Book Review - Awful Auntie

Awful Auntie is a book written by David Walliams, and the illustrator is Tony Ross. The one main character is young Stella Saxby, who has an awful auntie called Alberta. Her parents had just passed away and she didn’t know. So one dark night, her aunt Alberta showed up telling her the news. Just because her aunt is mean doesn’t mean she can’t pull tricks back! It’s a very good book, with some funny quotes! It’s a great book with a good storyline and as you’re reading it you can picture the scene perfectly! My favourite character is Wagner, who is Alberta’s owl because he starts off helping Alberta, but the moves onto Stella’s side to help defeat Alberta. In my opinion, I don’t think Wagner liked Alberta in the first place! I would recommend this book to 8 years old or over or if your a stronger reader but younger, give this book a go! This is a book that is very child-friendly and has a selection of pictures.
The number of pages:413.

Genre: child fiction.

Fun Fact: this is the seventh book that David Walliams has come out with!

Evie

Harvest Festival and The People's Kitchen

The upcoming event at school is the Harvest Festival. On Tuesday 9th October, some of the pupils went to the People's Kitchen in Newcastle. Every year our school works alongside the People's Kitchen for the Harvest Festival. Everyone brings in donations to put on the harvest table. The People's Kitchen creates a wish list - so that's where we get the ideas from. The day after the Harvest Festival, the People's Kitchen come and collect the food and sleeping bag donations. We learned about the People's Kitchen - how it started and all sorts of other interesting facts about it. We went with Mrs Behan and Ms Kendal. We all really enjoyed it I think that our favourite part was the Greggs jam doughnut at the end!

Can’t wait for the harvest festival and for the speech hope to see you there!

Thanks from Olivia

Year 6 at Red Rose

Year 6 is an exciting year at Red Rose Primary School.
English
In English, before Christmas , we were learning about a book called Scribbleboy. We haven’t had the time to finish the book yet - I hope we can finish it before the next half term.

Maths
In Maths, which I love , we are working on decimal’s. Soon, we will be working on:

• Shapes
• Algebra

I think I am going to find algebra difficult.

Art
In Art, we have done our own Scribble and we put them on the  wall. We also did our name in fancy writing and we put that on a different wall.

I hope this term is going to be as much fun than last years. 

Jessica, Year 6

Art at Red Rose Primary

At Red Rose Primary School, we have many fantastic artists from Reception to Year 6. Currently, in year 6, we have been doing alot of graffiti based on the book we have been reading (Scribbleboy, by Philip Ridley). We have also done some graffiti slogans which are up in the studio. In Key stage 1-2 corridors we have been doing all about light and we have done some projects all about it. Recently, Mrs Waters has been running an art club  for Year 6 that everyone enjoyed. Before Mrs Jackson went on maternity leave she held a art club where we drew the queen. As a school we wanted to design a new logo so the school council asked some people to design their own logo. After looking at all of the logos we joined some together to make our new logo. Pieces of art from all classes are on the gallery outside the library. In 2015 the Year 3’s did a tapestry of Chester-le-street.

Sophie

Art

In Y6 we have been doing graffiti art (scribbles) from the book Scribble Boy. We  have created our own scribbles and graffiti names, which are on the walls. We also drew slogans which are in the studio.

As Well as lessons we have had an art club on Tuesday that did knitting, rangoli patterns and snowmen. In the corridor is our wonderful art gallery filled with amazing art. Rights Respecting posters around the class. At Christmas we designed Christmas cards (this year we did stars).  

Over the years we have completed pastel pictures, silhouette and sketching. I really enjoyed it. Painting has also gone on in KS2 like painting the Great Wave and recently the Egyptian Pyramids.

Katie

In Red Rose,we have some brilliant artists throughout the school -from reception to year 6. Currently, in Discovery class (year 6), we have been work extremely hard at creating our very own graffiti scribbles based on the book we have been reading called Scribbleboy by Philip Ridley. We have also been working on at some graffiti slogans, which are now in the studio along with our light theme by all different year groups of the school.

Red Rose has previously had an art and craft club, which was run by Mrs Waters on a Tuesday after school they have made lots of fabulous creations.

Charlotte

Watch out for our Art Gallery in March.

New Year, New Starters

2018 has come quickly and, for year 6, S.A.T.S could come faster. We have lots of changes to the school since the summer. We have zones in the playground, new starters and a new building.

