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.
Dream, Believe, Achieve!

Spring Topic
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Our Class Blog
Spring walk
We enjoyed having a walk around our school and the grounds and identified the signs of Spring that we could see. We found leaves were growing on trees, flower were starting to grow and there was blossom on the trees.
Mexican food!
We've had a brilliant afternoon making Mexican food (although it was more fun eating it!) We made: -salsa - guacamole -quesadillas
What are the features of a fable?
Types of Training
Year 6 are half way through their new PE unit, types of training! They are learning about 4 different types of training: continuous, interval, fartlek and circuit. Today we tackled continuous training, which when the children rated on the rate of perceived exertion...
Den building, night lining, hot dog eating and mud pie making!
Multiskills at Thorp Academy
We enjoyed our trip to Thorp Academy where the sport leaders ran a variety of multiskills activities for us to participate in. Even the rain didn’t stop us having a great time!
Growing Healthy Gateshead App
Please see the attached poster with QR code to download the app. https://rowlandsgillprimary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/App-Poster.pdf
Fun at Coronation Forest School
The whole school had an opportunity to have a Forest School session to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III. To celebrate this royal occasion, some children made a royal portrait, while others created their own colourful septres and there were lots of...
Sliding Mechanisms
We have enjoyed learning about how we can make pictures move. We have looked at a sliding mechanism and evaluated the positives and negatives of them. We found that the sliding mechanism worked well to allow our mini beasts move from the left to the right smoothly...
Coronation Day Celebrations
Coronation celebrations with our school community
We started the day with craft and planting activities with our grown ups from home then ended it with a forest school session. King Charles loves planting and the outdoors, a firm favourite of ours too!
King Charles III’s Coronation
We had lots of fun celebrating King Charles III's Coronation with our families. We enjoyed time at forest school, making fires, royal portraits and exploring nature. We enjoyed sharing cheesy nachos cooked on the fire with our friends too. We enjoyed completing...
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