Last Friday, Classes 7 and 8 went on a trip to Segedunum Roman Fort as part of our History topic. They had a fantastic, activity-packed day. The classes split into two and completed different workshops throughout the visit. The workshops included: learning how to be a Roman soldier (including Roman shields, dressing up and following commands), finding out the difference between Roman homes and Iron Age homes (we had a go of building them), making Roman medicine and creating Roman brooches. We also had a visit to the gift shop during the day. As always, our children were fantastic ambassadors for West Boldon Primary.
Classes 7 and 8 had a busy afternoon on Tuesday this week when different members of the class participated in different activities. 22 Year 3 children represented our school in a Tag Rugby competition where one of our teams won. All the children involved showed fantastic sportsmanship and were brilliant ambassadors for our school.
Our Year 4 children had an afternoon of Athletics with Mr Cairns and the remainder of our Year 3 children enjoyed the afternoon, learning how to play the Glockenspiel to the song ‘Three Little Birds.’ Well done Class 7 and Class 8!
Two teams from Year 3 were entered into the TBSF Mini Tennis Challenge day. One team finished 3rd and the other team finished 5th out of 7 teams. A fantastic effort everyone!
Class 7 have been learning all about shape in our Maths lessons this half term. We have learnt about how angles are a measure of turn as well as identifying right, acute and obtuse angles. We have identified the properties of 2D shapes as well as recognising parallel, perpendicular, horizontal and vertical lines. Class 7 have now learnt about 3D shapes and have enjoyed making them using nets.
Year 3/4 this term are going to be basing our Literacy work around the fiction book The Sheep-Pig by Dick King Smith.
As part of this, we are going to be inventing our own animal character and writing a description about them. We are going to research facts about pigs and present this information in a non-chronological report. In class, we will debate whether animals should be used for entertainment and write a one-sided argument based on the different viewpoint discussed. We will pretend to be Ma, Fly or Babe and write a ‘Day in the Life of’ from their perspective. Also, we are going to write a diary entry by Farmer Hoggett or Mrs Hoggett. Finally, the children are going to become news reporters and interview characters from the story, writing a newspaper report on the events of the Sheep-Dog trails.
The following link will allow you watch the author of the text, Dick King Smith, read one of the chapters from his story.
The 1995 film Babe is also based on The Sheep-Pig
As part of their volcano and earthquakes topic, year 3/4 recently made a volcano. Although they took a very long time to complete, the end result of everyone’s hard work was fantastic. Our next job will be to recreate a volcano explosion.
Year 3 children from Class 7 and 8 recently took part in a multi-skills tournament. The teamwork, effort and behaviour of the children was fantastic and they should all be very proud of themselves.
Year 3/4 have been spending time at the allotment. During this time children have been digging, weeding and planting seeds ready for Spring. All the children have worked very hard and had a great time.
Class 7 have thoroughly enjoyed their trip to The Word in South Shields, dressed in World Book Day costumes. They certainly looked the part when they acted and read out their own poems in front of the camera. The children loved the Green Screen Room and enjoyed watching the finished product at the end of the day. When they weren’t acting, the children used a computer software called Lego Wedo. For this, they followed on-computer instructions to build a Lego model in pairs. They then had to code the model so that it would actually move. The activity really gave the children an opportunity to develop their problem solving skills as, if their model did not work, they had to debug the problem and work out why it did not move. Class 7 were extremely well behaved and enthusiastic during our visit. They really did our school proud.
Year 3/4 attended a workshop about historical religious figures from the Bible at Boldon Methodist Church.
Miss Swales invited Len from Bible Comes Alive back to our school on Monday to present Year 3 /4 with some prizes for their hard work. Each child was awarded a colourful bag during a special assembly.Well done Year 3/4!
Len finished the special assembly with a fun song that ALL of the children love to sing with actions.