Year 6

Our RE Ambassadors wanted to give our school a challenge, so they created RE/Worldview quizzes for every class from Year One to Year 6. (Even the teachers joined in!) The Ambassadors acted as quizmasters, and then gave out the winners’ prizes in a special assembly. They were really impressed with ho

Today our KS2 athletics team competed at Gateshead Stadium in this years Gateshead SSP Festival. 🥇 Gold medal in 5/6 girls 80m sprint 🥇Gold medal in 5/6 girls 3 spring jumps – with a new stadium record! 🥈Silver medal in 3/4 girls long distance 🥈Silver medal in 5/6 girls 60m sprint 🥉Br

For the last few weeks, some of our Year 6 children have been coming to VEX club where they have built all sorts of amazing robots. Some of these projects, like last week’s Crawler-bot, are controlled manually using switches, meanwhile other projects, like this week’s Robotic Arm, are controlled usi

As well as testing our amazing Crank It Up cranes, Beamish also organised some other  brilliant STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) challenges for our Year 6 children to complete during their visit.   In the morning, in the 1950’s area, we learned a little bit about the space r

Year Six were off to Beamish today to take part in this year’s Crank It Up Challenge.  We had to make a crane which could lift and lower a weight, move along a track and our designs also needed to include a rotating jib (arm). We had a visit from Martin ,an engineer who works all across the globe

Today our Panathlon Team competed in the Tyne & Wear Finals competition at Temple Park in South Shields. Front Street represented Gateshead in this competition and won Gold Medals and came away with the Panathlon trophy! What an amazing achievement for our school.

Today Front Street competed in the County Finals Quad Kids Event. The top ten teams from Gateshead, Newcastle, Sunderland, North Tyneside and South Tyneside were there. 🥈Year 3/4 were announced as runners up and very proudly came away with silver medals. 🥉One of our Year 4 girls won bronze in

The whole school had great fun celebrating World Music Day on Thursday. We had music playing on the yard across the day, it was a joy to see so many people smiling and dancing: parents, carers and grandparents as well as the pupils and staff! In the morning, the music ambassadors did a great job in

After constructing, testing, adapting and refining their VEX robots AND writing scratch coding to complete a series of tasks, the Year 6 team headed off to Nissan to compete in the Nissan VEX GO Celebration Event. This years arena was an simulation of an underwater ‘Ocean’ habitat where our robots h

Today our two Year Six teams competed at the Glebe in this years Gateshead Finals competition. Both teams played five games throughout the day and our A team came 3rd overall! Well done to everyone who represented team Front Street today.