‘Words empower children to make sense of the world around them”
We recognise the importance of widening our children’s vocabulary.
Every day our children are given a “Word of the day” from Vocabulary Ninja.
Children read the word, the definition and they are given the opportunity to apply it to a sentence.
Have a look at this week’s words:
Grasshopper words (Key Stage 1)
Shinobi words (Key Stage 2)
We are reading Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo in Year 6 in English this half term. This is a story all about all about a boy named Michael who is washed up on an island in the Pacific and struggles to survive. He can’t find food and water but then he finds he is not alone on the island.
To support our reading and writing around the text we took part in a Wilderness Outdoor Education workshop which linked to the text and discussed what we need to survive, we learned about fire lighting techniques and most of us (the brave ones) managed some bug tasting!
Congratulations to Harry Johnston (Y6W) and Theo Roberts (Y6D) who have read over one million words on Accelerated Reader and become our latest Word Millionaires.
We are so proud of all of our millionaires this year and we have had the highest number of Word Millionaires this year than we ever had before. 
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
We have had more half word millionaires and word millionaires than ever before this year. Such an amazing effort from our children and it is wonderful to see them enjoying reading so much.
Well done the following children who have now all read over 500, 000 words this year:
Eva Healey, Ruby Bird, Chloe Hills, Dylan Nichol, Caitlin Kerr, Dylan Blackwood and Logan Bateman (Year 6).
Conner Clarke (Year 5)
Erin Denholm and Mia Chisholm (Year 4).
Congratulations to more amazing Accelerated Reader achievements.
We have Harry Burdis (Y5F) who has become a Word Millionaire, reading over 1,000,000 words on Accelerated Reader.
Also Theo Roberts and Eva Healey (Y6D) and Josh Tate (Y6F) have become ‘Half Millionaires’ reading over 500,000 words.
Well done everyone!
Well done to Zeya Gardener in Y6F for becoming a “Half Word Millionaire” and reading over 500,000 words this year on Accelerated Reader. What a fantastic achievement!
Well done to Evie Millett and Logan Byrne for becoming “Half Word Millionaires” and reading over 500,000 words this year.
A HUGE congratulations also to Phoebe Ofosu who has now read over 5,000,000 words and has become a Word Multi-Millionaire. Phoebe also received two books of her choice for her prize.
These are all wonderful achievements and it is fantastic to see so many of our children so enthusiastic about reading.
A huge congratulations to Jay Collins (Y6D) and Joe Roberts (Y6F) for their amazing achievement of reading over one million words on Accelerated Reader. They have been awarded with a trophy engraved with their names and a book of their choice as a prize. Well done Jay and Joe!
After a 2 weeks of researching and writing a report on the Maya, the children then developed that report into an information podcast. Working in groups, they gave out roles to each other and wrote a script to record. Once recorded they edited their podcast to increase the volume of their speaking voices, and chose music for their theme – which they had to cut and alter the volume in order to hear the speaking voices.
We hope you enjoy!
“A Leap into the Past”
“Back in History”
“Back in the Past”
“Blast from the Past”
“The Brain Forest”
“Harton Histories”
