YEAR 6 (SILVER)
Mrs Lightley (Covering for Mr G Dempsey)Welcome to Class 6D’s Blog!
I am Mr Dempsey and I am the class teacher for class 6D.
On this page you’ll find lots of useful information and posts about what’s going on in Year 6 over the course of the year,
Visit our blog Check in regularly for photographs, homework and revision links, sport’s scores, diary dates and many other fun features.
Please feel free to make comments on photographs and interact with our blog. The class would love to hear what you think about their fantastic work and achievements.
Happy blogging!
Mr Dempsey
Our Class Blog
Grace Nichols Research
Today year 6 enjoyed a practical English lesson; listening, researching and discussing poems that were written by Grace Nichols. The children found out lots of facts using the iPad's and identified where Grace was born using the Atlas'. Year 6 had unique ideas about...
Making beanstalks
After listening to the story Jasper's Beanstalk, the children in Nursery used a range of resources to create our own beanstalk. First, we used pipe cleaners, twisting them around and attaching them to each other to make a giant beanstalk. Adults modelled new...
Working Together in Google Classroom!
5B have spent the last two weeks learning how to use our Google accounts to collaborate on pieces of work. We were put into small teams but did not know who the members of the team were! We weren't allowed to speak and had to use the online chat to meet our...
How can we read music?
Class 4B have been learning how to read musical notation to play tunes on our glockenspiels and xylophones. We learned the difference between crochets, minims and semibreves and how the position of a note on a stave denotes which note to play.
What is happening?
In the week where the weather brought us sun and rain we used mathematical vocabulary when investigating ”what does half mean”?
Using bar models to find fractions of numbers
Newsletter 01/04/2022
Please click the link below to see this fortnights newsletter. Newsletter 01.04.22 final
Gateshead LA SEND Newsletter – Spring 2022
Please follow the links below to read the latest news from Gateshead about SEND. If there is anything in it that you'd like to discuss, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Best wishes, Mr Boddy Gateshead SEND Newsletter Issue 6 Gateshead picture 2022 Infographic...
Update on COVID-19 vaccination for 5 to 11 year olds and 12 to 15 year olds
Please see below information that we have been asked to share about covid vaccines for 5-11 and 12-15 year olds in our community: Healthy 5 to 11 year olds will be offered the COVID-19 vaccine from the beginning of April. Vaccinations will take place outside of...
Jubilee Picnic
4213-MC-Queens Jubilee in all schools picnic (1) As our Jubilee celebration day is just around the corner, this is a reminder to order your Great British Picnic celebration lunch on Pay360, if you haven't already chosen. Please let us know if your child either...
We’re going on a length hunt…
We enjoyed measuring different items around the school, both indoors and outdoors using cubes as our non-standard unit of measure. We worked in teams to help us count, because some of the lengths were almost 100 cubes!
Sunny, our Reception school councillor, has been collecting votes
During our school council meeting on Tuesday, we were chatting about the eco garden as Reception and 7B have been planting and tidying the area up. I gave the school councillors the job of asking their peers whether they wanted the eco garden to remain a loud area or...