The total number of canned and dried foods donated for the South Tyneside Food Bank (as part of ‘Canny Friday’) currently stands at an amazing 776. I wonder if we’ll beat our target (of 1000 cans) early? 2 weeks to go!
Y2E had a brilliant time on our trip to The Word! We had a chance to see the 3D printer in use as it made us our very own miniature Empire State Building! We used 2Create a Superstory and we even made our own games on the laptops- it was so much fun. The children also shared facts about penguins in front of a green screen which the wonderful staff at The Word added music and backgrounds to.
A crowd of excited year 2s waiting to see what the 3D printer could do!
Preparing for their moment in front of the camera.
The children were great at listening carefully.
Caitlin enjoyed being the teacher!
One of our superstar teams.
Another excellent team.
It was tiring work for some of the children!
The School Council were pleased to show off their ‘Canny Friday’ efforts last week when the Shields Gazette visited the school especially to see their display. The children talked confidently about the project and the donations received so far. They cannot wait to give them to the South Tyneside Food Bank!
In addition to counting the total number of cans received for each Canny Friday, our School Council members have also been busy recording the total number of donations received from each year group. School Council member Keira suggested this at our last meeting and the other children agreed that this would be an interesting idea. Year 3 are even going to analyse some of this data in their maths lessons next half term!
Last week, the Year 4 children helped to collect and count the cans. Thank you to everyone for your generous donations. A particular thanks go to the children of Y3R, who managed 33 cans, and to Nursery and Reception. In total, the children and parents from our Foundation Stage donated 46 cans for the South Tyneside Food Bank.
The Year 6 School Council members had a busy Friday afternoon as they collected and counted all of the cans and dried foods brought in for Canny Friday. They were amazed to find that we had received 56 more donations for the South Tyneside Food Bank than the week previous. Jake was particularly pleased as he discovered that we had even managed to collect tea, coffee, UHT milk and several pasta sauces. These were all items that Maureen told us were in short supply at the food bank.
Our current total for Canny Friday stands at 554 cans, jars and packets. We’re looking forward to the next one (on Friday 24th March) already.
Our School Council members have been carefully counting your cans of food. They were thrilled to find that our first ‘Canny Friday’ resulted in 249 cans being collected for the South Tyneside Food Bank.
We’re looking forward to our next Canny Friday (17th March) already!
School Council members were thrilled to receive a visit from Maureen, a volunteer at Hospitality and Hope. Maureen brought many boxes with her so that all of your cans and dried foods, received as part of our ‘Canny Friday’ initiative, can be stored safely.
The School Council cannot wait to count all of the donations received so far.
This half term, our School Council are collecting donations of canned and other dried foods to help the South Tyneside Food Bank. Providing emergency food parcels for local individuals and families in crisis, the food bank is run by ‘Hospitality and Hope’. This is a Christian faith based charity that was established in 2002 to help support vulnerable individuals from within our community.
Donations of canned and dried foods for the food bank can be sent into school with your child each Friday. Our School Council members will be involved in sorting these donations, prior them being collected by the charity.
The first ‘Canny Friday’ will be held on Friday 10th March. The event will continue to be held, each Friday, until the end of term.
Our final science lesson involved learning about Charles Mackintosh, the Scottish inventor of the waterproof raincoats called ‘macs’. We also investigated which materials out of cotton, nylon, felt, swimming costume material and plastic would be the best materials. Plastic was definitely the best!
We would like to thank the South Shields company Barbour for kindly providing us with samples of their materials for their coats. We will take a look at them next half term.
Year 2’s current science topic is ‘Everyday Materials and Their Uses’. We recently carried out an investigation into which materials would be the most suitable for making a toy boat. Our newest experiment was about which materials would be the most suitable for a house for the Three Little Pigs. The children all worked together in their teams to create different houses. They worked hard on collaborating their ideas as well as their measuring skills! They then really enjoyed testing which houses were the best by the Big Bad Wolf (Miss Errington’s hairdryer) huffing and puffing and blowing them down!
