Year 5

One of our summer art skills was to impress patterns into clay.  Using our still life natural world influence from other art lessons we used household objects to create patterns pressed into clay.  We then painted and glossed our tiles.

🏆Sports Awards🏆 Every year we nominate children, coaches and staff at school to receive an award for their contribution to school sport – based around the 7 Olympic and Paralympic Values (Respect, Determination, Courage, Equality, Friendship, Excellence and Inspiration). The Gateshead School S

It has taken several days, lots of very intense work and frustrating threading of needles, but here we are with our gorgeous little keepsake cushions. Using running stitch, back stitch and over stitch we have sewn, stuffed and sealed our fabric.  Hopefully it stays like that!  We even added some e

Year 5 have been looking at food hygiene, kitchen safety and different food preparation techniques. Today we created a simple fruit salad, using slicing, peeling, grating and chopping.  And then of course we had to sample it…..

We had a fantastic day with our visitors from the University. We learned about the Maths hidden inside our favourite books, and we designed and built robots to carry Squirtle. We even raced our finished robots!

🏃‍♀️🏃🏽‍♂️Congratulations to our outstanding athletics squad who enjoyed the emotional rollercoaster that is the annual Gateshead Primary Athletics Festival. 🏃🏽‍♂️🏃‍♀️ 🥇🥇🥉🥉Four fabulous well deserved medals, an event record set and narrowly missin

This week we trialled something new, The “Good as New” uniform swap. It has been a great success and lots of positive comments have been made. Thank you for the donations of uniform and we will look forward to holding another “Good as New” event in the future.  

3 teams of 24 children from Year 5 took part in the Year 5/6 cricket tournament just before half term. They all bowled, batted and fielded and had a great day at The Glebe with a picnic lunch in the middle.

Everyone has been learning about Sikhism, so we invited Cloud Singh from the Gurdwara in Newcastle to visit our school. He led assembly for Key Stage 2, then spent time with Years 3, 4 and 5. We had lots of questions for him, and everyone agreed we learned a lot! Cloud really helped us understand Si

We learned about Guru Har Gobind in RE. Inspired by the story of how he used his cloak to help people, we created our own designs for a new cloak for him. We made stampers from unwanted rubbish. It was lots of fun.