1 Blue had a fabulous trip to the Life Centre in Newcastle. This trip linked to our theme ‘Light Up The World’. The children did lots of exploring and learning through play. Their behaviour was amazing throughout the day and were a credit to the school.
Back in February, South Tyneside Council and Dogger Bank Wind Farm teamed up with Little Inventors to bring us ‘Powering the Future: South Tyneside and Beyond!’
Both our Year 4 and %ear 5 pupils took on an invention challenge, created for their year group.
This challenge focused on the role and uses of wind and kinetic energy- both forms of renewable energy.
All of our entries were amazingly creative and bursting with innovation!
Incredibly, out of the 167 ideas posted into the competition, our very own Tommy (4 Red) had his invention selected as a winning entry; he was then invited to meet the designers and have his invention brought to life!
Nursery have had a great day, exploring flowers, making observational drawings and creating perfume from petals and water.
This half-term, our gardening club have already achieved their Level 1 award, from the Royal Horticultural Society!
Working in the school garden, we are aiming to get some edible produce (fruits and vegetables) planted, ready to harvest and taste test ourselves.
Adding to our level 1 award, we have also officially been given our School Gardening member plaque and are continuing to work our green fingers, to reach levels 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Well done gardeners, keep up the fantastic work!
What an amazing week we have had celebrating the Coronation. We made ‘natural crowns’, decorated tiles, created loose part crowns, red white and blue patterns, built palaces and so much more! Today we had a party outside and it was sunny!
Last week we had a very special delivery of 10 eggs, so far 9 of them have hatched, 1 boy and 8 girls. The children have loved watching them hatch and are really enjoying learning about the life cycle. 🥚 🐣 🐤 on Friday we held them. The children were amazing, so gentle and kind. They were able to tell us how to carefully look after them, how we keep them safe and what they need to stay healthy. They also discussed why their feathers are so soft and fluffy. 🐥👏🏻⭐️🐥👏🏻⭐️
This week, we went along to Reception to see the chicks. 10 eggs were delivered earlier in the week, in their special, warm incubator… and 9 of them have hatched already!
We talked about the life cycle of a chicken and how the chicks use their special egg tooth to break out of the egg.
One of the chicks is light yellow (that’s the boy) and the others are darker (they are the girls). It was very funny watching them climb on each other and cheep loudly!
This week, the nursery children enjoyed a spring walk around the school grounds. We were looking for signs of spring. Although it was windy, it was quite a mild day – a sure sign that we are waving goodbye to winter and have some warmer weather on the way! We found flowers and noticed new leaves growing on the trees. We even saw bumblebees on the hunt for flowers, just like us!
While in the main school yard, we took the opportunity to practice our climbing and balancing skills on the trim trail and enjoyed playing on the play equipment too!
Nursery PM
On Monday, 4 Blue were busy taking part in the ‘Little Inventors Challenge’. We had to design a wind powered invention that would solve a problem, make something better or just create something fun. To help us with our designs, we created a graffiti wall of wind powered ideas. Then we took part in a hovercraft race. We made a wind powered hovercraft using a balloon, a sports bottle cap and some blu-tack. We all had a great day!
Today, Year 4 took part in the Little Inventors Competition. We had great fun designing a wind powered invention, that would solve a problem, make something better or just be really fun.
To help us with our ideas we had a wind powered hovercraft race, where we had to make a hovercraft from a balloon, a bottle cap, a cd and some blue-tac.
We have had a fantastic day!
