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
Please click on the images below to enlarge them.
Our Class Blog
Nursery Open Evening – 11th May 2023
On Thursday, 11th May there will be a Nursery Open Evening. Please share this with your friends and family. [pdf-embedder url="https://rowlandsgillprimary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Nursery-Poster-A3-May-2023-open-night.pdf" title="Nursery Poster A3 May 2023 open...
Chance to Shine – Cricket
The fabulous Phil from Durham Grassroots Cricket Club came in today for 3M first session of their cricket training. The children absolutely loved their first session and can’t wait for the next.
STEM BUS 3M
3M loved their visit to the STEM bus. They were learning about how dirty water is cleaned. The children used different materials to filter dirty water and they ranked their different materials. They discovered that some materials were good for filtering large...
Science week
Across the week we built our own volcano then used a recipe of mintos and coke to create our own volcanic eruption. We were also lucky to have the STEM bus visit us where we explored the surface of the moon, with moon boots.
Comic Relief
We enjoyed marking Comic Relief by having a non uniform day to donate money and lots of us wearing red. We spoke about why we were fundraising for Comic Relief too.
Comic Relief
Today we learnt all about Comic Relief and Red nose day. We talked about how important it was to support charities and how they help others in our local community as well as across the world.
Science Week : Moon Boots
The children in nursery listened to the story Whatever Next, we then went outside and made our own moon boots to go to the moon. They were quite tricky to balance on and the children showed great resilience and determination to keep trying and balance....
STEM fun
We had a brilliant time visiting the STEM bus, dissecting daffodils and identifying the different key parts (stem, petals and stamen). We then were able to group them according to their parts and investigate them under a microscope and whilst using magnifying glasses.
Mystery Reader
We have loved having another mystery reader in today, exploring different stories with us. We love having people in to share stories with our class and build our love for books.
Sharing our knowledge of the Life of Granny
Year 1 have been busy learning all about the life of Granny, including what technology our parents may have used and the jobs they may have had. We have compared it to the technology we can us now and they jobs we might like to do. We invited Reception to a gallery of...
Forest school
We had lots of fun at Forest school exploring in nature, hunting for worms and discovering ‘dinosaur bones’. We played games with our friends and also created dens from different objects we found.
French Grammar
Year 6 have been learning to use prepositions ...in French!! Check out our videos below:
Send us a Tweet.