Using our school donations from pupils and staff, the children in year 6 had great fun delivering harvest gifts to the local elderly residents.
As part of our Multicultural week, Year 3 had some visitors that told us all about Hinduism. We got to dress up and act out the story of Rama and Sita, as well as learning lots of new facts.
During multicultural week Year 3 were taught a Bollywood dance. Bollywood is very famous in India, the industry make lots of successful films. Music and dancing are an important part of this.
Year 5 children enjoyed yet another afternoon of competitive Rugby. We played extremely well in some very tough matches and demonstrated high levels of resilience and excellent sportsmanship. Well done everyone!
On Thursday, Year 5 took part in a Rugby Tournament at Boldon School. This was a great way for us to put into practice the skills we have learned from the Rugby coach that we have been very lucky to have this half term.
Our three teams played extremely well in their matches: Team A won their group matches and received medals; Team B came in second place and Team C, third place.
We all had a fantastic afternoon!
The school football team have taken part in the Air Quality MEM League over the last 4 weeks and on Thursday 12th of October played their final match. The team won every match they played and won the league. The children showed great team spirit and resilience. They have now qualified for a cup tournament where they will play against the top teams from the other leagues in South Shields. Well done!
In Year 5, we are finding about all about the Vikings. In our DT lessons, we made these amazing Viking boat models. After researching longships, and their characteristics and purposes, we planned and designed the different elements of our ships. In small groups we then worked as a team to create our models using lots of skills such as communication, cutting, sewing and attaching in different ways. We needed to be very resilient as not everything went to plan but were all really pleased with our efforts.
Year 6 visited Palace Green Museum in Durham to discover some fascinating facts about the Ancient Greeks. We investigated real and replica artefacts, put on a Greek play and made votive offerings from clay. We had a great day!
On Wednesday 19th September, Years 5 and 6 were visited by the Newcastle Eagles basketball team. They came as part of the ‘Hoops4Health’ roadshow and we had 4 different sessions which taught us about keeping healthy.
We did some basketball drills which showed us how important physical exercise is; we learned about our heart and how to keep it healthy by keeping active; we looked at peer pressure, the reasons for it (both positive and negative) and how we can deal with these situations in our own lives and we also looked at nutrition and how to make sure we are feeding our bodies the right things.
We had a fantastic time and learned a lot.
Year 5 were visited by Bjarni the Viking last week and he taught us all about Viking life with a focus on sailing, weapons and laws; we even held a trial! We wrote kenning poems; explored and enquired about Viking artefacts and some of us got to strike our very own Viking penny. We had a great day and cannot wait to find out more about this fascinating History topic!
