Our wonderful Year 5 mini-police were nominated for The Shining Stars Award at the Citizens in Policing Awards 2022 which were held at The Sage. Joseph and Maxwell attended the awards to represent all of our mini-police. It was a great night and the boys were presented with a goody bag each and met lots of important people, including the High Sheriffs of Tyne and Wear. They were temporarily knighted by one of them and held the title ‘Sir’ for 24 hours. The boys brought back certificates to present to the other mini-police. All of the mini-police have done a great job this year and we are very proud of them.
Our Year 5 mini police team have been out and about in South Tyneside again representing the school and Northumbria Police at the Cookson Festival on Saturday 2nd July. The supervising officers reported what a great job they did, and that they were a credit to the school as ever. Well done to all involved!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DVW7SPzf01RqcLfwUFu2qLFc_cBdYP4o/view?usp=sharing
For the last 3 weeks of Stop Motion Club, the children have been animating a story. In the final week they recorded the voices, added both sound effects and music to their videos.
Here are the children’s final videos:
Our Year 5 mini police have been out and about in our local area learning about the work of our community police team. They took part in a community speed watch where they learned how to operate the police cameras and reported in any offending drivers over the police radios! They had a great afternoon, and were great ambassadors for our school and for Northumbria Police. Some great pictures below:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11RzffbXKZ6zZaFtH1Y3XzdsNUfDUMJsD/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rkIz1UVYbAxteeg6YDm_3VFxVjOZBYco/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10zHBrRrCE0b_avS_zffummnUknukJZNn/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zEUr3e8DF6VN4cFa8upOLfajHbdb15bY/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11yNqzVIn6HmK_8TQJLvj7n6secNP7JLe/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HKxrH1qQvbTOBRoSpA472L5-kI3PeuyA/view?usp=sharing
For this week – taking inspiration from the likes of Morph, Shaun the Sheep and Wallace and Gromit – we tried our hand at creating some claymation videos.
This allowed us to manipulate the clay into different shapes and completely change the look of the object we were photographing.
Here are our first attempts are creating claymation animations:
Following our first week of stop motion club, here are all of our videos that the children made in their first hour of stop motion.
It was fantastic to finally be able to welcome our Harton families back into school again.
Thank you to all of our parents and carers for attending the Easter Stay and Play event. The children sang their Easter songs beautifully and the competition entries were EGGCELLENT!
We are incredibly proud of our Harton Primary Puzzlers team this year. They represented South Tyneside in the national First Lego League final. They were polite, hardworking and enthusiastic throughout the day despite their very early morning start! They reached the final 12 knockout stage of the robotics game and even came away with the IET Innovation Award. They received this award for their detailed, inventive project idea as well as their fantastic gameshow-style presentation, interesting robot programming and design and their phenomenal teamwork. Well done, Harton Puzzlers.
Check out one of our robot games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xGXAS1kxM&t=16076s
This is the moment the team received their well-deserved award.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLq35r3j0hU&t=3335s
A few weeks ago, Ms Brennan and Ms Parkin from Harton Academy’s year-7 transition team paid us a visit to introduce themselves and also put us through our paces with some team-based, problem solving activities. Firstly, the children considered and discussed what qualities are required for effective teamwork. Then they had to put these skills to the test and work together to complete tasks as a team. It was a very interesting session and the children learned a lot.
This week in History club we have been looking at Stonehenge. We talked about what archaeologists have learned about Stonehenge and what they think it was used for. The children had some fantastic ideas and applied their existing knowledge to justify their suggestions. Miss Whitehead and Mrs Moore were very impressed!
We then made our own Stonehenge using biscuits. We had lots of fun making and eating them! We also had a go at making Stonehenge using Lego.
Next week our focus will be the Ancient Egyptians.
