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,
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Mr Dempsey
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Newsletter 24.10.23
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Self-Portraits Frida Kahlo Style
Painting like Frida Kahlo has been great fun. The children learned about Frida, her early life and her career. Examining her pictures to find out their meanings and how she used animals and objects in the background to symbolise feelings and times in her life. The...
Robotics Workshop
We had a great time at Robotics Workshop! During this workshop, we got the opportunity to programme our very own robots using a VexCode Programme to complete tasks. We began by getting our robots to do a simple task of just moving around a cube. However, by the end of the session we could advance our coding even further to get our robots through an obstacle course, where we could even get it to light up different colours and even say ‘Ta-Da!’ at the end.
Fun in Forest School
Once again the children had an amazing time in forest school this term. We had some children helping to lay and set the fire and get it going using a flint tool. There was lots of activity from balancing, building a big hotel, creating, digging, den building, horse...
Judaism
The children have been learning lots of interesting things about Judaism. They have been learning how Jewish people use the Torah to show them how to live according to God's commandments. This includes wearing certain items and they had great fun trying on a tallit...
What do you know about Divali?
This term the children have been learning about the HIndu New Year celebrations called Divali. They have been thinking about the tradition of setting personal targets and how they would like to achieve them. There was a vast array of targets including; learning...
Forest School
5A had a great time at Forest School this week! We loved spending the afternoon outdoors and worked well as a team. During the afternoon, we built dens, searched for minibeasts and made art using natural materials.
Creations to help Jim and the giant
We designed and created cup and string phones to help the giant communicate with Jim since Jim chopped the beanstalk down. We had great fun testing them to make sure they would be able to hear each other too!
Deadline approaching – Apply now for your child’s place in a Secondary School in September 2024
The deadline to apply for for your child's place at Secondary school in Gateshead is October 31st 2023. For the September 2023 intake, a number of children were initially left with no secondary school place, as their parents failed to submit an application in time. ...
Maths day
We were so amazed at the enthusiasm and efforts throughout maths day. We moved around a carousel of activities which covered a range of mathematical concepts. Measurement with Miss King, fractions with Mrs Mobberley, multiplication with Miss Salloway and time with Mrs...
Maths Day
We really enjoyed Maths Day, dressing up as rock stars and taking part in different Maths activities. We focussed on fractions, measurement, time and multiplication.