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
Sorting recycling using density and flow charts
As part of our science enhancement, we are learning about recycling for the next 6 weeks and this week, we have used flow charts to sort and identify plastics using basic tests. We also used density towers to sort material and see what density the object is to sort...
Sequencing our story
We have enjoyed reading our new story for this half term - The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad. We have contributed to class discussions about what it means to be proud of something or someone. This week we began to sequence our story to prepare us for our big write...
Division
This week in Maths, we have been learning about division in. We know that to divide means to share into equal groups. We started by dividing bean bags into 2 equal groups and we recognised that this was the same as halving. We then went on to divide counters into 5...
Athletics silver medals!! Congratulations!
Wow! What an afternoon we have had at the Gateshead indoor athletics competition. 20 children from year 5/6 were selected to take part in this competitive event, competing in track and field events. Each school was working as a team, rather than individual events. The...
Visit to TESCO
Thank you very much to Rowlands Gill TESCO for donating the contents of our shopping list for our ‘Bonfire night chocolate breadstick sparklers’ cookery. While there we explored the different aisles, looking at how things were stored and the cost of items. We had lots...
What a fantastic surprise!
Book Fair
Don’t forget the book fair is open each day from 8:30am-9:00am and again from 3:15pm-4:00pm. We look forward to seeing you there. .
Identifying Trees
We went on a tree hunt in our school grounds and used their leaves to identify them. We know that a deciduous tree begins to lose its leaves in Autumn but an evergreen tree keeps its leaves all year round.
Where in the world is the UK?
We have been using atlases and globes to find the continents and oceans of the world. We also identified that the United Kingdom is a country within Europe.
Families North East Magazine
Please click the following link to the November and December issue of Families Magazine. ...
Spooky stories
The children have listened very carefully to our Halloween stories. First we listened to Pumpkin Soup, the children then explored cut up pumpkins, feeling the different textures and made their own pumpkin soup. Then we listened to one of our favourite stories, Room...
1M Forest School
We thoroughly enjoyed Forest School, building obstacle courses and hunting for different leaves and mini beasts. It was quite windy but we had lots of fun.
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