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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Marvellous Mountains
We have been researching different mountains around the world (some closer to home than others) which are all magnificent in their own way. Here are a few of our great presentations from our fact finding missions. .
Henri Rousseau Jungle Scenes (Colour Mixing)
We have really enjoyed experimenting with colour this half term in our art lessons. We have been mixing hot and cold colours and making lots of different shades. In today's art lesson, we have created a jungle scene, inspired by Henri Rousseau, by sketching and mixing...
Converting Metric Measures (and eating delicious cake!)
This week, 6B have been learning how to convert between various metric measures and have been doing a fantastic job! As a treat, I thought I'd give them the day off from doing any maths work today. Instead, I posted the recipe for a delicious Victoria sponge cake and...
Henri Rousseau inspired polar bears
Our Olympic Torch Designs
Do you want to build a snowman?
In our English lessons, we've been learning all about the features of instructions. Today, we used everything we've learnt to write our own instructions on how to build a snowman.
Learning all about fractions at home…
As we are such experts on Google Classroom and using the Kami tool, we are able to use visual representations such as bar models and part whole models to help us represent fractions greater than 1
Virtual music
In 5/6A, we were lucky enough to attend a virtual musical concert with 4 extremely talented musicians - Back Chat Brass! We watched and appraised the concert and we loved it 🙂
English – non chronological reports
In 5/6A we have been working hard to write interesting and informative non-chronological reports all about the mysterious world of Pandora. We have worked on a number of writing skills such as relative clauses, parentheses and subject specific vocabulary! Non...
Home Learning Tips for Parents
I think all of us would agree that home schooling is tricky at times and children don't always want to do their school work, which can lead to frustration and stress - this is what happens in my house at least! One reason can be that children see a big list of things...
Hands On Approaches to Well-being
Gateshead Psychology Service have been sharing some great resources and sources of information, one of which is this link to a CAMHS (Children and Adult Mental Health Services) website. It has loads of useful information about how to support children and young people...
Safer Internet Day is on the 9th February 2021…
We have been learning about how to stay safe online...
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