Today, we celebrated European Languages Day and we focused on Italy. We all came in dressed in red, green and white to represent the flag. We learned lots of new facts about Italy, including, what continent it belongs to, the climate, famous landmarks and the types of food and drink they have there.
Next, we made our very own Venetian masks. After dinner, we had an Italian food tasting session where we tasted pizza, mozzarella, olives and salami. The children were very brave and tried foods they hadn’t tasted before.
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We looked at the reasons why learning languages is important and also how it is celebrated around the world-we then looked at greetings in 25 different languages and said hello to each other!
We had a great time, thank you year 6!
We looked at photographic evidence of the effect of WW2 on Sunderland and were history detectives! We looked at pictures of bombing raids on the city and were shocked at the damage and destruction they caused!
This week’s merit certificates have been awarded to… Year 1: Zane Balroop, you always have a wonderful attitude in school-you are a star! Well done! Year 2: Junior Jordan, you’ve been trying really hard in maths and are amazing-a fantastic week-well done! Heidi Smith, your attitude and effort in maths this week has been amazing-you have certainly impressed us with your place value knowledge-well
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As part of our art topic this half term, the children have been looking at a variety of artists who create collage art work. Today, we created our very own collages in the style of Henri Matisse. The children thought carefully about their theme and then which shapes and colours they would need to use to create their collage.
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Today we looked at reversible and irreversible changes. We could explain and sort changes really well too and remembered a lot from last year! We then predicted what would happen if we mixed bicarbonate of soda (a solid) with vinegar ( a liquid) and we got to see the making of a gas-carbon dioxide-we were amazed when the balloon inflated! We were even more
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This week we have been looking at our new story, The Gruffalo. We have made Gruffalo masks, role played as different characters from the book and created our own sentences. In maths, we have been learning about place value and have been counting, matching numbers with words and also finding one more and one less than a number.
We are learning to dance like they did in WW2 and we are loving it!
This week, Year 3 became geologists in our science lesson. We were sent a VERY important letter from Sunderland City Council asking us to test a variety of rocks for the new statue they are planning to build in the city centre. We tested if they were scratch proof, water proof and hard wearing. The children loved getting hands on and decided that granite would be the best option for the statue.
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