Children shared stories with each other, wrote about their favourite books and characters, listened to stories in classes and houses, sang songs, played World Book Day games and quizzes and had lots of fun.
Thank you to all staff and parents for your support with this brilliant event. It was wonderful to see everyone in school sharing their love of Reading with each other and promoting the benefits of stories at home and school.
As part of our OPAL play initiative, we have introduced ‘Wheelie Wednesday’. Every Wednesday, children are welcome to bring their scooters and helmets to school to enjoy at lunchtime. this has been a great success and we have been very impressed at how well the children have approached this. Wheelie Well Done!
Welcome to Year 5.
We are looking forward to a super fun-packed year of learning and growing together.
We have lots of exciting lessons planned to inspire and engage your children in their journey through Year 5.
Year 5 team:
Mrs Smith and Mrs Churchward
Useful Information:
PE days: Every Thursday and alternate Fridays.
Please bring in PE kit and leave at school in case it is needed on additional days – thank you.
Forest school: Spring 1 half term.
Children are encouraged to bring a water bottle to school.
Topic Projects
Autumn – Pharaohs
We will step into the world of Ancient Egypt starting with a trip to the Great North Museum.
Spring 1 – Allotment
We will discover and observe what community members are growing and how they use the land beginning with a visit to a local allotment.
Spring 2 – Stargazers
We will explore Stars and Planets in the Universe incorporating a visit to The Centre of Life Planetarium.
Summer – Tudors
We will study life during the Tudor period commencing with the trial of Anne Boleyn; through investigation and discussion we will decide if she was guilty.
Seesaw is up and running and this will be used to set homework and post photos to give you a little insight into what we are getting up to during the day.
Homework will be issued on a Wednesday and is to be returned to school the following Monday.
We ask that you read with your child for 15 minutes each day. Reading is vitally important to mental stimulation, knowledge expansion and better writing skills.
Reading books to be in school every day so that they can take part in our reading scheme Accelerated Reader.
We have been finding out about Louis Pasteur in science, so we decided to carry out an experiment of our own. We had two pieces of bread, we did not handle one piece, but the other piece we all handled. Now we are waiting to see what happens!
Teacher training at Bede Burn. Two of our wonderful students from Northumbria University helping get ready for the Christmas performance!
All this week children from across the school have dedicated up to half an hour to getting fit. At 10am sharp we joined Joe Wicks on his Youtube channel to join in with a live 30 minute workout. The idea behind the workouts was to get children awake and active whilst having fun… helping them switch on for the day ahead.
The children had great fun and were definitely ready for their break time afterwards, Well done everyone!
Year 3 showed some amazing skipping skills today. I was so proud of their efforts as well as their behaviour. Looking forward to seeing more skipping in the yard at playtime.
On Monday Year 4 were lucky enough to have our Chinese visitors finally join them.
During the day they built Towers in mixed groups to see who could build the tallest structure. They also showed their guests some of the games they play in there PE lessons which everyone had a great go at.
It was a fantastic experience learning with all the new students and teachers and I hope we get to experience it again in the future.
Our first Bingo night was a great success with professional caller Mrs. Faulkner having great fun calling out the rhymes – well for the first game anyway.
Thank you to everyone who came, can’t wait for the next one.
Miss Lenney
Year 3 had a fantastic day working with the visiting students from our sister school in China. We played some “Getting to know you” games, and tried to learn everyone’s names. Then we did some maths work, drawing Mystic Roses, we were very impressed with the care taken. This afternoon we designed and created friendship bracelets. A fun-packed day!
