With Christ at our side to guide us,
we shine in all that we do.

Scholastic Book Club Orders

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Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running! Go to https://schools.scholastic.co.uk/st-bedes-ne33/digital-book-club to browse the latest books and order online if you wish. For every £1 you spend on this month’s Book Club, our school will earn 20p in Scholastic Rewards.

Please place your order online by April 28th, 2023. Orders will then be delivered to school and distributed. If we are lucky enough to save some rewards points, we will spend them on some more books for our classrooms and library areas.

After everyone’s generous support at our recent book fair, our fantastic school council members helped to choose some new titles with our reward points. They chose some brilliant books for children in EYFS all the way through to Year 6. Here is our first delivery for the KS2 library area:

 

Year 5 Visit to OpenZone

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This week, Year 5 visited OpenZone at The Word as part of their Computing work on programming. The children had a jam-packed day full of fantastic activities. They built models using Lego Spike and explored how to program their models to move and react in different ways. We had everything from dancing robots to goalkeepers!

Next, the children used Microbits and wrote programs for them including some with count-controlled loops. Finally, they wrote sequences of commands using a ‘dance party’ tutorial on Hour of Code. Many of the children enjoyed this site so much that they asked to do it at home! We have added the link to the website on our class page.

Here are some photos and a video of the children in action. Great work, Year 5!

 

 

Year 5 Poetry

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Some of our Year 5 pupils created a performance of ‘Gran, Can You Rap?’ by Jack Ousby. They studied the rhythm and rhyme of the poem and how they could perform it as a rap. The children split the stanzas between them and rehearsed their lines whilst experimenting with actions. They chose some background music and graphic style to compose their performance into a short video.

You can watch it by clicking this image:

Year 5 Star Bakers!

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In their DT work, the children in Year 5 have been studying the process of making bread. They designed their own product and altered a basic recipe by adding their chosen flavour combinations. At the end of the unit, we saw their designs come to life as they baked, tested and evaluated their products. The children worked so well and were very happy with the results of their hard work! Here are some p

hotos of our bakers in action.

Hoops4Health Basketball Success!

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Fours squads of St. Bede’s basketballers enjoyed the prestigious Hoops4Health Tournament at the home the Newcastle Eagles. In preparation, all of the children trained enthusiastically over the winter months. The children’s performances today really showed that hard work pays off; as all four of our teams reached the afternoon Play-Offs! Amazingly, one of our teams then went on to qualify for the District Grand Finals that take place next Friday (before & during the Eagles match against the London Lions).

Thank you to all of the children for your dedicated efforts in the build up to the event and the wonderful teamship on display, which carried us a long way on a wonderful day. I was extremely proud of you all!

Y1 Liturgy

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Year 1 invited their families to join them for their Eucharist Liturgy. The children read and sung beautifully and told us about the special meals they have shared with their families and friends.

World Book Day – Year 4

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Year 4 had a fantastic day on World Book Day – they dressed up as characters from their favourite books and enjoyed some fun WBD activities in class.  The teachers also dressed up as the dalmatian puppies from ‘The Hundred and One Dalmatians’ book by Dodie Smith with Mrs Devine as the infamous Cruella De Vil!

Year 3’s Yummy Fruit Crumble

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Year 3 spent this morning baking some delicious fruit crumbles! The children learned and practiced many skills such as cutting, peeling, sieving, rubbing and measuring. They worked really hard and should be very proud of their achievements, they are taking them home to share with their families tonight, we hope you enjoy them!

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