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
Balanced argument
Year 5 have been working hard on their balanced arguments in English. We are currently reading 'Holes' and have debated whether or not children and adult criminals should receive the same punishment. Here is a sample of our writing...
D.T
Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed putting their aprons on as they learnt some key cooking skills! They each took turns to help prepare the ingredients for making spring rolls. They got to work on peeling and slicing vegetables, chopping up noodles, grating ginger, garlic and...
Dance Festival 2023
Today 3M and 7B represented their school in the Gateshead Dance Festival. The theme this year was courage and dressed as little Pinocchios, the kids showed enormous courage getting on one of the biggest stages in Gateshead. We are immensely proud of all their hard...
What does Easter mean to Christians?
Over the past weeks, we have been looking at the first Easter and how Jesus took the bread and wine from the Seder meal he was celebrating, and reinterpretated the meaning of these items for his followers. He told his followers to remember him when they take the...
Newsletter 28th March 2023
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7B’s Decorated Easter Egg Entries
The jobs of our community
Jobs are not just paid but jobs in our community involve looking after nature. This week we role played different jobs as well as taking care of the worms we found in our garden.
Ancient Greek philosophical debate
In Year 5 History we have been learning about the Ancient Greeks. One of our lessons was to look at ‘What were the ancient Greek philosophers famous for?’ We made sure we understood the vocabulary of philosopher, philosophy and debate before we had our own class...
Labelling objects
We have begun to group objects and label them using everyday objects around the room. We found different objects that could match the labels that we created.
Year 3 Coast Study field trip
The children really enjoyed their visit to Cullercoats. They were real live geographers navigating their way around the coastal town. From testing tides to surveying passers-by they showed they had the grit that geographers need. Well done kids!
Making islands
We enjoyed making our own islands of where we thought Grandad might like to visit. We looked closely at the story to decide what we thought Grandad and Syd might like and incorporated our ideas into our island as well as things we thought were important.
