Welcome to Class 5 Activities 2023-2024
Homework – Literacy – 20.11.23
Please find attached this week’s homework – Literacy.
Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary (MY WORK SECTION) by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try to read to your parent / carer and have your Reading Record signed to show how well you have read.
Journey to the River Sea – The Next Chapter – 20.11.23
Homework – Science – 13.11.23
Please find attached this week’s homework – Science.
Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary (MY WORK SECTION) by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try to read to your parent / carer and have your Reading Record signed to show how well you have read.
Alnwick HW – Living Things – 13.11.23
Bamburgh HW – Living Things – 13.11.23
Lindisfarne HW – Living Things – 13.11.23
Lumley HW – Living Things – 13.11.23
Raby HW – Living Things – 13.11.23
Homework – Numeracy – 6.11.23
Please find attached this week’s homework – Numeracy.
Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary (MY WORK SECTION) by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try to read to your parent / carer and have your Reading Record signed to show how well you have read.
Autumn Term 2
I hope that you have all had a wonderful, relaxing half term and are ready for the next 7 weeks. During the Autumn 2nd half term in Class 5, we are looking forward to learning about our next topic – Hola Mexico.
Welcome to Mexico! The children will explore this unique country, from its towering temples and stunning geography to its pulsing rhythms and fun-packed festivals.
Tummy rumbling? The children will concoct a traditional fruit cocktail, or a delicious Mexican Meal. What’s on your shopping list? Go steady with the spices!
We will also discover the mysterious world of the ancient Maya civilisation, make their chocolate, learn their poetry, play their ball game and follow all their curious rituals.
Feel like celebrating? The children will design a Mexican skull, grab a drum, join a tribe and make some noise! Have we got what it takes to be a chief? Let’s find out…
As well as our topic, the children will develop their Invasion Games in PE, as well as enhancing our Literacy and Numeracy skills. Our children are excited to continue their preparations for the upcoming SATs, extra-curricular clubs are on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. All children in Class 5 are encouraged to participate in the SAT Clubs.
Homework will be issued weekly. Spellings will be issued on Wednesday and returned ready for a test on Mondays. Either Literacy, Numeracy or Science will be issued on Mondays, to be returned on Fridays. To continue all our hard work to develop our Remote Learning, we are encouraging our children to access their homework via DB Primary and upload their homework onto the MY WORK section by the Friday deadline – paper copies will still be distributed if necessary. We are trying to encourage our children to read daily, asking parents / carers to give a brief comment in their reading diary. Please ensure that your child returns their reading book to school daily.
Class 5 will have PE on Monday and Tuesdays this half term. Please ensure your child has their PE kits in school on Monday morning and leave it in school for the whole week. We will send PE kits home on Fridays.
Please feel free to contact me with any queries; I genuinely believe that a happy child is the result of outstanding home / school links.
Mr. Graham
Hola Mexico Intro. Letter – 6.11.23
Cornerstones Curriculum Celebration – Fallen Fields – 27.10.23
UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education
What a wonderful afternoon Class 5 have had welcoming our parents to celebrate the ending of our Cornerstone Curriculum topic – Fallen Fields.
We used the Power Point presentations we have been working on all term to insert hyperlinks, slide transitions and home buttons.
It was lovely to see how engaged our parents were with their children.
Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.
Homework – Literacy – 23.10.23
Please find attached this week’s homework – Literacy.
Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary (MY WORK SECTION) by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try to read to your parent / carer and have your Reading Record signed to show how well you have read.
Computing – 20.10.23
UNCRC Article 17 – access to media
A lovely lesson today saw our children enhancing their multimedia presentations based on a historical event. Ours is our Cornerstones Curriculum topic – Fallen Fields.
Next week we are preparing to welcome our families to help with hyperlinking and slide transition.
Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.
French – 16.10.23
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
Well done to all our children who worked hard to enhance their pronunciation in French. They worked in pairs to create a conversation about their school.
Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.
Homework – Science – 16.10.23
Please find attached this week’s homework – Science.
Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary (MY WORK SECTION) by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try to read to your parent / carer and have your Reading Record signed to show how well you have read.
Music – Ukulele – 11.10.23
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
A fabulous lesson today where we learned to play the F chord and practiced to A Sailor went to sea, sea, sea…
We are delighted with our progress. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.
Homework – Numeracy – 9.10.23
Please find attached this week’s homework – Numeracy.
Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary (MY WORK SECTION) by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try to read to your parent / carer and have your Reading Record signed to show how well you have read.
Aln – Maths Homework – 9.10.23
Bam – Maths Homework – 9.10.23
Lindisfarne – Maths Homework – 9.10.23
Lumley – Maths Homework – 9.10.23
Raby – Maths Homework – 9.10.23
Maths – Reasoning and Problem Solving – 5.10.23
UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education
A wonderful effort by all our children today when they participated in our Reasoning and Problem Solving carousel. We had some of the children performing the role of teacher and explaining how to solve problems in a variety of written methods – some definite Future Careers in teaching.
Our NACE guests were very impressed with our work.
Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.
PE – Gymnastics – 4.10.23
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
A super lesson today saw our children use and adapt their gymnastic plans in order to create a basic routine consisting of balances, rolls and travelling. It is wonderful to see our rights respecting ethos enhancing our PE lessons.
Forest School – 4.10.23
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
A fabulous session today saw the children in Class 5 work collaboratively as a team to create a Fairy Garden garden using natural resources available in their wooded area. Brilliant designs and excellent creations. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.
Homework – Literacy – 2.10.23
Please find attached this week’s homework – Literacy.
Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary (MY WORK SECTION) by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try to read to your parent / carer and have your Reading Record signed to show how well you have read.
Aln and Bamb. 100 Word Story Setting – 2.10.23
Lind and Lum. 75 Word Story Setting – 2.10.23
Raby 50 Word Story Setting – 2.10.23
PE – Rugby – 29.9.23
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
A super session today with Mark where our children enhanced their defensive line and learned 3 new passes that could be used in gameplay scenarios.
Well done all.
Homework – Science – 25.9.23
Please find attached this week’s homework – Science.
Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary (MY WORK SECTION) by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try to read to your parent / carer and have your Reading Record signed to show how well you have read.
Science – Animals Inc. Humans – Alnwick – 25.9.23
Science – Animals Inc. Humans – Bamburgh – 25.9.23
Science – Animals Inc. Humans – Lindisfarne – 25.9.23
Science – Animals Inc. Humans – Lumley – 25.9.23
Science – Animals Inc. Humans – Raby – 25.9.23
Music – 20.9.23
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
Another lovely music session with Mr Stokoe today where we started to practice another song and strumming.
We enjoyed, Old MacDonald had a ukulele…
Well done everyone in Class 5.
Homework – Numeracy – 18.9.23
Please find attached this week’s homework – Numeracy.
Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary (MY WORK SECTION) by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try to read to your parent / carer and have your Reading Record signed to show how well you have read.
PE – 18.9.23
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
A fabulous effort by all our children today when we completed our rugby lesson indoors; this didn’t stop us from demonstrating our rights respecting gold skills in defending and attacking in game play scenarios.
Forest School – 14.9.23
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
A fabulous session in Forest School today where we collected a range of natural resources of a range of colours to create Forest Art – Poppies in collaboration with our Cornerstone’s Curriculum Fallen Fields.
Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our children.
Music – 13.9.23
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
What a wonderful lesson today when we welcomed Mr Stokoe into class for our first ukulele session.
We learned the names of the four strings (GCEA) and practiced a simple song whilst plucking to the beat. We can’t wait for next week’s lesson.
Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our children.
Homework – Literacy – 11.9.23
Please find attached this week’s homework – Literacy.
Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary (MY WORK SECTION) by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try to read to your parent / carer and have your Reading Record signed to show how well you have read.
The Railway Children – 11.9.23
First Week 2023/24
What a fabulous first few days we have had in Class 5; I am absolutely delighted with your hard work and rights respecting gold ethos demonstrated by all of you.
I can’t wait to watch you all grow and develop across the year.
Forest School
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
We are very excited to be able to offer our children from Class 5 the chance to participate in Forest School sessions. These sessions will be a continuation from the lessons taught with Mrs Morton offsite with Class 1 and last year with myself (Mr. Graham) in KS2. The children will remain on the school grounds enhancing a variety of skills and problem-solving techniques based around Key Stage 2 objectives.
Over the next half term, the children will experience:
- Forest Art using natural resources
- Knots
- Build Shelters
- Make tools
- Safely make a fire
All lessons will be taught by myself (Mr. Graham) and Mrs. Hill and the first session will begin Wednesday 13th September 2023.
On Forest School days, the children are to come to school in their normal uniform as normal, but an extra pair of socks and appropriate footwear must be worn as we will be going outside and could get wet – Please bring a change of footwear as they could / will get dirty!
I am really looking forward to working with your child during their Forest School experience and learning about the great outdoors. Please feel free to contact me with any queries.
Class 5 Forest School – 6.9.23
Welcome to Class 5 our new Year 5 and 6s.
I hope that you have all had a wonderful, relaxing summer holiday and are ready for the year ahead; welcome to Class 5 – Year 5 and 6.
In Class 5, we are looking forward to learning about our new topic – Fallen Fields…
The Sun sets on the battlefields of France and solitary bugle sounds the Last Post.
Known as ‘the war to end all wars’ the First World War was a conflict that had a devastating effect on millions of people across the world.
What started this global tragedy? What was life like for families on the home front as they waited for news of loved ones who were ‘missing in action’? How did the soldiers endure the terrible conditions in the trenches? How was a fragile peace finally achieved?
We will always remember the fallen.
As well as our topic, the children will develop their gymnastics in PE, as well as enhancing our Literacy and Numeracy skills. Our Year 6 children are excited to start their preparations for the upcoming SATs, and an extra-curricular club has been organised to start on Tuesdays and Wednesdays; all children in Class 5 will be encouraged to join in the fun on these After-School Clubs.
Homework will be issued weekly. Spellings and Times Tables will be issued on Wednesday and returned ready for a test on Mondays. Either Literacy, Numeracy or Science will be issued on Mondays, to be returned on Fridays. To continue all our hard work to develop our Remote Learning, we are encouraging our children to access their homework via DB Primary and upload their homework onto the MY WORK section by the Friday deadline – paper copies will still be distributed if necessary. We are trying to encourage our children to read daily, asking parents / carers to give a brief comment in their reading diary. Please ensure that your child returns their reading book to school daily.
Class 5 will have PE on Wednesdays and Fridays. Please ensure your child has their PE kits in school on Monday morning and leave it in school for the whole week. We will send PE kits home on Fridays. We are delighted to be enhancing our Forest School again this year – our sessions will be on Wednesdays and will start next week – 13.9.23.
I am really looking forward to working with your child and getting to know them throughout the year. Please feel free to contact me with any queries; I genuinely believe that a happy child is the result of outstanding home / school links, and I am looking forward to meeting you.
Kind regards
Mr. Graham
