Year 5 and 6 have been working hard in netball practise this week, focusing on attacking and defending. They have made great progress and are showing fantastic skills. Keep it up everyone!
The children in Year 6 were tasked with deciding which nets would make cubes and whether the cubes were open or closed. They had great fun selecting their apparatus, constructing the cube and seeing if they were right. Package designers of the future??
At the beginning of the school year, it is our tradition that the Year 6 children are given a chance to be elected for House Captain and Vice Captain.
Competition was tough this year, with a massive effort being put into their speeches. All of the children in KS2 were asked to vote and the winners were:
Captain Vice Captain
Red Ethan Eva
Green Bradley Abigail
Yellow Kyle Harley
Blue Issac Bethany
Year 3 had a great day exploring foods, flags and even making their own country as part of Europe Day.
We made some delicious spaghetti bolognaise and some Greek butter butter biscuits.
Everyone had a great day!
On Monday we came together to celebrate achievement across the school and recognise specific children for outstanding achievement. This year our awards were divided into three categories:
* Pride & Presentation
* Progress
* Positive Behaviour
All of the staff spent many hours agonising over the choices and discussing all of the positive aspects of every child. Eventually the decisions were made and the children stood in front of the whole school to accept their awards.
Each child got a book, specially chosen for them, and a special Marsden medal to remember their achievements long into the future.
So, the winners were:
Pride and Presentation:
Nursery AM—Lily-Mae McLaughlin
Nursery PM—Lucas Houston-Hoggarth
Reception—Anya Thomson
Year 1 — Evie Morris
Year 2 — Emily Watson
Year 3 — Alania Ebanks
Year 4 — Alanna McGee
Year 5 — Jessica Juby
Year 6—Amelia Skevington
Progress:
Nursery AM—Rhys Chatterton
Nursery PM—James Barton
Reception—Lainee McGee
Year 1 — Liam Nicholson
Year 2 — Tristan Lee
Year 3 — Shay Hicks
Year 4 — Willow Halliday
Year 5 — Owen Dunn
Year 6 — Lily Brian
Positive Behaviour:
Nursery AM—Phoebe Tate
Nursery PM—Grace Barton
Reception—Sam Ralston
Year 1 — Gabriel Wastell
Year 2 — Alex Hedley
Year 3 — Elizabeth Moore
Year 4 — Deacon Mackie
Year 5 — Grace Graham
Year 6 — Taylor Wright
Well done to all of the winners. You deserve the praise!
Netball – Year 5
Football – Year 5
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Nursery AM
On Thursday 14th July, Year 3 will having a day to celebrate Europe. We have been looking at all the countries and would like a day to pull all of our learning together. We will play trivia games, taste the different cuisine and even make some of our own.
The children can come to school in non-uniform as a country. This could be:
- Dressing in the colours of the country’s flag (e.g. red for Turkey)
- A famous landmark from the country (The Eiffel Tower for France)
- Something associated with the country (Flamenco dress for Spain)
Please do not go out and buy new things.
Year 6 have again risen to the challenge and taken on the Police football team.
Due to weather problems we had an indoor and outdoor match.
Everybody had a great time and enjoyed the experience of getting to know each other.
On Wednesday 4 children from Year 5 and 4 children from Year 2 traveled to the South Tyneside final for Young Engineer.
Year 2 were judged runners-up out of teams from all over South Tyneside.
At least ten other schools were involved, each with two teams per category.
The categories were:
* Engineer ks2 This is where the car had to have a chassis, motor and bodywork. It needed to move in straight line, up and down a ramp.
Our team were commented on for the aero-dynamic shape of their cars.
* Apprentice Level 1 and Apprentice level 2 KS1
The car needed to have a good description, design,looks and movement.
Beth and Olivia had obviously got most of these.
* The designs of many cars in our year five were of a good standard and this was a good effort from both the whole class and the two winning team in year five.
The winning car now goes to Newcastle to see how far they can go in the regional finals – good luck.
Year 5 have been continuing the engineering theme this week and have made some amazing vehicles. Our judges have had a hard job choosing the winning cars, but…. Lucy & Kyle and Emma & Ethan are heading to the final tomorrow.
Fingers crossed!
Our Year 5 and 6 children had a great time this morning cycling along the coast and enjoying an ice cream.
They were a little bit tired when they came back but had a great time.
