Weekly Round Up

We had a busy last four days to the term with a focus on celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.  The children have undertaken lots of activities linked to this in class, including making portraits of the queen in different media in art which we will be using to make a display in the academy.

On Monday, we were delighted to welcome Urban Kaos into the academy who taught each class “A Royal Mash Up” of dances throughout the queen’s reign. Please enjoy watching this on Facebook.  Children and adults had a great time dancing to the familiar tracks.

We had great support for our Nursery and Reception Stay and Play sessions this week – we hope you all enjoyed coming into the academy and working with your children.

On Wednesday, we had Nick from Mellors in the academy who undertook workshops with three year groups on bread and pasta making. All the children were able to take part in this hands-on experience which resulted in some delicious outcomes.

We are sorry that we had to cancel our Jubilee singalong on Thursday, but the weather got the better of us at the last minute! We have recorded all of the songs and will put the performance on Facebook for everyone to watch.  The children enjoyed learning and singing songs from across the reign of the queen, and Year 3 even showed us their recorder playing skills. 

Have a lovely half term and enjoy the long bank holiday celebrations. We look forward to seeing the children back on Monday 6^th June.

Class Showcase

This week, our featured classes are Nursery, Reception and B1R so please enjoy reading what they have been learning about.

Nursery

Nursery had a very special stay and play this week to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee! It was wonderful to have parents and carers back in school enjoying lots of fun activities with their children. From making split pin guards to decorating our own royal crowns…there was a real buzz in the air! 

Reception

Reception have been reading the story the Lighthouse Keepers Lunch.  We made lighthouses using recycled materials, construction, dough and paint. We even made our own zip wire and sent food from the cottage on the cliff to Mr Grinlin in his lighthouse. 

We have been doing lots of practical activities in maths. The children have had lots of fun subtracting numbers, making number bonds to 10 and sorting 3Dshapes.          

Lots of collaboration and imagination has been used in the construction area and we have made some incredible structures.

Great team work Reception Class!

B1R

Last Wednesday, B1R enjoyed a lovely walk to Foxrush Farm Woodland as part of our woodland topic. We used our woodland checklists to help us to observe the environment. We also listened to a Percy the Park Keeper story whilst enjoying a yummy snack on our picnic blankets. All of the children were amazing. Well done B1R!

Diary Dates and Reminders

Jubilee Bingo and Activities

The Beat the Street team have put together a Jubilee Bingo and some activities to play to celebrate the Jubilee. The bingo would have to be undertaken whilst watching the celebrations on the tv, but there are lots of fun active games to play too.

Beach Litter Pick

On Wednesday the 1^st of June, Beat the Street is hosting a half term event. To celebrate World Oceans Day, we are hosting a beach front litter pick. Meet in the Majuba Road Car Park in Redcar at 10am. Let the Beat the Street team know if you are going, and find out more information on our event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2226766484128277

Lunch Menu

Next’s menu will be week 1

Attendance

Congratulations to 5/6 M and 5 H who have won our Awesome competition this week with 98.33% attendance.

Redcar and Cleveland Mind Support

Links to support for children and families

HeadStart

Please find a link to this fortnight’s HeadStart newsletter.

https://wke.lt/w/s/mClEpt

Well done to our Year 2 children who have worked very hard and had great focus during their SATs this week.  Just one more test to go on Monday.

Thank you to Lollipops for hosting the Uniform event on Tuesday; we hope parents found this useful to make their selections.

The children from B1R enjoyed a lovely walk to Foxrush on Wednesday afternoon; the weather was very kind to them too!

We look forward to our Jubilee Celebrations this coming week. (see below)

Class Showcase

This week, our featured classes are 5H, 5/6M and 6A, so please enjoy reading what they have been learning about.

Year 5H

This week year 5 have been carrying out some interesting investigations on friction. We have discussed examples of when friction may be helpful and when it may not be helpful before testing how different surfaces impacted the distance a car travels.  

Year 5/6 M

We have been thinking about activities that can help to improve our mental well-being.

In science we have been learning about the heart and the circulatory system.  We acted out how the blood circulates around the body.

