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?