Year 1: Oscar Douglass, you have given 100% in school this week and answered so many questions fabulously-well done! Year 2: Anders Alderi, your reasoning in science this week was amazing-keep it up and well done! Rio Singh, you have tried your hardest in all lessons and have been asking for challenges to push yourself too-well done! Peace Akpowowo, you were amazing in maths
Year 3 are still learning about collage and the artist we focused on this week was Andy Goldsworthy. Andy is known for creating collages using natural resources. We created our own natural collages using natural resources we found around the school grounds.
In music we have been learning to sing the Bon Jovi classic! We are so good at the singing we are now playing music alongside!
We looked at a range of materials and predicted whether they would be soluble and insoluble-we had a lot of fun testing our predictions too!
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.
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 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
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.
