This week in Year 5, the children have worked incredibly hard in each of their lessons. In Science, we looked at the human cycle. We discussed what happens to our bodies and how we grow and develop as we get older. In English, we continued our topic of ‘Fairytales’,...
Geography
Geography – How does our local area meet the needs of people who live here?
In Geography this afternoon, we discussed the different needs that people, families and communities have such as employment, education and shelter. We enjoyed a sunny (but rather windy!) walk around our local area of Teams to carry out a fieldwork study to investigate...
Our First Week in Year 5…
What an amazing start to our new year group we have had! It has been such a busy, hard working and extremely fun start to our year. On Tuesday, myself and Mrs Bullerwell had a lovely day getting to know our children in class. We spent the day creating our Year 5...
Holy Island
On Wednesday 19th June, our annual Year Six trip to Holy Island had eventually arrived. We loaded our luggage onto the bus and joined our friends from St Mary and St Thomas Aquinas. After arriving and getting settled into our dorms (we even had to make our own beds...
Tree Planting
St Aidan's were invited to take part in a tree planting event at Bensham Grove to help create a 'Tiny Forest' which will help boost the climate in the local area. The children in year 3, 5 and 6 all took part, got very muddy and had a lot of fun whilst also completing...
Four Figure Grid References
In geography, Year 4 have been learning how to read four figure grid references. The children learnt that we give the eastings first and then the northings. That means that when you find your point on the map, you must go along to the east first and then move up...





