We love Golden Time in 5LR! All of the children have worked hard and earned 30 minutes of free time. We love to play games with each other and this week we played Guess Who, Tumbling Monkeys, Don’t Say It and Snakes and Ladders. We also enjoyed constructing with Lego and completing a jigsaw of the world!
We enjoyed wearing non-uniform and our red noses and completing a variety of activities. We paid a £1 towards this worthy cause.
We enjoyed designing and making a variety of maths games as part of MST week.
The children in Year 5 have been designing and programming a monitoring device to monitor the temperature of an enclosure for a chosen animal. They first researched the conditions needed for the animal to survive in their enclosure, including the minimum and maximum temperatures.
The children then programmed a BBC Micro bit to act as a temperature monitor which would alert the animal’s owner to a drop or increase in temperature. They were then challenged to make a plastic holder for the device, before finally using their 3D CAD Skills on the site ‘Tinkercad’ to make a 3D representation of their Micro bit holder. The children have definitely demonstrated their impressive design skills throughout this DT project.
Year 3 and Year 5 had a visit from Science Buddies during Maths, Science and Technology Week. We had lots of fun learning how to make slime and about the properties of a high-viscosity, non-Newtonian fluid.
Science Council helped Ms Drake to organise science activities for MST week. Years 3 and 4 representatives created a PowerPoint question round, picture round and a science word anagram sheet to be part of a fun quiz for all the classes in school to do. Years 5 and 6 Science Council members thought up a recycled outfit challenge for each class to take part in. Because there will be a class winner for the best recycled outfit, all Science Council members from year 3, 4, 5, and 6 helped to make recycled certificates for the winners, again trying to incorporate the importance of recycling into the theme. These challenges have kept the pupils busy and focused in the Spring term and they are already planning Summer term activities for the whole school.
Science Council met at Temple Park near Whiteleas Way with Durham Wildlife Trust where we planted over 500 trees on Thursday morning. These trees will hopefully grow into a large wooded area that will benefit our local community in the future. We did this to support the planet, help provide habitats for species and also gain from the oxygen the trees help put back into the air. We worked tirelessly: it was challenging and required a lot of physical effort. The feeling of success afterwards was rewarding and seeing our amazing Science Council work together was incredible.
Well done Science Council.
On Friday 4th March, a team of Year 5 children went to the Vertu Motors Arena where they played in the finals of the South Tyneside Hoops4Health tournament. We earned a place in the finals and were in the top 3. We played with determination and enthusiasm, but we didn’t manage to beat the other two teams and came 3rd, receiving bronze medals which were presented at the half time of the Newcastle Eagles match against Plymouth patriots. As a school we were so proud of our children’s behavior, effort, sportsmanship and attitude – well done!
On Thursday 10th February we took 4 teams to The Vertu Motors Arena in Newcastle to play basketball in the South Tyneside Hoops4Health tournament. All teams played fantastically well and showed good sportsmanship. Two of our teams did exceptionally well and made it through to the quarter finals where one of them made it through to the semi-finals. The semi-finals are played on the Newcastle eagle’s court before the match on Friday 4th March. The team is very excited and are practising furiously for the event. No matter the result, we are exceptionally proud that we made it to that point in the competition. Let’s go, Biddick Hall!
In our Earth and Space topic in Science, we have been exploring the phases of the moon. To do this, we used Oreos and Jaffa cakes to create a tasty scientific model! We learned that:
