Welcome to Class 5 Activities 2023-2024

Year 6 Prom – 22.7.24

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Just look at how mature and grown-up our lovely Year 6 children are.

It was wonderful to see them all dressed in their attire for their Year 6 Prom.

Fantastic disco and dancing; beautiful pictures and a McDonalds for tea were endured by all.
All our children and staff would like to wish these wonderful young people the very best for their new school adventure. You are all going to be a credit and we are very proud of you all.

Year 6 Leaver’s Assembly – 22.7.24

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What can we say? An emotional day when we welcomed our families and friends to school to say a final goodbye to our beautiful Year 6 children.

Mrs Lee read the children a traditional story and Leaver’s Poem before handing each child a Leaver’s Hoodie.

Our Year 6 children were then given an Irish blessing performed by our Year 2 children.

We wish you all the very best for the future Year 6: remember to work hard and aim for the sky.

Rights Respecting Gold demonstrated by all.

Leaver’s Performance – Cinderella Rockerfella – 18.7.24

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What a performance by the children of Class 5 today when they presented unbelievable talent through singing, dancing and performing arts with their rendition of Cinderella Rockerfella.

It’s lovely to see how confident and mature you have all progressed into…we certainly have some future stars.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Wednesday 3rd July 2024

Day 1 @ Robinwood

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We arrived safely and participated in a variety of activities in the afternoon and evening.

We have all stepped out of our comfort zone and achieved some personal goals.

Activities including Canoeing, climbing, caving and crate building have challenged us to enhance our resilience and problem solving in our activity groups.

we all can’t wait for tomorrow.

During the evening, the Robinwood staff have commented how outstanding our teamwork and determination has been. We’re also very proud of our report from the Night Ninjas…apparently we’re the best school 👍

Homework – Numeracy – Investigations – 1.7.24

Please find attached this week’s homework.

Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try and read to your adults and have your Reading Record Signed.

Alnwick HW – 1.7.24

Bamburgh HW – 1.7.24

Lindisfarne HW – 1.7.24

Lumley HW – 1.7.24

Raby HW – 1.7.24

STEM Project – Science / Design Technology – 27.6.24

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What a fabulous way to complete our STEM Design Technology project with a trip to Beamish Museum to present our working crane to actual engineers.

We explained the full design process and highlighted the issues we faced and how we demonstrated teamwork and resilience to overcome all problems.

The engineers were thoroughly impressed with our efforts and desire to improve.

We even sampled the new ice cream parlour with making our own ice cream.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all on our fabulous day.

Homework – Literacy – Reading – 24.6.24

Please find attached this week’s homework.

Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try and read to your adults and have your Reading Record Signed.

Bamb. & Alnwick – Reading HW – 24.6.24

Lindisfarne – Reading HW – 24.6.24

Raby & Lumley – Reading HW – 24.6.24

Geography – 18.6.24

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A lovely session today when we welcomed Oases into school to identify a variety of wildlife that can be found in and around our own environments.

We particularly enjoyed completing the quiz!

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Homework – Science – Theory of Evolution – 17.6.24

Please find attached this week’s homework.

Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try and read to your adults and have your Reading Record Signed.

Bamb & Alnwick – Theory of Ev. – 17.6.24

Lindisfarne – Theory of Ev. – 17.6.24

Lumley – Theory of Ev. – 17.6.24

Raby – Theory of Ev. – 17.6.24

PE – Football – 14.6.24

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A fabulous session today when we all enhanced our ball control and gameplay tactics in our first football session with Mark.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Future Careers – 11.6.24

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A TrueType wonderful effort by Praim and Jasleen who presented today’s assembly on Sikhism. They carefully planned and resourced their assembly with a super PowerPoint and were able to explain and answer questions.

we are immensely proud of you both: definitely potential future Careers in Teaching or Leadership.

Homework – Maths – Statistics – 10.6.24

Please find attached this week’s homework.

Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try and read to your adults and have your Reading Record Signed.

Alnwick – 10.6.24

Bamburgh – 10.6.24

Lindisfarne – 10.6.24

Lumley – 10.6.24

Raby – 10.6.24

SSCo Athletics Competition – 4.6.24

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A fabulous day we have all had when we completed in a variety of field and track events in the County Durham Athletics Competition at the Riverside Stadium.

Our children demonstrated their wonderful determination to succeed and encouraged their classmates throughout the entire day.

We are very proud of all your efforts Class 5.

Special mention to Evie who won her event (Shot-put) and will now represent County Durham in the regional finals.

We are very proud of you Evie.

Homework – Science – Evolution and Inheritance – 3.6.24

Please find attached this week’s homework.

Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try and read to your adults and have your Reading Record Signed.

Science HW – Alnwick – 3.6.24

Science HW – Bamburgh – 3.6.24

Science HW – Lindisfarne – 3.6.24

Science HW – LUMLEY – 3.6.24

Science HW – Raby – 3.6.24

Cornerstones Curriculum Summer Term 2 – Class 5

I hope that you are all fit and well and have had a relaxing half-term break. During the Summer 2^nd half term in Class 5, we are looking forward to learning about our next topic – Tomorrow’s World.

Text messages, emails, websites, blogs and podcasts. There are so many ways to communicate. Learn how to set up a class blog and build a homepage on a subject of your choice. Suggest ways to improve your school website, and hopefully the headteacher will listen to your ideas. Discover the movers and shakers in the world of technology, the people who’ve shaped the modern world. Perhaps you might be a visionary for the next generation. Build robots and circuits, break codes and investigate gadgets galore. Why not write a thriller narrative in the style of Anthony Horowitz? Then, on request from MI99, build a website for a new Spy School. What pages will it need? One for gadgets? A secret lunch menu? You decide. Let’s start today on Tomorrow’s World.

As well as our topic, the children will develop Invasion Games and Swimming in PE, enhance their understanding of Christianity in RE, as well as enhancing our Literacy and Numeracy skills. Our extra-curricular SAT Clubs are on Tuesday and Thursdays where we will begin to prepare our children for Year 6 and 7 (KS3). All children in Class 5 are encouraged to join in the fun on these After-School 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 Thursdays (Swimming) and Fridays (Invasion Games) 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. Naturally, swimming kits will need to be in school on Thursday morning and will be returned on the Thursday evening. 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. Once again, thank you for your continuing support.

Tomorrows World Intro Letter – 3.6.24

Cornerstones Curriculum Celebration – 24.5.24

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What a fabulous way to celebrate our Cornerstones Curriculum (Alchemy Island) by completing a variety of debugging tasks on Scratch and writing our own coding to programme the Alchemist to move to their intended destination.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our children.

Treat Time!

An absolutely wonderful surprise our Year 6s have had today when Vision sent an ice-cream van to celebrate the completion of our SATs.

Thank you everyone.

Homework – Maths – 20.5.24

Please find attached this week’s homework.

Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try and read to your adults and have your Reading Record Signed.

Alnwick – Maths HW – 20.5.24

Bamburgh – Maths HW – 20.5.24

Lindisfarne – Maths HW – 20.5.24

Lumley – Maths HW – 20.5.24

Raby – Maths HW – 20.5.24

Raby1 – Maths HW – 20.5.24

Well done Year 6

What a week we have had with our wonderful Year 6 children who have all completed their End of KS2 SATs. We are all immensely proud with the desire and determination you have all demonstrated in the lead up and during your SATs and we are all convinced you will receive only positive results.

Enjoy your party day Year 6 – you thoroughly deserve it.

Homework – Literacy – 6.5.24

Please find attached this week’s homework.

Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try and read to your adults and have your Reading Record Signed.

Alnwick & Bamburgh – 6.5.24

Lindisfarne – 6.5.24

Raby & Lumley – 6.5.24

Year 6 SATs – Week Beginning: Monday 13th May 2024

As you are more than aware, next week is the Year 6 S.A.T.s week (wb: Monday 13^th May), in which the children will undertake important standardised tests to reflect their progress throughout Key Stage 2. Their results will also form a basis for their future learning at Key Stage 3.

We are immensely proud of all our Year 6’s efforts and attitudes towards their SAT preparations, and we are sure that they will receive only positive results to justify their commitment. Please continue to support and encourage your child throughout next week by ensuring they have plenty of ‘brain food’, and plenty of sleep, and remind them to stay calm and focused.

Could you please ensure that your child arrives at school, bright and early each day from 8:30am – no later than 8:45am, and that they head straight to the school hall for brain gym and any additional breakfast if they are feeling peckish. May I remind you that your child’s attendance next week is essential.

To celebrate the conclusion of the SATs, and to reward the children for all their hard work and commitment over the last 6 months, Class 5 will be having a party on Friday 17th May – I am sure the children will tell you more about this!

Once again, thank you for your continuing support throughout the year, and in the lead up to the SAT’s – your children are an absolute credit, and we are sure they will perform brilliantly.

If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Monday 13^th May – SPAG 1 & SPAG 2

Tuesday 14^th May – Reading Paper

Wednesday 15^th May – Arithmetic Paper 1

Reasoning Paper 2

Thursday 16^th May – Reasoning Paper 3

Friday 17^th May – PARTY DAY

SATs Letter – 7.5.24

Homework – Science – 29.4.24

Please find attached this week’s homework.

Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try and read to your adults and have your Reading Record Signed.

Alnwick – Materials HW – 29.4.24

Bamburgh – Materials HW – 29.4.24

Lindisfarne – Materials HW – 29.4.24

Lumley Science HW – 26.4.22

Raby & Lumley – Materials HW – 29.4.24

PE – Tennis – 26.4.24

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Another fabulous PE lesson today when we enhanced our control of the racket and tennis ball to become more accurate in gameplay scenarios.

We are training to participate in a intra-school tennis tournament by the end of the term.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Potential Future Cyclist

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Well done to Praim who has challenged himself outside of school to complete 50 miles on his bike over the period of one month. He was so engaged that he completed his goal in only 2 weeks ! We are all very proud of you Praim.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated.

Homework – Literacy – 26.4.24

Please find attached this week’s homework.

Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try and read to your adults and have your Reading Record Signed.

Alnwick & Bamburgh Character description prompters HW – 22.4.24

Lindisfarne Character description prompters HW – 22.4.24

Minotaur Picture – 22.4.24

Raby & Lumley Minotaur Extending Sentences HW – 22.4.24

Design Technology / Science (STEM) – 23.4.24

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What a wonderful morning Class 5 have had when we welcomed Beamish educator Robert Martin and engineer Gemma Ayre to introduce our STEM Project ‘Crank It Up’.

