This afternoon, some children from Year 5 and 6 were chosen to take part in a new programme called; ‘Think Good, Feel Good’. The programme will run for 6 weeks with Miss Greenwell and Hannah Long from Gateshead Council. The first session was called; ‘Be kind to...
On Friday morning in English, Year 5 began planning the writing of a formal letter. Our piece of writing this half term is based on ‘Shackleton’s Journey’. The children are writing a letter, pretending to apply for a job on board Shackleton’s ship, ‘The Endurance’, to...
This week in maths we have been exploring number bonds to five. We have used bean bags, cubes, dice and games to help us learn our number bonds.
Today, two children from Year 5 and two children from Year 6 were selected to take part in an Able Writer's Day at Kelvin Grove Primary School. Once we arrived, we were greeted by the author Thomas Rodgers. The children were set away with a task to demonstrate their...
This morning in Maths, Year 3 were adding 2, 3 digit numbers with an exchange. At the start of the lesson, the children worked together in groups to complete a 4 times table game, where they had to correctly line up the 4 times table in order. The children...
This morning in Maths, we began our new topic; Time. For our starter, we discussed what we can do or what can happen in different amounts of time. Some of our answers included the following: 1 minute - making a drink 1 hour - taking a nap 1 day - building a large lego...