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!
We are delighted to be working with Kaye and Danielle from Williby Rocs. Last week, some of our Year 6 pupils began to draw up designs for our allotment site, and made a planting timetable for different vegetable seeds. In Year 2 this week, Y2A started with a quiz on the different parts of a flower, and also thought about what our seeds would need to grow. We began to discuss the importance of attracting butterflies and bees into our garden. We then planted some onion, broad bean and pea seeds after looking at the plan from year 6. We learnt that sowing means planting a seed when it is very small. We loved getting our hands dirty! Bobby even made links to our morning maths work – noticing that the seeds were planted in 3s! Over the coming weeks, we are looking forward to observing and caring for our seeds. We even started to design scarecrows to place in the allotment and hopefully protect our growing plants! Thank you Kaye and Danielle!
As part of our ‘Under the Sea’ topic, we have been talking about ocean pollution. We made group posters to tell everyone how to save our sea creatures and create better habitats for them to live in.
As part of our ‘under the sea’ topic, we are learning about pollution in our oceans. Today we took part in our own litter pick around the Nursery grounds. We then sorted the litter into different categories, recyclable and non recyclable.
We are delighted that Tilly in year 5 was chosen as the winner for the World Water Day poetry competition. Her poem raised awareness of the impact that pollution is having on our planet as well as the importance of recycling.
P for protect the water – stop oil spills
O for oil is destroying our waters and planet
L for let’s keep cleaning our community
L for don’t litter – recycle
U for underground dirt and muck is going into the pipes and into the rivers
T for the more water wasted the less for dying animals
I for let’s interfere and help water
O for open your mind about the world and help
N for never waste water and don’t put your rubbish in the sea. Put it in a bin. Start caring.
Recently, some of the children in year 3 took part in a litter pick. They explored our school surroundings to collect litter and make it a cleaner and safer environment. The children had so much fun and informed the rest of the class the importance of putting our litter in the bin. Check out our pictures to see how much fun we got up to with Toffee bear!
Loads of children designed a poster to show what the world would be like in 50 years time as part of the council’s climate change initiative. Check out the 10 finalists whose work will go on display in the Customs House in November.
We are planting wildflower seeds to create more areas for our pollinators, and reusing water from our water butt, and milk containers as watering cans.
South Tyneside Libraries will be delivering this year’s Summer Reading Challenge from the council’s multi-service ‘hubs’ (The Word, Cleadon Park, Hebburn Central and Jarrow Focus) and the volunteer run library Boldon and Cleadon Community Library and Perth Green Community Library located with Perth Green Community Association.
The theme for this year’s challenge is ‘Wild World Heroes’, a nature-themed challenge created in partnership with WWF that will inspire you to stand up for the planet.
The challenge starts tomorrow (Saturday 10th July) and runs up until Saturday 25th September.
More information can be found on the link below:
https://www.southtyneside.gov.uk/article/34380/Summer-Reading-Challenge-2021