We have been given our briefing to design, construct, evaluate and present a crane that is capable of moving and lifting specific weights. Our final assignment is to present at Beamish Museum later in the term.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Homework – Maths – 19.4.24

Please find attached this week’s homework.

Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try and read to your adults and have your Reading Record Signed.

Bamburgh & Alnwick- Arithmetic – 15.4.24

Lumley Raby Lindisfarne- Arithmetic – 15.4.24

Raby – Arithmetic – 15.4.24

Year 5 at Durham Federation – 19.4.24

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What a fabulous afternoon our Year 5 children have had when they participated in a Literacy session at a potential future secondary school – Durham Federation.

They all demonstrated fabulous imagination and perseverance to complete Mystery at Toadwort School (Harriet Putter Character Guide).

Unbelievable Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our children.

Alchemy Island – Engagement – 17.4.24

A mysterious island with an array of Kingdoms to explore – adventures to be had; friends to find; foes to be wary of and treasures to locate. One problem…where exactly are we? Our children will have to crack the codes and solve riddles to navigate around their maps to unlock the riches of Alchemy Island.

Summer Term 1

Cornerstones Curriculum Celebration – Alchemy Island

I hope that you have all had a wonderful, relaxing Easter holiday and are ready for the next 6 weeks. During the Summer 1^st half term in Class 5, we are looking forward to learning about our next topic – Alchemy Island!

It’s time to suspend your disbelief and open your mind. We’re going on a magical journey to Alchemy Island. Can you find the gold hidden deep within the island’s mysterious landscape? The only way is to study the map, unravel the riddle and begin your adventure. On the way, you must do all you can to learn about gold and master the ancient art of alchemy. Be creative and try to impress the island’s team of ace alchemists. Will they praise your scientific expertise? What if there were a video game version of Alchemy Island? Could you compose a stunning soundtrack to bring this mysterious landscape to life? You’ve got your map, coordinates and everything else you need to make your way across Alchemy Island. Don’t forget to pack your imagination. Got your suitcase ready? Then let the journey begin.

As well as our topic, the children will develop their Swimming and Tennis in PE, as well as enhancing our Literacy and Numeracy skills. Our children are excited that all their hard work and preparations for the upcoming SATs will come to fruition; SATs week beginning Monday 13^th May. Extra-curricular clubs are on Tuesday and Thursdays. All children in Class 5 are encouraged to join in the fun on these After-School Clubs.

Class 5 will have PE on Thursday (swimming) and Fridays 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.

Alchemy Island Intro. Letter – 16.4.24

Cornerstones Curriculum Celebration – Frozen Kingdom – 22.3.24

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What a fabulous way to end a wonderful topic – Frozen Kingdom.

The children from class 5 produced a video diary and uploaded a vlog to explain their experience in their Frozen Kingdom.

Well done to everyone and excellent Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Red Nose Day – Funny Football – 15.3.24

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A fabulous effort by all our children and families today who dressed in a variety of colours to celebrate Red Nose Day. Our wonderful Sports Leaders organised Funny Football activities and delivered to each class during the morning.

Unbelievable Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all and thank you to all our families for your donations and help with preparing our children.

Science Ambassadors – 14.3.24

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A fabulous effort by all our Science Ambassadors today when they delivered their Scientific Enquiry to Class 5.

We investigated how pendulums operate and created our own, trying to make 10 swings during a 30 second duration.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

PE – Outdoor and Adventurous Activities – 13.3.24

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Well done to all the children from Class 5 today on completing their next OAA session with Mr Beverage. They demonstrated trust, communicating and bravery skills whilst completing blindfolded courses.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Homework – Science – 11.3.24

Please find attached this week’s homework.

Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try and read to your adults and have your Reading Record Signed.

Alnwick – 11.3.24

Bamburgh – 11.3.24

Lindisfarne – 11.3.24

Raby & Lumley – 11.3.24

Science – Biology – 6.3.24

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Another super session today with Miss Poulter where our Year 6 children analysed their bacteria through a microscope.

Well done to all our children.

PE – Fitness – 4.3.24

Well done to all our children for their determination and commitment in their latest fitness session with Paul. We incorporated teamwork and competition into our lesson: what fun.

Homework – Literacy – 26.2.24

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.

Geography – 28.3.24

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Another fabulous experience today for Class 5 when we participated in the ECo2Smart follow up session regarding the recent COP28 convention on Climate Change.

We participated in a series of discussion on how we ensure we all act together to achieve our main goal and aid Climate Change.

Once again, rights respecting gold ethos demonstrated by all our children.

Cornerstones Curriculum Engagement – 26.2.24

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What a fabulous way to be introduced to our new Cornerstones Curriculum topic – Frozen Kingdom – when we welcomed our favourite author and friend Adam Bushnell.

We discussed the climate, animals and weather conditions in the polar regions before getting creative and designing our own mammals.

Once again, lots of fun with a rights respecting gold ethos.

Spring Term 2

I hope that you have all had a wonderful, relaxing half term and are ready for the next 5 weeks. During the Spring 2^nd half term in Class 5, we are looking forward to learning about our next topic – Frozen Kingdom!

Welcome to the planet’s coldest lands…vast and hostile territories – incredibly beautiful, yet often deadly. Take shelter from the elements or fall prey to icy winds and the deepest chill. Trek bravely and valiantly across treacherous terrain to the ends of the Earth, treading deep in snow or be pulled by a team of mighty sled dogs.

The children will research facts and figures of climate, temperature, habitats and ecosystems, and compose evocative poems about the Northern Lights.

As well as our topic, the children will develop our Fitness 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 Tuesday and Thursdays. All children in Class 5 are encouraged to join in the fun on these After-School Clubs.

Class 5 will have PE on Mondays and Wednesdays 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.

PE – Fitness Circuits – 5.2.24

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Another fabulous effort by all our children children in Class 5 when we completed our circuit fitness session with Leanne.

The children were all able to demonstrate their station with an explanation before completing the circuit.

We are all very impressed.
Homework – Numeracy – 5.2.24

Please find attached this week’s homework – Numeracy.

Alnwick – 5.2.24

Bamburgh – 5.2.24

Lindisfarne – 5.2.24

Raby & Lumley – 5.2.24

UNCRC Future Careers – 1.2.24

Mini-Police

A fabulous session today when we spoke to Mia and Rosie and their career path from school to career.

We were mesmerised by all the responsibilities the police have and some of the equipment they use. We can’t wait for next week.

PE – Fitness

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Another fabulous session today with Leanne and our fitness lesson. Our children certainly demonstrated their willingness to succeed and achieve their goals in improving their scores.

We are all very proud of your hard work today.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Homework – Literacy – 29.1.24

Please find attached this week’s homework – Literacy.

Bamb & Alnwick Literacy HW – 29.1.24

Lindisfarne Literacy HW – 29.1.24

Raby & Lumley Literacy HW – 29.1.24

Future Careers – 25.1.24

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

What a fabulous treat we have all had today in our next Future Careers session; we welcomed Professor Chessington (Paul) who spoke to the children about his expertise in Physiotherapy and his career responsibilities as a sports physio, lecturer at Teeside University and now a Professor.

The children were mesmerised by his role as a football physio and his career path to achieve.

You all asked fantastic questions and demonstrated Rights Respecting Gold ethos throughout.

Homework – Science – 22.1.24

Please find attached this week’s homework – Science.

Alnwick – 22.1.24

Bamburgh – 22.1.24

Lindisfarne – 22.1.24

Lumley – 22.1.24

Raby – 22.1.24

New Age Curling – 24.1.24

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

A fabulous effort today by all our children when they enhanced their sporting skills and tactical awareness with a session of Curling. Our children certainly developed their desire to win and their were some fabulous gameplay.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

PE – Tudor Dance Masquerade – 18.1.24

Well done to everyone in Class 5 for the progress made in our Tudor Masquerade: it’s fabulous to see you all looking majestic in your movements. This week you worked in groups of 6 to create a sequence within the Masquerade.

Very proud of you all.

Art Coffee Morning – 17.1.24

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What a wonderful morning we have had when we welcomed our parents and careers into school to create artwork: we worked together to create portraits of each other.

We are all very proud of our creations and thank you to our wonderful parents for helping.

Potential Future Careers – 16.1.24

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What a fabulous afternoon we have had when we welcomed Mr. Willcock (Joe) to discuss ou potential Future Careers. He spoke above his career in owning businesses and how his career path unfolded; what qualifications he needed and which skills are required to be successful. Well done to everyone and demonstrating rights respecting gold ethos by all.

Thanks again Joe.

Homework – Maths – 15.1.24

Please find attached this week’s homework – Maths.

Alnwick – 15.1.24

Lind & Bamb – 15.1.24

Raby & Lumley – 15.1.24

Art – Tudor Portraits – 12.1.24

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A wonderful effort by all our children today when we used our artistic skills to recreate Tudor portraits in the style of Henry VIII’s personal artist – Hans Holbein.

Today we have completed the initial sketching ready for pastels next week.

Well done everyone.

Homework – Literacy – 8.1.24

Please find attached this week’s homework – Literacy.

Alnwick Homework – 8.1.24

Bamburgh Homework – 8.1.24

Lindisfarne Homework – 8.1.24

Lumley Homework – 8.1.24

Raby Homework – 8.1.24

Cornerstones Curriculum Engagement Memorable Experience – Off With Her Head

What sort of man would order the beheading of his wife? Was she really that bad? Class 5 are to travel back in time to the 1500s and meet the terrifying Tudors, a domineering dynasty that changed our history. We will discover an opulent court where dancing and singing goes hand in hand with swift falls from favour, and even swifter falling of heads. Can we flex our detective muscles and become a criminal investigator. Will we find out the facts or will the evidence from the past bemuse us? How will we find the accused, innocent or guilty? It’s our turn to take part in one of the most famous trials that the world has ever known.

Happy New Year Every one – 2024

Spring Term 1

Happy New Year; I hope that you have all had a wonderful, relaxing Christmas holiday and are ready for the next 6 weeks. During the Spring 1^st half term in Class 5, we are looking forward to learning about our next topic – Off with Her Head!

What sort of man would order the beheading of his own wife? Was she really that bad?

The children will travel back in time to the 1500s and meet the terrifying Tudors, a domineering dynasty that changed our history.

