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
Inspire to compute year 3 and year 4
Meet and Code 2024 This year, we are working with Meet and Code – a civil society that’s aimed at bringing digital skills to children and youth across Europe. Through their funding program, we’ll be hosting coding and digital skills workshops to support the European...
Who ate Miss Salloway’s lunch?!
We arrived back into our classroom after play time to find that someone had eaten Miss Salloway’s delicious lunch! We decided to use clues to write predictions about who we thought had been into our classroom. We then came up with ideas to stop our packed lunches from...
Gateshead SEND Thresholds
As some of you already know, Gateshead has now introduced the SEND Thresholds to help ensure that all children with additional needs can be supported as fully as possible. Below is a link to the Thresholds webpage, which is part of Gateshead's Local Offer....
Acting out the story
We had a wonderful morning acting out the story of The Smartest Giant in Town, thinking about the emotions of the characters and what they were doing. .
Making friends and learning through play
What is the order of the digestive system?
Map Masters
The children have been working hard in geography today. They were looking at a wide range of maps- some of which, they recognised; the Metro Centre causing the most excitement! Children went on to study local maps of Rowlands Gill and then stretched wider to...
We’ve got elves in Class 7!!!
Using a view finder to delve further into illustrations
Our Giant’s delivery
We had an exciting delivery into class of the giant’s clothes and a parcel including a letter and our book ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’. We have loved trying on the giant’s clothes and seeing how big they are.
Apply now for your child’s place in a Primary School in September 2025
If your child or you have friends whose children were born between 1 September 2020 and 31 August 2021 they need to apply now for their place in Reception class at school. We are holding an Open Day on Thursday, 14th November for prospective parents and family to come...
Ukulele Tuition
Class 5 were lucky enough to take part in their first lesson of ukulele tuition. Children learned where the instrument originated from, how to hold it correctly and started having a go at playing simple notes on their own ukulele. We have a full term to enjoy so we...