P4 have been lucky enough to have coaching from Durham Cricket Club to learn how to play Table Top Cricket. It was great fun and we quickly worked out how good we all were at playing. There was lots of team encouragement.
We have been invited to a tournament, where we will play competitively against other schools. This will be a great opportunity to show other people our skills.
P4 love taking their learning outside.
It was a chilly day, but that didn’t stop their learning.
The children needed to find 10 natural objects and sort these using any criteria. The children explained how they sorted the objects using good spoken language skills.
The children then discovered a letter from Willy Wonka, who wanted the children to write a letter back to explain a new sweet invention. There was one problem…there were no writing implements. The children were very inventive and used sticks in the mud and even made each letter using stones. What an inventive class we are! 
P4 have started to read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in English, to link with their topic.
Everyone was amazed as one student brought in a Wonka Bar.
The classroom was filled with excitement and nervous tension as the chocolate bar was being opened.
Suddenly, a glint of gold was spotted and there it was…a golden ticket! Wow, how exciting we now know how Charlie must have felt!!!
The children in P4 are very excited to be learning all about chocolate this term.
A sensational start was made to the topic where the children tasted different chocolate and tried to guess which chocolate was which. This was much tricky than they thought. The children started to consider whether they would enjoy chocolate as much if it was green or smelled of onions!
Maths measuring skills were used to weigh accurately the ingredients to make chocolate chip shortbread. Teamwork was used and the shortbread tasted delicious!
The children then decorated their own chocolate biscuit. What a busy day!!
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P3 went outside in the OPAL area this afternoon to investigate different habitats and to see if they could find any minibeasts.
We used magnifying glasses to try and find even the smallest of insects.
P3 found a birds nest and some worms, slugs and woodlice hiding in our OPAL area.
We discussed these habitats and how the weather may affect what we might see.
In P5 and P6 today we have been looking at elements, compounds and mixtures. Pupils have been describing what elements, compounds and mixtures look like and looking at examples.
In memory of Martin Luther King Jr P3 read the story ‘Tusk Tusk’.
We discussed what we liked and disliked about the story.
Majority of the class liked when the grey peacekeeping elephants came out of the jungle and were friends and disliked when the black and white elephants were fighting. We looked at the elephants in the story and compared similarities and difference. The pupils noticed the only difference was the colour of their skin. As a class we spoke about whether that means they should not get on and be treat differently? Some pupils replied “No they are still the same.” “They both can live in the jungle.”
Article 2: All children have these rights, no matter who they are, where they live, what their parents do, what language they speak, what their religion is, whether they are a boy or girl, what their culture is, whether they have a disability, whether they are rich or poor. No child should be treated unfairly on any basis.
We then discussed what we could do as a class to be more like the grey elephants. Some of the ideas were;
“being kind”, “listening” and “sharing”.
P3 worked really hard all day to be like the grey peacekeeping elephants in the story.
They did this by taking turns and working together.
Sharing and listening to each other.
During our English lesson we spoke about hopes and dreams for the future. Pupils were given the sentence starter ‘I have a dream…’ and asked to finish the sentence with something they would like to be able to do by the end of the school year.
Happy Monday Everyone!
P3 just want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who bought sweet treats from the bake sale on Friday.
We raised over £100 for an Australian bush fire charity.
The pupils in P3 are going to have a discussion about which charity they want to support, whether it be a charity to help the animals or firefighters or possibly both.
We will let you all know once the pupils have voted.
Finally a special Thank You to Mrs Convery and Mrs Laverick for all their hard work on Friday!