Year 4 have been learning about Brazil in our “Picture our Planet” topic. This week, we have been learning about famous Brazilian neo-pop artist Romero Britto. We have learnt all about how he draws inspiration from cubism and graffiti art. We then practised making collages of his art work using a cutting template. Once we had the hang of it, we used the same cutting template to cut pieces of fabric to create a carnival collage. We worked hard to choose patterns and colours that complimented each other and then added decorations.
KS2 enjoyed a fabulous afternoon on Monday for sports day. They took part in plenty of team games in their house colours before watching or taking part in the individual races. It was a very close leaderboard, but the overall winner for KS2 was Emerald House – well done Emerald!
Year 4 have been working hard this year on their Times Tables – some even choosing to attend Times Tables Club after school on a Thursday.
Each session starts with a bit of healthy competition – playing each other on TTRS! Then we finish off by getting up and moving, playing times table games or dancing along to BBC Supermovers!
Keep Fit Club had great fun this week as Miss Ingoe brought in a giant parachute!
We worked as a team to lift the parachute in time, creating a mushroom and played games like cat and mouse and shark attack! There was a lot of laughter 😂
Last Thursday a group of year 4 and 5 girls represented our school in a football festival held at Castle View Enterprise Academy. We took part in football coaching drills followed by four matches, in which we won 3 games out of 4! The girls all played fantastic, had lots of fun, practised their football skills and behaved brilliantly. They even came up with a team celebration for each goal they scored!
Some of our year 3/4 pupils had a great day out on Friday at the South Tyneside Quad kids sports competition. The gave their all at Monkton Stadium and put in some amazing performances but unfortunately it wasn’t our day. Maybe next year!
Year 4 have been making congratulations cards in DT! The cards were to say well done at Annabelle who won our class vote for class leader during our lessons on democracy in our Law and Order topic ! We learnt that a lever is a mechanism to create movement, and then we made a small practise lever. We then designed our own congratulations cards with a moving part. Then, we used our new skills to create a larger lever in our cards to create moving rainbows, stars, moons and planes etc. The children’s cards were really effective and they really enjoyed making them.
With the nicer weather approaching, we have taken part in the Great Big School Clean. Every year group has helped to litter pick around our school. Not only helping to improve the environment but also ensuring that our school grounds are a safe place to play and enjoy the upcoming sunshine!
Today, Years 3 and 4 went on a trip to the Great North Museum (Hancock) in Newcastle to take part in lots of different exciting activities related to animals and their habitats.
First, they completed a workshop called The Wild Escape, where they learned about all of the animals local to our area and the various habitats they live; uplands, lowlands, woodlands, seas and coasts. They had to choose an animal, think about how it had adapted to its environment and then think of how they could use their adaptations to escape!
Then, they were lucky enough to be one of the first school groups to visit MythQuest, which is a new interactive treasure hunt type activity in the museum, where children have to follow the clues, make decisions about what happens in the story, and collect rubbings on the way. All of the children worked so well in their teams and all achieved ‘Hero’ Status!
Finally, they received a lesson on biro art from Jane Lee McCracken which will become part of her online exhibition ‘Where did all the animals go?’
It’s been another busy day of nativities, it started off with our amazing year 3/4s in a very funny performance of Lights, Camel, Action!