mrs Twit played on each other. We then had to be creative and write our own revolting recipe like the Squishy Wormy Spaghetti Mrs Twit made for Mr Twit. These were our winners.
Today year 6 were visited by a Muslim in school to learn about Islam. We were educated
about the five pillars: Shahadah, salah, zakat, Hajj, Sawm. We looked at the religious book
‘Quran’ and learnt that Arabic is read from right to left and from the back of the book to the
front.
We celebrated Roald Dahl Day and completed a range of tasks linked to some of his books. If we had something yellow to wear we wore it because that was his favourite colour. We also each donated £1 to his charity. We had great fun!
Year 6 enjoyed their Leavers Party. Good luck in your comprehensive school.