We will discover an opulent court where dancing and singing goes hand in hand with swift falls from favour – and even sweeter falling of heads!

We will flex our detective muscles and become criminal investigators! Will you find out the facts or will the evidence from the past bemuse you? How will you find the accused…innocent or guilty?

As well as our topic, the children will develop their dance and fitness levels 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 Tuesday and Thursdays. All children in Class 5 are encouraged to join in the fun on these After-School Clubs.

Homework will be issued weekly. Spellings will be issued on Wednesday and returned ready for a check 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 Thursdays 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.

Off with her Head Intro. Letter – 4.1.24

RE – Christingles

UNCRC Article 14 – freedom of thought, belief and religion

Well done to all our children who today have been learning about the true meaning of Christingles and what their importance to Christians are.

We all made a Christingle ready for our Church Service tomorrow.

Homework – Christmas Activity – 11.12.23

Please find attached this week’s homework – Christmas Activity Sheet.

Christmas Homework – 11.12.23

KS2 Christmas Performance – Superstar

What an absolute treat we have all had today when the children of KS2 performed their Christmas Play – Superstar.

With superb singing, including solos, amazing acting and outstanding outfits, our children showcased their performance remembering all their lines and lyrics to create a marvelous masterpiece.

We are incredibly proud of all your efforts in the run-up to the play; rights respecting gold demonstrated by all our children in Key Stage 2.

Homework – Literacy – 20.11.23

Please find attached this week’s homework – Literacy.

Journey to the River Sea – The Next Chapter – 20.11.23

Homework – Science – 13.11.23

Please find attached this week’s homework – Science.

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.

Alnwick – 6.11.23

Bamb – 6.11.23

Lindisfarne – 6.11.23

Lumley – 6.11.23

Raby – 6.11.23

Raby – LW-H – 6.11.23

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 2^nd 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.

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.

Alnwick – 23.10.23

Lind & Bamb – 23.10.23

Raby & Lumley – 23.10.23

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.

Alnwick HW – 16.10.23

Bamburgh HW – 16.10.23

Lindisfarne HW – 16.10.23

Lumley HW – 16.10.23

Raby HW – 16.10.23

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.

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.

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.

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.

Maths – Bamburgh – 18.9.23

Maths – Lindisfarne – 18.9.23

Maths – Lumley – 18.9.23

Maths – Raby – 18.9.23

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.

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 13^th 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

Welcome to Class 5 – Fallen Fields – 6.9.23

Welcome to Class 5 2022-2023

Homework – wb: 26.6.23

PSHCE – Mental Health Transition Talk

UNCRC Article 24 – Health & Health Services

Fantastic sessions this week where we welcomed Rebecca into school to talk to us about our transition from Year 6 to Year 7. We discussed a variety of topics and she explained some of the highlights we can look forward to in September. Well done everyone and Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

PE – Sports Day

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

What a super afternoon we have all had demonstrating our competitive qualities in Sports Day. We certainly didn’t let the monsoon like weather dampen our spirits as we completed the event in our school hall. Well done to the Sports Leaders for their outstanding organisation and to all children who competed in their races. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Homework – wb: 19.6.23

Art – Father’s Day Cards

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Well done to everyone in Class 5 who created beautiful Father’s Day cards with poems and messages foe their special person. Remember to be extra special on Sunday and enjoy.

PE – Tennis

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

A fabulous display of tennis skills were on show this morning when we demonstrated a variety of rallies to Mr. Beverage and his colleague from the LTA. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our children.

Eco School’s Coffee Morning

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

A fabulous morning today where we invited our parents into school to participate in our Eco-school Coffee Morning. We discussed current issues and completed a variety of activities whilst enjoying coffee, juice and cake. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all and thank you to all our parents for attending.

PE – Invasion Games

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

A super session today where we developed our ball control and passing skills. We finished our session with small sided games to enhance our gameplay. Well done everyone.

Homework – wb: 12.6.23

Please find below this week’s homework – Numeracy. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Lumley – 12.6.23 Alnwick – 12.6.23 Bamburgh – 12.6.23 Lindisfarne – 12.6.23 Raby – 12.6.23

Cornerstones Curriculum Engagement – Firedamp & Davy Lamps

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture Adam Bushnell

A fabulous afternoon was had by all when we were treated to our Cornerstone’s Curriculum engagement by Adam Bushnell. He taught us how to sketch ghostly miners and add narrative phrases to create atmosphere in our writing. We then wrote a brief miner’s ghost story and told our stories to our peers. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our children.

Homework – wb: 5.6.23

Monday 6th June 2023 – Remote Learning

Happy Monday Class 5. I hope you have had a super half-term and are ready for our final term of the year. Below is your work for today. Literacy – The North Pole. Look at the 3 images on the worksheet provided and answer the questions. Read the report ‘On Thin Ice’ and make notes and give a summary. Numeracy – Arithmetic Find your arithmetic paper and solve each calculation giving appropriate working out. Science – Air Resistance Read through the PowerPoint and work through the appropriate Worksheets. Raby & Lumley – 1 star Lumley & Lindisfarne – 2 Stars Bamburgh & Alnwick – 3 Stars Music – Wartime Music Keep the Home Fires Burning. Can you access the above song online? If so, can you complete the appraisal worksheet giving your opinions and how the song was structured. I will try to upload a link on the school website – our class page. Enjoy your tasks. Once finished, please upload all your work onto your DB Primary Work space for marking. Please also access TT Rockstars and Lexia. Have a super day. Mr Graham Bamb & Aln – Literacy – 6.6.23 Bamb & Lum – 6.6.23 Keep the Home Fires Burning – 5.6.23 Lum & Lindis – 6.6.23 Lum & Lindis – Literacy – 6.6.23 On Thin Ice – 6.6.23 Perfect Parachutes Activity Sheet Raby – 6.6.23 Raby – Literacy – 6.6.23 Super Skydiving Report Air Resistance Ppt – 6.6.23

Summer Term 2 – 2023

I hope that you are all fit and well and have had a relaxing half-term break. During the Summer 2^nd half term in Class 5, we are looking forward to learning about our next topic – A Firedamp and Davy Lamps. Descend into the depths of Britain’s coal mines and discover how coal miners brought the precious coal up to the surface that was needed to power industry. During this half term, we’ll find out about the many dangers of mining and why health and safety laws are important in the world today, and we’ll use geological maps to identify coal seams in the UK. We’ll also learn about the importance of coal during the Industrial Revolution, the process of the ‘no choice’ lottery and the miners’ strikes. Getting creative, we’ll study the work of the Pitmen Painters and recreate their style using a variety of art materials and techniques. We’ll also consider the future of coal mining and how a coal-free future would be better for the environment As well as our topic, the children will develop Invasion Games and Swimming in PE, Forest School will continue on Wednesdays, enhance their understanding of Christianity in RE, as well as enhancing our Literacy and Numeracy skills. Our extra-curricular SAT Clubs are on Tuesday and Wednesdays where we will begin to prepare our children for Year 6 and 7 (KS3). All children in Class 5 are encouraged to join in the fun on these After-School 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 Thursdays (Swimming) and Fridays (Invasion Games) 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. Naturally, swimming kits will need to be in school on Thursday morning and will be returned on the Thursday evening. 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. Once again, thank you for your continuing support. Firedamp and Davy Lamp – 5.6.23

Cornerstones Curriculum Celebration – A Child’s War – 25.5.23

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

What a wonderful way to celebrate the end of our Cornerstones Curriculum topic this term (A Child’s War) with a class trip to Eden Camp. The children were mesmerised with the displays in each barrack and loved the first hand experiences on offer throughout. We were even privileged to have met an actual evacuee veteran who explained where he went. As always, we demonstrated outstanding behaviour with our Rights Respecting Gold ethos. Well done Class 5.

PE – Tennis

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Another super effort by all our children in Class 5 who have progressed onto using the net in their tennis lessons. We can definitely see some potential future Wimbledon stars; well done everyone.

Science Enquiry

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

A fabulous lesson today where our children investigated the Scientific Question – Does the Mass of an object affect the Gravitational Force? Once again, outstanding commitment by all to find a solution to their enquiry.

Homework – wb: 22.5.23

Bikeability UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

What a brilliant week our children have had whist working hard to achieve their Bikeability Award. The children enhanced skills in the playground then applied on the open road with their instructors. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Homework – wb: 15.5.23

End of SATs Treats

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Wow! How lucky are we? A lovely surprise for all our Year 6 children for their dedication, commitment and pure desire to succeed in their SATs. We are all immensely proud of you all: enjoy your treat everyone.

Geography / Computing

UNCRC Article 17 – access to media

A super lesson today where all our children utilised their geographical skills to search targeted UK cities and towns by the Germans during WW2. We discovered reasons why each location was important and what happened. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all children.

Forest School

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

A lovely afternoon today where we celebrated the end of SAT week with a Forest School session – Fire Pit. We used flint and steel to create a spark on cotton wool. We then roasted marshmallows and ate S’mores. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our wonderful children.

Homework – wb: 2.5.23

Please find below this week’s homework – Science. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Science – Bamb & Alnwick – 2.5.23 Science – Lind & Lumley – 2.5.23 Science – Raby – 2.5.23

PE – Tennis

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

A fabulous well done to all our children in Class 5 who are working hard to enhance their ball and racket control, as well as maintaining longer rallies in tennis. Rights Respecting Gold demonstrated by all.

Computing

UNCRC Article 17 – access to media

Some fabulous work today in computing where our children started their video presentations based on our Cornerstones Curriculum topic – A Child’s War. The children are preparing PowerPoints that will require voice overs whilst they present in a News Round format.

Homework – wb: 24.4.23 Please find below this week’s homework – Numeracy. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Bamburgh & Alnwick – 24.4.23 Lindisfarne & Lumley – 24.4.23 Raby – 24.4.23

Homework – wb: 17.4.23

Welcome to the Summer Term 2023!

