This morning David Milliband the Foreign Secretary came to visit Y6 and the pupil council in response to the wonderful letters that they wrote to the Prime Minister and Mr Anderson, MP about the situation in Kenya and our links with St Anthony's in Nakuru. They put on a fab assembly and Mr Milliband and the other visitors were all very impressed.
The year 6 SATs take place next week! All of year 6 have worked hard and have nothing to worry about. All they need to do is remember to try their very best, make sure they have a good nights sleep and a tasty breakfast before a test and arrive at school promptly. They also need to remember to bring in their P.E Kit and anything they need for Kenya work every day...and remember their things for their party on Friday.
Oh yes and they also need to keep smilling!
Click on this post for the SATs week Timetable.
For our Comenius Assembly and CD, Year 6 chose to sing Blaydon Races.
Today our local MP Dave Anderson visited Y6 in response to their letter they wrote to him about their views on the political situation in Kenya.
This term, year 5, 6 and selected pupils from years 3 and 4 went to the Metro Centre to do a maths trail. Mr Maths made up this Maths trail.
Y6 have been working very hard so far this term but have been having lots of fun too! They had a fantastic day at Eden camp in October and are really looking forward to the up coming theatre trip to see "A Christmas Carol" in December.
Miss Hunt is the Year 6 teacher, who teaches top groups for Literacy and Numeracy. She also teaches music. Miss Hunt went to Kenya earlier this year with Mr. McCarthy and Mrs. McMillan. She organises plays and the recorder groups. She is a really good teacher and is really good at powerpoints and using computers. Miss Hunt is really good at saxaphone and different types of instruments.
Year 6 have had an exciting and adventurous term since finishing their SATs in May. They have enjoyed trips to Beamish Museum and the Residential trip to Kingswood where favourite activities incuded climbing, quad biking and ICT activities. Year 6 have also enjoyed making maths games for their buddies and learning about the Victorians. They are currently preparing for their end of year performance and leaver's mass.
Over the past few weeks Y6 have been visiting their secondary schools and I wish them the best of luck in the future!
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.
Year 6 have been working really hard this term but have been having lots of fun too!
They enjoyed their visit to the CLC where they made some great animations and learned about WW2 through a role playing game!
They also had a fabulous time completing the photo trail on the Quayside and produced some brilliant collages.
The children in year 6 are trying very hard with their SATs revision and I’m sure that this will continue. They are all looking forward to the time after the SATs when they are going to Kingswood for a whole week to have lots and lots of fun.
Special congratulations go the swimming team who recently won the Western Gateshead Swimming Gala and Romany Mc Clure who gained a merit in her grade 3 violin exam! WELL DONE.
All of KS2 have enjoyed their first performance of Panto Pandemonium today! There is still time to catch the show if you have not done so yet on Tuesday 12th at 10am or on Wednesday 13th at 6pm.
Reviews and photographs to follow!!!!
Dear parents and Children
We thank you for all the shoes we collected for the Blue Peter Appeal. We collected an astonishing amount of shoes, around about 250 pairs. Last friday we loaded them all in to Miss Hunt's And Mr Mc Carthy's Cars and took them to the collection point at Clarks shoes in the Metrocentre .As you know we are sending them to Malawi to exchange for money and equipment for the children’s corners in Malawi. Blue Peter gives many thanks to those who brought shoes in to our school to help the Aids Orphans in Malawi. But we don’t stop here! We stop collecting the shoes on the Friday the 15th.
Many Thanks
The Make Poverty History team Fraser,Matthew and Nicholas.
A special well done to Fraser for organising the collection at school! Also thanks to Anna and Kate who helped carry all the shoes to the Metrocentre.
Year 6 have been working hard this half term as well as having lots of fun. They had a great time finding out about life during WW2 at Eden Camp and learned all about St Cuthbert when they visited Durham Cathedral. Y6 have shown how responsible they are by becoming house captains, becoming playground pals and running the make poverty history club. All of Y6 are looking forward to their performance of “Pantopandemonium‿ this Christmas! "Oh no they're not..Oh yes they are!"
