Some of our infant and junior children took part in South Tyneside’s Music Festival at the Customs House this week. The infant children performed in the musical ‘Two by Two in a Floating Zoo’ and the junior children performed in ‘Vikings’. They acted, sang and danced brilliantly – we couldn’t be prouder of them!
Comic Relief 2023
Thank you to everyone for your kind donations to Comic Relief last Friday. We raised a fantastic £204.50! The children had a great time wearing red and taking part in various activities throughout the day.
Year 5 Little Inventors Competition
Year 5 have been invited to take part in an invention challenge by Little Inventors in partnership with South Tyneside Council. Pupils have been given a worksheet which they can fill in and return to school by Thursday 30th March. We will then submit all entries together. Please note this in an optional task and there is no pressure for the children to submit an entry. Please see the following information for more details.
Little Inventors in partnership with South Tyneside Council and Dogger Bank Wind Farm are delighted to launch the Powering the Future: South Tyneside and Beyond!
Dogger Bank Wind Farm is in process of becoming the world’s largest offshore wind farm. It will be capable of powering 6 million British homes. The project will generate a vast source of renewable energy, harnessing the power of wind to provide sustainable energy and reducing the use of fossil fuels.
The Year 5 challenge is to invent something that creates renewable energy by harnessing power from movement. This will help us reduce the use of fossil fuels and prevent climate change! The energy of motion is called kinetic energy. This movement could be dancing, running, shivering, swaying, and so much more!
How about a battery that is powered from the movement of a dance-off? A pair of shoes that you walk in for a bit to generate energy, then they turn into mini hoverboards? How about harnessing the energy from a live orchestra or from bouncing on a pogo stick! Time to get moving and shaking, thinking and making!
See this PowerPoint for more information and ideas:
District Basketball Champions 2023!
Last night, our young basketballers showed amazing skill and character to become District Champions at the Vertu Motors Arena in Newcastle.
St. Bede’s beat an excellent Cleadon side in a tense semi-final. We were forced to show our defensive resilience for long periods, but our team still had the quality to create and convert the only basket of the game.
The District final against Forest View was played in front of a huge crowd at half time in the Newcastle Eagles match. We got off to a flying start, as we sensationally scored two baskets in the opening minute! The players continued to play superbly throughout and added a third basket to claim the title with an impressive 6-0 win.
I couldn’t have been prouder of the children for how they showed their wonderful ability on a big stage. They were cheered on by brilliant family, staff and school community support in Newcastle on a special night.
The children will return to the Vertu Motors Arena later in the year, when we will represent South Tyneside in the Champion of Champions Regional event.
Year 4 DT – Making pasta sauce
Year 4 had a fantastic day on Wednesday – in groups, the children designed and made their own pasta sauce.
The children tasted their wonderful creations. The sauces were all very different but equally delicious! Most of the children had seconds and some even enjoyed thirds!!! We definitely have some budding chefs in the making!
Nursery Comic Relief
We all came in dressed in red for Comic Relief!
Scholastic Book Club Orders
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
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
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!
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.
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