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
Tolerance – PSHE in Year 4
We've been doing some great thinking in 4B around the idea of 'Tolerance' and being more understanding of each other. We had a really interesting discussion in class about different ways of dealing with things - Lily and Amy gave excellent suggestions and so we used...
How do muscles work in pairs?
We learnt that muscles pull rather than push and that they have to move in pairs to move our bones. To demonstrate this, we attached two balloons to a kitchen roll tube and saw that when one muscle contracted (got shorter), the other one expanded (got longer), working...
Making Muscles in Yr 4 Science!
We've been having a great time in our Science lessons this week making muscles! We used our understanding of how muscles work in pairs in the arm to make working arms! It was a lot of hard work to get them right but our explanations of how they work were brilliant. ...
7B had an important job this afternoon…
We were given such an important job this afternoon. Mrs Clarke put us in charge of putting up the main Christmas tree. How do you think we did?
UK leaves the EU on the 1st of January 2021
With the forthcoming changes due to happen when the UK leaves the EU on the 1st of January 2021, all EU citizens need to be aware that there are certain things you need to do in order to ensure that you continue to receive benefits etc. while living in the UK. The EU...
Pupil views wanted for a virtual paper chain
The Gateshead Council Commissioning Team would like to hear what is important to all children and young people in Gateshead and are hoping to find out how they're coping in the new Covid infected world. To do this they have created an online questionnaire (see link...
Silly Sentences!
In our english lesson today, we were practising using adjectives, nouns and verbs and we played the silly sentence game. In this game, we had to write different word classes, fold the page over and pass it on to our friends. When we opened our pages up, we had worked...
Investigating artefacts
How lucky were we when Newcastle Museums Trust lent us a box of Stone Age artefacts, right from the early Stone Age to Neolithic times? We used our deductive powers to find out which period of the Stone Age they fitted into (depending on their sophistication and use...
Class Christmas Parties 2020
This year the School's Christmas parties will be held on the final week of the autumn term. In order to ensure the safety of staff and pupils, we have made some amendments to how they will be organised: All parties will be contained within bubbles rather than year...
RE in action…
Nursery and Reception Information Video
Please watch this video to find out more about our fabulous Early Years Provision. https://youtu.be/ZZJ6vHOwXpc
The Paper Bag Princess
To make our writing more exciting today, we wrote on paper bags, which is what the princess in our story had to wear when the dragon burnt her clothes and her castle!
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