Year 6 A

This week we have started our new Science topic – Animals Including Humans. First, we began by learning about the circulatory system. Once we had learnt what the four components were, we constructed a whole class drama to show how the blood moves around the body. We have also been learning about blood and we made some blood smoothies! 

Diary Dates and Reminders

Jubilee Celebrations

During our Jubilee celebrations on the 26^th May, the children will be able to dress up in red, white and blue coloured clothes for the day to celebrate this important event. They will undertake various activities throughout the week linked to the royal family and the 70 years of the queen’s reign.

On Monday, each class will have a session with Urban-Kaos where they will learn a “A Royal Mash Up” dance.  We will then perform to each other at the end of the day and hope to put snippets out on FaceBook.

On the 26^th May, Mellors will be serving a buffet style lunch for the Jubilee celebrations with lots of choices for the children to select from in the lunch hall.  

At 2.30pm, parents and carers are invited to the academy (weather permitting) to watch the children perform songs from across the era of the queen’s reign. We will open the side gate near Nursery for parents to come around the back of the academy.

Walking Bingo

Please bring your Bingo Board back into school by Tuesday 24^th May as we have two free swim/gym passes as prizes from the Beat the Street team, and we will be selecting a winner to receive them.

May Walking Bingo (003).pdf

Beach Litter Pick

On Wednesday the 1^st of June, Beat the Street is hosting a half term event. To celebrate World Oceans Day, we are hosting a beach front litter pick. Meet in the Majuba Road Car Park in Redcar at 10am. Let us know if you are coming, and find out more information on our event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2226766484128277

Lunch Menu

Next’s menu will be week 2

Attendance

Congratulations to 4M who have won our Awesome competition this week with 98.33% attendance.

Weekly Round Up

It has been a busy week in the academy with the Year 6 children undertaking their SATs. We are very proud of the focus and determination they have shown, both this week and during the rest of the year. A huge well done to everyone in Year 6, including all their wonderful teachers.

The Year 2 children will be focusing on their SATs next week, so we would like to wish them all the best of luck with their tasks too.

It has been Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme has been Loneliness.  Each class has undertaken activities and Mrs Boyes supported everyone by putting lots of inspirational quotes up around the academy.

Class Showcase

This week, our featured classes are Year 1M, 3S, 4HM and B3G, so please enjoy reading what they have been learning about.

Year 1 have learnt about the features mammals have and can recognise the we are mammals because of our features.

Year 3 have had an exciting start to the summer term!

In Science we have been exploring what plants need to survive, and proving that they rely on water by changing the colour of flowers using food dye.

Our art topic on William Morris has been a huge success, and all the children have created beautiful wallpaper, using printed blocks they have designed and made themselves.

The TVED Book of the Year competition has also been very exciting for our pupils, and the children are doing incredibly well reading, reviewing and sharing ideas about all 10 books!

This week in science, Year 4 have started a new topic, ‘What happens when you eat food’. We have started by looking at the role of teeth in the digestive process -we have explored this through a investigating the amount of sugar in drinks and learning how sugar leads to an increase in plaque and how this destroys tooth enamel. In order to investigate this, we  planned and carried out an fair test using eggs shells that act similar to the enamel on our teeth.

What a wonderful start to the summer term B3G.

As part of our Geography focus the children have been exploring what Climate Change is and what impact it has. They have looked at how the increase in population has contributed and how animals have been affected by it. In Science we have started to investigate ‘When is a change reversible or irreversible?’ We have explored the properties of various materials, such as, does it allow electricity to flow through? And observed which substances dissolve in water. So if possible, take this opportunity to carryout out your own dissolving experiments at home.

Walk to School Week and Walking Bingo           

As part of Walk to School Week, the Beat the Street team have organised a Walking Bingo activity.  We are asking children to look for the items on the bingo board below and mark them off if they see them next week on their way to school.  Please return the board to school by Tuesday 24^th May, and we will be choosing some winners from within the academy. 

