Today, the class was lucky enough to experience Wilderness School@Souter again.
First, Mr O’Brien told the children the story about the fog horn monster.
The children then toasted marshmallows on a fire.
After this, the children made sea monsters out of rocks.
The children particpated in a rock throwing competition and tried to skim rocks across the sea.
We then walked up to the top of Souter lighthouse.
We had a brilliant afternoon competing in the Bart Rippon Cup at Temple Park on Friday afternoon. We even got to enjoy our dinner in the sunshine!
Our year four and five children have the privilege of being coached by members of the Newcastle Falcons rugby team; a super experience for them over the next few Wednesdays, where the children will learn rugby skills, teamwork and have fun.
Our Year Four children started a five-session course at Wilderness School. For the next five Thursdays the class will do their maths English and science lessons outside at Souter.
Today the children took part in a treasure hunt using co-ordinates on a map to help locate tokens hidden around the Leas and the lighthouse. The children then make smugglers hats and did some written exercises on co-ordinates. They wrote up their experience of the day when they returned.
Searching for clues in the treasure hunt.
Some clues were hidden in the vegetable garden.
Some clues were far off in the distance.
The children did maths work on co-ordinates based on the work done in the treasure hunt.
We checked our scores from the treasure hunt.
If your child came home with a strange hat, then don’t worry: they made their own smugglers hat.
We then walked back to school in the rain – but still had a super time.
This week in year 3 we have started our new topic ‘Prehistoric Britain’. To kick start our topic yesterday we visited the beach and took part in a ‘Survival Day’ where we learnt how to survive in the wild .
First we learnt how to build shelters to keep warm. Next we went foraging for food in the rock pools. Then we learnt how to start a fire using fire sticks so we could cook our food.
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It was a fun filled day from start to finish.
Today Miss Hewitson breaks up for Easter and returns as Mrs Stothard. The children and staff would like to wish her a lifetime of happiness with her future husband.
A lot of children in Year 4 were lucky enough to get an Easter egg in today’s raffle.
Hope you all have lovely Easter!
The Marsden Primary School Girls’ Football team have become joint top of their league after playing so well in a tournament over the past few weeks.
Well done to them all for their effort, determination and team spirit. Thanks go to Miss Clark who has organised the team during the tournament.
Another amazing success. Thank you for coming to help to raise funds and see the spectacular eggs.
Winners to be announced tomorrow!
This morning, Year 6 were lucky enough to be invited to Cleadon Academy to take part in their annual careers fair. The children were able to meet with adults from all different professions and discuss what their jobs entail. They also got to try out equipment, tools and uniforms to try out what it might be like to work in areas such as: the emergency services, law, building and architecture, medicine and dentistry, sport and fitness, science and pharmaceuticals. I hope the children came away inspired about their futures!
