Today we had a very special visitor in school. Andrea, our OPAL Mentor, joined us to present the staff with their certificate to celebrate that Hedworth Lane Primary School is now a ‘GOLD’ OPAL School! Andrea spoke with the children about how playtimes have developed and thanked the whole staff team for their hard work.
Well done to our fabulous Lego League Team (The Lego Hedz) who were victorious for the second year in a row! Thank you to Miss Watson and Mrs Thompson for all their hard work in preparing for this event!
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Reception had a lovely time this afternoon completing some winter themed crafts at this half terms stay and play.
On Wednesday some of our Year 3 children went to Boldon Comp for a Benchball tournament, we were split into 3 different teams of Hedworth Lane A, B and C and played against two other schools. It was fantastic and was amazing to see what the children had been learning during P.E to help them in these games. There was a lot of excellent team work from all players, so much so one of our teams came joint first with another school and won a medal. Well done Year 3 you played amazingly!
To celebrate achieving Gold Standard OPAL Status, we held our first Parent Stay and Plays this week. The events were really well attended and great fun was had by all! We look forward to our summer event!
To mark Internet Safety Day 2025 , we watched an assembly on Cyber Bullying and then had a think about what this means to us and whether we had been affected by it before. All of the children were interested and had lots to add to the discussion. We then used scenario cards to talk about what we would do in different situations and the children wrote some information down about it. We had lots of great ideas and ways to stay safe! Well done everybody.
Year 3 and Year 4 had a fantastic time learning about climate change; what causes it and what it is caused by. They spent time thinking about how to reduce the effects of climate change and what they could do themselves.
They took part in exciting and engaging activities developing their knowledge further. In the first task, they worked collaboratively to put the stages of erosion in order. Secondly, they categorised common and not-so-common organisms into plants, animals, minerals or other. The last and most popular activity was creating their own plastic out of kelp.
Thanks to Blair from the Stronger Shores project, which is an innovation project funded by DEFRA and led by South Tyneside Council exploring the use of natural habitats as a means of protecting our coasts.
On Monday our usual lessons were disturbed by three amazing story tellers who raided our school to share with us some exciting tales!
As part of our work on developing Oracy, we listened to the captivating, engaging stories and joined in with actions! Each class heard three tales over the day. Ask your child to tell you their favourite one!
Year 5 and 6 are learning about electrical circuits this term. We have been thinking of some questions that we would like to test and then building the circuits and experimenting with different components to see what effect changing the variable has. This week we got super technical and turned our Micro:bits into data loggers so that we could test the brightness of a bulb as the voltage changed. We had lots of fun getting hands on and testing out our ideas. Well done everyone.
The children in Reception had their second session last week with Jess from The Early Words Program. They enjoyed playing some musical instruments and listening to the different noises that each one made. They then made their own shaker with their grown up to take home and enjoy.
