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
Odd Socks Day
As part of Anti-bullying week we took part in ‘Odd Socks Day’ celebrating everything that makes us unique.
Children Northeast – after school activities at Rowlands Gill Community Centre
Children Northeast have received funding to run fun after-school activities with children and young people at Rowlands Gill Community Centre. Please click on the link to view the flyer with all the information for you to view. [pdf-embedder...
Odd Socks Day
We marked the start of Anti-Bullying Week by wearing odd socks to school to celebrate what makes us all unique.
Freeze framing
We read the story of the Smartest Giant in Town and thought about how the different animals felt before and after George’s help. We freeze framed how they might feel throughout. We also thought about the kindness George showed the animals and how we could replicate...
Moving to Music
We enjoyed finding the beat of different styles of music by clapping, marching, tapping and jumping.
Mystery Reader
What a lovely surprise!! The nursery children loved listening to Winnie the Witch from our mystery reader. Thank you
Newsletter 11.11.22 with Christmas Plans!
Please see the attached newsletter with lots of important information about Christmas. Built into the newsletter, there are links to forms where you can sign up for your places in the audience at the Christmas performances. Please complete these as soon as possible to...
MHA Christmas Fayre 3rd December
Please see the links below regarding the MHA Christmas Fayre in Crawcrook on 3rd December. This charity supports the elderly in our community.
Taking care
On Monday in welcome time discussion turned to ‘how do birds get fed in the winter’. We discussed how there are less mini beasts, we discovered this at forest school, and the berries are dying off. We decided to make bird feeders to care for our birds. We watched...
Dressing as the giant
We had a delivery of the Giant’s clothes in a suitcase to our classroom so we practised dressing up to see how smart we could look. We compared the items of clothing using ‘bigger than’ and ‘smaller than’.
Year 6 – Orienteering
Today, year 6 went on an orienteering trip to Thorp academy. When we got there we got put into groups and were assigned two young leaders from year 7, some of which we knew because they went to our school! The first task was a practice round to get familiar with the...
Sorting recycling using density and flow charts
As part of our science enhancement, we are learning about recycling for the next 6 weeks and this week, we have used flow charts to sort and identify plastics using basic tests. We also used density towers to sort material and see what density the object is to sort...