We made lovley community links with Calf Close residential home last year when pupils from our choir visited the residents to sing Christmas songs.
This year the children participated in the Hearts for Home project. Each child designed a heart with a personal message of kindness or Seasons greeting!
Today members of our school council, delivered the hearts to our friends and wished them a Happy Christmas!
Children from Valley View and Hedworthfield Primary Schools produced some stunning art work to commerate Remembrance Day 2020.
The art work was placed at the Cenotaph in Monkton Village.
We will remember them.
As part of our Stone Age topic, the children first decided to make a Paleolithic, Mesolithic or Neolithic home. They thought carefully about the materials that they would need and drew their design, concentrating on the features that would be evident in each home. They then worked collaboratively to make their home using lots of techniques and working efficiently with each. We were over the moon with their creative attempts.
The children in Year 3 were transported back in time to the Stone Age where they took on the role of a ‘Hunter Gatherer’. They used joining techniques to make a stick frame to represent when the hunters used to stretch the animal skin. Next they went on a woodland walk, looking for foods to gather, and then made a stone axe to practise their hunting skills. They also used the charcoal from the fire to complete some cave art.
Year 3 and 4 gave the most amazing, spell bounding performance of Gabriel’s Big Break. Cllr Alan Smith, who attended the performance, on behalf of the governing board, was speechless, he told everyone it was the best show that he had ever seen!
Our newly elected school council from Valley View and Hedworthfield were welcomed by the Deputy Mayor for a tour of the Town Hall in South Shields this week.
The children learned about the history of the Town Hall, they created their own school crest, they participated in a very challenging question time and took a vote on whether to ban homework or not !
It was a great visit, our school council were amazing ambassadors for our schools.
Thank you so much to the Town Hall staff, Deputy Mayor and Councillors who made us feel so welcome.
We had a visit from the Dog Trust today, The children learned about how dogs have feelings and how we would approach a dog to keep us safe and not to distress the dog.
Look at our baby chicks hatching !
The children are learning all about plants in gardening club. They have been working very hard planting flowers around the school grounds and sowing seeds in the Hedworthfield vegetable plot.
This term year 3 was learning about, Why Christians believe that Jesus is the light of the world. As part of our topic we visited St Nicholas Church and made our own Christingles.