I hope that you are all fit and well and have had a wonderful, relaxing Easter holiday. During the Summer 1^st half term in Class 5, we are looking forward to learning about our next topic – A Child’s War! A siren sounds and a Spitfire zooms overhead! It’s 1939 and Britain is at war. This half term, we’ll imagine what it was like to be evacuated and live with a family other than our own. Using different source materials, we’ll learn about evacuation and write letters to our families ‘back home’. We’ll plot the Second World War’s events on a timeline and learn about rationing, Pearl Harbour and the Battle of Britain. From a range of maps, we’ll identify safe and dangerous places during the war and make persuasive posters to support the war effort. After reading an extract from The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, we’ll write our own diaries. We’ll learn about what it was like during the Blitz and think about how soldiers might have felt. As well as our topic, the children will develop Outdoor and Adventurous Activities PE, Forest School will continue on Wednesdays, enhance their understanding of Christianity in RE, 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 Tuesday and Wednesdays. All children in Class 5 are encouraged to join in the fun on these After-School 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 Thursday and Fridays 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. A Childs War – 18.4.23

Cornerstone’s Curriculum – Beast Creator

Well done to all of our children in Class 5 today who combined all their skills learnt throughout the topic and celebrated by creating habitats located around a number of locations in our outdoor areas; each habitat is specifically designed to attract a number of wildlife and we are looking forward to monitoring each habitat and recording it’s activity during the summer term. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our children – well done.

PE – Dance

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

What a fantastic morning Class 5 have had when they participated in the Durham SSCo Dance Festival at the Gala Theatre in Durham. We had 34 superstars who demonstrated an array of artistic talents to perform their dance in celebration to all our work on LGBTQ+ Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our children once again and it was a privilege to watch you all show confidence and desire to be the best you can be. We all know how proud your parents are and all the staff are beaming at you all. Well done Class 5.

Homework – wb: 27.3.23

PE – Dance Showcase

What a fabulous treat the children of Class 5 gave the rest of the school when they showcased their upcoming dance routine for the Gala Theatre in Durham. Well done to everyone; we are all convinced that you are going to be absolutely fantastic.

Geography / Computing

UNCRC Article 17 – access to media

Some beautiful work from our children today when they used digital mapping to research mini-beasts for their Cornerstones Curriculum – Beast Creator. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Homework – wb: 20.3.23

Music

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

An excellent session today in music where we looked at a variety of musical instruments from China. The session was led by University students from Durham who also discussed university life and their aspirations for Future Careers. An inspiring session with opportunities for our children to think about their own Future Career. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

PE – Dance

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Another fabulous dance session today when they worked collaboratively as a team and finished their dance routine in time for the SSCo Dance festival on Wednesday – Gala Theatre Durham. A fabulous well done to all of our children.

Homework – wb: 13.3.23

Please find below this week’s homework – Science. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Raby HW – Living Things – 13.3.23 Lumley HW – Living Things – 13.3.23 Lindisfarne HW – Living Things – 13.3.23 Bamburgh HW – Living Things – 13.3.23 Alnwick HW – Living Things – 13.3.23

Science / DT

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

Some excellent work today in DT where our children went into our wooded area and collected a variety of natural resources in preparation to make their habitats for the Cornerstone Curriculum – Beast Creator. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Homework – wb: 6.3.23

Cornerstones Curriculum Engagement – Beast Creator

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

What a fabulous afternoon we have had in class 5 where we were introduced to our new Cornerstones Curriculum topic – Beast Creator. We linked our engagement to Forest School and explored the school grounds searching for a variety of leaves, sticks, plantation and mini beasts which were collected and brought back into class to identify. We can’t wait to explore the rest of our topic. Rights Respecting Gold Ethos demonstrated by all.

Monday 27^th February 2023

Cornerstones Curriculum Spring Term 2 – Class 5

Dear Parent / Carer, I hope that you are all fit and well and have had a relaxing half-term. During the Spring 2^nd half term in Class 5, we are looking forward to learning about our next topic – Beast Creator! A bug, a creepy-crawly, a beast. He’ll tickle your skin then go in for the sting. Arachnids, insects, molluscs and myriapods, hiding in nooks and beneath darkened rocks. Come search for these minibeasts, and let’s sort them out. How many legs? How many wings? Who does it eat and who eats it? Can you classify it? Can you draw it or make it? Build a bug hotel or a wonderful wormery, then watch them wriggle and burrow, mixing earth as they go. Discover where in the world you’ll find the deadliest beasts. Perhaps the Vespa Mandarina Japonica is the one that you fear? Why not become a beast creator? Selectively breed a killer predator that saves the world from the super strong aphid. You’ll be a hero. ‘There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don’t know why she swallowed a fly. Perhaps she’ll die?’ As well as our topic, the children will develop their dance in PE ready for our Gala Theatre performance, 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 Tuesday and Wednesdays. All children in Class 5 are encouraged to join in the fun on these After-School 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 Wednesdays 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. Beast Creator – 27.2.23

Future Careers – Music

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic cultures

What a fantastic achievement from our very own Liam who mesmerised fellow travelers during his half term holiday. Seeing a piano standing free in the airport whilst waiting for his flight with his family, Liam entertained members of the public with his majestical, musical talents with a rendition of Chasing Cars. What a lovely way to demonstrate his Rights Respecting Gold ethos and potential Future Career in Music. We are all very proud of you Liam.

Homework – wb: 27.2.23

Cornerstones Curriculum Celebration – Gallery Rebels

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

What a fabulous way to celebrate our Cornerstone Curriculum topic (Gallery Rebels) by inviting our parents into school and enjoying an artistic culture afternoon recreating masterpieces from the 19th and 20th century artists. We are delighted with the work produced by our children over the topic, as well as the outstanding art our parents did. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Future Careers – STEM

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

An inspiring session today when members of the Durham University Solar Car Team came into our class and gave a presentation on their upcoming race along the Stuart Highway – Darwin to Adelaide – Australia. Our children asked fantastic questions about the design and manufacturing processes and how the team planned to maintain the vehicle on its 3000km race. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Children’s Mental Health Week

UNCRC Article 13 – freedom of expression

Class 5 have really enjoyed their activities in UNCRC this week linking it with our Children’s Mental Health Week. We have discussed how we can be kind to one another and how this makes both the giver and the receiver feel when we look after one another with kindness. In assembly, we wrote an act of kindness to a randomly drawn individual across the whole school. In class, we derived slogans, logos and designed a Kindness Poster for a Key Stage 3 (Hermitage) poster competition to keep our future Career links strong with the local secondary school. Rights Respecting Gold Ethos demonstrated by all.

Art

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

What fabulous artwork our Year 5 and children have demonstrated over the last few weeks; we have been inspired by the 19th and 20th century artists from our Cornerstone Curriculum – Gallery Rebels. We have developed our sketching and painting using watercolours in our latest work. Artists including: Kandinsky; Munch; Marc and Macke. We can’t wait to welcome our parents into school and teach them how to become unbelievable artists.

Homework – wb: 6.2.23

Please find below this week’s homework – Science. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Alnwick HW – Area- 6.2.23 Bamb HW – Area – 6.2.23 Lindisfarne HW – Area – 6.2.23 Lumley HW – Area – 6.2.23 Raby HW – Area – 6.2.23

Geography – Climate Friendly Workshop

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

What a super session we have had today when we participated in a Climate Friendly workshop with Grace from OASIS; she challenged us to identify how many trees are in our school grounds and how much carbon is being absorbed by them. We were astonished to count 30+ trees (each group had a different answer) and used this number and multiplied it by 21 to calculate how much carbon is absorbed. 33 x 21 = 693kg per year!

Homework – wb: 30.1.23

PE – Basketball

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Well done to all of class 5 today when they participated in a basketball preparation session with Darren from the Durham SSCo; we are practicing to participate in a festival. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Science – UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

Super science work from Alnwick table today when they investigated a variety of materials through the lens of a microscope. Well done to everyone.

Homework – wb: 23.1.23

Please find below this week’s homework – Science. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Bamb & Aln HW – 23.1.23 Lindisfarne HW – 23.1.23 Lumley HW – 23.1.23 Raby HW – 23.1.23

PE – Rugby

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Well done to our children who have been asked to represent our school in the upcoming Rugby festival with the Durham SSCo. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Art / Computing

UNCRC Article 17 – access to media

A lovely lesson today when we used digital maps to locate famous art museums across the world. Our children identified a series of 19th and 20th century artists along with examples of the work they created.

PE – Dance

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Well done to all the children in Class 5 on their first session with Mr. Graham and Dance; we are participating in the Durham SSCo Dance festival in March. We are really looking forward to showing everyone our routine.

Science Enquiry

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

A super science lesson today when our children investigated the eye and how it focuses and refocuses when looking at objects from a variety of distances. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Homework – wb: 16.1.23

Please find below this week’s homework – Numeracy. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Alnwick – 16.1.23 Bamb – 16.1.23 Lindisfarne – 16.1.23 Lumley – 16.1.23 Raby – 16.1.23

Science Enquiry – Light

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

A super science lesson today when our children investigated how light travels. We used mirrors to reflect the light to travel in different directions.

Professor Brainstorm

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

A fabulous afternoon we have all had when we welcomed Professor Brainstorm into school and participated in a science workshop. We had fun watching electrical explosions, freezing flowers with liquid nitrogen and the famous ‘spud gun’! Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our children; well done everyone.

Geography / Computing / French

UNCRC Article 17 – access to media

A super effort by all today when we used digital maps to research famous landmarks in Paris. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Homework – wb: 9.1.23

Gallery Rebels

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

What beautiful work from two children in Class 5 who have been inspired by our new Cornerstones Curriculum topic – Gallery Rebels. Determination and a desire to succeed demonstrated by both of you.

Welcome back and Happy New Year

I hope that you are all fit and well and have had a wonderful, relaxing Christmas holiday. During the Spring 1^st half term in Class 5, we are looking forward to learning about our next topic – Gallery Rebels! Colours collide, melting together on the canvas: an impression of light, a rage of red, a lobster perched on a telephone…come and find out about the bizarre and eccentric minds of the gallery rebels! Art can be an act of rebellion. Can you change the world with a paint brush, a thought, or an idea? Dream the dream – or show us your nightmares! What do you see? Watches melting? Wheels spinning? A shark in a box? Can you express yourself without words? Well, a picture paints a thousand of them! Try your hand at a ‘Damien Hirst’ sculpture, exploring the weird and wonderful to create a curious treasure for the next generation. Take up your arms and fight for the cause…paintbrushes and sketch books at the ready – let’s make art! As well as our topic, the children will develop their dance 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 Tuesday and Wednesdays. All children in Class 5 are encouraged to join in the fun on these After-School 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 Wednesdays 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. Once again, thank you for your continuing support. Mr. Graham Gallery Rebels – 5.1.23

Cornerstones Curriculum Celebration

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

A fabulous lesson today where we demonstrated our skills learnt during our Cornerstones Curriculum (Allotment) and planted a variety of seedlings and constructed a shelter to protect from the elements. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Christmas Party

Today we had lots of fun at our Christmas Party. We even had a visit from the elf.

