YEAR 5 (INDIGO)
Mr Bain (Covering for Mrs J Miller)Welcome to class 5M!
My name is Mrs Miller and I am the class teacher for 5M.
In class 5M, the children are hard working and enthusiastic. This is our class blog and we want everyone to see what we get up to while we`re learning so please keep visiting regularly for updates on what we have been getting up to in class, school news and recent letters.
Please leave a lovely comment on our blog so we know that you have visited and the children would love to hear what you think about their classroom learning and activities.
Thank you
Mrs Miller
Our Class Blog
Choosing Colours
In art we have been using colours to represent Grace Darling's journey. We decided to select dark colours to symbolise the midnight sky on the night of the rescue.
Team Building- who can make the tallest, strongest tower?
As part of today's Sports Week theme (teambuilding), this afternoon we worked in teams to see which team could make the tallest, strongest tower. It had to hold a tub of playdough without breaking. Grace and Emily were our winners, as they concentrated on making sure...
A-Z of Sports Festival
As part of our Sports Week, we all took part in an A-Z of sports festival with Miss Latto.
July/August issue of Families Newcastle Gateshead magazine
Here is the LINK to the July/August issue of Families Newcastle Gateshead magazine: https://bit.ly/FamiliesNewcastleGatesheadJulAug21
SIMS Pay is changing names – its new name is Pay360 Education Payments
The system you use to make payments to school is changing names. From 26th July SIMS Pay will be known as Pay360 Education Payments. The way you make payments will remain the same - you’ll just notice a different logo (Pay360 by Capita) on the login page and in the...
Take the kids for free – Metro offer
Tyne and Wear Metro are excited to be running their Kids Go Free offer over the school summer holidays this year. From 19 July, up to three children aged 11 and under can travel anywhere on the Metro or Shields ferry for free, if they are with a fare-paying...
Respect- How do we show respect in sport?
Today’s theme for Sports Week is Respect. We explored how players respect each other in sports and we explored what we can do in school to show respect. These are our posters to demonstrate how we can show respect.
Self-Belief- What is a compliment?
As part of Sports Week, we have been looking at the key qualities which make a good sportsperson. Today’s focus was ‘Self-Belief’. We have been giving each other compliments and talking about how receiving a compliment makes us feel. We then thought about all of the...
Sports Week
The rain didn't stop our first day of sporting activities! Today's theme is self-belief. We have been working hard to create body percussion routines. We had to listen very carefully to learn all of the steps in the correct order and used our bodies and voices to...
Writing at Home
I am so impressed with the effort the children (and adults) have put in to our remote learning last week. We all find it hard being at home, staying motivated and remaining positive when we are not together. However, 2W have clearly continued their hard work and...
NEW 5R Bubble Closure until 20th July.
Dear Parents and children of 5R I am really sorry but your bubble is closed again, as you had significant contact with Miss Harland on Friday who has tested positive for Covid. You need to isolate and switch to remote learning from tomorrow until the end of Monday...
More programming
In today's computing lesson, we created our own cities and programmed our beebots to travel to different places. Then, we put all of our cities together and programmed the beebots again, but this time the instructions had more steps.