Year 5

7Mar2025

This week, the children got an insight into what they would be learning about in Year 6 – Shakespeare!  The children were introduced to the story of Macbeth. After hearing the story, the children were put into groups and tasked with coming up with a maximum of five freeze frames to retell their sec

21Feb2025

This week, the children in Year 5 have been completing artwork based on a piece by John Dyer. Over the past two weeks, Year 5 have been learning about John Dyer, who is a contemporary artist. The children started their unit of work by looking at some of his artwork and deciding on a favourite piece.

13Feb2025

Last week ,  our Year 5 and 6 Netball team  took part in the Gateshead Finals which was held at  Gateshead Stadium.  The team had to win a competition just to qualify for this event which was already a fantastic achievement. 10 Schools made the finals and we  were in a group of 5 and had to fin

7Feb2025

This week, the children in Year 5 have been writing sentence stackers in preparation for their next piece of writing.  Today, the children were introduced to the language feature similes. The children learnt that similes compare something to something else using the words ‘as’ or ‘like’. After iden