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
No head left unmeasured
There has been great excitement with our science work this week. The children have been measuring their own heads and completed a comparative test to see whether boys had bigger heads than girls. This got them thinking and so they wanted to check if women had bigger...
Mysteries of Stonehenge – non chronological report
The children have been learning about writing non-chronological reports about Stonehenge. I am so proud of their hard work.
La Grande Spectacle
Video content alert. In 3M, we have been singing lots of French songs and our nursery rhyme 'Deux Petits Oiseaux'. We took our show on the road and visited Nursery. We sang all our songs for the children in Nursery and they sat beautifully for us and gave us a big...
Animations- the finished products
Video content alert. 3M have really enjoyed editing their animations and adding voiceovers, text and music.
What are Mezuzah?
Gateshead Mental Health and Wellbeing Services
Lots of families are in need of support around mental health and well-being, and so Gateshead are keen to alert people to the range of services available in the area. Please see the attached leaflet to find out more. [pdf-embedder...
Mystery Readers… who are you?
Reception love finding out who our Mystery Reader’s are. After each session we act out elements of the story either through role play, building the scenes in the construction or art activities we love having our home grown ups in school.
Celebrating Diwali – The festival of light
The colour explosions filled the classroom from power paint, fireworks to our own Diva lamp.
Can people with longer femurs jump further?
Forest School
We have thoroughly enjoyed our first forest school sessions of the year! We enjoyed making dens, crafting, hunting for bugs, helping with the fire and more. We can’t wait to go back after half term!
Super start to our Reception year
As we head off for our half term break we reflected on the start we have made in our first half term in Reception. On top of welcome, phonics and maths time we impress our school grown ups with our knowledge and understanding in our child led learning environments, we...
Music and movement
Each day we enjoy singing and story time where we develop our listening, attention and recall skills. We also listen to and talk in ‘Fred Talk’. This week we learnt a new song with lots of different ways of travelling.