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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Our Class Blog
Drowning Prevention Week
This week is Drowning Prevention Week. With summer coming, children are very likely to be around water so it is really important we work with them to keep them safe- especially due to the fact so many of our children have missed out on swimming lessons during Covid....
Which wild grasses can we find?
Adjectives to describe our fantasy characters (using textures)
VIRTUAL PARENT CARER TRANSITION SUPPORT EVENT
The Gateshead 0-19 Service are holding virtual transition meetings in July to support Parents and Carers with their child or young person's transition. Please see and share the attached flyer for more information about how to join the virtual information and chat...
Just a day in the life of Grace Darling
The children have learned about what Grace Darling did every day. They role-played her day and wrote diary entries.
Manipulating clay
In art the children have had their first experience of manipulating clay. They really enjoyed learning how to use it.
Life cycle of a plant
We Have been learning about the life cycle of a plant. Then we realised we had two parts of the life cycle in our growing collection - the seedling and the young plant.
Predicting and debugging
The children were using sequences and predicting where the Beebots would land. They then debugged their programs.
Capacity investigation- how many litres fill the buckets?
Programming Robots
In computing we have been working really hard to program devices. We have been using robots and seeing if we can get them to travel to the destination Miss Winskill has selected. This has also linked to our maths unit- position and direction.
Time Capsule Burial
Head Boy and Head Girl have been very busy this morning. Along with Miss Winskill and Miss Livingstone, the children visitied the Linden Homes site and were involved in the burying of the time capsule. As you can see they make fantastic models! Inside of the time...
Sound Maps
Forest School Training was very peaceful today as we sat, alone, and listened . We then drew what we heard. It was gorgeous to see such careful thinking by the children and some very chilled out Year 4's!
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