Ukulele Performance

Class 5 put on an amazing show for the whole school, showing off all they have learnt in music lessons this term.

Christmas Crafts

We are having lots of fun in class creating our Christmas crafts. We cant wait to bring them home and share them with our friends and family.

Violin Performance

We are very proud of our friends in class 5 who put on a short performance with their violins for the whole school.

Homework – wb: 28.11.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Science. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Science Homework – ALNWICK – 28.11.22 Science Homework – LIND & BAMB – 28.11.22 Science Homework – RABY & LUMLEY – 28.11.22 Healthy Lifestyle Exercise Diary

Homework – wb: 21.11.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Numeracy. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Alnwick – Fractions HW – 21.11.22 Bamb – Fractions HW – 21.11.22 Lindisfarne – Fractions HW – 21.11.22 Lumley – Fractions HW – 21.11.22 Raby – Fractions HW – 21.11.22

Music – UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

Well done on another fabulous lesson in ukulele – we are beginning to read music and play using appropriate notation. Our goal is to perform as a whole class to the rest of the school.

Gymnastics – UNCRC Article 31 (leisure, play and culture)

Well done to all our children in class 5 who are progressing lovely in gymnastics – today we enhanced a variety of individual balances which took strength and stamina to maintain.

Homework – wb: 14.11.22

Parliamentary Week – UNCRC Article 13 (freedom of expression)

What a fabulous week we have all had discussing and debating a variety of scenarios to celebrate UK Parliamentary Week 2022. Issues around e-safety was the main topic for class 5 who had a debate on whether ‘All under 13 year olds should be banned from Social Media’. We all demonstrated our abilities to produce balanced arguments and listen to the views of all – even if they were different to our own! We finished the week with a fabulous Parliamentary Coffee Morning where we welcomed our parents and asked them to debate with us.

Gymnastics – UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

Well done to everyone in Class 5 for their efforts in our next gymnastics – partner balancing. A superb show of strength and teamwork, encouragement and the desire to succeed. I am very impressed with you all.

Homework – wb: 7.11.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Science. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Lind – Alwn – Bamb Homework – Science – 7.11.22 Raby & Lumley – Homework – Science – 7.11.22

Class 5’s Sleepover – Crisis Support – UNCRC Article 29 (goals of education)

Well done to all the children in Class 5 who attended our annual sleepover to raise the awareness of those homeless people in need. We arrived back in school for 6:30pm and participated in shelter building using cardboard, ate soup from at soup kitchen, met some homeless children and made our own clothing using plastic bags. We all slept on gym mats in the hall. Well done to all, including Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Aspinall and Mr. Graham.

Remembrance – UNCRC Article 14 (freedom of thought, belief and religion)

What a beautiful Remembrance Service we all participated in today to remember all the men, women and children, and animals who died during wars. Lest We Forget.

LK Fitness – UNCRC Article 31 (leisure, play and culture)

Wow; what a fantastic display or stamina and resilience to complete today’s fitness in PE. We are all very impressed with ourselves and can’t wait to see how far we progress over the rest of the term.

Music – UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

What a fabulous day we have had with our first Ukulele lesson with Mr. Reay. It was very challenging to hold the ukulele to begin with, but we managed to keep to the beat eventually! Well done to everyone.

Gymnastics – UNCRC Article 28 (Right to education)

Super show of resilience today where we all began to enhance our balance and travelling skills in gymnastics.

Police Visit to Class 5

Class 5 enjoyed their visit from PCSO Dean. He told us all about Anti-Social Behaviour, being safe online and how we, as a right respecting school, can ensure that everyone feels respected and valued within our community as well as our school. Thank you for your visit.

Homework – wb: 31.10.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Literacy. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham

Bam & Alnwick Homework – Narrative – 31.10.22

Lumley & Lind Homework – Narrative – 31.10.22

Raby Homework – Narrative – 31.10.22

Welcome Back

This half term in Class 5, we are looking forward to learning about our new topic – Allotment… Let’s grow! A crispy carrot, a luscious lettuce or a tasty tomato. Dig deep and put your back into it, making your own tubs and planters and nurturing your greens. Harvest your crops and make soups and dishes of seasonal foods that taste delicious. Learn about farms and where food comes from, writing reports on wide produce. Discover which allotments are closest to your school and open the door to the secret garden. After all your hard work, have your fingers gone green? Allotment – 31.10.22

Year 6 to Year 7 transition experience – 20.10.22

A wonderful experience by all our Year 6s today when we went to Durham Federation to participate in a Literacy and Numeracy lesson in a Key Stage 3 setting. We met some of the teachers, pupils, had lessons in their classrooms and even had dinner in the canteen. Fantastic Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Homework – wb: 17.10.22

Homework – wb: 10.10.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Maths. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Aln – Maths Homework – 10.10.22 Bam – Maths Homework – 10.10.22 Lindisfarne – Maths Homework – 10.10.22 Lumley – Maths Homework – 10.10.22 Raby – Maths Homework – 10.10.22

Forest School – 28.9.22

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

What another wonderful session we have had today in our second Forest School session; knots. We didn’t realise how many different types of knots there are! Fantastic rights respecting gold ethos demonstrated by all of our wonderful children.

VR Headsets – 27.9.22

UNCRC Article 17 – access to media

We are very excited to be the recipients of a class set of VR Headsets for a two week period to aid us in our curriculum. Delivered for today, we have already used them to explore the Galápagos Islands and look at some of the wildlife in our Cornerstone Curriculum – Darwin’s Delights.

Homework – wb: 27.9.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Science. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Bam. & Aln – Science Homework – 26.9.22 Lind – Science Homework – 26.9.22 Lum & Rab – Science Homework – 26.9.22

Computing – 23.9.22

UNCRC Article 17 – access to media

A fabulous rights respecting gold effort by all children in Class 5 who have been working hard in computing to research cross curricular links (Geography) the Galápagos Islands.

Forest School – 21.9.22

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

Just fantastic…today we started our Forest School with some creative artwork using natural resources found in the great outdoors. All our children demonstrated rights respecting gold determination and desire to create fabulous team creations. Well done to everyone.

Homework – wb: 19.9.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Numeracy. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Maths – Alnwick – AL AH HH – 19.9.22 Maths – Alnwick – IR GA – 19.9.22 Maths – Bamburgh + LO – 19.9.22 Maths – Lindisfarne + DG – 19.9.22 Maths – Lumley – 19.9.22 Maths – Raby – 19.9.22

PE – Rugby – 17.9.22

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

What a fabulous lesson we have all had today with our rugby coach Mark. We just love the determination and desire to succeed in our competitive sport – well done everyone.

PE – LK Fitness – 15.9.22

UNCRC Article 28 – goals of education

What resilience and desire demonstrated by all to succeed in our PE today when we completed our first fitness session with Leanne. Fantastic Rights Respecting Gold ethos shown by all.

Cornerstones Curriculum Engagement

Liz Million – 12.9.22

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

A perfect way to start our new Cornerstone Curriculum – Darwin’s Delight – with a visit from our favourite illustrator Liz Million. We all discussed the Galápagos Islands and the types of plantation, geology and wildlife that could and can be found there, whilst learning how to draw specific animals. Well done everyone.

Homework – wb: 12.9.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Literacy. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Alnwick & Bamburgh 100 Word Story Setting – 12.9.22 Lumley & Lindisfarne 75 Word Story Setting – 12.9.22 Raby 50 Word Story Setting – 12.9.22 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 – Darwin’s Delights… Ship ahoy! We’re off on an exciting expedition with Charles Darwin and his crew on HMS Beagle. Can you trace his route across the vast ocean? Stop at the magical Galapagos Islands to see the amazing species that helped Darwin develop his theory of evolution by natural selection. Do you know what’s so special about a lava lizard, or why the blue-footed booby has blue feet? Imagine how humans will evolve in millions of years; it’s a scary thought! Ready to trace the origin of species? Let’s set sail! As well as our topic, the children will develop their rugby 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 Tuesday and Wednesday – please look-out for the club letters that will be handed out soon. 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 Thursday 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. 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 Deputy Head Teacher c.graham201@nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk Welcome to Class 5 & Darwin’s Delights – 7.9.22

Welcome to Class 5 Class Activities 2021-2022

Year 6 Leaver’s Assembly

Not a dry eye in the building this morning where we welcomed family and friends to say a final good to our wonderful Year 6s. Some beautiful messages from Mrs Lee and a memorable Irish Blessing from Class 1. Well done everyone.

Year 6 Prom

Just look at our Year 6 children: we are all so very proud of how you have all developed into the young people you are. To top off a fabulous year, we all got dressed up and celebrated in style with our Summer Prom for Year 6. Well done Year 6s. Remember to fly high and achieve your dreams.

TT Rockstars Celebration Day 15.7.22

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and culture

What a fabulous day we have had our to celebrate our TT Rockstars. We demonstrated our Rights Respecting Gold ethos by hosting our Celebration Assembly, then 14 lucky TT Rockstars went aboard the Boombus to experience the life of a rockstar visiting the Angel of the North and the sights of the Quayside. Back in school, our children have had a wonderful time solving Reasoning Problems, showing variance in their calculations and then enjoying an in house disco. Well done to all our fabulous children.

Day 3 at Robinwood – 8.7.22

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Day 2 at Robinwood – 7.7.22

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and culture

Another wonderful sunny afternoon at RW: activities including canoeing; Quest; Zip Line and to name a few have been successfully completed by our adventurous children…fantastic Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all 👍👍

A fabulous morning had by all here on Day 2 @ Robinwood. Piranha Pool, Archery, Zip Line and Trapeze are just some of the activities we’ve completed this morning. We’ve just had dinner and sang Happy Birthday to our Birthday Girl Maisie🎉

A super night by all here on our residential – we really do have the best children👍 Our cooked breakfast was fabulous and we’re all off now for a full action-packed day of activities. Special mention to our birthday girl Maisie. Photos and blogs to be uploaded later👍

We’ve arrived at Robinwood – 6.7.22

UNCRC ARTICLE 31 – leisure, play and culture

Well done to all our children who have been super excited in the lead up to their residential at Robinwood. We arrived safe and sound, had lunch then straight into an action packed afternoon. We’ve tackled the Giant Swing; Crate-Challenge ; Caving; Raft-Building; Trapeze; Climbing and finished the day off by beating the teachers in our Team Challenge. Fabulous Rights Respecting Gold children.

