Today in MFL, we looked at the word; ‘aula’, meaning classroom in Spanish. We learnt words relating to things found at school such as; ‘el colegio’ (school), ‘la clase’ (the class) and ‘el comedor’ (dining room) We then used the words we learnt to create a poster of...
This morning, it was Year 5’s turn to visit the chapel with Reverend Yvonne. Yvonne spoke to the children about candle mass being a feast of the church, as Christmas time ends. Some of the children spoke about how candles are brought forward to be blessed and how...
At the start of today’s session, we played a warm up memory game. We then re-capped our last lesson about stop and go thoughts, whilst looking at what mind readers, dustbin labels and negative glasses are. We then looked at; The 4 C’s. The children learnt when they...
Yesterday afternoon, some children from Year 5 and 6 took part in session 2 of; ‘Think Good, Feel Good’. At the start of the session, the group played a game of Pictionary as a warm up. Hannah then showed us the ‘hot cross bun’ method, which shows us how our thoughts...
This morning, Year 5 visited a Jewish Synagogue in Newcastle as part of their learning of; Judaism in RE. We met Jonathan and Helen Brady who were our speakers for the day and who lead their progressive synagogue. First, we learnt that the lectern that was in...
This half term in Music, Year 5 have been looking at music throughout the years. First, we listened to different pieces of Jazz Music, including; Nina Simone and Louie Armstrong. We learnt about a musician called Ella Fitzgerald, who was famous for ‘scatting’, which...