Year 5

What a brilliant day! Our visitors from Durham University taught us lots about the Ancient Greek city states. We discovered how people lived in places like Athens and Sparta, and designed our own political campaign posters. We used clay to make offerings to Asklepios. We reenacted the famous Greek t

What a brilliant day! Our visitors from Durham University taught us lots about the Ancient Greek city states. We discovered how people lived in places like Athens and Sparta, and designed our own political campaign posters. We used clay to make offerings to Asklepios. We reenacted the famous Greek t

We combined lots of skills today in maths – using equipment to measure, converting between units, then multiplying 3 x 2 digits.

We are learning to programme and code this term, starting very simply with Beebots.  We are designing algorithms to draw shapes, letters and images.  Along the way we will need to debug.  We will work our way up to coding on the computer.

Today, we’ve been using lots of different maths skills. We chose the best way to measure items around the classroom. Then we used our multiplication skills to find their areas. Finally, we converted our answers between metres, centimetres and millimetres.

Just a reminder that children need to bring their P.E. kits to school on Monday 8th January as we have The Eagles doing a roadshow and games afternoon with year 5. Thanks.

This afternoon the whole school walked along to St. Mary’s church for our annual Christmas Carol service. We heard children read and we all sang carols. If you would like to watch the service check out the link on Front Streets Facebook page. Merry Christmas!

We were so lucky to have the Gateshead music service in this week to sing lots of Christmas songs with us! It was great fun and it got us all into the Christmas spirit.  

This term we have been studying Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.  The book has influenced lesson in numeracy, literacy, DT, science and the children have been gripped! To finish we enjoyed our magical Harry Potter Day with lots of amazing costumes like Harry, Hermione, Dumbledore, Quirre

Last night the year 5/6 netball team competed in the Gateshead finals at Gateshead L.C. Overall the team came 4th but won the Respect award of the tournament! “A well deserved team to win this award. We have never had a team with such good manners and sportsmanship. You should all be very proud of y