Blogs

My favourite part was the giant swing. I was excited and I got to pull Pooh Bear! The food is excellent. Alfie I enjoyed the caving because we played lots of games. The piranha pool was also brilliant because I liked the end part where we had to cross the log; I got soaked! Harrison I really enjoyed the piranha pool because we were trying to solve lots of problems as a team. Also, the Giant Swing was class. The food is really nice. Harry I really enjoyed the piranha pool because I like solving problems as a team and working together to complete the challenge. The food is lovely. Peyton

Frisbee

We loved taking part in a Frisbee session with Jo from the School Sports Partnership.

Football with Marc

Class 5 are having so much fun with Marc learning all about football. We are enhancing our skills and ensuring we are practising our team work skills.

Forest School

We enjoyed our forest schools session this week. We all enjoyed looking at the natural materials and using them to make a bed for Stick Man … we cant wait to do more forest school activities.

STEM at Beamish

Class 5 have had an amazing time on their trip to Beamish. They had lots of fun learning all about Science and Engineering and building their crane to enter into the competition. Don’t forget that Parents and Carers can attend Beamish this weekend (9th July) to view our fantastic crane and display.

National Fieldwork Week

Class 5 enjoyed walking around our village to look at the features we could see. We were very good at comparing maps, we looked at an old map from the 1800’s and compared it to todays Google map. We spotted lots of differences!

Summer Term 2

Homework – wb: 27.6.22

Homework – wb: 20.6.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Science. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Science HW – Alnwick – 20.6.22 Science HW – Bamburgh – 20.6.22 Science HW – Lindisfarne – 20.6.22 Science HW – LUMLEY – 20.6.22 Science HW – Raby – 20.6.22

Homework – wb: 13.6.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Numeracy. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Maths – Alnwick HW – 13.6.22 Maths – Bamburgh HW – 13.6.22 Maths – Lindisfarne HW – 13.6.22 Maths – Lumley HW – 13.6.22 Maths – Raby HW – 13.6.22

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education – 6.6.22

Today we kicked started our term with a visit from Paul Cookson, a poet and musician. He really blew our mind with his poem writing skills …. we all had a go at singing our own poems too!

Homework – wb: 6.6.22 Please find below this week’s homework – Literacy. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Homework 6.6.22 Raby & Lumley Homework 6.6.22

Cornerstones Curriculum Summer Term 2 – Class 5

I hope that you have all had a wonderful, relaxing half-term and are ready for the next 7 weeks. During the Summer 2^nd half term in Class 5, we are looking forward to learning about our next topic – Tomorrow’s World! Text messages, emails, websites, blogs and podcasts. There are so many ways to communicate. Learn how to set up a class blog and build a homepage on a subject of your choice. Suggest ways to improve your school website, and hopefully the headteacher will listen to your ideas. Discover the movers and shakers in the world of technology, the people who’ve shaped the modern world. Perhaps you might be a visionary for the next generation. Build robots and circuits, break codes and investigate gadgets galore. Why not write a thriller narrative in the style of Anthony Horowitz? Then, on request from MI99, build a website for a new Spy School. What pages will it need? One for gadgets? A secret lunch menu? You decide. Let’s start today on Tomorrow’s World. Linked text: Stormbreaker – Anthony Horowitz As well as our topic, the children will develop their Football and Swimming in PE, as well as enhancing our Literacy and Numeracy skills. Our children are excited that all their hard work and preparations for the SATs will continue in preparation for Year 6 and 7 alike; extra-curricular clubs are on Tuesday and Wednesdays will continue to the end of the year. All children in Class 5 are 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 Wednesday and Fridays this half term, with swimming being on Thursday mornings. 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. All swimming kits are to come into school on Thursday morning and will be sent home on the Thursday night. 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

Summer Term 1

UNCRC Article 30 – customs and religion

What an unbelievable treat we had today when our rights respecting council delivered an assembly in celebration to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Well done to Amelia and Maisie who played the National Anthem on their violin.

Future Star in the making

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and culture

A massive well done to Marcus who participated in a football tournament with his team and won the entire tournament. You are a star performer Marcus who demonstrated Rights Respecting Gold ethos outside of the school setting.

Homework – wb: 23.5.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Enjoy. Mr. Graham HW – King or Queen for Day – 23.5.22

Vision Treats – 19.5.22

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and culture

What a wonderful surprise our children have had when an ice cream van pulled up for our Year 6s: all organised by Vision – Thank you ever so much. Even the staff got an ice cream!

PE – Dodgeball – 19.5.22

Another wonderful treat in PE where our children demonstrated wonderful teamwork, tactical awareness and a desire to win in dodgeball. Well done everyone.

Skipping School

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and culture

Well done to all our children in Class 5 this week who demonstrated some fantastic skipping skills using the resources from Skipping School.

Design Technology – Engineering – 18.5.22

Well done to our Year 5 children who created some lovely knex models that could be used as part of our Beamish Engineering project. Fabulous teamwork and Rights Respecting Gold values demonstrated all lesson.

World Maths Day – 18.5.22

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

A super effort by all our children who participated in a Guinness Book of Records attempt hosted by Baz Winter – TT Rockstars.

Homework – wb: 16.5.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Science. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Please find your appropriate sheet in the document below. Enjoy. Mr. Graham

SATs – 9.5 to 12.5.22

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

What an unbelievable effort all of our Year 6 children have had this week in the SATs: all their commitment, desire and willingness to succeed has really shone through this week. We are all very proud of you 👍 Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated on a daily basis by all. You very much deserved your End of SATs party on Friday 🎉

Homework – wb: 9.5.22

Please find below this week’s homework (YEAR 5 only) – Maths. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Year 6 remember to concentrate on your SATs. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Yr5 HW – Maths – 9.5.22

Design Technology – Engineering – 4.5.22

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

What a fabulous project that has just been presented to Class 5; we’re all to become engineers and have to design and construct a crane that is strong enough to lift a weight of 30g. Our final design will be constructed at Beamish Museum later in the term. Today we met Helen who delivered a PowerPoint via TEAMs and guided us through the Knex equipment. We can’t wait to get started.

Homework – wb: 3.5.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Literacy. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Enjoy. Mr. Graham HW – Alchemy Island – 3.5..22

Homework – wb: 26.4.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Science. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Cornerstones Curriculum Summer Term 1 – Class 5 I hope that you have all had a wonderful, relaxing Easter holiday and are ready for the next 5 weeks. During the Summer 1^st half term in Class 5, we are looking forward to learning about our next topic – Alchemy Island! It’s time to suspend your disbelief and open your mind. We’re going on a magical journey to Alchemy Island. Can you find the gold hidden deep within the island’s mysterious landscape? The only way is to study the map, unravel the riddle and begin your adventure. On the way, you must do all you can to learn about gold and master the ancient art of alchemy. Be creative and try to impress the island’s team of ace alchemists. Will they praise your scientific expertise? What if there were a video game version of Alchemy Island? Could you compose a stunning soundtrack to bring this mysterious landscape to life? You’ve got your map, coordinates and everything else you need to make your way across Alchemy Island. Don’t forget to pack your imagination. Got your suitcase ready? Then let the journey begin. As well as our topic, the children will develop their Athletics and Tennis in PE, as well as enhancing our Literacy and Numeracy skills. Our children are excited that all their hard work and preparations for the upcoming SATs will come to fruition; SATs week beginning Monday 9^th May. Extra-curricular clubs are on Tuesday and Wednesdays. All children in Class 5 are 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 Monday and Wednesdays 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, and I am looking forward to meeting you. Kind Regards Mr. Graham Parent information We’re going on a magical journey to find the gold hidden somewhere on Alchemy Island. This half term, a mysterious visitor will arrive to present us with artefacts from the island. Reading stories set in fantasy worlds will inspire our story openings. We’ll manipulate digital photographs, adding fantastical special effects. Our geography skills will improve as we look closely at maps of Alchemy Island, plotting routes and using coordinates. We’ll examine samples from the island, explore the properties of materials and experiment with changes of state. If we’re going to find gold, we’d better find out all about it! In English we’ll write soliloquies and poems inspired by the island’s magical powers and dramatic landscape. The coding programme Scratch will help us to plot and correct errors in our route, and we’ll use technology to create beautiful digital images. We’ll compose raps and use sound effects and mood music to reflect the atmosphere on Alchemy Island. At the end of the project, we’ll perform songs about our amazing adventure and present what we have learned. We’ll design a map for a new app and a board game based on our adventures. Help your child prepare for their project Start your mysterious journey to Alchemy Island at home! Why not investigate foods together that change state when they are heated or cooled? You could also visit the library to find a book to read together which is set in a fantasy world. Alternatively, create a map of your own fantasy island – what landmarks will you include?

Memorable experience	Chief Alchemist’s riddle
Innovate challenge	Game soundtrack
English	Fantasy narratives; Non-chronological reports; Soliloquies; Poetry; Lyrics
Music	Composing; Recording and editing software; Music; Graphic scores
Computing	Photography; Debugging programs; Gaming
D&T	Electrical circuits; Designing a board game
Geography	Map reading; Using coordinates; Human and physical features
Science	Properties and changes of materials; Working scientifically
Science investigations	Can you clean dirty water? Do all solids dissolve? Will it erupt? Which materials conduct heat?

Art & DT

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

What a wonderful creative lesson we have had today in designing and making our entries into Nettlesworth Primary School’s Easter Eg Competition. We can’t wait to see who wins tomorrow! Good luck everyone.

Homework – wb: 4.4.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Science. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Electric-conductors-worksheets Find-the-problem-with-the-electrical-circuit Y5 Interpreting-and-Drawing-Circuit-Symbols – 4.4.22 Y6 Series-and-parallel-circuits – 4.4.22

PE – Skipping

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

In Class 5, we were able to demonstrate our Rights Respecting Gold ethos in learning a variety of new skipping skills including: single bounce; double bounce; figure of eight…

The children absolutely loved their session with Gail and can’t wait to practice their skills during play and dinner times.

PE – Tennis

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Another fantastic lesson today in PE; we really are demonstrating fabulous skills in our racket and ball control. Another example of Rights Respecting Gold ethos Class 5.