The new receptions are very lucky as their classrooms are in the new building. Mrs Sweet and Ms Sweeny are the teachers for Sunshine and Sunbeam. For Sunshine and Sunbeam classes, it is like meeting all your friends for a playdate everyday. In the new building, there is a new outdoor play area with a shelter, sand pit and lots of fun play equipment.

The reception classes do forest school with Mr Rose, where they go into the forest (actually the wood) around the school and do fun things. They have a mud kitchen, a shelter and they can play as there are drawers with toys in. Ewan from reception told me that he likes forest school because forest school gives them a chance to go outside and be as active as they want. Flyn said that he likes collecting the leaves of the tree. Lots of reception pupils liked playing outside. Cara and Jessica like their topic, Dinosaurs.

Maya

Safer Internet Day 2018

Today, Red Rose have had an experience of knowledge on keeping safe online.This included how you would be affected by things posted on social media or online games such as:

• Roblox
• Minecraft 
• Animal jam
• Agar.io
• Slither.io
• Transformice

This also includes other games where you can talk, come face to face or share.

This morning KS2 ( key stage 2) had an excellent and witty assembly hosted by Mr Ross, Talking about the dangers and the consequences of different things . Also, KS1 had an assembly talking about the same things but in a way that they would understand.

This afternoon,the whole school will be doing different activities and will be showing them in assembly. The list of classes and what activities they are doing:
Discovery - Cinquain poem
NASA - The top 10 rules on safe internet
Apollo - A jigsaw and a painted world to show we connect to everyone 
Armstrong - Posters and short play
Galaxy - PowerPoint and jigsaw pieces
Starlight - Jigsaw pieces with points on staying safe online
Moonlight - Booklets on internet saftey
Rainbow - Posters on who you can trust in hands and internet rap
Reception - Posters about keeping safe

Later on this afternoon, The whole school will be sharing their discoveries and what they have made/learnt.

Scribbleboy

Last term, Year 5 & 6 were reading the book ‘Scribbleboy’. We all really enjoyed the book and we took part in a lot of Graffiti type things seens as the book was based about Graffiti. We never finished the book but it seemed like nearly everyone enjoyed it. It was a nice to try a different book this year.

‘Scribbleboy’ is based about Bailey Silk who transfers to a dull and dark town. He gets written a letter from Ziggy Fuzz who turns out to be his best friend. Ziggy shares secrets about the anonymous scribbler who shares his/her emotions threw Graffiti. Bailey was determined to find out who he/she was, and in the end he found out who had been scribbling all over town.

‘Scribbleboy’ was written by Philip Ridley and illustrated by David Wyatt. If interested, you can find the book on a few websites. It only cost £6.99.

What it is like in Year 6, by Year 6.

Year 6 pupils write about what it is like in Year 6.

In year 6 we are getting ready for our  SATs . Every other week, we have music with Mr Williams . As well, we have P.E with Mr Curry and Daniel and I beat the teacher at tug of war. In maths, we are learning decimals. In English, we are writing a storyboard about space.
In year 6, we help get the assembly ready, these are the people who help:
Calum, Neeve, James, Lucy, Daniel, Charlotte, Maya and Ella

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Throughout our term of 2017, Year 6 have been given jobs around our school (Red Rose Primary School).These jobs help the staff and teachers, so that they can also teach the other pupils around the school grounds.

Here are the jobs that they were given:

Assembly jobs

• Computer
• Music
• Corridor
• Benches
• Rocket and Certificates

Food Related

• Fruit
• Milk
• Golden Table

Other important jobs

• Welcome 
• Monitors
• Registers
• Free choice book organiser
• Chromebook collector

We also have an assigned class to go to at wet playtime. On average, we have at least 4 or 5 people in each class of children .

At parents' evening, everybody gets the opportunity to help out and take the parents to their child/children's teacher. They also have to keep track of the time and record who has attended and who hasn’t.

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Year 6 is an exciting year at Red Rose Primary School.

English
In English , before Christmas , we were learning about Scribbleboy. We have never had the time to finish the book yet, but I hope we can finish it before the next half term.

