Year 4 Visit to the Laing Art Gallery

23rd January 2023Cathryn Henderson

The children in year 4 had an amazing day at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle. They had the opportunity to explore the gallery and learn about all of the different paintings that were there. We looked particularly at landscape paintings as we are studying Paul Cezanne’s mountains in class.

Whilst there we also took part in a very useful workshop. We learnt all the different techniques for painting with watercolours. We learnt how to blend, blotch and build up colours and then used our new skills to create our own landscape paintings. We will also use these new skills throughout our topic and we cannot wait to create some masterpieces that may someday be on display in a magnificent gallery!

 

  

   

   

Whole School STEM Building Project

1st December 2022Cathryn Henderson

Over the last two days, every child from Reception to Year 6 has taken part in a STEM project.in collaboration with the KAPLA workshop team. They have learned how to work as a team and shown resilience and engagement with the process in order to complete their final build.

We have built ski villages, giraffes, houses, crocodiles, boats and so much more! The wooden bricks needed to be carefully placed to make different shapes that would stand tall. There was no glue, no fixing mechanisms, just pure determination and a methodical, systematic approach.

We are so proud of what we managed to achieve together! A massive thank you to all of those parents and adults that helped our children enjoy an amazing learning experience.

School Council Bake Sale

29th November 2022Cathryn Henderson

The school council decided that they would like to buy some resources for our chilckens and ducks.

In assembley they launched the idea of a bake sale to the whole school. Each member of the student council explained why they loved our animals so much and how important they were to everyone in school.

The children made 300 cakes and dedicated some of their lunch break to sell them to the rest of the school.

Everyone loved their cake and Wow!!! we raised £75.93. The next decision is what to buy!!

Year 4 Rocks!

18th November 2022Cathryn Henderson

Children Smash their Times tables!

Year 4 have been practising their times tables this term and have made some magnificent progress. Our times table club has been incredibly popular on a lunchtime and is really helping us prepare for our times table check in June.

As we were doing so well, we entered the competition on TTRS along with another 28,260 schools in England. We got over 48,000 questions correct and blew our teachers’ socks off with how well we did! We finished in the top 2% of the country! We are incredibly proud of our hard work and look forward to becoming even better in the future!

Remembrance Day

14th November 2022Cathryn Henderson

Representing Hedworthfield Primary some of our school councillors, attended the Remembrance Day Ceremony at Monkton Cenotaph.

Members of the student council presented a wreath, on behalf of the school and displayed some art work, that the chilkdren had produced to show their respect.

Hedworthfield Student Council 2022-2023

27th September 2022Cathryn Henderson

The children have taken part in class elections. They wrote a manifesto and presented their ideas to their classmates. We discussed the UK voting system and British values before attending our very own Polling Station to vote.

The successful candidates were announced by our special guests Cllr G Kilgour and Cllr J Potts.

Well done everyone!

 

Yr4 Trip to the Hancock Museum

24th May 2022Cathryn Henderson

Year 4 took a trip to the Hancock Museum in order to develop their understanding of the Ancient Egyptians. The children showed outstanding behaviour and wonderful engagement throughout the day.

Amazing Home Learning Projects !

15th December 2021Cathryn Henderson

Well done Year 4 ! what amazing Stone Age home learning projects !

Stone Age Activities

12th November 2021Cathryn Henderson

Year 4 have enjoyed a day at Jarrow Hall doing a Stone Age Workshop. We have made our own bread, cloth, clay drinking cups, an axe and we also learnt how to travel safely if we were moving settlements.