Y5 had a fantastic day yesterday collaborating with their Y5 buddies.
At Bede Burn, the children utilised their teamwork skills to complete maths challenges.
At St Oswalds, we applied our map skills in orienteering.
This week in English, Year 4 have been on a determiner hunt!
Some children identified determiners from a set of words, some children selected the most appropriate determiner for different sentences and other children rewrote the sentences with a different determiner in order to alter the meaning.
What is a reflection?
Reflections happen when light hits a smooth, shiny surface and it bounces back.
We had lots of fun playing ‘ Mirror Me’.
Y6 have enjoyed a maths relay – they split into 3 teams and each person had to come forward, answer the maths question and return to their team.
Points given for the quickest answer and points for correct answers!
Wow, what a fantastic journey! Reception embarked on an adventure this week when they walked to Jarrow Metro Station, rode the metro to South Shields and walked to the Customs House to watch Sing 2.
They then caught the ferry back across the River Tyne and finally, another journey on the metro before arriving back to school.
All adults who accompanied the children said how fantastic they were! The children loved it!!
As part of our Coastlines topic, this week Year 2 had a special visitor from the RNLI.
He showed us all of the flags which help us to stay safe on the beach and talked to us about the four steps to stay safe on the beach. Year 2 really enjoyed having our special visitor in class.
Year 1 have been using directional language this week to find their way from one London Landmark to another.
They have been using their maps skills and language skills to help plan their topic writing.
They had lots of fun on the yard, imagining they were in London giving each other instructions and describing the landmarks as they passed.
Mummifying tomatoes!
In history, Year 4 learned about the mummification process which was used in ancient Egypt. Year 4 demonstrated their understanding of mummification by following the same process used by the ancient Egyptians to mummify a tomato.
First, the children cut a slit into the tomato and used a spoon to scoop out the innards! They placed them in cups but the ancient Egyptians would have used canopic jars. Next, the children cleansed the tomato. After that, the children filled the inside of the tomato with salt and bicarbonate of soda (the Egyptians used natrum) in order to preserve it.
The children then wrapped the body in toilet roll strips (instead of linen) to make the tomato resemble the mummies we recognise today! Finally, the children created their own own sarcophagus, adorned in hieroglyphs and ancient Egyptian motifs, to help send their tomato mummy safe on their journey to the afterlife!
