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Year 5 trip to The Word

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Year 5 visited the Open Zone at The Word to take part in some programming activities including:

Selection in Physical Computing – Lego Wedo 2

Designing and running a light show using LED display – Sphero

I have to say the children worked fantastically well and their behaviour was superb. Their programming and building skills resulted in some brilliant work with robotics. It’s clear to see we have some keen Lego fans in class too!

Click the first image to see a short video of the children in action and I have added some photos of the day below.

 

Year 5 Star Bakers

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In DT this half term, the children in Year 5 have been studying the process of making bread. They designed their own recipe with their own flavour combinations. Last week we saw their designs come to life as they baked, tested and evaluated them. The children worked so well and were very happy with the results of their hard work! Here are some photos of our bakers in action.

Spring Holiday Club

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Monday 11 – Friday 22 April (excluding bank holidays)

You can now enrol your child in a free holiday club programme over the Easter holidays. There are free places available for children and young people in South Tyneside who are eligible for benefits related free school meals or from a family experiencing hardship, where they can enjoy a variety of creative and physical activities, alongside a nutritious meal every day.

Sessions include sports, arts, crafts and more!

All events are subject to availability and booking is essential. Activities and food are funded by the Department for Education.

For more information and to book, visit www.southtyneside.gov.uk/holidayclub

 

Cross Country Silver Success!

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Eight teams from St. Bede’s consisting of 42 children took part in the District Cross Country Championships at Temple Park on Friday afternoon. The sun was certainly shining on our determined runners, who raced their way to 2nd place and District team silver medals!

 

Every race had between 40 and 70 children involved that included the best school runners in South Tyneside. Our talented children rose to the challenge and so many achieved outstanding personal best performances!

 

The Y3 children got us off to the perfect start, by claiming gold in both the boys and girls races. They also collected 4 individual medals. The good performances continued throughout the event with many children registering excellent top 15 finishes. The final race of the day saw our Y6 girl’s team also claim a brilliant team Gold.

 

A wonderful backdrop to the races was the wonderful camaraderie between our children, who enthusiastically cheered for all of their school friends. Meanwhile, it was great to see all of the positive family support, which really encouraged our young runners.

 

In the presentation, I was proud to see our children clap for all the medalists from each school, demonstrating their good sporting values. Everyone should be extremely proud of team silver overall in what was a fantastic competition.

 

It has been a pleasure looking back on the photographs that show how hard everyone tried and how keen everyone was to support their friends wearing the black and yellow of St. Bede’s. Thank you to our amazing runners for a glorious running effort and to everyone in our school community that created the brilliant supportive atmosphere on the day!

Independent Travel Training Survey

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South Tyneside Council want to make sure that young people are able to live as independently as possible. This includes being able to travel safely to and from their school/setting as well as visiting and meeting their friends by themselves, using different ways of getting there including walking, cycling or going on a bus.

We are exploring different models of Independent Travel Training and would like to capture the views of parents, pupils and staff within schools to inform future commissioning plans.

Please click on the link below to complete the survey.

Survey

Year 3 Democracy Event

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This morning the year 3 school councillors visited the Town Hall for their annual democracy event. The event is designed to explore the ideas that underpin democracy and the democratic process in a fun and creative way.

Initially the children took part in a story-telling session called, ‘Staryland’. The Staryland story describes  a magical island far away that, through a particular turn of events, finds itself in need of a new leader. The story asked the children to think about how the islanders could overcome the problem, how a new leader could be found, and what qualities that leader should possess.

After the story-telling session, the children were able to go and sit in the council chambers where they met two possible candidates and listened to their speeches about why they should be voted the next leader of Staryland.

The children then got to cast their votes inside of a polling booth and post them into a ballot box. Whilst the children enjoyed juice and biscuits the votes were counted and the new leader of Staryland was crowned!

Well done to the children who attended the event, their behaviour was exemplary and they were a credit to our school!

Red Nose Day in Reception

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Reception have had a brilliant day raising money for Red Nose Day. They got the chance to come to school wearing something red and to buy a red nose and a delicious cake! We talked about how all of the money raised would go to children and families who aren’t as fortunate as we are. Well done Reception!

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