Science Council have had great fun this half term making pop and Mentos geysers, spooky cauldron mixtures, Halloween lights from milk bottles and experimenting with pencils being pierced through zip lock bags of water. It has been a fun half term that’s for sure.
We celebrated Roald Dahl Day on Wednesday 13th September. Staff and children were encouraged to wear yellow (because this was Roald Dahl’s favourite colour) and pay £1 for the Dahlicious charity. As well as finding out about Roald Dahl and his charity some of our lessons were linked to a Roald Dahl book.
One of the lessons was a competition. We read extracts from the BFG and then linked with this the children drew something in a jar, like the ones the BFG had, that they would like to see in a dream. We had great fun!
On Wednesday 5th July, choir took part in the Big Sing at the Sage. We had a great time and loved performing the songs that we had practised with a live band.
In Year 5, we have been looking at healthy Bolognese recipes. We looked at a traditional recipe and how it could be improved by adding more vegetables and removing some of the fat, salt and sugar. In groups, we designed our own recipes and then came together to create a mega recipe! We prepared the vegetables (the bridge grip was useful at keeping our fingers safe from the knife!) and then we sautéed them gently in olive oil. We added chopped tomatoes and passata and then left it to simmer for 40 minutes. We blended the sauce to make it smooth and then mixed it with some linguini. A sprinkling of salt and pepper was added and we tucked in! Most of us tasted it with the majority of people absolutely loving it, coming back for seconds!
The girls rounded off an amazing year of football by participating in the Year5/6 Girls Wild Cats Football Festival at Power League Gateshead. The girls competed in various fun challenges and matches and once again, did us proud.
Year 5 enjoyed their afternoon of sports.
We enjoyed a fantastic visit from GB Heptathlon Athlete, Lucy Turner. The children first completed their sponsored circuit, before enjoying an inspirational assembly by Lucy. The energy throughout the afternoon was electric and the children asked her some super questions. Thank you to everyone for your support and remember, you’ve got one more week to get your sponsor money into school.
Year 5 enjoyed a visit to The Open Zone this week where they learned 3D Cad Design using the Design Software, Tinkercad. Children were tasked with coming up with a design for a Mars Rover, thinking carefully about how their robots would navigate the rugged terrain on Mars. They also used Scratch to program an animation, which included a soundtrack to a scene from Beowulf, using features like looping and repeating sounds. We all had a fantastic day and particularly enjoyed a demonstration of how the 3D printer works.
On Thursday 22nd June, 20 Year 5 pupils took part in a tag rugby tournament. We all played excellently and won our groups! Biddick A also received the ‘Spirit of the Game’ award for their group for having outstanding attitude, team work and sporting behaviour.