Art

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Some fabulous efforts in our artwork today where our children are recreating artistic qualities demonstrated by the Inuit population. Unbelievable resilience and dedication to succeed. Well done Class 5.

PE – Cricket

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

A super experience today when our children participated in a cricket taster session. Well done to all for demonstrating your Rights Respecting Gold ethos once again.

Science Enquiry

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

Some super Science Enquiries today when our wonderful children were exploring the best electrical conductors. Well done Class 5.

Homework – wb: 28.3.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Literacy. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Enjoy. Mr. Graham Robert Falcon Scott – 28.3.22

Homework – wb: 21.3.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Maths. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Enjoy. Mr. Graham

PE Boxercise 17.3.22

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

A fabulous session today when our children participated in their latest boxercise lesson. A superb endurance session today which made the children concentrate on their own physical strength. As always, wonderful rights respecting gold ethos by all: well done Class 5👍

PE Tennis – 16.3.22

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

A fabulous session today when our children participated in their first tennis lesson. Ball control and special awareness today as we practiced a variety of skills. As always, wonderful rights respecting gold ethos by all: well done Class 5👍

Art in Class 5 – 14.3.22

Unbelievable efforts in Class 5 today where the children demonstrated their Rights Respecting Gold ethos to complete water colour paintings in the style of Inuit People – linked to our Cournerstones Curriculum Frozen Kingdom. Super proud 👍👍

Homework – wb: 14.3.22

Please find below this week’s homework – Literacy. Remember to upload your finished work onto DB Primary. Enjoy. Mr. Graham HW – Polar Travel – 14.3.22

Fair Trade Fortnight in Class 5

UNCRC Article 24 – Food, Health and Healthcare

What fabulous work the children from Class 5 have produced in their UNCRC lessons looking at the History of Fair Trade and How our school has evolved to ensure Fair Trade is adhered to in Nettlesworth Primary. We particularly enjoyed researching FT and organising a FT tuckshop, looking at the products sold and how they are sourced. Fantastic Rights Respecting Gold ethos by all.

Science Day 2022

Mrs Aspinall visited Class 5 and they learnt about DNA … everyone found out very interesting facts … we couldn’t believe that 50% of our DNA is the same as a banana! We then had a real life crime scene to investigate … someone had trashed the breakfast club cupboard! We had 3 main suspects, Mrs Lee, Mrs Hill and Mrs Gallacher we interviewed all 3, who had very good alibis. Only Stacey guessed the culprit …. Mrs Hindmarch!

Maths Day in Class 5 – 9.3.22

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

A fabulous surprise today when our children were taught by Mrs Morton for our Maths Wow Day! She had a wonderful treat for us as she put us all through our paces with Army style PE drills with a variety of maths calculations in each activity. As always, wonderful rights respecting gold ethos by all: well done Class 5👍

World Book Day 3.3.22

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and culture

What a brilliant time we have all had celebrating World Book Day; fabulous costumes and of course, unbelievable rights respecting gold ethos.

PE Boxercise 3.3.22

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

A fabulous session today when our children participated in their first boxercise lesson. As always, wonderful rights respecting gold ethos by all: well done Class 5👍

Cornerstones Curriculum Memorable Experience

Frozen Kingdom – 2.3.22

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

Where did that iceberg come from? Why hasn’t it melted? How big are icebergs? Is there more of the iceberg above or below the waterline? Do any animals live on icebergs? So many lines of enquiry to a wonderful topic this term. The children of class 5 had a fantastic memorable experience when they made 2 ‘miniature’ icebergs and researched how they melted. It got very interesting when salt was added! Well done Class 5👍

Spring Term 1

Art

UNCRC Article 31 – art and culture

Some beautiful artwork to finish our Tudor topic when we combined our DT picture frames with our art portraits. Beautiful work everyone 👍

Cornerstones Curriculum Showcase – 18.2.22

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and culture

What a fabulous way to celebrate the end of our Off With Her Head Cornerstone Curriculum by having a Tudor Banquet after performing our Tudor Masquerade to the school. Once again, fantastic Rights Respecting Gold ethos to all our children 👍

PE – Masquerade – 18.2.22

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

What a surprise we all had today; a visit from Henry VIII himself! He organised his Royal Court and they performed the Tudor Masquerade to the whole school. Bravo to everyone in Class 5👍

PE – Golf – 16.2.22

UNCRC Article 29 (goals to education)

A brilliant effort to everyone in Class 5 to finish their PE topic – golf. You all competed in a tournament where you displayed some fabulous skills. Well done.

PE – Archery – 10.2.22

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

What another fabulous session with Darren where the children experienced archery; a sport that Henry VIII particularly enjoyed. Well done everyone.

DT – 7.2.22

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

What beautiful DT Class 5 produced today in making their picture frames ready for their Tudor portraits of Henry VIII’s wives. Superb Rights Respecting Gold ethos again.

Player Of The Match – 9.2.22

UNCRC Article 31- leisure, play and culture

A super performance over the weekend to Jenson who collected his POTM award for his efforts in goal. Well done and a future career in sports maybe?

Future Artist

UNCRC Article 31- leisure, play and culture 28.1.22

What wonderful drawings you produce Jayden; all done independently at home. A future career in art we think. Keep up your good work 👍

PE – Masquerade – 1.2.22

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

Well done to everyone for all your efforts in dance this week; Masquerading is definitely a challenging style to master! Gemma is very proud and your Rights Respecting Gold ethos shines through as always.

PE – Masquerade – 11.1.22

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

What fabulous efforts all of the children in Class 5 displayed today; our core task for our new PE topic in dance with Gemma from SSCo. We can’t wait to see your skills develop during the term and to showcase your final routine. Well done Class 5.

Cornerstones Curriculum Enhancement (Memorable Experience) – Off With Her Head

What a brilliant day we have had: our Memorable Experience for our new Cornerstones Curriculum topic – Off With Her Head (OWHH) – with our favourite author Adam Bushnell. We looked at dragons which Henry VIII believed to represent strength, and added a variety of other animals to create a new dangerous species! Adam then retold the story when a stranger from far away killed a mythical beast by turning it to stone, and sold it to Henry VIII for a huge sum of money… this stone head was mounted on the top of Hampton Court where it is still visible today😳 Well done to everyone who truly demonstrated their Rights Respecting Gold ethos.

Spring Term 1 2022

Happy New Year; I hope that you have all had a wonderful, relaxing Christmas holiday and are ready for the next 7 weeks. During the Spring 1^st half term in Class 5, we are looking forward to learning about our next topic – Off with her Head! What sort of man would order the beheading of his own wife? Was she really that bad? The children will travel back in time to the 1500s and meet the terrifying Tudors, a domineering dynasty that changed our history. We will discover an opulent court where dancing and singing goes hand in hand with swift falls from favour – and even sweeter falling of heads! We will flex our detective muscles and become criminal investigators! Will you find out the facts or will the evidence from the past bemuse you? How will you find the accused…innocent or guilty? As well as our topic, the children will develop their dance 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 Tuesday and Wednesdays. All children in Class 5 are 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 Tuesday and Wednesdays 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. Kind regards Mr. Graham OWHH-Parent-and-carer-information

Autumn Term 2

Christmas Fair – Nettlesworth Primary School

Another fabulous example of Rights Respecting Gold from our children when they helped to organise and run our Christmas Fair. Well done to everyone involved 👍

Festive Creativities in Class 5

UNCRC Article 29 (goals of education)

How creative are the children of Class 5 being? We are making our Christmas decorations and gifts, as well as writing our letter to Santa Claus in French. Well done to everyone for fabulous work👍

Christingles – 14.12.21

UNCRC Article 14 (freedom of thought, belief and religion)

What a creative day we have all had: busy making our Christingles in preparation for our service with Rev. Michael. Well done to all the children in creating their work and understanding the Christian meaning of each part of the Christingle.

PE – Gymnastics

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

Another excellent example of Rights Respecting Gold when our children have demonstrated their dedication and determination to complete their gymnastics routines- this time to music! Well done Class 5.

Computing Coding

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

A fabulous effort for all our children in Class 5; you have worked as part of a team to create a PowerPoint consisting of a variety of slides that contain: text; word art; hyperlinks; slide transitions…

KS2 – A Magical Christmas Jigsaw – 7.12.21

UNCRC Article 29 (goals of education)

What an absolute treat the children of Nettlesworth Primary have had as KS2 performed their Christmas Nativity 2021 (A Magical Christmas Jigsaw) to EYFS, KS1 and the staff. We saw wonderful acting, fabulous singing and unbelievable commitment and desire to be the best they can in delivering their roles on stage. We are all immensely proud of your performances and we all know your parents will be when they see the DVD – due to be posted out before the end of the week. Once again, a fabulous well done to everyone.

Literacy – UNCRC Article 29 (goals of education)

What fabulous fun we have all had using and applying our theatrical skills to create our KS2 Christmas Nativity- A Magical Christmas Jigsaw . We have enhanced our acting, speaking and listening skills and singing during our rehearsals. We bet you all can’t wait to see our finished performance 👍

Hola Mexico – UNCRC Article 29 (goals of education)

Just look at the wonderful DT work our children in Class 5 have created in their Cornerstones Curriculum. Another brilliant example of Rights Respecting Gold mindset to utilise and enhance your skills. #veryproud

Hola Mexico – DT – 9.12.21

Cornerstones Curriculum – Class 5

Design Technology – Food

UNCRC Article 29 (goals of education)

What a fabulous way to share our Cornerstones topic with the rest of the school. The children of Class 5 worked with our school cook to design a menu based on Mexico and created the perfect meal for all children and staff. Well done to everyone involved and we all hope today has inspired you to try new foods at home. A Rights Respecting Gold day for all our wonderful children.

KS2 Pantomime in a Day

UNCRC Article 29 (goals of education)

Huge thank you to Matt from Big Foot Arts, who spent the day working with our Key Stage 2 children to create a ‘play in a day’ – an amazing retell of The Grinch 🙂 All of the rest of the school watched and it was truly amazing – well done 🙂

Science Enquiry

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

A super science lesson today where we explored how plants reproduce and how new plants are created. Well done Class 5 on your fabulous Rights Respecting Gold attitude once again 👍

Children In Need 2021

A massive thank you to everyone who donated to our CIN day. We have had lots of fun joining in spotty dressing up, Joe Wicks movement classes, Pudsey biscuits for lunch, hoopla competitions and beat the teachers! A great big thank you to the SSOCs and sports leaders who made the day run smoothly. We managed to raise £74 👏 Here is what Lacie-Mae (SSOCs) had to say …. For children in need day we had so much fun doing a hoopla game. We did it to raise money for children in need to help them if they need things. What we did … we got each class in turn. First we got class 1 and we did the team games. Red v blue then yellow v green. Then the winners played each other, right up to class 5. We got 2 hoops and used them. In KS2 you weren’t allowed to let go of hands and you had to get your full body through the hoops but for KS1 you were allowed to let go of hands. The prize was a sweet for the class winner and the winner out of all the teams got a chocolate bar and played the teachers. The teachers won 🙁 Article 31 – join in a range of activities.

