The children in Year 5 have been writing sea shanties this week. These were inspired by their class novel, A boy and a bear in a boat. They used traditional nautical vocabulary, repetition and rhyme.
Yesterday morning the children from Year 1 visited Temple Park Leisure Centre, where they took part in the KS1 Multi skills festival. The children have been practising with Mr Rogers during their PE lessons in preparation for the event. The children were exceptionally well behaved and had lots of fun throughout the morning! Well done Year 1!
Year 2 have been making Christingles
Christingle means ‘Christ’s Light’ and it is a symbol of the Christian faith.
Christingles are made up of different parts, each one being there to remind us of something.
The orange represents the world.
The candle reminds Christians of Jesus who they believe to be the light of the world.
The red ribbon goes all round the ‘world’ and being the colour of blood, reminds Christians that Jesus died.
The four cocktail sticks could have either of two meanings; the four seasons or the four corners of the world.
The sweets (or sometimes dried fruit) remind Christians of God’s gifts to the world including kindness and love.
Throughout this week, the children at Stanhope Primary School have been taking part in International week. Each class has selected their own Country to study ranging from Australia to the Antarctic!
Year 1 have been studying Antarctic:
Year 1 have had a fantastic week learning all about the Antarctic. They read a book called “Lost and Found” about a penguin who was lonely. Then the children looked at non-fiction facts about the continent. Ask the year1 children to tell you an amazing fact!
Nursery have been studying South America:
Nursery focused on South America and in particular the jungle. They shared a big book called Rumble in the Jungle. They then carried out many activities throughout the week such as animal snap, animal bingo (using descriptive and naming words), cut and coloured patterns on spiral snakes and drew our favourite jungle animal. You can see some of thier artwork along the foundation unit windows!
Year 5 have been studying India:
During the week, the children have been learning new facts about India and some food tasting! They have tried Poppadoms, Mango Chutney and Raita
Year 2 have been studying Italy:
The children in Year 2 have learnt a range of different facts throughout this week. They learnt the capital city, where the Pope lives, the different foods from Italy and all of the children in Year 1 can now count to 10 in Italian!!
Year 3 have been studying Greece
It’s all Greek to me!
Kalimera Everyone!!
Year 3 had a ball during international week!
Monday: We located Greece on a world map and located Athens the capital city! We thought of Geographical questions we wanted to research.
Tuesday: We researched our Geographical questions, wrote an information text and tasted Greek foods! Yummy!
Wed: We designed a Greek menu and decorated a Greek pot.
Thursday: Made a Greek plate and wrote name in the Greek alphabet.
Friday: We wrote a set of instructions how we made our clay plates!
We had a lot of fun learning about Greece and the teachers were really impressed with our work! Yammas!!
Year 6 have ben studying Australia:
- On Monday, they located key parts and famous places within the country by using an atlas.
- On Tuesday, they researched different Australian animals (wombats, kangaroos and koalas). Soon they used their research to create a non-chronological report.
- On Wednesday, the children designed their own boomerangs. They looked at aboriginal art inspired boomerangs to generate their own ideas.
- On Thursday, they enjoyed testing a variety of Aussie desserts including: Lamington cake, Anzac biscuits, chocolate crackle and pavlova. After testing the delightful treats, the children created their own food review.
The children have thoroughly enjoyed International Week and finished it with a ‘show and tell’ assembly for the rest of the school to find out everything they had learnt in class this week.
The children were fascinated by the snow in South Shields today! They enjoyed a short time out of class making snowballs (no throwing them of course!)
The nursery children took this opportunity to dress in water proof clothing and wellies! Can you spot who is who?
They discussed the weather; where snow comes from and how it changes. The children made snowballs for gentle snowball fights, had snowball races, made footprints, snow angels and enjoyed a cup of hot chocolate with a biscuit back in the nursery to help warm up! They had great fun!
Today the children in Year 4 took part in their weekly ukelele lesson. The children have learnt some excellent skills using a ukelele and thoroughly enjoy the lesson each week!
Year 4 enjoyed a visit to The Word in South Shields. Having practiced and been filmed by South Tyneside Council and Unified Media recently, skipping and singing some skipping songs written by local writer Tom Kelly. They attended the launch of a new exhibition (which features the pupils’ film) in the Pod, displayed on the first floor to celebrate the tradition of skipping.
They even got to have juice and a biscuit with the Mayor and Mayoress who were both very impressed with our film!
FACT: Did you know that skipping is one of the best forms of cardio exercise?
Pop down to The Word between now and March 2018 to see our super skipping pupils film.
There was lots going on at Stanhope Primary School this break time. From tuck shop to Book Fair, the children were very excited!
Congratulations to all of the children who had 100% attendance from Monday 13th November – Friday 17th November. The children were rewarded with a cinema afternoon and a goodie bag!
The children watched ‘Despicable Me 3’ and tucked into their crisps, juice and chocolate!
A big thank you to Mrs Thompson for arranging all of the Attend to Achieve initiatives in school.
Throughout the duration of last week, parents from Year 1 were invited into school, to observe their child’s Phonics lesson. This turned out to be a great success, allowing parents to get involved and learn ways to help their children at home.
Here is some of the wonderful feedback from the lessons:
A big thank you to Mrs Barker, Mrs Hasan and all of the parents.
