What will you be doing with your family this Easter holidays? We are here to help!
Our Holiday Club has lots of ideas to keep everyone busy, including our South Tyneside Family Discovery Trails, brand new Easter Holiday TV and recipe ideas to help keep you and your family happy, healthy and entertained during the holidays.
Find out more at www.southtyneside.gov.uk/holidayclub
The Trummies are a colourful bunch of characters and are the stars of World Autism Awareness Week. The Trummies are on the autism spectrum and can help our pupils learn how we are all different and all the same. All that matters is to be kind to one another.
This week is World Autism Week – if you want to know more about World Autism Week or Autism, visit: https://www.autism.org.uk/get-involved/raise-money/world-autism-awareness-week
Here are the resources that the National Autistic Society have produced for our assembly:
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It was a lot of fun dressing in red on Friday. Many parents will have donated directly, but we have raised £139 through ParentPay alone. There’s still time to donate if you wish – East Boldon Juniors Comic Relief ParentPay
The school council had their first socially distanced meetingtoday. They wanted to discuss saving energy, play areas, Covid safety and school bins on the playground. Most of the children’s discussion focused on item 1 – energy. The pupils of East Boldon care about the planet. They have an idea for every class to have energy monitors and have designed an animal to feature on our light switches which we have created – our Energy Elephant. Because ‘Energy Elephants never forget… to turn off the lights!’ Brilliant!
Today in school, pupils were challenged to be creative and design an innovation to help save electricity in school.
Recently, we proudly shared that all of our energy comes from renewable sources. We need to look at our energy use next. Our school council is going to put these exciting new plans into action.
We have had a lot of fun learning about innovation throughout Science Week.
We are innovators!
Laura Hepburn joined us this afternoon on a live zoom webinar to tell us how she plans to change the world!
Laura is the CEO of Greenology, a recycling firm which is based in Middlesbrough. They take waste products and make them into energy. Laura calls herself a career chameleon and she is no stranger to the big screen having been involved in the design of Hollywood films such as Game of Thrones, Tolkien, Dumbo and Fantastic Beasts to name just a few.
Amongst some of the awards which she has received, Laura is on this year’s Northern power woman of the year future list.
Greenology takes non recyclable household plastics and turns them into power. Laura’s daughter Molly explained that this is something very close to her heart due to an increase in global warming and climate change. Laura and Molly shared with us the different types of plastics that are used in our homes on a daily basis. They went into great depths about a triangle shown on the bottom of various plastics, this shows that it can be recycled and gives the recycling companies an idea of the plastic that it is. If it can’t be recycled then it is usually incinerated and the fumes fill the air or it is buried in landfill.
They then demonstrated how they melt down the different non recyclable plastics in a large oven, at a certain temperature. Once the plastic has been melted down it can then be used for electricity and to power different vehicles.
What a fantastic experience we had! Hopefully, next time we might get the chance to go and see how it’s recycled in person!
East Boldon’s Science Week is all about ‘Innovation’.
Let’s get innovating!
Pupils across the school joined a live show called ‘Can STEM careers save lives?’ They also enjoyed an Engineering to WOW workshop by Sir Robert McAlpine group. Finally, many classes started creating their own batteries today – school smells like vinegar!
East Boldon’s Science Week is all about ‘Innovation’.
Let’s get innovating!
Zahra Thandi, lecturer at University of Sunderland, set each class a STEM related challenge.
Y3 were building bridges in ‘Bridge Blunder’; Y4 were creating and testing their Crafty Rafts; Y5 solved the Discus Dilemma and Y6 puzzled ‘How far can a sneeze travel?’
Another big thank you for Zahra’s input and enthusiasm. We had a great time creating, testing and reviewing.
East Boldon’s Science Week is all about ‘Innovation’.
Let’s get innovating!
Science Week has started with a bang today! Dave Laidlaw from the University of Sunderland has Zoomed our pupils and set them a few challenges.
First of all, he has challenged us to make our very own penny batteries using shiny copper coins, tin foil, cardboard, salt and vinegar. He showed us how to do it and included all of the health and safety measures. We have all the equipment in school but he did mention cleaning up using mum or dad’s best tea towels if you are at home (I would like to put on record that the school does not recommend this 😆).
Finally, he also announced a competition for all of the children with some amazing prizes including an indoor drone and a t shirt that allows you to see your internal organs through an app. The competition is: Can you draw Dave your own electric car design? Points are awarded for neatness, energy saving features and its name. The design needs to be on 10cm x 10cm paper. He is popping into school to collect the designs on Friday. If you have a child that is self-isolating and would like to take part, send in your images via Class Dojo to Mr Shenton.
Science Week is all about ‘Innovation’. Let’s get innovating!
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