Maths
In Maths, which I love , we are working on Decimal’s. We will be working on ( in time):

• Shapes 
• Algebra 

Art
In Art, we have done our own scribble and we put them on the wall. We also did our name in fancy writing and we put that on a different wall.

Cross Country races coming up

After a wet start to the year, with the first race being cancelled the cross country season starts again this weekend.

The dates’ are as follows:
Saturday 27th January 10am
Saturday 3rd February 10am


At the moment, the venues are as follows
The first race is located in Newker’s/Bullion Lanes’ School fields’, and the second race  is at Langley Parks’ field.

*All Schools’ in Chester-Le-Street will be competing*

Children are advised to wear skins and other warm clothing.The distance for the races is about 3 km long.

HAVE A GREAT RACE AND GOOD LUCK!

Year 6 SATs and PE!

2018 - PE for Year 6 was on the first day back!

Personally, I think that is the best way to start the new year. To start 2018, we got a new PE coach, - Mr. Curry - I really enjoyed the first lesson and most others did too. It was really tiring though! The first lesson we had with Mr. Curry was a circuit lesson finishing with a tiring, eventful game of tug of war. We have got a very short ( and stressful ) half term as we are closing in on S.A.T.S! As S.A.T.S is looming over the top of us it will make PE seem as if it is nothing but we are determined to keep it fun and unique!

The PE circuit varied from press ups to sprints and many more some were more tiring than others, though. We were in groups of 2 - 4 and rotated every 1 or 2 minutes. Quite a few of the activities had not been done by the 2017 - 2018 Year 6’s ( it could have just been me who hadn't done them before ). The tug of war was right at the end and was only just squeezed in! The class was split in two and took either end of the rope one side was doing really well then Mrs. Jennings joined in! The other team took the lead… then an unsuspected guest joined in Mrs. Taylor!

Once Mrs. Taylor joined in, her team won almost instantly!

by Holly in Year 6

Gifted and Talented Sports Event.

On Friday 12th January some of the Year 6s went to a Gifted and Talented sports event, held at Durham University.

At the Gifted and Talented event, the children did a handful of activities such as: the science of sport, health and nutrition; strength tests and how much air comes out of our mouth when we breathe. They really enjoyed it and had a great day - they are looking forward to the next one in the near future.

Music at Red Rose

                                                                         Music

In Year 6, we do music with a man called Mr Williams. He is a really good teacher, and has started teaching Year 6 music notes by clapping in sequences.

A group of children volunteered to take part and sing some Christmas songs at the Sage, Gateshead such as: The world will wait; Merry Christmas to you and Where's Rudolph. It was part of a joint project with Park View School and other primary schools nearby.

We also sing seasonal songs in assembly like: The Chocolate song, Blue Skies, Combine Harvester and Rock Around the Shops. Some songs are funny and some are really joyful.

These are some people who help in  assembly:

•  Calum ( Computer) 
• Neeve (Computer) 
• James ( Music) 
• Lucy (Music)  

 

Restorative Approach

Recently, at Red Rose Primary School, we introduced a new approach to help us if a disagreement occurs. It is called the Restorative Approach. If a teacher sees someone arguing they will ask each child their side of the story and they ask them five questions each here is one of them: “ What were you feeling?” This has improved most of our behaviour outside and in the classroom.
Here are all the questions:

• What happened?
• What were you thinking when it happened?
• What were you feeling when it happened? 
• Who has been affected? And how?
• What needs to happen now?
• What do you need to do now to make it fair or better?

A year six pupil said “People don't start arguments as much because they know they can't get out of it as easily.”

This approach has helped to show people how to approach disagreements.

Written by Flyn, Year 6.

Twas the season ..

Well, now it is 2018 and the Christmas season has passed, it has been interesting to reflect on the Nativity season that we had at Red Rose.
We had great performances by our Sunshine and Sunbeam classes with lots of sheep, shepherds, kings and all the other characters that make up the Christmas story. Then our Key stage 1 classes, Moonlight, Rainbow and Starlight, used the Christmas Baubles to tell the story - with some truly lovely singing both collectively and individually.
Our Key Stage 2 pupils, at the local church, sang songs from around the world and explained how different customs and traditions were carried out in places like Poland, Malawi, Ireland, China, Australia and the United States of America. The church was packed and full of beautiful singing.

What a lovely and memorable Nativity season we had. Now, what will 2018 bring to Red Rose?