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Some of our Year 6 children visited Boldon Comprehensive School to take part in a Rounders Festival. Although we did not achieve any medals, they had great fun and represented us brilliantly, showing super skill and demonstrating excellent behaviour and sportsmanship.
We took it in turn to create a course each. Class 6SC researched recipes which involved a red pepper as the ‘hero ingredient’. We then followed our recipes to create our chosen starter dishes. 6FD researched and created a main course dish with the ‘hero ingredient’ being salmon and 6GA used pineapple to create a dessert. We learned lots of new skills including peeling, chopping, mixing and blending. Additionally, we learned more about good food hygiene and working safely when using equipment.
We worked well together in our groups and I think you’ll agree that our food looked amazing! Our peers from across the year group tasted and evaluated our dishes and confirmed that we had done a really good job!
Choir children had a fantastic morning at The Glasshouse in Gateshead where we participated in The Big Sing. We sang and danced together with children from schools all over the north east. We all had a great time!
Our children enjoyed an inspirational sports visit from Ben Holden, who led each class in an ‘Around the World in Sporty Ways’ workshop. Children got to experience sports such as, Gaelic Football, American Football and Kabaddi. We also enjoyed an inspirational assembly where Ben shared important messages about resilience.
Year 6 have been lucky enough to have had some sessions from the South Tyneside Music Service. Throughout the sessions, they have analysed the impact of music upon a film and have evaluated the effect upon the audience. Following this, they have planned and composed their own pieces of film music, including soundtracks, background music and incidental music. They used an app called ‘Garage Band’ to do this, and have explored how to change the dynamics, arrangement, texture and pitch, alongside experimenting with a variety of instrument sounds.
We are all unique and we celebrated this by wearing something that makes us feel good.
Year 6 attended a live music event at The Westovian Theatre in South Shields. We listened to a band playing a variety of different musical instruments including drums, electric and acoustic guitar and a keyboard. The musicians explained a little about each instrument and how they are played. We also sang a range of famous songs, and joined in with some call and response songs. We clapped along to rhythm and had great fun!
Our Year 6 children were extremely lucky to take part in a STEM workshop with Newcastle Eagles. We designed our own basketball courts and hoops and even made some functioning springboards to launch the ball into them. We had to evaluate and change of designs along the way to produce the most sturdy and reliable mechanisms. In order to gain additional materials and support, we had to undertake some physical challenges – we had great fun! What a brilliant afternoon!
To help us celebrate World Music Day, we invited Fanuel into our school. In assembly, we all enjoyed singing songs, playing games and dancing. Year 6 then enjoyed taking part in a drumming workshop.
Our annual Sponsor Event took place a couple of weeks ago and we were delighted to welcome Paralympian Anna Nicholson into our school to guide our children through their sponsored circuit.
Anna Nicholson reached her first Paralympic podium at Paris 2024 with a brilliant bronze medal in the F35 shot put. There are few people who can say they have competed for Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the international stage, graduated with a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, and enjoy a career in the car production industry by the age of 25, but that’s exactly what Anna Nicholson has achieved.
We all had an amazing, albeit very tiring, afternoon and were fascinated to learn more about Anna’s life and career in the inspirational assembly that followed.
Thank you to all of our parents and carers for your very generous sponsors and to all of our wonderful children who worked so hard throughout the afternoon.
