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
Girls football
Last week, our girls football team took part in their first ever tournament. Some of the girls have experience playing football outside of school but the majority of the team have started from scratch! They have all worked super hard throughout the year and were so...
Fitness Festival
Year 5 had lots of fun taking part in the fitness festival at Thorp Academy. They took part in a variety of activities which included different components of fitness such as: running, jumping, leaping, throwing and catching. It was brilliantly ran by Thorps' year 8...
Measuring and comparing
We measured each others heads, feet and hands and collected the data together. We compared whether if we had bigger hands that meant that we had bigger feet or not. We found out that the bigger feet you have generally meant you had bigger hands.
Super Skylines
We have really enjoyed creating our skylines in Art. We created our backgrounds by blending paint. We then designed our own buildings and cut out templates which we then used to print our buildings. Here is some of our amazing work!
The Maya
Year 6 have started a new unit all about the Maya. They are looking forward to combining their Geography and History skills to find out as much as they can about them. We Started by using our atlas skills to find out about where they had settled. We made predictions...
STEM Bus- Which materials do not absorb UV light?
Top Sport Event at Gateshead Leisure Centre
Our love of reading
We had a visitor in class today to share some stories with us and explore the importance of reading for pleasure. We learned more about our local libraries and how only 10 minutes of reading each day can help us learn more. We also had an excellent time reading 2...
Mother’s Day memories
Nursery Open Evening – 11th May 2023
On Thursday, 11th May there will be a Nursery Open Evening. Please share this with your friends and family. [pdf-embedder url="https://rowlandsgillprimary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Nursery-Poster-A3-May-2023-open-night.pdf" title="Nursery Poster A3 May 2023 open...
Chance to Shine – Cricket
The fabulous Phil from Durham Grassroots Cricket Club came in today for 3M first session of their cricket training. The children absolutely loved their first session and can’t wait for the next.
STEM BUS 3M
3M loved their visit to the STEM bus. They were learning about how dirty water is cleaned. The children used different materials to filter dirty water and they ranked their different materials. They discovered that some materials were good for filtering large...