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History Bloke- Ancient Greece

History Bloke- Ancient Greece

On Tuesday Year 6 were visited by Richard, that history bloke, who came into school to do a session all about Ancient Greece. We started off with an Ancient Greek quiz, to see what we already knew about the Greeks. 1. Greece was a country- FALSE It was made up of city...
Science-Circuits

Science-Circuits

This week we put our circuit skills to the test and had a go at building out own circuits. We started with a simple circuit using wires, a power source and a bulb. We set up our circuit and ‘tinkered’ with it (using some of the ideas we had previously explored) if it...
Safety Works

Safety Works

On Thursday Year 6 spent the morning at Safety Works. We took part in 5 different workshops/activities all related to keeping us safe. We learnt about water safety with the RNLI We thought about keeping safe when using the metro and at train stations. We looked at...
Killer Custard!

Killer Custard!

Year 5 & 6 visited Gateshead Library this week to celebrate the Northern Children’s Book Festival. It is the festivals 40th birthday this year and they had a very special guest – Steve Skidmore! Steve is a hugely successful author, having written 266 books – wow!...
Make my voice heard- Art

Make my voice heard- Art

Last half term Year 6 created some fantastic pieces of art ‘Making their voices heard’ using symbolism and chiaroscuro to design a piece of artwork. They took inspiration from various artist including Diego Rivera to create patterns that represented...
Children in need

Children in need

On Friday we celebrated children in need. We had a day full of fun Pudsey activities. As part of the day we used the art skills from our ‘Make my voice heard’ topic in particular using symbols to express ourselves to produce a piece of Pudsey art. We also...