Diary Dates and Reminders

During our Jubilee celebrations on the 26^th May, the children will be able to dress up in red, white and blue coloured clothes for the day to celebrate the queen’s reign. We are also inviting parents/carers to our end of the week celebrations at 2.15pm on Thursday 26^th May to listen to the songs we have learnt for the Jubilee. This will be on the playground at the back of school (weather dependent!) We will share more details about our celebrations in next week’s BLOG.  

Footprints in the Community

We have recently signed up to work with the Footprints in the Community to enable us to support our families. Anyone who may find themselves in difficulty with food or other resources may contact Mrs Sherwood where she will be able to give them advice with the correct support. Parents can do this discretely by asking to speak to her or make an appointment. This service not only provides food through their network of foodbank centres, but they can support with setting up a new home, providing essential items for a new baby and much more. 

Please follow the link for more information, and we also have a leaflet on the website and in the academy entrance: 

www.footprintsinthecommunity.co.uk 

Bikes on the Plaza                                   

Please can we remind all children and parents/carers that, for the safety of all, bikes and scooters must not be ridden on the Plaza.  Children must push their bike or scooter to park outside Nursery. No electric vehicles should be present on the Plaza.  Many thanks for your co-operation in this matter. 

Contact Details

It is vital that we can get in touch with all contacts for your child in case of an emergency.

Please ensure that the academy has the correct contact number for yourself and any other contacts.

We also regularly send messages to parents via email, so please ensure the academy have an email address for you.

Lunch Menu

Next week’s menu will be week 1.

Attendance

Congratulations to 6A who have won our Awesome competition this week with 100% attendance.

Links to support for children and families

HeadStart Newsletter 25th April 2022 – Wakelet

HeadStart

Please find a link to this fortnights HeadStart newsletter.

https://wke.lt/w/s/D1AyQR

Weekly Round Up

We have managed to get plenty of outdoor play this week despite the showery weather, and the children have been really focused on their curriculum work during this shorter week.

We wish the Year 6 children “Good Luck” in their SATs next week as they reach this important landmark in their school career.  They have all worked very hard and have been really committed to attending booster clubs before and after school.

We were lucky to have Leah Johnstone, Engagement Co-ordinator for Beat the Street, in the academy, delivering an assembly to celebrate the scheme and explain how the initiative is going to be continued in the summer term to support an active lifestyle (we will send further details out in the coming weeks). 

Class Showcase

This week, our featured classes are, 2T and B2S, so please enjoy reading what they have been learning about.

YEAR 2

Although it has been a short week, Year 2 have been very busy. We have watched our bean sprout seeds start to grow. We are doing an investigation and have to observe them very closely.

In English we have started planning our own myth. We have been creating our own dragons and planning our story.

In Music we learned to play the Boomwhackers and experimented with pitch. We were able to play the song – ‘Twinkle Twinkle.’

B2S

We have had a busy first couple of weeks back after Easter. 

The children completed a role play activity linked to The Gingerbread Man. They took on the role of a police officer to interview the Fox in order to write a report on what actually happened to the Gingerbread Man. 

In maths we have been busy working on place value. The children have used lots of equipment to represent tens and ones in a number.  In science we are looking at plants. The children used their iPads to find and identify different plants in the academy grounds. We have found garden plants and wild plants. 

Diary Dates and Reminders

Jewellery

Please can we remind children and parents/carers that children should not be wearing jewellery to school.  Only a small pair of stud earrings are allowed which should be removed for P.E. Children should not be wearing bracelets, rings or large earrings.

Considerate Parking

Please be considerate when parking near the academy at the beginning and end of the school day.  Although we realise that space is limited, do not block the drives of neighbouring houses or park on the double yellow lines. Thank you for your co-operation in this matter.

Lunch Menu

Next week’s menu will be week 3.

Attendance

Congratulations to B1R and B2S who have both won our Awesome competition this week with 100% attendance.

Links to support for children and families

HeadStart Newsletter 25th April 2022 – Wakelet

The Link CIC

Please see below posters for courses The Link are offering.

Use this link for the booking form: Booking Form – Training 2022.pdf

Action for Happiness – Meaningful May