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
Gravity Experiment- Water Cup Drop
This afternoon, in year 5 and 6 science, we started exploring different forces, recognising forces as pushes and pulls. We were investigating the effect of gravity. As part of this, we took part in an experiment. We pierced a hole in the bottom of a plastic cup and...
Place Value Masters
In our pursuit to understand our place value of 100s 10s and 1s, we are beginning to master the base ten and fully understand the value of each digit in a number.
Delving Deep
The children really enjoyed putting themselves in the place of characters from our story Egyptian Cinderella. Drama helped us to understand how the character was feeling at different points of the story.
Positive Covid Case in Class 5B
Please see the attached letter which was sent out to class 5B parents via eSchools this morning. Covid Positive Case 14.9.21
Apply now for your child’s place at secondary in September 2022
Deadline to apply for for your child's place at Secondary school in Gateshead is October 31st 2021. Please click on the link below to view information on how to make an application: Apply online for Secondary School Sept 22 This applies to children born between 1...
Hundreds, tens and ones
Meet the Teacher – Virtual Meetings for Years 1 to 6
Please see the link below to the letter which details the date and time for the Meet the Teacher virtual meeting for each class from Years 1 to 6. Please note you need to email the class teacher to receive an invite to the meetings - the email addresses are also...
Invertebrate hunt
In science, we wanted to work scientifically, so today we started our observation over time and set to recording how many invertebrates they could find on a September sunny day. The children decided to make a tally chart to record their findings. They left no log or...
Message in a bottle
The children were given a mysterious message in a bottle from Miss Brown’s many visits abroad. The message was from a person who wrote about being kidnapped from their home and being sold as a slave. The children put their thinking caps on and tried to find the places...
Place value of 3-digit numbers
It’s a (very messy) mystery…
Something very strange happened in our classroom today. Somebody has been in our school leaving piles of gingerbread crumbs everywhere! While we were investigating the crumbs in the corridor, the same character tipped over our plant pot, spilled glitter on our carpet...
Looking forward to a bright year!
As part of our transition activities, we have created these rainbow mobiles to show how bright our year ahead will be. There were lots of tricky thing which we had to do including painting the pasta, which was quite fiddly, tying knots, threading the pasta onto the...