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
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Low Ropes at Gibside
Celebrating Pride
Pride Month it is a great opportunity to teach children from an early age about similarities and differences and the world around them. Additionally, it is a perfect time for children to begin to explore and develop their own self-confidence and self-awareness. In...
Let’s go camping ⛺
The children in Nursery have been learning about new adventures and some of the children wanted to go camping. They made a campsite outside pretending to make a campfire and a tent to sleep in. We then made some maps which included a train ride to the beach, a bus...
Week 2 30 Days Wild
This weeks activities have included sowing some seeds to grow flowers, watching the birds and bees and outdoor Yoga and meditation.
A trip to Rowlands Gill Library
Science Pets
Our caterpillars have arrived! In Science, we are learning about life cycles. We are so excited to see a life cycle happening before our eyes. Today, our 'class pets' are crawling around!
Freeze framing our story
We have enjoyed reading our story Little Red Riding Hood and acting it out with our peers. We freeze framed key parts of the story thinking about the emotions involved.
Are time adverbials important in instructions?
Let’s go fly a kite…
Week 1 30 Days Wild
The children in Nursery have been taking part in 30 Days Wild, the Wildlife Trusts' annual challenge event, where everyone involved does one wild thing a day throughout the month of June. This weeks activities have included hugging a tree, going on a slug and snail...
Run run as fast as you can
This week we have enjoyed acting out the story in both PE and on our big stage. We also made Gingerbread Man shaped biscuits. They tasked delicious and gave us some great vocabulary for our writing.
We are going on a big hunt
Linked to 30 days wild, we adapted ‘We are going on a bear hunt’ to our very own version of ‘We are going on a bug hunt’. We searched all over the school grounds and found out that bugs like cold, damp and wet places.