Please find information below for Self Care Week 2019.
Amazing Aboriginal Art
This term, Year 2 have been studying Aboriginal Artwork in their weekly Art lessons. They have created traditional animal designs with key colours as well as learning different symbols used for story telling. Today, they used paints to create their own animal dot designs. They look fantastic!
Relaunching our library
On Thursday in assembly, we relaunched our school library with the children. Over the past few weeks, the library has had a little revamp so the books are more accessible to the children. For the year groups, the books are grouped into topics, authors as well as genres, which allows the children to choose their library book with ease. Brand new books have also been added to the baskets for the children to borrow and return.
Children in Year 4 and 5 will be offered the opportunity to become a librarian. They will be responsible for keeping the library organised and tidy.
#letsgetreading 
Some members of the Durham Light Infantry visited school to teach the children about the war and the importance of Remembrance Day.
This term in Science, Year 5 have been learning about reversible and irreversible changes to materials. Today we carried out the Diet Cola and Mentos experiment to understand how some changes are irreversible. Look out for our video to show what happened!
Mrs Boardman has her hood up for protection!
Click here to watch the video of the experiment!
Miss Coils and three children from school visited the Town Hall last week to learn about democracy. They were told a story about Staryland, where their people needed help to elect a new leader. The children discussed which qualities they looked for in a good leader and heard the candidates speeches in the council chambers. Every child was then given the opportunity to vote at an actual polling booth, with ballot papers and a ballot box. It was a tense few moments waiting for the votes to be verified and counted. Damon, James and Ruby sat with their fingers crossed hoping the candidate they voted for would be elected. To their delight it was indeed Sally Shoestring who was crowned the new leader of Staryland!
Today we had an extremely wet and cold experience, but it was wonderful to see 20 talented Stanhope runners represented, some of which for the very first time. It was highly enjoyable at Bedeswell Park in Jarrow.
Thank you to all of those pupils and parents who made the effort to attend in such inclement weather – great dedication shown.
There were some great performances – it was fantastic to see the children giving their all despite the rain, wind and muddy conditions.
Our super squad of runners will continue to practise hard for the forthcoming South Tyneside Schools’ Finals on November 7th at Temple Park.
CONGRATULATIONS to our medallists:
1st Y5 Girl School – Cassie Howard
1st Y6 Girl School – Alexa Reid
2nd Y6 Girl School – Shari Viney
3rd Y5 Girl School – Ruby Sharp
Jarrow & Hebburn A.C. Cross Country Results 2019
Well done!
Writing a Recount
Year 2 have been writing a recount of their recent visit to the Planetarium at the Great North Museum in Newcastle. The children have looked at the features of this genre and even looked at examples of recounts. Together, the class recalled the events throughout the day to help support their own writing.
Miss Haygarth and Miss Mensforth are impressed with the improvement in writing so far this year. The children are using conjunctions to join sentences and are using the correct punctuation.
Well Done Year 2
Year 6 have thoroughly enjoyed their spelling session this morning. We also had a lots of fun completing a ‘Spelling Bee’ Competition and Team 3 were crowned our class winners 😁🎉👍
