During Art Week our children produced some amazing art work! They then made frames during Design Technology week and put them both together to showcase in our very own Dunn Street Art Gallery! We hope you enjoy our gallery as much as we did.
This year, for World Book Day, Dunn Street brings you stories to entertain and the challenge of working out who is The Masked Reader!! Guesses in the comments or via Facebook…
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Hi everyone,
We made it! Our last week of home learning is here! As this is a special week (it is World Book Day on Friday, and we are back in school on the 8th!), we are going to do things a little differently. On Friday we are having a screen-free day: which means that all activities set will be ones which do not require a laptop/computer/screen. Because of this, our last Google Meet will be on Thursday, and this will be a celebration of all the amazing learning we, as a class, have done over the last 8 weeks.
If you would like a home learning pack for this week, please could you email me at [email protected] and I will prepare one which will be ready for collection after 2 p.m. tomorrow from the school office.
Before we set off on our last week, I would like to say a huge ‘Thank You’ to all the adults who have been involved in our home learning journey over the last two months. Your support, time and perseverance with what has been a really difficult period has been invaluable.
Thank You
Mrs Giles-Brewster
Dear Parents/Carers,
Emotional and mental health is extremely important in the current climate. South Tyneside are working hard to support those families who have been or are struggling with mental and emotional wellbeing. We just wanted to let you know of a new parent/carer peer support group in South Tyneside starting on the 11th February. Below is the flyer with all the relevant information.
If you’d like more information please email
Our final contributions this week come from Mrs Simanis, Hr Haswell and Miss Blair… thank-you to all staff for sharing their stories this week:
An appropriate celebration of the life of Sir Tom Moore through the book – 100 Steps – many thanks for sharing Mrs G-B.
New stories from Mr Hymers, Mrs Clough & Mrs G-B (again😮 !!) …
Thank-you so much to our first set of story-tellers: Mrs Trotter, Mrs G-B, Miss Noble and Miss Bridges… we hope you enjoy…📚😍⭐
Today marks the start of Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week.
To mark the start of Children’s Mental Health Week, The Duchess of Cambridge, Patron of Place2Be, has sent a message of support encouraging children and parents to find ways to share their thoughts and feelings, particularly during such a challenging time.
In the message, The Duchess of Cambridge said:
“This year’s Children’s Mental Health Week is all about expressing yourself – about finding creative ways in which to share your thoughts, ideas and feelings. So whether that’s through photography, through art, through drama, through music or poetry – it’s finding those things that makes you feel good about yourself.
“And while this is Children’s Mental Health Week there has never been a more important time to talk about parental wellbeing and mental health too. Last year you told me just how important this was that many of us find it hard to prioritise. This is a hugely challenging time for us all so please look after yourself too. Find those ways in which to share your thoughts and your feelings or find someone to talk to because we really do need to be the very best versions of ourselves for the children in our care.”
Her Royal Highness has supported Children’s Mental Health week since it was launched by Place2Be in 2015 to shine a spotlight on the importance of children and young people’s mental health.
Join us on Wednesday at 9am for a live assembly with the Oak Academy all about this years campaign to express yourself.
Oak National Academy has teamed up with Place2Be and BAFTA Kids to create a free assembly for Children’s Mental Health Week 2021, celebrating this year’s theme of “Express Yourself”.
Make sure you set your reminders to come back HERE at 9am on Monday 1st February to join Blue Peter’s Lindsey Russell and CBBC presenter Rhys Stephenson alongside some other special well-known faces for a free and exciting assembly available to all children, schools and families.
We’re bringing the nation’s children together (virtually!) with a positive message about the power of creative self-expression.
Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts, or ideas, through creativity. This could be through art, music, writing and poetry, dance and drama, photography and film, and doing activities that make you feel good.
It’s important to remember that being able to express yourself is not about being the best at something or putting on a performance for others. It is about finding a way to show who you are, and how you see the world, that can help you feel good about yourself.
For Children’s Mental Health Week 2021 we will be encouraging children (and adults) to explore the different ways we can express ourselves, and the creative ways that we can share our feelings, our thoughts and our ideas.
To join in with this years theme we have decided to look at ‘Ruby’s Worry’ and use it as a stimulus to promote talking about our feelings. This also links with our National Storytelling Week. The text is a fantastic example of the power of talk and how important it is!
Please share your thoughts and any activities that you have joined in with. We would all love to see how you are expressing yourself!!
We live in a world full of challenges. Going out and meeting friends is not happening, hobbies are cancelled and the internet gives you trouble when you when you should join Google Meets and complete your work!! Also, one of the most important place in the world for all of us is closed! (I mean Dunn Street!)
This family decided to send even more challenges to the school team (students, teachers and other staff). PE Challenges! They send out two challenges a week and the goal is for each of us to try and try to overcome the challenge.
A challenge can be really hard, but don’t be discouraged! The purpose is just to have fun and get away from the computers in between lessons. You can also challenge your whole family, relatives, friends, pets, etc.
Let’s all challenge ourselves!
… how many of these challenges can you complete? Be sure to let your teacher know and we will see which classes have risen to the challenge!!
Includes:
- Tips in general for home-schooling
- General Safeguarding reminders
- Brief tour around Google Classroom and Meet.
- Representatives from Primary and Secondary on the panel for Q&A
It is from: AppsEvents – AppsEvents organize Google for Education Summits worldwide in partnership with the ‘Google for Education’ team
Amazon are doing FREE Maths books, available to download straight to the Kindle or iPad. Type in ‘free maths’ in the search bar on the Amazon site and they come up. Then go through to purchase as normal but it provides a £0 cost and a download option.
