This week in Oak Class we have been focusing on our mental health and what a super hero is to us. We made-up our own super hero with a cool name and special powers!! From firing dog toys out of their hands to breathing fire their heroes had it all. We ended our week by customising our School360 characters to look super special to us.
This week B9 have been celebrating Chinese New Year. We have researched the origins of the animals behind each year and what animal each child is.
We practised Chinese calligraphy, cooked some delicious Chinese food and enjoyed playing with our Chinese dragon in the tuff tray.
We’ve had a fabulous week in Orange Class this week! We’ve followed our dinosaur designs and have created some beautiful habitats! The children have worked extremely hard and persevered with tricky materials to make their designs come to life and are all very proud of what they have achieved. Their habitats are individual to their dinosaurs and they have carefully considered what they will need to survive as an omnivore, carnivore or herbivore and what type of climate would suit their dinosaur best.
We’ve had Heather in class again to teach us music and we are getting better and better at keeping to the beat when playing different songs on the chime bars!
Friday was a very special day with a visit from Animal Antics in the morning, then Woody and Buzz in the afternoon! We’ve also made bird feeders with Rio and hung them in the playground, we’ll be keeping an eye out next week to see if we get any feathered visitors!
This week in Blue class we have investigated loads of brilliant stories about dinosaurs.
On Monday, we practised our comprehension with some brilliant writing and drawing, all about Dinosaurs Love Underpants! Then in art, we made some fantastic dinosaur paintings with decorated underpants, just like in our story.
On Tuesday our story was I Can Roar like a Dinosaur, and we all learned about things that are “the same” and “different”. We painted portraits of our friends and talked about what makes us all special, and made 3D dinosaurs of ourselves!
On Wednesday our story was Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs, so made duplo mazes to solve with our friends! We also used the computers to make wanted posters for the missing dinosaurs, and did a special coding challenge to collect all the dinosaurs!
Thursday’s book was Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug, and we all had a day all about emotions! We had a big discussion about the characters in our story, how they felt and why. Then we talked about what makes a good friend! We sorted emotions into “happy”, “sad” and “angry”, found out how to cheer up our friends, and even drew some amazing pictures of Tiny T Rex!
We also cooked up a huge feast for our Friday dinner- cheese and onion pie, with sticky toffee pudding for dessert.
On Friday we had a musical day with our story, Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus! We all had a go at making different sounds with instruments, describing our sounds, and making music in time with one another. Then we put on a spectacular class performance of our music, watching a conductor and all playing our unique parts!
As a really special treat, we also saw all of the animals that Animal Antics brought in to show us! We had an incredible time petting a rabbit, seeing a snake, holding some mice and even saying hello to a lovely hedgehog!
What a busy week it’s been! We hope you all have a fantastic weekend, and we’ll see you next week for more exciting activities!
This week B6 have been carrying out activities to learn about mental health and well-being. Alongside their usual phonics activities – practising reading, spelling and handwriting – the children have taken part in a number of tasks based around the zones of regulation. The children have learned about how to recognise different emotions from faces in the green, red, blue and yellow zone and have made themselves a ‘My Zones Book’ to help them remember. The children have also thought about what they can do to keep healthy, and about what makes them happy – using laptops, paint and photographs to create a mixed media ‘happiness board’ about themselves. B6 have spent time in the garden this week, digging out an area of ground ready for some new seating to be installed and spotting different types of birds, and have been on the trampoline again in their rebound sessions.
The children have ended the week by taking part in a carousel to try out and rate how effective a number of different self regulation strategies are, ranging from listening to music and painting, to bouncing on the yoga ball and carrying heavy objects. Each individual has rated each of these and identified a number of different strategies for helping themselves to calm and feel happier. There’re a few pictures up on evidence for learning from the key learning activities of the week, so if you get a chance log on and have a look!
In Purple Class this week, we have delved further into the different periods of dinosaurs, and even looked at life after dinosaurs. We created a timeline which showed the different periods, and created a freeze frame of the evolution of humans, which was good fun! We even made our own time machines to take a step back in time!
We talked about the friendship between Arlo and Spot, and the qualities of a good friend. We finished the week by talking about the changing seasons, and created some lovely pieces of art on canvases.
We have thoroughly enjoyed this topic, and can’t wait for our last week!
This week Willow class have been learning all about tectonic plates, the movement of our continents, from our time as Pangaea to the Jurassic period and to how our world looks now! We have been building our continents in the sand tray and watching how the seas moved around the land. We looked at the inner core, and the earth’s layers and the Earth’s crust. The children have painted some beautiful paintings of the skies as the world was ending for the dinosaurs, AWWW.
We had some great news this week, RW Mann Trust have kindly donated to the train project. Thank you so much, this will go towards developing out STEM carriage.
Also a big thank you to Mr Holmes who kindly made a donation to help. On this note we have created a ‘Just Giving’ campaign to help raise £10,000 to aid in the carriage development. If you would like to donate please go to https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/thedales-school.
Thank you to Ian Levy and the chronicle for appealing to the public to help the train project https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/dales-school-blyth-pacer-train-22947145
We had a trip to Kirkmerrington School in County Durham. They showed us around their Class 142 Pacer train. We wish you all the best for your project. We are looking forward to Lesley visiting Blythdale to see our Train.
More exciting news to come next week.
This week in B10, we continued our investigation about the Prehistoric world. We learned all about the life of fossil hunter; Mary Anning, and how her contributions to the study of dinosaurs were almost forgotten about, due to the fact she was a woman! Thankfully today we know about her huge contributions in the study of dinosaurs. We also made our own dinosaur calzone pizzas. We also finished the week by writing our very own information report all about dinosaurs. Make sure to have a look at what we have read on our Assessment for Learning platform.
This week in B12 we had our first class trip out! We visited The Angel of the North in the morning and stopped off at Saltwell Park for dinner in the afternoon. We played in the park, had an ice cream with all the sauces and a flake, and saw millions of squirrels!
