We celebrated European Day of Languages. We talked about the value of learning different languages and about the variety of languages spoken across Europe. We even tried saying hello in lots of different languages.
As part of the day, we held a competition to design a ‘t-shirt’ to promote the occasion. We had such fabulous entries from across the school, but here are the winners – I think you’ll agree that they are pretty wonderful!
4CL had a fantastic visit to Sunderland Winter Gardens.
We started off with some drama where we pretended to be parts of the rainforest. We studied the different layers and did a trail around the rainforest area of the museum.
We completed some sketching in the rainforest and then we added colour onto our pictures back in the education room of the museum.
We all enjoyed our Halloween Disco!
We held our annual Harvest Festival in he school hall. Father Mervyn from All Saints Church came to open and close it. Lots of tins, packets and jars were kindly donated by the parents. These were then given to a local food bank.
Year 4 went to a football tournament at Boldon School. They played against different schools trying their best. Unfortunately, we didn’t win any medals but all children received a certificate.
Mrs Lynn was very proud of all the children. They tried their best and were an outstanding representation of the school.
Science Council have had great fun this half term making pop and Mentos geysers, spooky cauldron mixtures, Halloween lights from milk bottles and experimenting with pencils being pierced through zip lock bags of water. It has been a fun half term that’s for sure.
We celebrated Roald Dahl Day on Wednesday 13th September. Staff and children were encouraged to wear yellow (because this was Roald Dahl’s favourite colour) and pay £1 for the Dahlicious charity. As well as finding out about Roald Dahl and his charity some of our lessons were linked to a Roald Dahl book.
One of the lessons was a competition. We read extracts from the BFG and then linked with this the children drew something in a jar, like the ones the BFG had, that they would like to see in a dream. We had great fun!
Katie from Science Buddies, helped us understand how a piece of food travels through our digestive system, starting at our mouth and finishing at the rectum. We looked at the different parts of the body involved and the enzymes needed to aid the process.
On Wednesday 5th July, choir took part in the Big Sing at the Sage. We had a great time and loved performing the songs that we had practised with a live band.
On Friday 7th July, Year 4 children visited Durham Oriental Museum to learn more about the Ancient Egyptians. We took part in lots of activities. We handled real artefacts and thought about what they were used for, we completed a quiz using clues from around the museum, we saw a real Egyptian mummy and we also did some drama about the afterlife. We all had a great time and learnt lots!
