Some of our Year 3 children enjoyed taking part in a tennis festival at Boldon Lawn Tennis Club.
Year three took part in a rugby festival at Boldon school. Three teams participated. The children demonstrated great team work and tried very hard. One of our teams came top of their group and won medals.
Year 4 have been learning about The Ancient Egyptians. With Richard, we spoke some Ancient Egyptian language and prayers, looked at mummification, embalming, Canopic jars, pharaoh’s clothing, writing hieroglyphics using ink pens, playing Ancient Egyptian games and listened to Richard play an instrument from that era.
Mighty Minds is a programme which helps children learn about and understand the different feelings they experience, as well as introducing a variety of grounding techniques which children can take home with them and practice at school, at home or whenever they feel overwhelmed.
Being able to regulate our emotions is an important skill that young people begin to develop at an early age; statistics show that there is a decline in young people being able to regulate their emotions and an increase in mental health within young people aged 8-12 years.
Mighty Minds is completely free to all young people, and takes place every Friday starting August 4th and ending September 1st 2023. Each session will run for an hour from 4:00 – 5:00 PM at st marks and st cuthberts church, quarry lane, NE34 7NP.
Families must register before the programme as we have consent forms and medical information forms that will be emailed to parents / guardians.
Year 6 enjoyed a taster session at The Urban Factory
On Thursday 18th May, That History Bloke visited Year 4 to teach us more about the Ancient Egyptians. We spoke some Ancient Egyptian language and said prayers, found out about mummification, embalming, canopic jars and pharaohs’ clothing. We also wrote hieroglyphics using ink pens and played ancient Egyptian games. We all had a great time.
LITTERING
This week, Shay and Abbie spoke in assembly about littering. They told the school
that…
- Researchers estimate that over one million animals die each year after becoming
trapped in, or eating litter. - The most common killer of animals is plastic litter, notably impacting marine
animals. Each year more than 100,000 dolphins, fish, whales, and turtles drown after
becoming entangled or eating plastic. - Litter can become a breeding ground for bacteria and can spread disease through
direct or indirect contact with humans. It can also attract creatures such as rats. - As well as this, litter on the ground makes our local area look horrible. We should all
have pride in where we live and it is part of our responsibility to look after our
community and not litter.
We hope that this message will make everyone think a little bit more carefully about what
they do with their litter. If we all work together, we can make the world a better place!
Children enjoyed dressing in red, white and blue and enjoyed a variety of activities as part of their celebrations.
Year 3 had a really interesting visitor in school. He told us lots of interesting facts about the Romans as an introduction to our new History topic.
We were lucky to see different objects and clothes that would have belonged to a Roman soldier.
We drew our own Roman shields.
We went outside and pretended to march like Roman soldiers. We had a pretend battle between the Romans and Celts using shields and balls.
Year 3 had such an informative and fun afternoon.
Year 3 had a visitor in to teach them about Roman Britain. They enjoyed learning about where in the Roman Empire people stationed at Hadrian’s Wall came from. They learned about the equipment a Roman legionary would carry. They learned about Roman battle tactics. They had a fantastic time!
