Year Six
Welcome to Year 6!
Our teachers are Mrs Fraser and Mrs Lishman.
We hope you will visit our page regularly to see what we have been up to.
Year Six Blog Posts
Able Writers’ Day with Matt Abbott
Today four children from Year 6 enjoyed a creative writing day at Kelvin Grove Primary School with a poet called Matt Abbott. The children engaged in a range of writing activities designed to develop their imagination and choices of adventurous vocabulary for effect...
Aspire to Engineer with Jamie Shotton
This afternoon, the children in Year 6 took part in an interactive Zoom call with an experienced engineer called Jamie Shotton, who has previously worked for Microsoft designing technology for XBox and now works on designing and creating sustainable electric cars that...
Programming using Scratch
This half term in Computing, we are learning how to create and program games using Scratch. We began the Smoking Car project by looking at a game where the user presses keys on the keyboard to guide the car around a race track. We discussed the inputs that would be...
Blazing The Trail – Logo Design Competition
This year we are once again working towards The Blazing The Trail Project which is ran by the Gateshead School Sport Partnership's Olympic Legacy Programme. The Excellence project for this half term has allowed pupils to get creative and design the new Blazing The...
Attendance Treat!
Before the Christmas holidays, Mrs Lain told the children between Reception-Year 6, that if they had between 98-100% attendance for the Autumn term, they would receive a treat on the first week back in January. We were so proud to announce, that there were over 80...
A generous book gift from Gateshead Library
Last week, Mrs Fraser received a wonderful phone call from Gateshead Library that was very unexpected! Throughout this year, St Aidan's has fostered positive relationships with Gateshead Central Library with each class visiting to take part in a reading for pleasure...