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Fellgate celebrated World Book Week during the first half of the summer term (Week beginning 23.5.21).
Sycamores worked with Apples class (virtually) to write a fantastic story about two children being shipwrecked on a desert island.
We also made bookmarks and turned stories into cartoon strips.
Towards the end of the week, we hot seated characters and dramatised scenes from our class reading book “Ratburger”.
At the end of the week, we all dressed up as our favourite book characters.
The topic for this term is Animal Adventures and the theme for the last two weeks has been all about the sea. The class story that we have been reading is a book called Under the Sea by Anna Milbourne. We have explored this book using colourful semantics to create sentences and used pictures from the book to sequence the story. We have also sounded and blended CVC words and sorted into rhyming strings. In maths we have completed lots of counting activities and we have added 1 to a number. In science we sorted the animals into the three categories of farmyard, minibeasts and sea creatures. We have also labelled the key body parts of a shark. In art our topic is to complete pieces of artwork using the collage method. We have created a turtle using two shades of green, jellyfish with the stain glassed effect and created a fabulous rainbow fish using brightly coloured sequins to complete the amazing Under the Sea display. The children have absolutely loved learning about the sea and all of the sea creatures.
SO much has been happening in Willows this half term.
Our class text for English has been How to Train Your Dragon.
The children have created and written about their own dragons, produced instructions on how to catch a dragon, written a diary entry and completed their own narrative based on characters from the book. The children have also taken on the role of film critics by writing up their own review of the How To Train Your Dragon film.
To capture the emotions and feelings of the characters for their diary entries the children carried out a series of ‘freeze frames’ of different scenes from the book. Take a look… they were fantastic!
Linking to our Viking topic in History the children designed and made their own Viking Long ships. After making them, the children evaluated their finished products and discussed what they thought went well, what was challenging and what they might do differently if they were to make it again.
Whilst learning about coordinates and translating shapes the children received some help from tiny edible bears… they even got to eat them once they had finished!
Gummy Bear Maths!
Decimal fun!
To investigate gases as part of their states of matter science topic the children carried out an investigation. They set out to find out which fizzy drink contained the most carbon dioxide.
See the scientists at work below!
We have been learning all about Vikings this half term and, as part of DT, we have made our very own Viking longships. We started by designing our longships and creating a specific criteria that we must include (for example a sail and dragon’s head) before exploring ways we could strengthen our designs. We finally got to make our longships and worked as a team – it too lots of problem solving skills! We hope you enjoy our finished longships. We had a fantastic time making them.
This half term our topic has been The Animal Kingdom. We have been learning about animals who live on farms, under the sea and different minibeasts.
In Literacy we have read Tiddler, Sharing a Shell, What the Ladybird Heard, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Lazy Ladybird and Farmer Duck.
In Science we have learned about different animals and their young and have categorise animals based on their appearance and habitat.
In DT the children have worked very hard following recipes to make different foods including caterpillar kebabs, a caterpillar cake, sea animal biscuits and fish shaped pizza.
In Art this half term the children have made brilliant clay sea animals, paper weaving fish and a caterpillar cocoon.
A fantastic half term of learning for our amazing Lemons!
We have been doing lots of work around changing our thoughts from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset working towards positive thinking.
We have also created some brilliant positive mental health posters to put around our classroom to encourage everyone to think positively. Here is some of our great work…
This half term in Cherries our topic has been Summertime. We have been learning all about hot and cold items and packing a suitcase for a hot and cold holiday. We also kept a weather chart for a week looking outside to see the weather every morning and afternoon (it was very rainy!)
We have read the story The Messy Magpie which all about recycling which linked to our Science topic of materials.
In DT we have practised cutting different fruit and made a banana loaf which we all had a try of.
In PE we have been using tennis rackets to practise balance and aiming.
In our art lesson, we used simple shapes to make sculptures of the human form. We looked at sculptures by a sculptor called Antony Gormley and we talked about what we thought they were made of, why they look like this, how do they make us feel and how they are similar and different to each other.
We discussed how Antony Gormley makes sculptures in the shape of humans and combines simple metal shapes in ways that make them look like a person.
We decided to be sculptors and make our very own sculptures using pipe cleaners. We followed the instructions carefully to make our mannequins.
We all had so much fun in our art lesson.
On Monday we started our celebration week of reading at Fellgate Primary school.
Each day we will be exploring reading across the school with different fun activities linked to a theme. Monday’s theme is communication and collaboration.
In school, all classes have been paired up and will be working together to write a short story which can be read and enjoyed together. So far today, we have had stories about a suspicious visitor in a premier Inn, a child who is stuck in a virtual reality game, a curious whale, dragon riders and even an ugly toad. I cannot wait until they are finished so we can all enjoy them together.
It has been great to hear about classes working together and continuing each others stories with interesting endings. In Oaks we have been enjoying popping into to these virtual stories to discuss how they could continue.
Extreme Reading
Where is the most extreme place you have ever read a book? Whether it is up a tree, on top of a mountain or stood on your head, we want your photos. Your challenge is to take a picture of yourself and send it into school by Wednesday 26th May for our Extreme Reading competition.
Obviously, we encourage everyone to stay safe but we are looking for to seeing who in our school has such a passion for reading that they have to do it anywhere and everywhere!
Please send your entries to either your class teacher to myself (Mr Graham) on Class Dojo. There have been some incredible entries so far and I will put more examples online after we have finished the competition.
Good luck!
The Peer Network session is aimed at 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. The sessions have been adapted and added a few formal sessions giving parents/carers a chance to meet and develop their understanding of some of the services South Tyneside has to offer.
Please see the flyer for dates for the year for the mental health parent/carer support group in South Tyneside!
