Year 2 had so much fun at St Mary’s Lighthouse. We created art using a range of natural materials on the beach. Next, we observed the seals soaking up the sun and having a little swim. Then we climbed all of the 137 steps to reach the top of the lighthouse for an amazing view. Finally, we explored the rock pools and identified different sea creatures.
The Foundation of Light are offering a free 12-week course for families of children in years 5 and 6 in South Tyneside. There will be one 90-minute session per week, which include family fitness sessions, healthy eating advice, fun giveaways and incentives. The course begins on Monday 12th January, but parents/carers can sign up for later sessions if they can’t make the first ones.
Today we had a special visit from ‘The Akademiks’.
We all sang and danced to Christmas music.
We had a fantastic time!!!
The School Council were excited to go on their first trip to our local foodbank, Key to Life.
After a behind the scenes tour, the children quickly got to work. They worked as a team to unpack of our Canny Friday donations before carefully sorting them into boxes and labelling them with their ‘best before dates’. This will help the team of foodbank volunteers tremendously when making food parcels for those in need.
The children asked staff a range of carefully thought out questions and were astounded to learn that the foodbank helps at least 90 children a week. The children returned to school full of ideas as to how else they might help others in our local community.
We’ve had another lovely haul of produce from our allotment which proved popular at home time tonight. Even Lucas and Lexi’s bunny, Snowy, has been enjoying our home-grown Kale! A big thank you to our Year 3 Breakfast Club, who have been so helpful watering the plants every morning. We look forward to continuing our work with Kaye and Danielle from Williby Rocs, and as always, a huge thank you for their help this term. We have loved our allotment sessions!
This week, why not help yourself to some of the delicious, fresh vegetables we’ve been growing in our allotment? We’ll have a table set up at home time so please pop along and take what you fancy!
We have loved the weekly sessions in our allotment and our Thursday Gardening Club have been busy too! As always, a huge thank you to the fantastic Kaye and Danielle from Williby Rocs CIC.
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Year 3 art club have been inspired by artist, Iris Scott and her “Shakin’ wet dogs” collection. They created their own amazing interpretations of the art work using finger painting techniques, layering colour to create texture. Finally, they used a paintbrush to add splashes of blues and greens showing the water flying from the dog’s fur.
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The children were so proud of their finished pieces of work!
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The children in art club created some fantastic pieces inspired by artist MC Escher. They used a template to carefully fill the page with the animal faces, ensuring that they tessellated together. They then added detail to each drawing, deciding whether each animal might be a cat, dog, fox or fish.
The finished pieces were fantastic!
We are incredibly proud of our 2024-2025 Harton Primary Puzzlers team, who represented the borough at the First Lego League national competition in Harrogate on Saturday 3rd May. Throughout the day, the children were commended for their enthusiasm, brilliant teamwork and excellent communication! They wowed the judges as well as other competitors with their ground-breaking project idea of the Tyne Cleanstream bubble barrier, which is designed to gently redirect plastic into a container unit using a curtain of bubbles. During the award ceremony, the Harton Primary Puzzlers were announced as the first place winners for the Innovation Project Award for going above and beyond with their idea and their research! The Puzzlers are the first team in South Tyneside to have received one of the top awards at the national competition!
Check out a lovely article from ICT in Schools about their brilliant achievement, including their excellent work on the robot game:
https://ictinschools.org/harton-primary-puzzlers-shine-at-first-lego-league-national-finals/
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