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Stay and Play Teddy Bear’s Picnic

6 July 2023 By spidrwebadmin

Today, 28th November 2021, marks the First Sunday of Advent. Today the first purple candle was lit on the Advent Wreath at Mass. Below you will find an online Advent Calendar from Cafod, which has many useful links. There is also a link to some Advent resources that you can use at home as a family. We hope that you find these resources useful as we journey together towards Christmas.

CAFOD Primary advent calendar 2021

https://cafod.org.uk/Pray/Prayer-resources/Advent-family-prayer-ideas

Remembrance Day 2021

12 November 2021 By spidrwebadmin

To mark Remembrance Day 2021 we have taken part in lots of lessons and activities. We watched a film called ‘We will Remember them’ about how and why we remember some of the soldiers from our local regiment, the Durham Light Infantry, who fought in conflicts through history but did not return home.

The children looked at a selection of primary and secondary sources and used them to find out about local soldiers.

We gathered together for liturgical prayer, beautifully led by Class 4.

Class 1

We looked at pictures of the Cenotaph in London and used it as inspiration for our own.

Using a variety of different media we made poppies.

Class 2

After looking at the resources it inspired the children to create pieces of artwork and poems to say thank you to the soldiers who fought for our freedom. They even got to try on some of the kit that the Royal Navy wear today.

Class 3

Year 3 and 4 used the evidence they were given to find out about each of the different soldiers.

Class 4

Georgia O’Keeffe was an artist known for her paintings of enlarged flowers. Class 4 used this as an inspiration for their own piece of art work.

“At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.”

30 April 2021 By spidrwebadmin

On a Friday morning we are participating in Scout.ed with Mr Baker. This week we went out into the field and to the garden to look for minibeasts.

We then used this as a basis for today’s writing.

https://stjosephsblackhall.net/2021/04/30/12812-2/

The Three Little Pigs

10 January 2021 By spidrwebadmin

Mammy Pig sent Class 1 a letter asking for help. She wanted to know which material was safest for her pigs.

The children set to work testing out the materials.

First was straw,

then sticks,

then bricks,

Once all houses were built the big bad wolf (a hairdryer) came along and huffed and puffed and tried to blow the houses down.

The children sent a letter back to Mammy Pig to tell her the pigs would be safest in a brick house.

The Lambton Worm

29 November 2020 By spidrwebadmin

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.