What a wonderful week!!

We had an amazing week packed with lots of fun and activities. Our children were buzzing with excitement to make the best of the Halloween week. There was so much to do, so we incorporated all of our lessons around Halloween. In Design Technology we made our own witch and ghost to hang on the tree and in Art we used paints, crayons and felt pens to draw and colour in the props for our poster on the door. We carved pumpkins and went on a pumpkin trail, we then counted how many pumpkins we each found and who had the most. In English we read “There’s a Witch in my Book” then described the witch using adjectives in our English books.

This week was the last session with Katie from “Fun little Foodies”, where we made fruit scones and then designed a front cover for our very little own recipe book, which the children will take home after half term break.

Today our children and the grown-ups came dressed up in their Halloween costumes and had a lovely party playing games and dancing. They are definitely ready for a half term break.

Have a lovely half term!!!

This week we have been gathering resources for the Halloween week competition and keeping everything in order as we are so looking forward to winning some of them. We got the inspiration from the literacy lesson on Vashti a little girl who did not know how to draw, but eventually with lots of encouragement and will power she became an artist. Our children discussed their personal stories when they could not either ride a bike, or swim or even draw and how with help from their loved ones and lots of practice they mastered it. It was lovely to hear all the wonderful experiences. Katie from Fun little Foodies taught us how to make macaroni cheese, which looked delicious and we all just wanted to eat it straightaway. We chopped some veggies, we counted pieces of corn and we chopped some ham slices and revised our food topic all over again. We are now becoming very clever at saying where food comes from. To top it all, our children did lovely swimming and all got certificates, Charlie  got an extra one for being brave in Rebound and Anthony got a medal for being a kind friend.

Have a lovely weekend

This year we looked at how different countries around the world celebrate harvest festivals. We chose Japan as our country and the children participated in different activities pertaining to the Japanese culture. We prepared some sushi, did a sumo dance and designed our own Japanese costume called the Kimono. We had a special assembly to share all that we had learnt about the chosen country. The children were fascinated looking at different food from around the world. Our head girl and head boy were invited to taste and score the different dishes. We sang and danced to the harvest rock and roll song. A big thank you to all those who send in their contributions for the food bank.

We could not do the Zumba this week as the hall was being used by our parents for the coffee morning, so we did a workout in class instead. In food technology we made fruit muffins where, the children learnt about some fruits which are difficult to grow in England and how we can still enjoy them because it gets flown from other countries.

We had a special visit from the army truck and the army officer and the children had a great time exploring the truck and taking pictures with the hat and the helmet on.

Today we celebrated mental well-being day. It was all about feeling happy and keeping everyone around us happy. Both the children and the staff wore yellow, as it symbolises joy, happiness and positivity. We discussed how sometimes we can feel sad, angry or anxious because things don’t go the way we want to, we then talked about how we can engage in different activities to help our minds stay happy.  Some children said that when they are sad they love to have cuddles off their family members and their pets. The children engaged in different activities such as colouring, building blocks, reading a book, doing some art and craft or simply playing with toys or watching television. We concluded our day doing meditation with some relaxing music on.

Last but not the least our Noura got a certificate and Muhammad got a medal.

This week has flown off so quickly and its Friday already!

All through the week we have worked hard completing our literacy and numeracy tasks. However the most amazing lesson was during food technology when Katy from Fun little Foodies taught our children to make some bread and butter. The children learnt how to measure and mix the correct ingredients, they rolled and kneaded the dough and put it on the baking tray.

The children were able to relate this lesson to our science session on where does food come from. They knew that the flour to make the bread comes from the grains and the milk comes from the cow. We also looked at a sorting activity trying to separate food that we get straight from the farm and food that needs to go through a process before we can eat them.

To add to the excitement, Charlie had his 11^th birthday party and our other Charlie received a medal and a certificate for being a Half Term Achiever. What a great week indeed.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

It has been an absolutely busy week for all the children in our class with lots of different activities and special visits!

