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On Tuesday 13th July both of our year 4 classes, Chestnuts and Willows, took part in their sports afternoon. Sports coach Adam had prepared lots of fun and exciting events for the children.
The events were: Sprinting, ‘Egg and spoon’, Obstacle race and a rounders match. All of the children gave the events their all and had so much fun taking part. Even the teachers got to join in!
Have a look at them in action…
In this last half term the children have been busy as usual. They have been reading the book Cool by Michael Morpurgo in their English lessons. They have really enjoyed reading this book and have used it to write character descriptions, newspaper reports, complaint letters and non- chronological reports about football teams and footballers.
They have been learning about London in their geography lessons, using pointillism to create pictures in art, exploring plants, light and famous scientists in science as well as learning how to tell the time using both digital 12 and 24 hour clock times.
Without a doubt, this year has been eventful, unpredictable and bizarre!
However, what has been amazing is the flexibility and resilience of the children. They have had to adapt to new rules within school as well as changes outside of it. I have been totally impressed by their fantastic attitudes to ever changing situations and with how they have dealt with new situations.
I wish Willows the best of luck for Year 5.
Miss Tod : )
The Education Department has launched an information site for parents, to support children of all age ranges and abilities catch up on lost learning from the pandemic. The site features advice and support for parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), as well as programmes, resources and activities for children and young people this summer.
Further information can be found on the education catch-up for your child homepage.
This half term our topic in Plums has been the Olympics. We have learned lots about the difference between the ancient Olympics and Modern Olympics. We really enjoyed watching the Opening ceremonies and even made our own opening ceremony! In Literacy we have enjoyed reading some Greek myths, especially Hercules. Here are some photographs of some of the exciting things we have been up to…
We made some Olympic torches and worked together to collage the Olympic rings.
We have taken part in lots of different challenges to earn 1st, 2nd and 3rd place medals.
We made javelins with Blueberries and tested them to see who’s went the furthest!
We made a crown of leaves and made the Olympic rings out of lego.
We used a printing technique to re-create a famous Olympic painting by an artist called Rachel Whiteread.
We have had lots of fun and wish all the athletes luck in the Tokyo 2021 Olympics!
The children in Orange Group have loved reading Pirates Love Underpants. 
In phonics we have been identifying letter sounds and posting the coins into the treasure box. We have also been sounding and blending lots of CVC words and sorting into treasure or trash.
In maths we have been adding two groups of objects together. We have also explored the place value of numbers and identified which numbers are bigger or smaller.
We had lots of fun programming the bee-bots to find the missing treasure.
In D.T we created our own pirate ship and tested the ship to see if it would float or sink. We had lots of fun!!!
Adam, our PE coach, runs weekly and weekend sports sessions. The children in school absolutely love Adam and he is great with our children with additional needs. He runs sessions specially catered to children on the spectrum.
You can contact Adam on –
phone: 07500933961
email: [email protected]
website: www.adamjamessports.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
Please follow the link for dates and times of sessions for the mental health parent and carer support group. The sessions are aimed at those parents/carers of children and young people who have experienced difficulties with their mental/emotional health and who may have accessed services either now, or in the past, giving parents/carers a chance to meet and develop their understanding on some of the services South Tyneside has to offer.
This half term our topic has been Parks and Playgrounds. In Literacy we have been reading Percy the Park Keeper books, ordering the story, using colourful semantics to retell the story and writing sentences about the story. We have also played lots of I spy using park pictures.
In Maths we have been identifying heavy and light objects and turned ourselves into human scales to say if an object was heavy or light.
Our sports day was a carousel of activities using skills we have been practising all year. We used hockey sticks, cricket bats, footballs and basketballs. We then cooled off afterwards with an ice lolly.
We ended our topic with a trip to Hedworthfield park, it was lovely and sunny and we had lots of fun.
