A huge well done to our year 5 children this week. They have produced some fabulous learning and managed to catch up with Mr Hanson and the other children in Northumberland.
Category: Year 5/6H
⭐️ Of the Week!
It’s so lovely to see so many children sharing their learning with me. I’m so proud of you all and to see the smiles on your faces when celebrating your achievements is just the best. Congratulations on your literacy, numeracy and design and technology skills this week –
5/6H and 6B Adia Millett Art – Black History Month
As part of Black History Month, 5/6H and 6B have looked at the artwork of Adia Millett. We analysed her artwork in paint, textiles and wood. We then created our own versions of her work. The results have been lovely.
5/6 Willow Weaving
5/6H really enjoyed their time willow weaving this week. We hope we can develop these skills further in the future!
5/6H and 6B Away from desk Maths
As part of our learning on fractions, 5/6H and 6B completed an orienteering course where the stations were all fractions problems. The children tried hard to solve all the problems and complete all the stations. They used cross curricular maths skills by reading and following maps as well.
5/6H Mental Health Awareness
On Friday, 5/6H wore their yellow clothing and discussed the importance of positive mental health.
5/6H PE Football
This last few weeks 5/6H have been working on their passing, dribbling and shooting skills for football. There has been some excellent team work and improved skills on show.
5/6H P4C New Beginnings
As part of our P4C learning this week we discussed what it was like out of lockdown and new beginnings. We then discussed the question does everyone deserve a second chance. There were some very interesting responses.
Year 6 PSHE Crucial Crew
Last week, year 6 visited Crucial Crew to learn about lots of different situations. They looked at hate crimes, fire safety, road safety and our favourite the magistrates court. The children learned lots of new things and how to cope in different situations.
Celebrating our Successes
During special mentions today we celebrated some amazing successes and celebrated our learning together. The children looked incredible in Yellow Supporting mental health charities. Thank you to everyone for all your hard work this week. Congratulations Jack on achieving the Head Teachers Award this week and to Mrs Buttree – our staff star of the […]
Fajitas in Cooking Club
This week the children enjoyed making fajitas in Cooking Club. Lots of new skills this week. They looked and smelt delicious, I hope you can now all recreate these at home.
We love Special Mentions
Sharing some fabulous learning outcomes this week we are really proud of all of our dojo winners this week.
Rotherham United – Football is back on.
On Tuesday our Year 5/6 children took part in a tournament at New York Stadium during the Rotherham United home match. The children played during half time and played exceptionally well. We are so proud of them. Tyler saved an incredible penalty and the whole team played with excellent sportsmanship. We hope you enjoyed every […]
5/6H Maths Passports
Congratulations to the children in 5/6H who have managed to move up planets this week. We will hopefully have even more good news next week!
5/6H PSHE – Empathy
This week 5/6H discussed empathy and how it was different from sympathy. We discussed lots of real life situations and then created freeze frames to help us demonstrate how we can show empathy.
5/6H Dance and Drama
Thank you very much to Wingfield for coming along and starting some sessions of dance and drama. We are focusing our movements on Kensuke’s Kingdom. The final performances will be amazing.
Environment Club Week 2
Identifying what animals live in our pond, what can you see?
Extra Curricular off to a flying start.
We have a wide range of opportunities on offer for our Children this term. What a wonderful time our children have had in their first session.
KS2 Art club with Mrs Buttree
KS2 Art club with Mrs Buttree We have had a fantastic first art club today. Children have been looking at pattern and line work in Zentangles. Children from Y3-6 practiced their own designs first and then started a larger piece that will be finished in next weeks session.
Bringing a little sunshine into your day!
I love getting to see so many children every day bringing exciting things to share with me. You all make me proud every day. This week I have visits from James with his beautiful art learning, Skyler winning man of the match for her football team and Alexie bringing a beautiful card to brighten my […]
5/6H Art – Seascapes
This week we used our water colour skills to look at waves. We looked at how different brush strokes have different effects for creating an image of a wave.
5/6H Science – Adaptations
This week, we linked our knowledge of coastlines and Science to discuss life in rock pools. We researched different creatures and how they have adapted to live in a rock pool. There were some very interesting ways of keeping alive when the tide is out!
5/6H French – French speaking countries
Combining our French and Geography skills, we discussed how languages travel across the world and where in the world different languages are spoken. We then researched and located countries who speak French.
Special Mentions Celebrations
We loved our first assembly back sharing all the wonderful things that had happened that week. Our children have come back settled and love learning. It was really lovely to see our KS1 children back in the hall. Well done to all our winners and to Scholes who have taken the house challenge lead.
Y6 Librarians in Training
Yesterday, Rotherham Library Serviced helped our new Y6s understand how to run a loaning library. We just have a few finishing touches and we will be relaunching to the whole school.
British Values and back together
This week we have come together within assembly to explore the British Values and continue our collective worship. It is lovely having some of our children back together again. Thank you Mr Parkin for a great assembly.
Exploring at lunchtime with Mrs Tunks
Mrs Tunks always loves taking us on adventures. We explored the pond and saw lots of frogs and tadpoles. I hope we didn’t scare them off.
5/6H Literacy – Blackout poetry
Using our book Kensuke’s Kingdom, the children looked through the vocabulary from a page to produce their own blackout poetry. The results were fantastic and everyone made a great start to the term!
5/6H Art Sketching
The first afternoon in 5/6H was a time for children to keep improving their art skills. We did some different sketching techniques before producing images of yachts. What a great start!
Year 6 Sketching Skills
Our Children in 5/6H and 6B were exploring tone within their sketch books today. You can see some of the completed sketches from 6B in their post. Well done everyone so proud of the way you have settled back in.