We were lucky enough to visit the BALTIC this week and had a great time! Our favourite exhibit was definitely The Age of Love by Heather Phillipson – a series of sounds, videos and objects with blue flashing lights. We had a great dance to the music and really enjoyed watching the videos (especially the cat!). We also loved A Retrospective by Rasheed Araeen – the children’s opinions on both exhibits were great! 6B would definitely recommend that you visit the BALTIC to see them!
This half term in art we are working on Sculptures. We looked at different sculptures around our school and also on the Smart Board. We were particularly interested in The Angel of the North. We used clay to make our own models and then decided we would like to visit the real Angel of the North on the school mini bus.
As we travelled to it the bend in the A1 made it look as if the Angel was moving from right to the left side of the road. We were fascinated and thought it was flying around! It was mighty cold up on the hill but we loved seeing the Angel and were amazed at how big it was. We all did a wonderful sketch of it and we will be making our own models using different materials.
Babs, Jess, Lindsay and Ann.
We have had a really busy week, doing lots of learning and thinking. This half term, we are using the story of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ to learn about:
We enjoyed making bear shaped sandwiches in our food technology lesson. We tasted and chose different fillings for our sandwiches before practising our spreading skills and cutting them into bear shapes. Of course, real bears eat honey sandwiches, or marmalade, if it’s Paddington!
We were all taken by surprise when it started to snow when we were playing in the quad! It was loads of fun to make tracks in the snow and feel how cold it was. We had to come in and warm up with some soft blankets!
Have a great weekend and stay cosy!
When we found out that this half term we would be playing table cricket we were all wondering “what is table cricket?” We were very excited to go along to the Dance Studio to find out what it was and how to play it.
We all had such a good time learning how to bat, bowl and field around a table. We all moved around the table and took turns engaging in the different aspects. This week was a practise run but next week we are going to start scoring! What great fun it is and so good for the whole class to be working positively together.
Babs, Jess, Lindsey and Ann.
Happy New Year! We hope you had a fantastic Christmas holiday and enjoyed your New Year celebrations.
We have launched straight back into work at school. Everyone enjoyed Hannah telling the story of ‘Golidlocks and the Three Bears’ and it inspired us to make big and small bear biscuits in our food technology lesson.
We’ve set up our role play area to be the three bears’ kitchen, and we have enjoyed acting out the story.
We have also been practising recognising our names and discussing our emotions. It’s important to talk about how we feel!
We are really looking forward to doing some work about ourselves, our families and our homes this half term. It’s going to be fun!
In other lessons we have been counting out amounts. It is quite a skill to point to each item, then remember how many all together. We have been encouraging the children to touch each object as it is counted, and to count slowly.
We really enjoyed our soft play session this week. It was the calmest session we have ever had!
Have a great weekend!
Dear Parents/Carers
Welcome back and a very happy new year. We have had an excellent first week back. We have been very busy with our new topics and have also enjoyed our first session with a rugby coach. On the 28th of January we will be heading to the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens as part of our humanities topic. Our swimming lessons on a Wednesday will also be split into 2 groups starting next week. Which means lessons will now take place over 2 weeks for the children rather than every week. I will send a list home who is swimming next week when it has been finalized. We hope you have a lovely weekend.
Scott, Ann, Colleen, Liam
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Hello all and Happy New Year!
We wish you all a happy and healthy 2019!
We have had a lovely first week back, we were so excited to see all our little ones on the first day and they seemed very happy to see everyone too! We have enjoyed outdoor learning, sensory songs, music therapy, sensory circuits, a thrive session, hydrotherapy, rebound therapy, community engagement and much more!
With all the festive excitement of the last week of term we didn’t get a chance to share some of our lovely Christmas photos with you so we thought we would pop them on here for you to have a little look! Enjoy and have a great weekend!
Hi everyone,
A massive happy new year to you all and we are all very excited to be back in Class 1a. We have had a great week seeing the children and finding out about their wonderful Christmas’.
The children came back well rested, calm and excited to learn. We started the week with some lovely Thrive time, we played and explored different resources and toys together. The children have all missed each other. We caught this great moment, as Dua read Ella a story.
For Literacy, we have been working on our mark making skills, the children loved grabbing a wet paint brush and observing their marks on the outside walls and play equipment. Look at those great lines and circles!
We introduced the characters of our new class story ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We started the story by introducing the characters to the children, we learnt the word, sign and symbol for pig and wolf. Some children can even recognise and read the words ‘pig’ and ‘wolf’ with no picture support! Next week, we will read the story and hope they can remember the words and signs.
We have also been learning all about our names, the initial sounds and recognising our written name.
During PE, we started our topic ‘Games’, we began with a very hot warm up! After that, we practised our throwing and catching skills. All the children have different skill and it is fabulous to watch them shine in different areas of the curriculum. We have also had Rebound, soft play and some children have been swimming.
The children work extremely hard on their physical skills and we have noticed a huge difference in their strength, co-ordination and balance.
Well done to Sofia for receiving our Friday assembly certificate for independently standing up from her chair and walking to an adult.
Upcoming events:
Next Tuesday, we begin a weekly session on balance bikes for 5 weeks.
New Topics
Science – Sorting and Using Materials
Humanities – What I can see around my classroom/school/local area?
Art – Clay
D.T – Homes
R.E – Judaism
We will be introducing a Chinese restaurant to our class role play area and a construction site!
Hope you all have a lovely weekend,
Jess, Michele, Kairen, Katherine and Sharon
Welcome back to school everyone. We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and we would like to take this opportunity to wish you a Happy and Healthy New Year.
We have had a busy four days settling back into school. We talked together about what we would like for snack time and made a shopping list. Today we all walked to a local shop to buy the things on our list. The children all were very engaged, looking carefully for the different items. We also added a couple of special treats which weren’t on the list!
When we came back we unpacked and then practised writing about our trip out in our own little writing books. We look forward to eating the lovely food we bought.
Babs, Lindsey, Ann and Jess.
