Year 4 have written Haiku and Cinquain poems. They then performed the poem of their choice to the rest of the children in the class. Well done Year 4!
Click the links below to view some of the children’s poems.
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.
On Thursday 7th December 14 pupils from KS2 competed at Temple Park Leisure Centre in the South Tyneside H4H qualifiers.
Our 2 teams competed with wonderful team spirit against 36 other teams – with the aim of reaching the H4H Finals night in January 2018.
The drive, focus, superb drills and sportsmanship from our teams was second-to-none, giving 100%to their team in each and every game.
Our team 1 topped their morning group winning all 5 games convincingly, while team 2 finished also won their group with 3 wins and 2 draws, to both reach the last 16 knock-out stages.
Here Stanhope 1 were paired against Stanhope 2 sadly, they had a fantastic battle, with Team 1 winning 18-0 , to advance to the final 8 teams. Next they played against Biddick Hall 1. In what was a very physical game we prevailed with fantastic leadership and agility demonstrated by Aston Hall (Captain), Charlie Bates (Vice-Captain) and Brooke Urwin in particular – scoring some wonderful baskets.
Well done to everyone that took part on the day and the parental support that we enjoyed at Temple Park. The team consisting of Aston Hall (Captain), Charlie Bates (Vice-Captain), Marc Shone, Jack Garlinge, Haiden Jones, Brooke Urwin and Beth Thompson will now play at Sports Central on Friday12th January at 6pm.
It would be wonderful if we can get a lot of children and family members from our school community to attend this prestigious event. All tickets to watch Stanhope and the Newcastle Eagles will be free. It will be a fun filled and exciting night for Stanhope’s school community!
This promises to be a very special occasion for our school, having qualified for such a great competition for the very second year in succession.
Mr Rogers
Results:
| TEAM 1 | RESULTS | GROUP B |
| St. Oswald’s Hebburn 2 | 10-0 | WIN |
| East Boldon 3 | 22-0 | WIN |
| St. Bede’s South Shields 4 | 4-0 | WIN |
| Biddick Hall 1 | 6-4 | WIN |
| Harton 2 | 18-0 | WIN |
| +60 -4 | 18 points 1st |
| Team 2 | RESULTS | GROUP E |
| Forest View 1 | 2-0 | WIN |
| Hadrian 2 | 2-2 | DRAW |
| Harton 3 | 2-0 | WIN |
| Ridgeway 1 | 2-2 | DRAW |
| East Boldon 4 | 4-2 | WIN |
| +12 -6 | 11 points 1st |
Stanhope Team 1 qualified for final 16 teams.
Quarter Finals
Stanhope 1 18 – 0 Stanhope 2
Semi Finals
Stanhope 1 16 – 4 Biddick Hall 1
Stanhope Team 1 have now qualified for the FINALS on January 12th
– to be held at Sports Central, Newcastle.
Group B Winners
Champions!
Group E Winners
Squad 2017
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!
The children in Year 1 visited the Centre for Life in Newcastle yesterday. They children had a wonderful time and took part in science activities. After lunch the children went onto the ice to practice their ice skating. The children then travelled back to school on the Metro. They all thoroughly enjoyed themselves are were excellently behaved. Well done Year 1!
Our Year 2 pupils enjoyed participating in the KS1 Mini Tennis Festival yesterday at Temple Park.
They learnt lots of new skills with the racket and ball, as well as balance, footwork, agility and co-ordination.
I wonder if we will have a budding tennis star? Perhaps the next Andy Murray or Serena Williams is in our midst!
