Here are our ‘Words of the Week’ for KS1 and KS2 this week.
Key Stage 1 words are Grasshopper
Key Stage 2 words are Shinobi.
This half term Y6 have been developing their sketching skills and creating self portraits. We have worked on shading and blending and spent time drawing and practising our different facial features and expressions in our sketch books before creating our final self portrait.
We are so proud of our ‘Readers of the Month’ for September. The children have been chosen for their amazing efforts with reading at home and in school since starting in their new year groups.
1A Vinny Shields
1S Sophie Graham
1B Charlie Richards
2P Sofia Martin
2L Oliver Taylor
2M Iyla Clifford
3S Naira Roberts
3W Ava Sinclair
3D Harry Wright
4E Ebony Dennett
4C Isla Rees
4B Alfie Pescod
5F William Allcoat
5W India Conroy
5L Lucy Kimber
6F Cody Watson
6A Jack Simpson
6D Madison Jardine
Congratulations to them all! We hope they enjoy reading their new books.
‘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. 
Good morning.
Our first Google Meet session will take place at 9am. There will be another live meet at 2.30pm.
Maths
We will be multiplying and dividing numbers by 10, 100 and 1000.
Reading
Complete 30 minutes of Reading Plus
https://student.readingplus.com/seereader/api/sec/login
English
‘The Secret Library’. Look at the image and story starter.
Can you continue the story?
Art
Draw along – Beach scene.
Click on the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g8S1eKwE3Q
Draw the beach scene and add colour.
We were very excited to take part in South Tyneside’s Climate Change Week of Action last month. Children in the school started to explore positive changes we can make to reduce pollution, habitat loss and carbon emissions. Some of the children also explored renewable energy sources which help the environment. Other children made pledges to help the environment and some helped to make eco-bricks!
Good morning everyone. Hope you all managed to have a lovely weekend.
Our first Google Meet session will take place at 10.30am. There will be another live meet at 2.30pm with a Kahoot and we will talk about today’s work.
Maths
We will be multiplying and dividing numbers by 10 and 100.
Reading
Complete 30 minutes of Reading Plus
https://student.readingplus.com/seereader/api/sec/login
Transition work
‘Bouncebackability.
We will be thinking about how we can show resilience and grit and work through difficult situations.
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
