Well, what a year we've had in Year 5! I think we all feel utterly shattered after all the hard work (& play!) of the past 11 months.

The year 5/6 girls football team secured a last game win to retain the Northern Cross sponsored Bishop's Cup.

The year 5/6 football team won the Chester-le-street league.

Well done to the Year 5 team for winning gold medals at the St Thomas More Cluster Sportshall Athletics.

Year 5 have been experimenting with sound effects and different ways of using our voices, in order to enhance the performance of a poem, inspired by "The magic of the Brain" by Jenny Joseph.

Well done to our basketball teams who took part in the Year 5 & 6 tournament at St Thomas More.

Year 5 have been working really hard on their Film Narrative unit of work after being inspired by Aidan Gibbons' short film, "The Piano".

KS2 children were invited to Whickham Library to see the author, Bob Hartman.

The school football teams have enjoyed a winning start to the season for both the girls and the boys.

Well, what a half term we've had in Year 5! The days and weeks have raced by and all our new class members (myself included!) have settled in really well.

Year 5 have reflected on an exciting year and now they are looking forward to the challenges of Year 6.

Rhiannon McDonald, Anya Sordy, James Stephenson and Daniel Campion took part in a robotics competition organised by the CLC.

5 Girls from Years 5 and 6 took part in the 5 A Side competition at St Thomas More.

Wow!

St Mary's RC Primary School in Whickham have gone down in history. We are the first school in history to do the double in the Catholic cup comeptitions.

Year 5 had a fantastic residential to Blaithwaite.

Year 5 enjoyed a trip to the CLC to explore creating jingles for a radio station.

We are proud to present an exhibition of art painted by the pupils of St Mary's Primary School.

MONDAY 18th and TUESDAY19th MAY

Viewing sessions from 2.45pm to 6pm, Monday( last admission 5.30pm)
and 8.45am to 9.30pm Tuesday
50p entrance fee which will include refreshments and a free raffle.
Please use the main entrance.

Congatulations to our basketball team who won the trophy.

A fantastic effort was made by KS2 on Wednesday 25th March, spurred on of course by Nora and Frank!

On the 4th of March we went to Felling to compete in the West Gateshead Local Swimming Gala.
When we got there we were all extremely excited however, we were also very nervous.
We were all their by 5:15 wearing our school tracksuits and when we all marched round the pool with our banner, on the way we spotted our future medals.

Year 5 mixed basketball team did not concede one basket on their way to win the tournament at Whickham High school.

Year 5 took part in the MetroCentre maths trail, organised by Dr Maths himself. The children explored maths activities that could be completed in the mall.

Children from Years 2,3,4,5 and 6 had a very exciting Monday afternoon at Gateshead CLC!

Our year 5 & 6 boys 5 a side team played on Wednesday 15th January at St Thomas More school. They played well and came 2nd in their group, 3rd overall and recieved medals. Well done boys.

Year 5 have been busy building Lego models.

Mr Sutcliffe teaches in Year 5

Year 5 children worked so hard to create some fantastic designs using hard boiled eggs.

In Year 5 we have been very busy. We are together as a whole class now and have started all new topics for the new term. 6 lucky pupils have taken part in FLS and are enjoying it very much.

It is coming to the end of the school year in Y5, but we are not too sad as we have lots of exciting activities still to do. We have been to Whicham Thorns Activity Centre which was great fun. We tried problem solving, archery, tubing (which you can see in the photo), orienteering and climbing. We had a brilliant day, and thankfully the rain held off until home time.

We also have our picnic in the park with our buddies coming up, and we have sports day this week! We are practising hard for our Robin Hood production which is alo next week.

In class we still have work to do so we are prepared for Y6. We have been continuing our Maths and English work as well as finishing off Life Cycles in Science, and Rivers in Geogrpahy.

Last week we also took part in a lovely service at the church to celebrate our Confirmation. The children looked so smart and all of the parents and staff were so proud of the children - well done!!

Once again Dr Maths organised a Maths Trail in Newcastle. This year it was along the Quayside and some of the children from KS2 accompanied by parent helpers had to follow the trail and solve the puzzles. This event is to show the chldren that maths is important in our everyday lives, not just in lessons at school.

Click here to read some of the thoughts about the trail from children in Year 3 and Year 4.

Well yet again this has been a really busy year for Year 5. We have welcomed 3 new class members, Anna, Ben and Charlton and they have settled in really well, so much so that we cant's imagine life without them now.
During this last term we have also had the benefit of Miss Butler and she has beeen great. We especially like the Aztec masks and the Assembly that we prepared with Year 6 and Miss Richardson.