With Christ at our side to guide us,
we shine in all that we do.
Our PTA will be holding a Monster Ball on Tuesday 1st November (please see letter below). In preparation for this, we would welcome any donations of fancy dress costumes you may have at home. We would like to recycle these and will be selling them for £1 at our Autumn coffee afternoon on Thursday 20th October from 2pm in the school hall.
We hope to see you there!
World Mental Health Day is Monday 10th October. The children will be having an assembly on The 5 Ways To Wellbeing. These are simple steps we all can take to improve our Mental Health and Well-being.
We are currently in the process of setting up access to a ‘worry monster’ in each classroom. This is a place where they can write their name on a post-it note with any worry they may have and “feed” it to the worry monster. This can happen throughout the day and teaching staff regularly check the worry monsters, find a quiet place to talk to the child and address any worries that they might have. This is an opportunity for the children to share any worries and for us to try and help and offer support.
While the children are not at school, we are aware that they may still have worries or questions that they might want to share or ask. We want to be able to continue to offer this type of support as much as we can while we are currently not in school. So, we have now set up a dedicated email address. This is for the children to use. They can email us with any worries or questions they may have. Mrs Welsh, Mrs Devine and Mrs Mackley will all have access to the email service, so we will hopefully be able to address any worries.
The email address is ineedtotalk@st-bedes.s-tyneside.sch.uk
Year 2 have had a fantastic day at Hall Hill Farm. We started with a look at some of the animals on the farm and feed the llamas, alpacas, sheep and goats. The children then handled some of the smaller animals such as guinea pigs and rabbits.
We also enjoyed a very bumpy tractor ride around the farm and had the chance to handle some chicks and feed a lamb. We ended our fun filled day with some time in the play park. Year 2 were very well behaved today and Richard (our guide) was very impressed with our wealth of farm animal knowledge. What a fantastic end of year trip we have had!
On Friday Year 2 enjoyed a trip to the OpenZone @ The Word. The children began by using the laptops to follow step by step instructions to build lego models. They then got to programme their models to rotate, make sounds and move with a motion sensor.
In the afternoon the children used Purplemash to create their own pairs games. They inputted images, drew their own card designs and were eager to add text to their games. To end the day they enjoyed trying out each other’s pair games. Their games can be played following the link below.
http://https://www.purplemash.com/displayboard/56caca55fd02d1fa618b456c
Click below to watch some clips of the children’s programmed models:
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Today Year 2 created vehicles as part of their Design and Technology unit, wheels and axles. The children used their designs from the previous lesson to create their wonderful vehicles. They used a range of tools to cut wooden axles and used washers to secure each wheel. They explored a range of materials to help make their vehicles stronger and more stable. To finish the children used lots of crafts to finish and embellish their vehicles, using bottle tops for lids and seats! Here are some pictures of the children in action and also their final products.
Four children from Year 2 were selected to take part in the BCCET KS1 Maths Challenge at The Briery in Sunderland. They spent the afternoon working their socks off with arithmetic, problem solving and reasoning activities. They played games such as tangrams, spot the shapes, target number and finished with a game of play your cards right. The four chosen children won the group challenge and are very excited to spend their gift cards.
What a wonderful afternoon we had!
After finishing our Literacy topic based on the story ‘Egg Box Dragon’, Year 2 have been designing and creating their own Egg Box Dragons. We have had so much fun and even had a little dragon puppet show!
Here are their creations:
Year 2 have had the wonderful opportunity to take part in the Remaking Beamish Art project. As part of the project, we had Robert from Beamish Museum visit us to teach us all about Norman Cornish and the mining history. The children explored some of Norman’s artwork alongside having a go at sketching and shading. They then had the opportunity to handle and explore some historical objects from the museum relating to the homes and mines found in Cornish’s artwork. We will be visiting Beamish Museum later in the Spring to celebrate the opening of Norman’s replica home on Front Street Terrace. We cannot wait!
For this half term, Year 2 have been looking at puppets for their textiles DT project. The children researched, designed, created, finished and evaluated their mini-beast puppets. Here are their wonderful final products!
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