Monday 5th December – 1.30pm Year 5/6
Tuesday 6th December – 1.30pm Year 3/4
Tuesday 6th December – 6pm Year 5/6
Thursday 8th December – 6pm Year 3/4
Year 5 were visited by Julie, a fire-fighter from the Tyne and Wear fire department on Wednesday 23rd November. We were told loads of important and interesting information linked to fire safety, including: information about the fire triangle; the importance of testing smoke alarms to ensure they will wake us at night in case of a fire and shutting doors downstairs at night to stop fire spreading if one was to occur. We know that it is dangerous to start a fire on purpose and that it can lead to criminal charges and can hurt or kill people. At the end of the visit, Harvey was chosen to try on the specialist fire-fighting clothes while Julie told us how and why they were designed in the way they were. We learned loads and were given a task by Julie, to think about a fire escape plan for our house if a fire were to occur which we are looking forward to doing.
COMING HOME
We discussed what the word ‘home’ means and how it can have many different meanings to different people at different times in their lives. We then thought about what we could see, smell, hear and feel when we thought of home and created a ‘Word House’.
During the story we talked about how the robin would have felt at different points and what type of character he was.
After reading the story we made some Christmas bird cakes to hang from trees to help birds during the winter.
Year 5 enjoyed trying out a variety of balances during their gymnastics lesson.
Tuesday 15th November
LO: To understand haiku and to write our own.
We were lucky enough to have a poetry workshop with Explore Learning. We talked about haiku poetry, its origins and format. After learning the names and symbols for correct and incorrect in Japanese, we answered questions about haiku to check our understanding. In our beautiful booklets, there were some traditional and modern pictures to help us to generate our own ideas for our own haiku poems. We wrote a poem in our pairs and then one individually. They were so lovely, we decided to copy them up and carefully illustrate them for display. You can see them in the Year 4/5 corridor.
Year 4 were grammar detectives. We did work on verbs, adverbs and adverbial phrases.
Year 4 enjoyed learning more about the Anglo Saxons when we were visited by two people from Durham Oriental Museum. We enjoyed looking at artefacts from Anglo Saxons times and we also wrote using quills just like Anglo Saxons monks would have done.
As bonfire night approaches, Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service would like to remind and warn local parents and young people of the dangers of fireworks.
Two students and one ex-student from the same school in the Tyne and Wear area have all sustained firework related injuries over the last few days.
Using fireworks in a public place is illegal, and carries an on the spot fine of £80.
Young people should be advised never to hold a lighted firework in the hand, or to throw fireworks.
The video, Scarred for Life, which features true stories of local children who have been badly injured by fireworks, can be viewed on the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR-0CCLfEno
Concerns are also being raised that some young people may be purchasing fireworks from unofficial, unlicensed sources. This is both illegal and dangerous. These fireworks often do not comply with safety standards, and can have a much shorter fuse, which increases the risk of injury.