Professor Brainstorm

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

We have had so much fun learning all about magic today …… well that’s what we thought! Professor Brainstorm showed us how incredible science is and how much fun we can have investigating.

PE – Rugby

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

Another fantastic rugby lesson today where our Rights Respecting Gold children organised small sided invasion games for rugby. It is an absolute pleasure to see your leadership skills develop. Well done Class 5.

Crisis Support Sleep Over – 12.11.21

UNCRC Article 27 (adequate standard of living)

What an experience we have all just had – a sleep over with a difference! In support to our Charity – Crisis Support – our children spent the night in school sleeping on the hall floor to re-enact what it would be like if we were to be homeless. The children made shelters from cardboard boxes, ate soup from the soup kitchen and made clothing from plastic bags. This has been a real eye-opener for the children, who all demonstrated their Rights Respecting Ethos in how they conducted themselves throughout the evening. Well done Class 5; you have shone once again.

Music – Edvard Grieg – 12.11.21

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

What fabulous fun we all had trying to recreate ‘In the hall of the Mountain King’ by Edvard Grieg. Keeping the beat whilst working together as a team really did test our Rights Respecting Gold Ethos. A superb effort by all.

Hola Mexico – Engagement – 11.11.21

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

What a fabulous day we have had sampling all things Mexico! As part of the Engagement for our new Cornerstones Curriculum topic – Hola Mexico – the children from Class 5 spent the afternoon tasting a variety of Mexican foods that would have been eaten during the Ancient Maya up to the current times. The smells from the classroom were fantastic and it was so pleasing to hear that the children were so inspired by their new tastes, they went home and encouraged their own adults to make Mexican foods. We can’t wait for the rest of the topic. Well done Class 5.

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

Cornerstones Curriculum Autumn Term 2 – Class 5 Dear Parent / Carer, I hope that you have all had a wonderful, relaxing half term and are ready for the next 7 weeks. During the Autumn 2^nd 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 rugby 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 with the Football Club continuing for those enrolled from last term. 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 Tuesdays and Wednesdays 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, and I am looking forward to meeting you. Kind Regards Mr. Graham Deputy Head Teacher c.graham201@nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk

Autumn Term 1

Cornerstones Curriculum Showcase – 22.10.21

UNCRC Article 38 (war and armed conflicts)

What a lovely way to finish our Cornerstones Curriculum Fallen Fields topic this term – a Street Party to celebrate the end of World War 1. The children made bunting to string across the classroom, wreaths and poppies to remember those who made the biggest sacrifice whilst serving their country, ate party food from WW1 (1918) whilst listening to wartime music. Well done to all children in Class 5 – you really are fabulous and demonstrated your Rights Respecting Gold ethos across the entire term.

Walk n Talk Session 6 – 22.10.21

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

What a fabulous way to finish our Walk n Talk program with Darren; the children utilised their leadership skills and organised all activities learned during the previous 5 weeks and participated in an 8 activity carousel. Teamwork, encouragement, dedication to succeed were just a few of the Sainsbury Skills the children needed to show to successfully complete their goals. Well done Class 5 on another brilliant Rights Respecting Gold mindset throughout.

Harvest Festival-14.10.21-UNCRC Article 24 (right to nutritious food)

Well done to Year 5/6 who performed an acrostic poem and presented a powerpoint on what is harvest festival. Oscar, Amelia and Peyton also spoke on behalf of the Rights Respecting Champions and Logan helped Mrs Lee with the harvest prayer.

World Smile Day – 1.10.21 – UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

What a lovely surprise we had from Mrs. Morton today to celebrate World Smile Day. We all enjoyed pizza that definitely put a smile on our faces!

Music – Keep the Home Fires Burning

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

Listen and Appraise – What do you think of this Wartime piece of music? “Keep the Home-Fires Burning (Till the Boys Come Home)” is a British patriotic First World War song composed in 1914 by Ivor Novello with words by Lena Guilbert Ford (whose middle name was sometimes printed as “Gilbert”). A new edition was printed in 1915 with the name “Keep the Home-Fires Burning”.

Hoopstarz – UNCRC Article 29 (goals of education)

What a fabulous day we all had today – Hoopstarz were in town! We all were transfixed on the challenge of hoola-hooping to the beat and managed to work up a sweat! Well done everyone.

Gymnastics – Durham City – UNCRC Article 29 (goals of education)

Another fabulous day today in Class 5 when we visited Durham City Academy to participate in the gymnastics festival. We managed to do rolls and balances individually and in pairs. Truly outstanding Rights Respecting Gold children again. Well done Class 5.

Engagement – Cornerstones Curriculum – UNCRC Article 38 (war and armed conflicts)

What an unbelievable day we have all had in Class 5: we were lucky enough to experience first hand the Prisoner of War Camp (PoW), Eden Camp. We explored each hut and researched what it was like during wartime in Britain. Eden Camp not only covers our Cornerstones Curriculum ‘Fallen Fields’, but all conflicts to present date. It was a truly moving day and our children showed just why we believe they are Rights Respecting Gold – a brilliant day by all. Well done Class 5.

Walk n Talk – Recovery and Adjustment to Change

UNCRC Article 23 (children with a disability)

Today in our first week on the Walk n Talk program, we met Alex Dewar: he was in the army when he suffered a brain injury. We learnt that Alex has had to bravely re-build his life after his injury and a big part of this was physical fitness. What a truly inspirational individual Alex was in school. He even shared his Invictus Games medals that he won. We just loved having you in and can’t wait to share your inspiration with others. Thank you Alex.

Literacy – Roald Dahl Day – UNCRC Article 29 (goals of education)

Another fabulous day in Class 5 today when we all celebrated the inspirational author Roald Dahl. We all got dressed up as a character from our favourite book and shared our stories with each other. Well done Class 5.

Memorable Experience – UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

We have just experienced a truly excellent session with the inspirational illustrator and artist – Liz Million. She taught us how to draw characters from wartime scenes and linked her artwork to our Cornerstones Curriculum Fallen Fields. Another example of Rights Respecting Gold from our brilliant children.

UNCRC Article 29 (goals of education)

Literacy – The Railway Children

UNCRC Article 29 (goals of education)

In Literacy next week, we will be learning how to write a precis on a piece of text we have read in class. That text is Chapter 2 of The Railway Children. Can you listen / read Chapter 2 in preparation for next week. Remember to enjoy. Mr. Graham

Literacy – The Railway Children

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

This term’s Literacy will be based on the novel The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit. During this week (wb: 6.9.21), we shall be answering comprehension questions based on Chapter 1. Can you read / listen to the audio book below to help prepare you for your tasks in school. Remember to enjoy. Welcome to Class 5 Dear Parent / Carer, 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 from week beginning (wb: 20^th September 2021). 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 Tuesdays 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. 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 Deputy Head Teacher c.graham201@nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk

Welcome to Class 5 Activities 2023-2024

Year 6 Prom – 22.7.24

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Year 6 Leaver’s Assembly – 22.7.24

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Leaver’s Performance – Cinderella Rockerfella – 18.7.24

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Day 1 @ Robinwood

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Homework – Numeracy – Investigations – 1.7.24

STEM Project – Science / Design Technology – 27.6.24

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Homework – Literacy – Reading – 24.6.24

Geography – 18.6.24

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

Homework – Science – Theory of Evolution – 17.6.24

PE – Football – 14.6.24

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Future Careers – 11.6.24

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Homework – Maths – Statistics – 10.6.24

SSCo Athletics Competition – 4.6.24

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Homework – Science – Evolution and Inheritance – 3.6.24

Cornerstones Curriculum Summer Term 2 – Class 5

Cornerstones Curriculum Celebration – 24.5.24

Treat Time!

Homework – Maths – 20.5.24

Well done Year 6

Homework – Literacy – 6.5.24

Year 6 SATs – Week Beginning: Monday 13th May 2024

Monday 13th May – SPAG 1 & SPAG 2

Tuesday 14th May – Reading Paper

Wednesday 15th May – Arithmetic Paper 1

Reasoning Paper 2

Thursday 16th May – Reasoning Paper 3

Friday 17th May – PARTY DAY

Homework – Science – 29.4.24

PE – Tennis – 26.4.24

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Potential Future Cyclist

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Homework – Literacy – 26.4.24

Design Technology / Science (STEM) – 23.4.24

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

Homework – Maths – 19.4.24

Year 5 at Durham Federation – 19.4.24

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

Alchemy Island – Engagement – 17.4.24

Cornerstones Curriculum Celebration – Alchemy Island

Cornerstones Curriculum Celebration – Frozen Kingdom – 22.3.24

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Red Nose Day – Funny Football – 15.3.24

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Science Ambassadors – 14.3.24

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

PE – Outdoor and Adventurous Activities – 13.3.24

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Homework – Science – 11.3.24

Science – Biology – 6.3.24

UNCRC ARTICLE 28 – right to education

PE – Fitness – 4.3.24

Homework – Literacy – 26.2.24

Geography – 28.3.24

UNCRC ARTICLE 28 – right to education

Cornerstones Curriculum Engagement – 26.2.24

UNCRC ARTICLE 28 – right to education

PE – Fitness Circuits – 5.2.24

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

UNCRC Future Careers – 1.2.24

Mini-Police

PE – Fitness

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

Homework – Literacy – 29.1.24

Future Careers – 25.1.24

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Homework – Science – 22.1.24

New Age Curling – 24.1.24

UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture

PE – Tudor Dance Masquerade – 18.1.24

Monday 13^th May – SPAG 1 & SPAG 2

Tuesday 14^th May – Reading Paper

Wednesday 15^th May – Arithmetic Paper 1

Thursday 16^th May – Reasoning Paper 3

Friday 17^th May – PARTY DAY