This morning, Year 4 participated in a Guinness World Record attempt for the ‘Most Viewers of a Rolling Numbers Livestream’ in conjunction with Times Tables Rock Stars!
We joined in with the dance moves, chanted along with the tables and crossed our fingers that we would be record holders by the end…which we were!
The record was smashed, with over 5,000 viewers taking part across the country.
Here is our certificate!
Over the last few weeks we have been really lucky to enjoy drumming lessons!
This week the whole school has celebrated Art Week. Each year group focussed on a different art movement. We each learned about a different art style, some famous artist and create our own piece of fantastic art.
Year 1 Fauvism
Y1TF
Y1HS
Y1CH
Year 2 Pop Art
Y2LF
Y2RK
Year 3 Surrealism
Y3OS
Y3PE
Y3SC
Year 4 Surrealism
Year 5 Cubism
Y5EW
Y5JN
Y5LA
Year 6 Dadaism
Y6BB
Y6VO
Thank you to the PTA whose generous donation has enabled us to subscribe to eight magazines for the next 12 months. Children from Reception to Year 6 are enjoying magazines on topics such as science, maths, nature and geography. We know that this will further develop a love of reading at Toner.
The fabulous Anne Malabar from ground works came to visit us to complete a litter pick.
First we had a discussion about how litter affect people and animals…and the world. Then we got into groups of 3/4 and everyone had a job to do. We had a bag holder, a tally keeper and a litter picker. Everyone swapped roles after 8 minutes so we all had a turn.
We only managed to get to the school car park before we saw tonnes of litter. We set to work straight away and hopefully improved the environment around our school.
Once we got back, we counted the tallies and checked who collected the most litter.
Team collected 96 pieces
Team collected 82 pieces
Team 3 collected 110 pieces
team 4 collected 41 pieces
Team 5 collected 78 pieces.
All just from our school car park!
James said he felt guilty that we’ve let our school get this way.
Piper said she felt disgusted.
Maisie felt excited because it was fun to do something nice for our school.
We hope to work with Anne again soon on our next venture! We had a great morning. She was also an expert at learning all of our names.
This week we have been learning about Easter. We listened to the Easter Story, we thought it was very sad.
We know why we eat Hot Cross buns at Easter time and why we have chocolate eggs!
Here we are eating Hot Cross buns with butter and jam!
Then we had boiled egg races outside in the garden.
Yesterday, Year 3 went to Waterstones in Newcastle to spend our World Book Day tokens. We had so much fun looking at the endless amount of books. The workshop we took part in was fantastic. We discussed the books we read at home and at school. We read a spooky book with music playing to build atmosphere and talked about how to engage our audience when we read. Some of us even had our minds read! We were all shocked (even all the adults!)
It was so lovely to see the children enjoying their books on the metro home! I think some of us had nearly finished by the time we got back to school!
Today year 3 got to spend their World Book Day vouchers at Waterstones in Newcastle Town centre.
We were welcomed and entertained by Johnny who had us all in the palm of his hand with his storytelling and engrossed with his mind reading talents! (Even the adults too!) The spooky sound effects made such a difference when we were listening to the stories. We can’t wait to visit again, especially when the immersion chair is in place.
Our only regret is that we couldn’t stay any longer as we had to get the metro home. I have to say, we were so proud and impressed with the children’s behaviour. They were absolutely brilliant.
It also made my day to see all of the children reading their books on the metro home. Take a look at some photos below.
We can’t wait to visit again soon.
WOW! What a response to our inaugural Books and Biscuits Club. I was blown away by how many children wanted to get together and discuss books on a Tuesday night – we really do love reading at Toner.
The lucky first group of children enjoyed their first session tonight – here are some pictures! We introduced ourselves and chatted about a book we had brought, shared some of our favourites and what we liked to read, and then listened to a story with a delicious biscuit.
I am already looking forward to next week!
If you would like a link for the upcoming online safety sessions from the fabulous @ICTinSchools team, please email the year group emails and we will send you a link.
