St Joseph's RC Primary School (Blackhall)
Coast Road, Blackhall Colliery, Hartlepool TS27 4HE
We have learned about the Epiphany story and completed some beautiful silhouette art using charcoal and Tommy’s design also used chalk, he said of his finished piece that “I’m buzzing with the sky and the sand worked out better than I thought it would!”
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As our topic on Rocks is coming to an end here are the photos of our investigations into erosion and permeability. We discovered that some rocks are softer than others and so therefore erode faster. Also, that some rocks are more porous and so wouldn’t be suitable for certain purposes as water would pass through it.
This half term’s Homework Menu has proven to be very successful and have allowed my wonderful class to explore our Science, Geography and Art topics in a variety of creative ways.
Below is a small selection of what the children have already produced.
Produced an information text about Mary Anning,
Made models of their favourite North Eastern landmark,
Been on a fossil hunt and even made some at home,
Made art using rocks and sea glass,
an recreated the County Flags of our region,
Well Done Class 3!
In our English lesson for the last 2 weeks we have been looking at The Lambton Worm – this way we could cover the Myths and Legends theme in English but also link it in with our Geography topic which is all about the North East.
More photos will follow but for now here are some of the Newspaper Reports about the Worm’s terrible ending!
The children also made a model of the worm using clay. They used the descriptions of the worm found in the famous song and in the text to help them with their models.
The children have thought of ways of sharing their Christmas cheer with you. This is the start of their idea, more will be added as we make our way through Advent on the run up to Christmas.
Simply click on the letter to open a link to our surprise for you. We hope you like them.
This week as well as our class book called One Boy’s War we have created poppies. The children have produced some excellent diary entries from Sidney, the lead character in this emotional and powerful story about a 15 year old boy from County Durham in World War 1. We also linked our Pointillism theme when we created pictures on Purple Mash. 
This week in Maths we have started our learning about multiplication. We spent this morning investigating how many different arrays we could make for a given number of counters.
Today we had so much fun completing our sponsored Fun Run to help raise some school funds – if smiles and giggles gave us money we’d already have raised lots! Thank you for supporting this event!
As it was the last day of half term and Halloween this year will be different, this gruesome bunch have spent the day completing lots of Halloween themed activities.
I was especially impressed with the acrostic poems the children did using associated words. Below are a small selection.
Haunted mansions
Always alarmed
Looking at you
Looking for you
Only you
Watching you
Eerily quiet
Every
Night
Witches walking around
I am scared
Teasing me
Chasing me
Haunting me.
Howling winds
Asking strange things.
Lack of
Life
Obviously at night
Witching hour
Every night
Extra deaths tonight
Never giving up!
