Last week year five took part in a huge sandcastle contest!
The Shields Gazette article is below, you can spot some of our children in the pictures!
A selection of the 1,700 photographs from this year’s Thurston trip can be found here.
Year 2 had great fun exploring Monkton Village today! We looked at old photographs to see how the village has changed over the years. We even tried to re-create some of the old photographs we had found.
With most of the year six children away at Thurston, a small group of would be authors created something amazing this week!
Their only instruction was ‘make a book for your reception buddies.’ From here the children researched picture books, counted pages and words and wrote the story themselves. Next comes the clever part. I fully expected them to use paper and felt tips, perhaps using word processing for the text, but no, these are the children of a modern Bede Burn!
Out came the iPads and Book creator was swiftly opened! With no help from any adult, the children organised themselves into task forces, took photographs of the reception children to go into the book, recorded sounds and created a front cover.
After assembly this morning they read their finished book to the reception class. As you can see from the photographs, everyone had an amazing time and the youngest children in our school thought that the oldest ones were very clever indeed.
A brilliant effort from the year six children, well done!
Well, when our Chinese friends visited last December, they were so impressed with how welcome they were made to feel at Bede Burn that they were desperate to return and give some other children the chance to experience the North Eastern hospitality!
The children and teachers (including the Head Teacher) from Meiyuan School arrived, weary, yet excited, on Sunday afternoon. On Monday they spent the day with us at school, getting involved in lessons throughout the day.
Miss Lenney organised some rotational symmetry activities in her lesson and this gave our children the opportunity to chat and get to know their new friends (although I’m not sure how much of the finer details of the game ‘Bulldog’ they understood!)
Miss Summers further impressed by dressing up as Little Red Riding Hood and encouraged great team work as the children from both schools retold the story to each other before acting it out. Some of our boys seemed quite attached to the red hood too!
Finally Miss Smith put both sets of children through their paces in a PE lesson, again it was brilliant to see our children encouraging and helping their Chinese friends in the exercises!
After school, Miss Lenney and I took the Chinese to Arbeia and gave them a tour of the Roman fort. We didn’t even make anything up! Although cold and blustery (they are used to a hot and humid thirty degrees) they all seemed to enjoy the visit, even the smell boxes…
The children will be back with us next Monday and will be staying for the KS2 disco (tickets available from the office.)
Some great photographs from the day are here.
Year 2 have had a super first week back and they had great fun this afternoon, practising throwing and catching whilst playing some new invasion games.
Also we would like to all say a BIG thank you to Daniel’s Grandad for kindly giving us all a sunflower each. We promise to take good care of them!
Another truly amazing crop of egg designs! It was so hard to pick winners in each class, the amount of time and effort that had gone into the creations was phenomenal!
Some of the eggs can be seen here, I couldn’t get all of them on, I will retry after Easter…
WOW! What a busy spring term Year 2 have had… first we found out all about the magnificent Walt Disney, then designed and created our own Disney finger and glove puppets. We were so good we managed to sew our puppets using the running and over stitch!
We then moved onto our second topic Africa! We researched the different African animals and wrote our own non chronological reports about them. Did you know cheetahs use their tails to steer their bodies when they are trying to catch other animals? We also looked more at African art, and made African necklaces and our own tinga tinga animals.
We loved singing ‘I just can’t wait to be king’ for our Grandparents at our annual Grandparents concert. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! 🙂
For those of you who were lucky enough to attend, didn’t you have a treat?!
This year the concert was Disney themed and each year group, and the choir, sang and danced to the delight of 200 grandparents!
Many thanks to all of the children and staff for their hard work, and to Mrs Peacock and Mrs Woods for providing the refreshments afterwards.
There are some lovely photographs of the day, here.
Armed with pin hole viewers, pin hole telescopes, and even colanders, Bede Burn ventured out to observe the 93% solar eclipse!
Worries about looking directly at the sun were moot, as heavy cloud cover was abundant over Jarrow. However we did get some brief glimpses and the children enjoyed being out in the yard with their ‘viewing equipment’!
We did manage to get a couple of photographs of the actual eclipse, and plenty more of the children enjoying the experience… you can see them all here.
