STEM week Y5 Day 1

12th June 2023G Booth

Today, we have been building models for our Lego League robot table. We built a high five, an energy storage, a dinosaur, a power plant, a water dam, an oil platform, a car, a wind turbine, a toy factory and an oil truck. It was hard, and a few mistakes were made, but when we found it difficult we didn’t give up even when some of us had to start all over again. Some of us even finished quick enough to start our research on energy! But, that’s mainly for tomorrow, along with coding. The four energy sources we are doing today are: yellow (which consists of oil platform, oil truck, and car); orange (which consists of dinosaur, power plant and high five); blue (which consists of water dam, toy factory and water storage) and finally white (which consists of storage, wind turbine and tv).

We are looking forward to tomorrow where we will be researching more energy sources and we will begin coding our robot.

By Maizie W Y5B

 

River Tyne

7th June 2023D Fawkes

Year 6 have been learning about rivers in geography. They have learned all about the positive and negative impacts a river can have to the environment, for industry and for wildlife and we have now applied this learning to look specifically at one of our local rivers: the River Tyne.

We conducted some research in pairs and then we have used this to help us start to create some informative posters.

Did you know that the River Tyne is the best river for salmon in England!

Also it is home to some of the most impressive bridges in the UK including the Tyne Bridge, the Swing Bridge and the Gateshead Millenium Bridge.

 

Mayan reports

7th June 2023D Fawkes

In Year 5 the children have been using their knowledge of the Mayans to write reports in English.

The children have used their research and a range of layout devices such as headings, subheadings, bullet points, images and captions to compose some very informative reports.

The children are also going to use their non-chronological reports to help them to script and record their own podcasts all about the Mayans!

Stay tuned….

 

South Tyneside Family Hubs

5th June 2023Mr R Donnelly

South Tyneside are having a big celebration to launch their new family hubs.

See the link below for a flyer for the launch event on Monday 12th June:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FcWSwBEPrDaNZPQqobIt7DG79zEy4Mao/view?usp=share_link

See the next link for a flyer about events going on all week:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BcOQU-xGclAlFnstDKCm_lB04kK3O8iD/view?usp=share_link

See this final link for the full timetable of events over the week:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jy8-xZDZV8SA3jn08fm3pm1sD5FAF2BQ/view?usp=share_link

5B Scotswood Garden

23rd May 2023G Booth

We visited Scotswood Community Garden in Newcastle to investigate how plants reproduce. First, we learned about the parts of the flower which are important for pollination and reproduction. Our challenge was to use natural objects to recreate the parts of the flower and label our model.

Next, we became pollen hunters, visiting the bee hives and learning about the importance of bees and why to protect them.

After lunch, our main activity was to make pots out of newspaper and then planting seeds which would eventually encourage bees to our gardens to help plants reproduce. We also made natural potions, explored the gardens finding interesting insects and made dens using sticks and leaves. Overall, a fantastic day learning about plant reproduction.

Writing blurbs

23rd May 2023D Fawkes

This week, Y6 are using the short clip ‘Alma’ as a stimulus for their writing.

We started off by creating a blurb for the clip, as though it was a written book. The children looked at the blurbs from their Accelerated Reader books and from lots of other books to help them identify the features of blurbs before writing their own.

They’ve really tried to build up suspense and encourage others to read the tale.

What do you think?

Votes for Women

19th May 2023D Fawkes

This half term, Year 6 are learning all about ‘The Changing Role of Women’. This week we have learned all about the suffragette movement. The children identified reasons for and against the suffragette movement and examined photographic sources then moved on to watching a re-enactment of one of Emmeline Pankhurst’s famous speeches from 1912 which inspired them to write their own persuasive speech, in role, as though they were a suffragette and a member of the WSPU (Women’s Social and Political Union). Some children wanted to read theirs aloud to the rest of the class.

Have a look at some of their fantastic writing!