Please check our blog page regularly for updated stories about activities, news and events going on at Star of the Sea:
Investigating Victorian mining artefacts.
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Year 6 showing off their dances moves today in PE.
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Nursery have made some fantastic repeating patterns this week.
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Reception are thoroughly enjoying their dance lessons this half term.
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Promoting reading for pleasure with our youngest children.
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Well we are back after our Easter break and the children in Reception ‘wowed’ us with their writing!
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Year 3 visited Beamish Museum to learn about mining in Victorian times.
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This is what makes Early Years so special!
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Every day during Holy Week the whole school came together to reflect on the Stations of the Cross.
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We all made creative Easter lamps by Freya and Francesca.
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Year 6 were learning about Hamlet during Shakespeare Week. They wrote and performed their own wonderful plays.
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A bit of a ‘Spring clean’ for our outdoor classroom. Dishcloths and bubbles a plenty!
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‘How goes the work?’ Reception have been working hard with their talk for writing topic based around the story ‘Farmer Duck’.
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Re-enacting Hamlet from the point of view of King Claudius.
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Today, we explored our new RE topic of ‘Growing’.
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Star of the Sea Girls Football team compete in the Northern Cross and progress to the next round of the competition.
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5RH have been learning about the Stations of the Cross and the sacrifice of Jesus.
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What an exciting week in Reception! Read on to find out what we have been learning this week…
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Year 6 having a fantastic time completing a variety of team challenge activities.
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We carried out a biscuit dunking experiment.
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Year 6 had a fantastic day participating in the Jungle Survival Team Challenge Day. We worked well in groups and completed different activities and obstacle courses. We also learnt about the ancient Maya civilisation.
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Mrs DiMambro LOVES a custard cream, but are they the best sandwich biscuit to dunk? Is a sandwich biscuit a better dunker than a non-sandwich biscuit? Does the number of layers make a difference to how quickly a biscuit is dunked to destruction?
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A digestive, a chocolate chip cookie, a hobnob and a rich tea all race to find the dunking champion to save Mrs DiMambro from soggy biscuits!
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For national science week we investigated which biscuit is best for dunking.
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Three…Two…One…Dunk! Well what can we say…Reception’s task was a ‘slam dunk’ as to what happens to biscuits when they get wet! Mrs DiMambro, you will be thrilled with our results for your perfect biscuit to go with your cup of coffee!
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Year 6 and Reception having a story afternoon.
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Tales of fear, tennis and World Book Day make for a busy week.
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Fluffy, yellow, soft and very noisy! The chicks are a very welcome addition to our classroom!
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We have been making ‘Tunnel Books’ to celebrate World Book Day 2024
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Year 6 had a lovely afternoon reading their favourite stories to their buddies.
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It’s been so windy recently, we decided to see which direction the wind was blowing in as part of our geography topic on weather.
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We are full of awe and wonder this morning…
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The start of a new month, new writing books and….‘wow!’
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‘I beg you, bear with one another in love’ Ephesians 4:2
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Year 4 had a fantastic day designing and making bird houses for ‘Build for Birds’ Lego Group competition!
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Year 5 children have been painting in the style of the Impressionist artists.
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Reception celebrated pancake day by having a pancake race.
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Year 3 have become Ancient Egyptian embalmers!
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Year 6 have had a fantastic morning designing and making a safe space for birds.
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Year 4 face challenges to release their Major General.
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Year Two concluded their unit of work on money by playing shop keepers.
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Reception had their chef hats on this afternoon and had fun baking gingerbread people.
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Year 3 were visited by ‘That History Bloke’ and learned all about the Ancient Egyptians
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Y6 experiment to see how long it takes our heart to return to normal after exercise.
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In RE this term, the children have been working incredibly hard and learning about the Local Church.
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A few of our Year 5 children had the opportunity to represent our school at Star of the Sea by attending this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day.
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Year 6 had a fantastic afternoon with Show Racism the Red Card, we had some good discussions and approached this matter with a mature attitude.
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Online safety training for the whole school!
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Year 3 have been looking at landmarks of the North East skyline. We have sketched images and then used these to make our 2024 calendars.
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Year 5 created the final part of our advent walk this year with their installation ‘The Nativity’
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Y6 were building circuits and testing a hypothesis.
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Reception enjoyed a wonderful craft afternoon with their grown ups!
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the nursery!
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Gillian Bell, parliamentary education officer, came into school to talk to us about how government works.
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The children enjoyed some drama in our English lessons this week!
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This week we have had lots of fun and laughter and a sad goodbye.
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A week of Goldilocks themed activities- ‘who’s been eating my porridge!’
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Year Three have enjoyed working with expert volunteers from Newcastle Building Society in Coding Club.
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Year 3 located different physical and human geographical features of the UK on a map.
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Year 3 won the Access Coaching Handball Festival held at Foxhunters Sports Pavilion.
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Reception have had a busy week exploring shape and looking at artist Wassily Kandinsky.
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5RH have been using map skills to locate tropical, temperate, desert and polar regions across the world.
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On a Friday lunchtime, here at Star of the Sea we have established a ukulele club! We have been learning all about the different strings on the ukulele and how if we change the position of our fingers on the fret board, we can make different notes.
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We have had a fabulous start to year 4!
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‘Knowing more and remembering more’ in Reception this week!
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Reception enjoyed exploring our wonderful school library!
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We have really enjoyed learning about The Great Fire of Gateshead and Newcastle in history this half term.
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