We celebrated “Recycling Week” by reading a lovely story on how recycling is very important to save our environment and how we can recycle different materials.

On Tuesday this week we went to Sir Charles Parsons for our first swimming lesson. It was an amazing experience splashing in the big pool. The children were very excited and are looking forward to our next session.

This week we also had the opportunity to cast our vote for the Head Boy, Head Girl and the School Council. The election was a great success with all children writing their lovely speech and casting their votes in the ballot.

In Food technology we made some delicious flapjacks and played a game of bingo. In English we have been sharing and writing about our feelings. In maths some of us have been practising with the tens frame and some of us have been working on the inequality symbols.

Last but not the least we had a great afternoon dancing to some beautiful music from the Columbian Band and completing our Frida Kahlo Portraits.

We have all been very busy this week in Rachael’s class with lots of fun activities!

Unfortunately, we weren’t able to go swimming on Tuesday but Fun Little Foodies more than made up for it! Everyone had lots of fun making their own mini quiches, as well as some arts and crafts afterwards.

In English we have been learning all about the Tell-Me Tree by reading the story outside under our very own Tell-Me Tree in the Flow Field. We even got to draw our own Tell-Me Trees and made some leave for our new class tree.

In Science, we talked about how to keep our teeth healthy and practised brushing them. Everyone learnt all about which foods are good and bad for our teeth.

Finally in Maths, we have been practising using tens frames. Some of us have even been counting all the way to twenty! Lillie also received a certificate in assembly today for learning how to use inequality symbols.

This week we say goodbye to our year 6 children. Due to the unfortunate circumstances of our class having to isolate we did not get the chance to say goodbye in person. However, we still had a fun week of remote activities!

We were set some tasks on Class Dojo to complete over this week, one being what we have loved doing in class this year! Katie completed a beautiful piece of writing and even drew a lovely picture to show what she had enjoyed about her time in class 6. Another task was to research Sir Charles Parsons School website as it will be where our year 6’s will be going in September. Finally, we were given some drawing tutorials to complete and Katie again did an amazing job, they look fantastic!

Due to Covid we couldn’t have our leavers assembly this year but parents and carers were given links a virtual leavers assembly where they could access their child’s leavers video. They were all amazing and very emotional! Links were also given out to our Friday morning assembly where we got to say a final goodbye to our year 6’s.

Our class had our very own class quiz on zoom, which all parents and carers in our class were invited to via zoom. It was so fun trying to remember funny things that had happened during our time in year 6. Here are the questions if you didn’t get the chance to join, you can see how many you get right!

1. Which adult did we see on Mr Tumble?
2. Which 2 celebrities are on Tracy’s mug?
3. Who thinks school is boriiiinngg?
4. Who loves Rylan Clarke?
5. Which of our friends have had the most accidents this year?
6. Who is the director of ‘Wallace and Gromit in Iceland’?
7. Who was dressed up as Olaf during The Masked Story Teller?
8. Who surprised us and came to Hall Hill Farm during activities week?
9. What is Mrs Stokle going to do when she retires?
10. Who was the old lady in ‘There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly?
11. What did we eat in Alnwick Garden?
12. Who loves Mary Poppins?

We will miss you all so much and we wish you the best of luck in Sir Charles Parsons! We hope to see you again soon and please come and visit us!

Have a wonderful and well deserved summer holiday everyone!

We have had the best week this week we are so lucky!!

On Monday we visited Alnwick Gardens to see all the water features and got to eat some yummy Pizzas!

On Tuesday we went to Blyth Beach and even got to have a dip in the sea!

On Wednesday we got to go to Newburn Park, ride some bikes and even play in the park!

On Thursday we went to Hall Hill Farm and fed lots of animals, it was great!!

Today we went to Digger Land and played on the rides and enjoyed some yummy ice cream to cool off!