As part of our sculpture topic, Year 4 worked in groups to create some wonderful bottle top sculptures.
Year 4 children worked hard to develop a range of mark-making techniques in charcoal to create different textures and effects. Children used the charcoal in different ways to express the meaning of as many words and phrases as they could in an abstract way.
We researched recipes from World War 2 and then during our food technology session we made our own recipes and created dishes from this.
Our Netball Team played in their first tournament yesterday at Temple Park. We won the first game against Ridgeway 7-0, lost the second game against Stanhope 1-0 and won the final game against Harton 2-0.
Those results meant we went through to the play-offs where we played against Lord Blyton. It was a very tight game: at full time we had drawn 2-2 and were given 2 minutes extra time. Unfortunately, they scored one more goal meaning the final score was 3-2 to Lord Blyton. We won’t be progressing to the finals but we played extremely well and Miss Archer was very impressed, as always, with our level of skill and determination. We will now be getting ready for the league matches.
Two teams of children attended a benchball tournament at Boldon school. The children worked well in their teams and were excellent representatives of our school.
Year 5 enjoyed a Handball taster session with a coach from the Newcastle Vikings Handball Team. We had a great afternoon being introduced to the skills needed to play this sport.
On Friday 7th February a Year 5 basketball team played a semi-final and a final at The Newcastle Eagles Arena. In the semi final we played Forest View and won. However during an exciting final in front the crowds we lost to St. Bede’s by one basket. We all had a great night and were a credit to the school. Well done!
An artist came to work with year 6 in our creative week. We created some portraits, which we drew without looking at the paper. We then creature our own sculptures of the International Space Station.
During Creative Week, Year 5 have been working with artist Isabella Carreras to produce work linked to our views on the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest. We were inspired by the work of artist Abel Rodriguez, a resident of the Amazon Rainforest and produced a collaborative mural to protest the destruction of the Rainforest.
