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!
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Our Class Blog
Measurement
We have worked practically today, choosing appropriate equipment to measure different lengths and heights around school. We thought about which equipment would give us the most accurate measurements.
Stargazing
We enjoyed looking at the constellations on the ceiling to celebrate the start of our new book ‘Look Up!’. We explored different planets and then we found the plough and Orion belt.
Introduction to Video
In Computing, Year 5 have began their new topic: 'Video Editing'. This half term, we will be creating our own videos and learning how to manipulate and change them in order to suit our initial plans. Today, we looked at how videos are simply, moving images. We...
Year 6 Trip!
In the last week of the Autumn Term, we braced the snow and ice and went to the quayside in Newcastle. We had a great day: we spent two hours completing a drama workshop at The Live Theatre; we had our lunch in their restaurant (we took packed lunches but got to eat...
Iron Age Round houses
After exploring structure and strength. The children created their own roundhouse using triangulation to give their houses super strength.
Christmas Joy
Celebrating Christmas
We had an excellent afternoon with a visit from Santa, a disco, lots of games and some party food. We had so much fun celebrating with our friends.
Winter Poetry
We have enjoyed reading the poem ‘Some One’ by Walter De La Mare and identified lots of features that the poet used such as rhyme, repetition, adjectives and senses. We decided to write our own poem about winter. We used the school grounds as our inspiration and wrote...
How to build a strong structure
On our journey to find how to make the strongest structures the children designed and investigated how to make a structure stronger.
Newsletter 21.12.2022
Please follow the link below to see our final newsletter of 2022. We hope you all have a wonderful festive holiday.
We are Family!
The children learned how important collaboration is. They worked together to spell out the work family and realised that families have to work hard to work together too.
Internet Safety with Google and Interland
In 3M we took part in an interactive assembly with Google and Interland. We were joined by our local MP Liz Trust who reminded the children how important it is to be safe online. 3M nailed the challenges and knew exactly what to do in tricky situations online....
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