Sports Week!

8th July 2022Elaine Quinn

We have had the most wonderful week filled with lots of sports activities.

On Monday, we kicked off our sports week with some football skills. We practiced different ways of moving around with our footballs and also a lot of hand-eye co-ordination skills before the big game! In the afternoon we did some cross country and a spot of Crazy golf. The Crazy golf was quite a challenge, however we showed a lot of resilience and managed to complete the course.

On Tuesday, we went for our final swimming session at Sir Charles Parsons. We are so grateful for them letting us use their pool this year. We have gained so much confidence in the pool and we have developed a range of different skills that will enable us to become even better swimmers.

On Wednesday, the girls from Westfield school came over to do multi-skills with us. This was such an amazing experience for us. We got to practice a range of different skills such as, balancing, throwing accuracy, ball skills and running.

In the afternoon we did some Gymnastics in the hall. This was also another great activity, as we practiced our gross-motor skills climbing and balancing on a range of different equipment. This was so enjoyable and we didn’t want it to end!

On Thursday, we had another fun-filled day full of sports activities! In the morning we did some boxing skills with Chris, which was incredible. We learnt different types of punches and had a go on the pads. We then did some para-Olympic games, followed by Karate with Chris again in the afternoon.

We have absolutely loved sports week this week and we cannot wait for activities week next week with our Year 6 leavers!

We hope you all stay safe and enjoy the weekend!

A fabulous Sports Week

8th July 2022June Ball

What a great week we have had getting physical! We have participated in a range of different activities with great enthusiasm. We started the week with Rebound and dancing to music from different countries. We the tried scarf and Belly Dancing which was great fun. We had an afternoon of bikes and scooters in the sports Hall and that was all on day one! We have also explored the obstacle course and had a go at Well Wanging! (harder than it looks) We even managed to fit in Soft Play too. Phew, What a week!

 

Nearly sports weeks

1st July 2022Elaine Quinn

This week we have been practicing a lot for our  sports week that is happening next week. We are so excited for the last few weeks, as we have so much planned!

On Monday we set up a carousel of different activities and we got practicing at a range of different skills such as, Hurdles, javelin, balancing on different equipment and balancing balls on tennis rackets.

We also went back to Sir Charles Parsons for our swimming lessons. We have really enjoyed our lessons here and this week we put all our skills to the test that we have learnt throughout the year. We have grown in such confidence this year in and around the pool. We are now able to move across the pool in different ways with confidence, put our faces in the water, push off from the wall on our backs and some of us have even managed to start swimming independently with floats.

On Thursday our Year 6’s went for their final transition visit to their new school. They met their new teachers and were able to experience a dinner and play time with all their new friends. Although they are so excited to move onto their new school, we will miss them loads!

While our Year 6’s were out at their new school, the rest of us spent the afternoon with the rest of the Year 6’s and we did some more sports day practice. We practiced our javelin throwing once again and made it into a fun competition. We also worked greatly on our Gross-motor skills by balancing on different equipment and moving across it in different ways.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and stay safe.

A splashing week!

24th June 2022Elaine Quinn

This week we have been cracking on with our invitations for our Carnival next month. We have been focusing a lot on our phase 2 high frequency words, as well as cvc words and name writing. We wrote out our invitations and we sent them off to our friends around school.

On Tuesday we went back down to Sir Charles Parsons for our weekly swimming lessons. We are getting really confident in the water and are focusing on floating on our backs. This is something that some of us find quite tricky as it can be quite daunting. Never the less, we all managed to float on our backs with little or no support.

As we are still in Carnival mode, we have been making headdresses for next month. These were so fun to make and they are packed full of colours. We can’t wait to show off all our hard work.

We have also been focusing a lot on collaborative work this week. Due to this we have been doing a lot of team games in our PE lessons. This has been amazing for us all, as we have had to focus a lot on our communication, co-ordination, resilience and team work skills.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and stay safe.

Last week of half term !

27th May 2022Elaine Quinn

This week we have been busy making our Samba posters for our carnival next half term. We have made some incredible posters and we have displayed our fantastic drawing and writing skills to go along with our wonderful masks that we created last week.

As the Queens Jubilee is slowly approaching, we have been learning all about the queen and have been creating crowns, flags and bunting in preparation for our Kings and Queen parade.

Here is some of our amazing work that we have done!

On Tuesday we joined all our friends in the sports hall and danced along to the ceilidh. This was so much fun and we loved being with all our friends once again. There were many instructions that we had to listen to when dancing to the different songs, however we picked them up very easily and we danced the day away.

On Wednesday we continued our science working learning all about different plants and what they need to grow. We learnt all about the life cycle of a sunflower and we found out that they take 90 days to fully grow. We also found out that when they die, the seeds from the head go into the ground and new sunflowers then grow.

On Thursday we were joined by some of our friends in Tereasa’s class for a Samba dance and a drumming session. We showed our friends our amazing dance skills. When dancing it was really important for us to remain focused throughout, as we had to watch our friends  who were leading the samba dances and make sure we were copying the right move. We also put our music skills to the test and drummed a long to the samba music while our friends were dancing.

We hope you all have an amazing half term holiday and stay safe. We cannot wait to see you all back after the holidays for our final half term before the summer.

Creepy, Crawly, Bouncing, Sports Stars

19th May 2022Antonia White

Well what a fantastic short week the children have had this week! They have had two lovely events and finished the week a day early as it is a training day tomorrow.

On Monday the children went to The Lakeside Centre at Killingworth for a Panathlon. All the activities were led by pupils from George Stephenson High School and they did a fantastic job of describing each activity and keeping track of the scores. There were six different activities for the children to complete, including curling, basketball and table tennis. They had an amazing time and everyone was incredibly well behaved! All the children who attended were awarded medals and certificates for their efforts!

