On the 1st December, we had a little elf come to visit us and show us what they have been doing in Santa’s workshop in the run up to Christmas. She told the children how she needed to find the perfect present for her special friend and the children helped with their ideas. We all had a great time, including joining in with the
We have loved reading the story of The Little Red Hen. We have retold the story through writing retells and drama performances. We learnt how bread is made and where flour comes from, exploring the process of grain to bread. We even made our own bread, however unlike the story The Little Red Hen we worked together as a team to make the bread,
Year 4 are studying Diwali for this half-term’s festival. We made Diva Lamps from clay and painted them beautifully too..
Some of our year 3 girls represented our school at a Wildcats football session this afternoon at Goals, Sunderland. They had the opportunity to work with some of the sports coaching students from Sunderland College and took part in different activities. The children worked well as a team and had the chance to try out some football skills and team building exercises. Their behaviour and attitude was brilliant and they were an absolute credit to the school! They had lots of fun and are already asking to do it again!
Year 2 have been looking at the skill of pointillism in art this week. Pointillism is when an artist uses lots of little dots to make a larger picture with different shades and tones. We have been practicing using our fingers and cotton buds to make different tones of fire colours, ready for our final piece next week. We all sat round a large
This week children have taken part in lots of different activities to mark Remembrance Day. Some children have visited the cenotaph on Southwick Green and others have listened to stories and poems and also written some of their own. Today we held a whole school assembly to mark Remembrance and discuss its important ace. Year 6 shared some beautiful poems they had written. We
We went to the museum for a workshop on evolution and inheritance.
This week Year 2 have been learning about the basics of electricity. We learnt about how an electric current travels around a complete circuit, and if it is not complete, then the bulb or buzzer will not work. We were able to draw complete circuits and test them out using wires and batteries. Well done, Year 2!
Year 1 have been learning about Remembrance, ready for the 11th November. We had lots of discussions about WW1, the poppy and what it represents. We were fascinated so we created our own poppies. We walked down to the Cenotaph and placed our poppies to show our respects.
