This week’s certificates have been awarded to… Year 1: Lara Richardson, your writing this week was super-well done and keep it up! Heidi Smith, you always bring your home reader and do extra reading at home-keep it up, you are a star! Year 2: Eliza Hussain, you used lovely grammatical features writing letters and post cards-well done! Scott Towle, you have been putting 100%
This week’s certificates have been awarded to… Year 1: Ella Rose Brannen, your behaviour on our trip to The Wetlands was amazing-you have made us proud! Year 2: Oliver Spurs, your writing when using adjectives was amazing-well done! Theia Wallace, you were wonderful when doing past and present progressive tense-well done! Year 3: Lilah Haddock, you always try hard and used a great range
This week #WakeUpWednesday looks at Instagram. Instagram (13+ age restriction) remains a go-to app for many children, with its endless stream of photos, videos, and ‘Stories’ keeping young users constantly connected. From influencer content to live broadcasts, the platform is packed with evolving features that can feel fun and engaging – but can also raise some serious concerns around screen time, online pressures and
We have all thoroughly enjoyed celebrating British Science Week in school. The theme was ‘Change and Adapt’ and we thought it would be a good idea to focus on something relevant to ourselves and our planet, therefore, we decided to have a whole school focus on climate change. Take a look at what we’ve all been up to! The Hub In the Hub we
This week’s certificates have been awarded to… Year 1: Masha Ehsas, your maths work when comparing numbers to 10 was amazing! Keep it up and well done! Meila Allan, you have been trying really hard with your writing this week and have used your phonics well too-well done! Year 2: Evie Mardghum, you have been working super hard on your handwriting this week-well done!
Some of the Year 3 and 4 children went to Durham Cricket Ground, Chester-le-Street and played Table Cricket. We had an amazing time, playing Table cricket against many schools. We had lots of fun.
This week’s certificates have been awarded to… Year 1: Scarlett Wilson, this is for simply being you! You always try your best and you are such a kind friend to everyone-well done! Rebecca Morritt, your writing in English was amazing and we loved reading your story setting-well done! Year 2: Mahour Afali, you planned and wrote a fabulous non-chronological report about an African animal-well
As part of our geography topic, the children have been learning about how the locality of the school has changed in the last 70 years, and how this has affected hedgehog numbers. Today, we compared maps of Southwick from the 1950’s until today and looked at how ‘green spaces’ have drastically declined. We decided to walk around our school grounds to look for suitable habitats for hedgehogs. We found that we don’t really have that many great habitats for them so this is something we are looking to improve.
Some of our Year 3 children took part in the Cluster Tennis competition today at Monkwearmouth School. They were all amazing and made us very proud! Their attitudes and sportsmanship were brilliant and they really were a credit to us all. Well done Year 3!
For British Science Week we investigated microplastics and how we can filter them from the ocean. We looked at what microplastics are and how they make their way into the eco-system and the food we eat. We used sand as our microplastic and investigated which material would make the best filter-we were surprised at our results!
