Eggstravaganza!

Just take a look at how creative y6 have been with their entries for White Mere's Easter egg competition. It's going to be really hard deciding on a winner.

Easter cards signal the arrival of Spring,

Y6 have made some beautiful Easter cards this week - many thanks go to Mrs Cutter for her awe inspiring design ideas!  

Bake sale news reaches the Chronicle!

Y6 were so excited to discover that news of their bake sale had reached the Evening Chronicle and was in the edition 26/3/15. It's great to share our fundraising activities with the wider community and the whole of the North East! 

Easter bonnet competition.

Y6 have created some lovely Easter bonnets for our school competition - spring truly seems to have arrived along with much sunnier weather! (We hope it lasts)

Solar eclipse awareness.

Y6 were really keen to explain the dangers of looking directly at the sun particularly with regard to the  forthcoming solar eclipse . They explained what a solar eclipse was to each class along with reasons why pupils should not look at it despite it being such an unusual event.

Art inspired by William Morris

Y6 have recently studied artwork by the Victorian artist William Morris. Nature was a huge inspiration for Morris as is apparent within his many patterns. We extended one of his original designs to begin with in order to develop our sketching skills. We then designed a tile which we could use for a pattern of our own. Just look at our fantastic artwork!

Red Nose Day fundraising!

Y6 were hardly recognisable when they came in to school 'dressed up daft!' They were certainly very creative when it came to costume ideas. 

World book day fun!

Y6 enjoyed dressing as their favourite book characters today. It was great to see how imaginative everybody was in assembly - although it proved hard to recognise some pupils! Teachers had very difficult decisions to make when judging the best costume within each class as everybody had made such a good effort!

Y6 Bake sale for the Children of Syria.

Y6 were keen to raise money for the Children of Syria and decided that a bake sale would be a great idea within school. What a range of fantastic cakes - they were certainly in demand! An amazing £75 was collected - congratulations go to all concerned.

Amazing Medusa masks.

Miss Sykes was so impressed by y3's creativity that she invited some pupils to show their amazing Medusa masks to the rest of the school in assembly. The rest of the school were certainly impressed. It's just as well that nobody was turned into stone!

Computer programming using Scratch.

Y6 have recently enjoyed using the Scratch computer program. They created a maths game and used a range of commands that sprites would follow as part of the game. Pupils certainly choosessome interesting  characters and backgrounds for their games!

Short story writing success!

Ks2 recently entered a mini saga writing competition, in which entries had to be no greater than 100 words. The Young Writers competition encouraged pupils to produce an original piece of writing that could be selected for publication in an anthology.  It was fantastic to discover that 55 pupils had written stories of such high quality that they were selected as winners. It was lovely to share their success with the whole school in assembly. Pupils are still in with chance of winning further prizes so here's hoping.

Mathsletics display!

The Mathletics computer program has certainly taken White Mere by storm! So much so that a whole school display has recently been created by Miss Sykes - each week a Mathlete of the week will be  named for each class according to the points they have accumulated. In addition , points gained over time will be displayed with pupils battling it out to be part of White Mere's "Hall of fame!" It's certainly getting quite competitive between the classes - not to mention the teachers!

Baby Harry's Day In School!

Mrs Hutchinson was in school today with her beautiful baby!

It was lovely to see her and baby Harry in school today! Mr Noble kept him entertained while Mrs Hutchinson catch up on the latest in school!

Vile Victorian Parent Workshop

Y6 created some fantastic Powerpoints about the Victorian era, ably assisted by their parents and carers this week! They were able to demonstrate their knowledge of key facts about this time in history and incorporate them within interactive presentations. We're looking forward to peer assessing them and suggesting improvements for the future.

Investigating animal adaptation.

Y6 have investigated recently how animals have adapted to their habitats over time. They devised experiments to demonstrate the importance of insulation and how this might impact upon particular animal's body temperature.

Vile Victorian board games.

To truly test their knowledge of the creative curriculum topic the " Vile Victorians" y6 have set about designing and making their own board games. We have been so impressed by their efforts and imaginative response to this challenge! Check out their ideas - which would you enjoy playing the most ?

Street child freeze frames!

Y6 have recently been studying Berlie Doherty's "Streetchild" as part of their narrative English unit. They really enjoyed recreating specific scenes from the book along with being in the hot seat as key characters.

Evolution and inheritance !

Y6 have been learning about the theory of evolution as part of their new science topic. We have looked recently at how similar and different we are from one another. In order to investigate further we designed a series of experiments in which we could compare a range of measurements such as : height , foot  and arm length and circumference of our heads.

From this data we calculated the mean, median , mode and range and were able to choose a way to best represent our information in graph form.

Tagtastic rugby!

Y6 love Thursdays as they have two sessions of PE with two fantastic coaches!  At the moment they are developing their teamwork skills when playing small sided games and learning super techniques that they can employ in competitions in the future.