Today was a special day for the children in Antonia’s class as they were able to attend a fabulous workshop by Zoolab. As part of our Rainforest and Jungles topic the children met some very weird and wonderful creatures which Rob brought all the way from his Rainforest journey for them to explore. they were able to hold and stroke some of the animals and they were super gentle. We are so proud of how kind and caring towards animals the children in our class are. They met Turbo the giant snail, Bellatrix the Tarantula, Maverick and Ice Man the Giant Millipedes, Matilda the giant Cockroach and William the Snake. We all learned some amazing facts about these special animals, even the adults! And all the children and adults were super brave. Antonia even overcame her fear of spiders and touched Bellatrix the Tarantula!

Have a lovely long weekend everyone!

Another busy week!

17th March 2022Elaine Quinn

This week, we have continued our work on biographies and have been writing some amazing facts about Bob, the Man on the Moon. We have really been working on our letter formation and segmenting cvc words in our writing. As you can tell by our work, we have become such amazing writers.

This half term we have been focusing on Bench ball. This is a game that requires a lot of skills such as team work, communication, listening,  throwing and catching. Due to this matter, this week we really focused on our throwing accuracy skills. We took it in turns to throw balls at the opposing team which we really enjoyed. This was extremely beneficial for building our confidence up, as some of us weren’t sure about having a soft ball thrown at our legs.

As it is coming up to April, our Shakespeare rehearsals have kickstarted again. This week Maria, Perry lee, Muhammad Raza and Muhammad have been practicing their roles in the performance. We cannot wait to see what more is to come.

In Maths this half term we are focusing on measurement. This is something we have all been superb at in the classroom. We are able to compare and describe the lengths of different objects and measure them using cubes or a ruler. As we have been amazing at measuring inside the classroom, we decided to take a trip outside to take our skills even further. We found different objects from outside that were on our list and we had to first estimate whether or not they would be bigger or smaller than 5 cubes or 10 cm. Once putting out estimation skills to the test, we then were able measure the objects and write down the measurements.

Last week, we spent the day in the yurt and we made some lovely fairy circles and hammered our fairy houses down to some tree stumps. This week we have decided to make our fairy garden look even more beautiful and we have done some amazing planting. This was rather tricky as the ground was very solid and had lots of weeds in it, however we showed a lot of resilience with our digging skills and we managed to get all our plants into the ground. We cannot wait to see them grow and show you all how beautiful our fairy garden is.

That’s all from us this week, we hope you have a lovely weekend and stay safe.

Back in the swing of things

11th March 2022Elaine Quinn

After a crazy busy world book week, we have resumed back to usual routine and started the week off learning about biography’s. We learnt what a biography is and we were all able to sort out texts into different piles. The following day we listened to the story of The Man on the Moon. We then jotted down some key facts about Bob the astronaut in preparation of creating our own biography’s.

On Tuesday we finally got back out to Sir Charles Parsons for our weekly swimming sessions. We had so much fun and we practiced our kicking skills. This was a great opportunity to splash all our teachers.

This half term in Maths we have moved onto measurements. This is something we have picked up really well and we are well and truly showing off our skills. We can compare and describe different objects and we can also use rulers to measure different objects!

On Thursday the sun decided to make an appearance, which was very fortunate as we spent the day out in the Yurt. In the morning we collected natural materials and made some lovely fairy circles in the flow field. In the afternoon we then collected more natural materials and used them to dress our fairy’s’. After that some of us nailed our fairy houses that we made last week to different tree stumps. This was a very tricky job, but we persevered and got the job done.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and stay safe !

 

What a lovely week!

11th March 2022Rachael Budden

What a great week everyone has had. Along with our usual lessons, there’s been lots of fun sessions and even a trip. We began the week working on our Shakespeare performance. We were learning the basics of acting and played games to sharpen our acting skills. Over the coming weeks, we still start rehearsing and getting into character.

On Tuesday we were finally back to Charles Parsons for our swimming session! Although we love a spontaneous trip to our hydro pool,  we all benefit so much from the extra space to practice our skills in the water (and of course the floaties at the end of the session).

We were back to practicing Shakespeare on Wednesday, everyone is so excited to be performance ready and show you all! We were also lucky enough to be in the Yurt. We brought the outside in for our Maths lessons, collecting outside objects and measuring them in cubes.

Thursday marked our first trip out as a class. We attended Riverside Ten Pin Bowling for a tournament against 7 other schools. Everyone tried really hard and we managed to take third place! We all got medals and even a framed certificate to displace in the sports centre. It was so lovely to see the children thriving in a new environment and the behaviour from each and every one of them made us all really proud.

Friday is always great in our class. After a great assembly the children loved playing on the adventure playground. We had football after lunch which is always a great hit and finally finished the day with choice time.

We hope everyone has a great weekend!

Its the end of half term !!

18th February 2022Elaine Quinn

What a fun filled week we have had this week! We have been out and about and continued with all our hard work telling the time and learning about space.

On Monday we started learning about the stars in space and we made our own constellations. We found out that stars are balls of gas, just like the sun. Another interesting fact that we found out was that the stars in the sky look so small because they are very far away from the Earth.

This week we were so lucky to go over to Sunderland to play in a tennis tournament. We had a range of different activities to complete in a set amount of time and it helped us develop lots of different skills. We all tried our best at every activity and did our school proud.

Finally, in our thrive lesson this week we did a lot of activities based around being silly. We had a silly dance party and played a game of don’t show your teeth. This was such a lovely afternoon as we learnt that it is okay to be silly sometimes and that it is nothing to be embarrassed about.

We  hope you all have a lovely half term holidays and stay safe.