Archive of Latest News
Latest news is now shared via our Head Teacher blog which is published in the Parents section of the website. Please also visit our Twitter feed for a window into our curriculum offer and to see the purposeful and memorable learning experiences in each year group. Our Twitter feed can be accessed on the Home page of our website or by clicking on the Twitter icon in the top left corner of this page.
Please find below an archive of the news stories that we published before we started to use Twitter.
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Momo - Internet Safety Message for Parents/Carers
Thu 28 Feb 2019Momo is a sinister ‘challenge’ that has been around for some time. It has recently resurfaced and once again has come to the attention of schools and children across the country. Dubbed the ‘suicide killer game’, Momo has been heavily linked with apps such as Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, and most recently (and most worryingly)... YouTube Kids. The scary doll-like figure reportedly sends graphic violent images, and asks users to partake in dangerous challenges like waking up at random hours and has even been associated with self-harm. We have sent to you by email a guide from the National Online Safety organisation and we have posted a link to the guide on our website. Please take the time to read this guide and always remain vigilant when your children are using the internet at home - new challenges are appearing on the internet all of the time.
Please see latest news documents for more details.
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Year 1 Multi Skills Festival
Fri 15 Feb 2019Year 1 attended a multi-skills festival at the Walker Activity Dome today. The children completed some fun activities along with children from nine other schools across the city. Festivals are non-competitive events and the atmosphere was lovely with all of the children testing their skills and gaining confidence in a lively and supportive atmosphere. They all had a brilliant time! -
Duffy League and Netball Competitions
Fri 15 Feb 2019Our Y5 & Y6 Football and Netball teams were in action this week. The netball team attended the Newcastle finals. They earned their place in finals by competing against 30 other teams in the city! They played 3 matches, with two losses and one draw. The football team played their next round in the Duffy League against 3 other teams. They lost one match and drew the other two. They will be competing throughout the spring in this league and at other competitions. Mr Elliott and Mr Meyer were very proud of all of the children who took part in these sporting events. They showed resilience and team work and did a great job of representing Throckley Primary School. -
Teachers Learning too!
Fri 15 Feb 2019Our teaching staff regularly attend training in order to keep their knowledge and skills up to date. Recently they took part in an after school training session led by Claire King from Professional Learning Solutions and Miss Sewell. The training was inspired by a conference which Miss Sewell attended about Jonathon Lear’s theory of Guerilla Teaching. The teachers focused on their own traits and personalities and how those things impact on their teaching. In their phase teams, they discussed their understanding of their hopes, aspirations and expectations for their learners. They created signposts, directing others towards the different phases in school and all of the positive elements they may find there. This training linked into the personal learning and thinking skills that we value as a school and which we use to ensure children are prepared for the world we live in, not just academically, but personally. Using previous metacognition training, the staff then came up with criteria for what each skill will look like in each year group. Each teacher will be trying out one of these skills within their lessons and then feeding back to the others in the next session. -
Spring Disco
Fri 15 Feb 2019At Throckley Primary we know how to have fun when all of the hard work is done! All of the classes in school celebrated the end of the first half of the Spring Term with a big Disco! Everyone enjoyed dancing and playing games with their friends and teachers. We hope all of our families enjoy the half term break and we look forward to seeing all of the children back in school on Monday 25th Feb 2019. Rising 3s are due back in school on Wednesday 27th Feb 2019. -
Safer Internet Day 2019
Fri 08 Feb 2019This week the whole school has participated in age appropriate activities about how to stay safe when using the internet. Parents/carers then joined us for a showcase of the work and for an activity-based learning session with their children. Thank you to everyone who joined us and to Mr Julian Hughes for sharing his expertise about how to keep our children safe when they are online.
Nursery - listened to the story of Zap & Zoom. They discussed stranger danger and made a pictogram of their favourite technology devices.
Reception - watched the video of Zap & Zoom and learned about the importance of passwords. They used this discussion as a stimulus for code cracking using padlocks and keys.
Year 1 - took part in a drama based on different technology scenarios. They then drew a mind image about their understanding of what the internet is and toured the school to spot technology devices.
Year 2 - completed comprehension questions based on e-safety and spent time learning about the word ‘permission’ and thinking about what it means. They also made paper chains with messages related to the theme of ‘Together for a better internet’.
Year 3 - used the Safer Internet Day resources and took part in a drama activity based on ‘consent’ and what it means to ‘not give consent’.
Year 4 - used a diamond 9 diagram to prompt discussions about key issues of online safety. They then looked at statistics about how children use the internet and used them to solve worded problems. They then created artwork about trusted people we can go to if we have a problem online.
Year 5 - read internet safety scenarios and then wrote about the scenarios from different points of view. They then drew around each other and used the body shape to write about how people feel on the inside and how the actions of others affect people from the outside. They then used Power Point to create a pledge.
Year 6 - looked at the world’s use of social media and had group discussions about how we can all work together to improve the internet. They used their prior learning of green screen and iMovie to support this activity.
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OWL Trust Fencing Competition for Y3 & Y4
Fri 01 Feb 2019Last week some of our children in Years 3 & 4 competed in a fencing competition with three other schools in the OWL Trust. The competition was very exciting and our team came away with the Fair Play award. Mr Kidger and Miss Thorpe were impressed with all of the children who participated in this competition. Thank you to Premier Sport for organising and running the event. -
NSPCC National Number Day
Fri 01 Feb 2019We have had an amazing time today while celebrating National Number Day. All across the school, the children have been wearing lovely costumes (Thank you!) and taking part in fun activities. See below for how the number activities progress as you move up through the year groups:
Nursery - practised recognising their numbers by spotting them in all sorts of places in the classroom and by painting giant numbers and making number crowns.
Reception - made abstract number art in a range of materials and decorating their classrooms with paper chains that the children have ordered from 0 to 20.
Year 1 - played Bingo with a difference! Instead of calling out the numbers, Mr Metcalf called out clues to the numbers (such as what number is made from 2 tens and 3 ones).
Year 2 - completed a carousel of fun number games - They played some games with their friends and some games on their own.
Year 3 - linked number day to their current topic by running a Stone Age Café in the morning (counting money) and then baking Stone Age bread (measuring for the recipe) in the afternoon.
Year 4 - completed lots of fun maths puzzles such as emoji missing numbers and magic squares (where all of the rows, columns, and diagonals add up to the same number!).
Year 5 - designed their very own board game and added mathematical challenges for the players to answer throughout the game. They also used Anglo-Saxon runes to create mathematical codes using all four operations to see whether their friends could crack the code.
Year 6 - solved metacognitive number puzzles, such as Suguru and Suduko and sorting themselves into categories based on the number that they have been assigned for the day.
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