YEAR 5/6 (ORANGE)
Mrs J ReadshawWelcome to our Year 5/6 class blog.
Our class teacher is Mrs. Readshaw.
On this page, you’ll find lots of useful information and posts about what’s going on in Year 5/6 over the course of the year.
Check in regularly for photographs of our fantastic learning and achievements.
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What are coordinates?
In 4B, we've been exploring coordinates within the first quadrant. To really get to grips with how coordinates work, we created quadrants in the hall and described coordinates before plotting our own. By walking along the axes, we were able to get a great...
Christian Love
Do you know what Christian love is? We have been learning lots about it. Love is a wonderful feeling but we also learnt that love is also an action. We discussed how parents love their children and the sacrifices that parents sometimes have to make for them. We also...
What does Humanism look like?
What an interesting topic Humanism has been. We started out looking at our views of the world and how worldviews can be split into religious and non-religious or can contain elements of both. We created our own personal jigsaws with our ideas and also completed a...
Grace Nichols Research
Today year 6 enjoyed a practical English lesson; listening, researching and discussing poems that were written by Grace Nichols. The children found out lots of facts using the iPad's and identified where Grace was born using the Atlas'. Year 6 had unique ideas about...
Making beanstalks
After listening to the story Jasper's Beanstalk, the children in Nursery used a range of resources to create our own beanstalk. First, we used pipe cleaners, twisting them around and attaching them to each other to make a giant beanstalk. Adults modelled new...
Working Together in Google Classroom!
5B have spent the last two weeks learning how to use our Google accounts to collaborate on pieces of work. We were put into small teams but did not know who the members of the team were! We weren't allowed to speak and had to use the online chat to meet our...
How can we read music?
Class 4B have been learning how to read musical notation to play tunes on our glockenspiels and xylophones. We learned the difference between crochets, minims and semibreves and how the position of a note on a stave denotes which note to play.
What is happening?
In the week where the weather brought us sun and rain we used mathematical vocabulary when investigating ”what does half mean”?
Using bar models to find fractions of numbers
Newsletter 01/04/2022
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Gateshead LA SEND Newsletter – Spring 2022
Please follow the links below to read the latest news from Gateshead about SEND. If there is anything in it that you'd like to discuss, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Best wishes, Mr Boddy Gateshead SEND Newsletter Issue 6 Gateshead picture 2022 Infographic...
Update on COVID-19 vaccination for 5 to 11 year olds and 12 to 15 year olds
Please see below information that we have been asked to share about covid vaccines for 5-11 and 12-15 year olds in our community: Healthy 5 to 11 year olds will be offered the COVID-19 vaccine from the beginning of April. Vaccinations will take place outside of...
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