Children from Birches and Chestnuts participated in a one mile cross country run at Temple Park this week. The children thoroughly enjoyed the run and having their photograph taken on the podium afterwards. The children all received a medal for taking part. Well done!
Chestnuts thoroughly enjoyed meeting the staff from the Fans Museum and exploring all the amazing football memorabilia including a variety of signed shirts and gloves, trophies and old footballs and rattles from the 1940’s. What an amazing opportunity!
Chestnuts really enjoyed visiting Bill Quay Farm! We enjoyed petting the rabbits, chinchillas, mice and ferrets. We saw sheep, alpacas, pigs, chickens and geese. We also enjoyed taking the goats ‘Ant and Dec’ for a walk! We also went on a Gruffalo trail around the woods. The staff at the farm were lovely and very helpful answering all the children’s questions. We all had a lovely day!
In Chestnuts our art topic is ‘Mixed Media’ and this week we have been making paper. The children used newspaper and scrap tissue paper to make their own paper and enjoyed turning into a pulp before squeezing all the water out. Now we just have to wait for it to dry!
In Chestnuts this week we invited the parents in to complete a science activity with the children for science week. As our current science topic is ‘animals and their habitats’ the children chose a particular habitat and designed a diorama. On Wednesday the parents came into class to help the children make their dioramas. Everyone let their creative and scientific juices flow!
For Red Nose Day the children wrote their favourite joke and performed it to their class. We also designed our own red noses. The children all brought in a favourite toy to share with their classmates. We have some great sharing in class today! Well done Chestnuts!
Chestnuts really enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day. We invited Maples class to read stories with us, we visited the book swap and all the children chose a book they wanted to read. We then created book characters using paper plates.
Chestnuts had a wonderful afternoon at the park as a reward for filling our class ‘star jar’. The children receive stars for lots of reasons including being a good friend, trying new foods, reading at home and positive behaviour. Well done Chestnuts!
In Science this half term Chestnuts have been learning about what animals, including humans, need to stay healthy. This week we’ve been learning about the importance of a balanced diet and looked at what foods would be included in a healthy lunch box. We then made our own healthy sandwiches or wraps. Delicious!
This week Chestnuts visited The Word in South Shields. We used lego essentials to build and code lego theme park rides. The children made them move, play music, light up and were great at debugging if a piece of code didn’t work. We also visited the lego exhibition and were amazed at how many pieces of lego were used to make each sculpture. Finally we visited the children’s library and enjoyed looking at different books.
