Year 5

In History, Year 5 have looked at how communication has changed through time, from cave art to the internet. We created some cave art of our own, experimenting with background washes, ancient symbols and bold shapes.

With holes in our fingers, we made the most amazing butterflies using florists wire!

We had a fantastic morning running round Saltwell Park with 5,000 other children! Miles of smiles and lots of red faces at the end.  

Article 14,30   On  Monday we celebrated Cultural Diversity Day in school. Following Mrs Gladstone’s visit to Shanghai earlier this year, we decided to focus on the culture of China. The children participated in a variety of activities to help them develop awareness of similarities and diffe

A HUGE thank you to our cooks who made us all a wonderful royal wedding picnic!!!

Our Fitness Champions had another fun morning at Gibside School playing various games and taking part in sport challenges supporting and competing with children from the school. Article 23, 28, 31.

Look at the amazing and varied work that came in from Nursery to Yr6. Well done everyone who entered. You are a talented bunch!

Our topics and curriculum coverage for this summer term; Summer Topic Web 5

We’ve been using pencils to learn about blending and shading and created a graduated colour mix.  The effects were wonderful.  We then linked it to science where we’ve been analysing the parts of a flower and did some still life flower drawings using our blending skills.

An important part of learning about British values is understanding how our justice system works. We have been studying Alfred Noyes’ ‘The Highwayman’ and the class had to choose whether he was guilty as charged or innocent.  We split into defence and prosecution and held a trial in the class