Welcome to class 5 Activities 2024 – 2025
Forest School – 4.12.24
A super session in Forest School today where we planted our allotments using a variety of plants, herbs and vegetables. We carefully labelled our sections and placed our structures in place.
We will carefully watch the progress over the coming months.
Christmas Tree Decorating – 2.12.24
A truly special occasion today where all our children across the whole school helped to decorate our school Christmas Tree by each adding one decoration. We then had a traditional story (‘Twas the Night Before Christmas) with the Christmas lights on.
Speaking and Listening – 22.11.24
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
A fabulous session today when we were all very excited to receive the script of this year’s Christmas Performance – A Magical Christmas Jigsaw. We all enjoyed practicing a variety of parts and even had a sing song.
Forest School – 20.11.24
UNCRC Article 28 – right to education
A fabulous session today on a very chilly, snowy day where we made super progress with our structures for our allotments.
We are using lashings and a variety of knots to ensure our structures have strength.
Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.
Music – Ukulele – 18.11.24
Another fabulous lesson from all our children on our ukuleles with Mr. Stokoe.
We are practicing very hard for our end of term showcase.
Sleepover – 15.11.24
UNCRC Article 24 – Health & Health Services
What a wonderful night the children from Class 5 have had when they participated in a Charitable Sleep Over in aid to raise funds for Crisis Support. The children enjoyed building shelters using material and cardboard boxes, a fashion show using a black, plastic-bag as they made their own outfit, and sampled soup, hotdogs and hot chocolate from our very own soup kitchen. The children settled down to sleep on the floor (PE mats with duvets and pillows) to try and envisage what it would be like to sleep on the streets as a homeless person. Well done to everyone, even Mrs. Lee, Mr. Graham and Mrs. Aspinall who also joined in the experience.
Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.
Geography – 13.11.24
UNCRC Article 12 – right to an opinion
A superb session today when the children from Class 5 participated in a worldwide debate based on the world issue – Climate Change.
We attended the online 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP29 which was being held in Baku, Azerbaijan. The children discussed a variety of ways we could help to aid the problem and how we can raise the awareness of this international problem.
Forest School – 13.11.24
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
A challenging session today saw the children from Class 5 learning how to ‘lash’ sticks together using a variety of knots. The children will need to use their knots to create their structures in the coming weeks.
Superb resilience and patience demonstrated by the children – a special mention to Jake who even showcased his potential career of a teacher when he showed his peers how to tie a reef knot.
Well done everyone.
PE – Sports Hall Athletics – 12.11.24
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
Well done to all the children today in your efforts and willingness to succeed in the SSCo Sports Hall Athletics festival and Maiden Castle. It was lovely to see such commitment, dedication and teamwork across the whole class.
We are all very proud of you.
Remembrance Artwork – 11.11.24
UNCRC Article 38 – War and War Zones
A beautiful array of artwork has been produced by some simply stunning artists in Class 5 in aid for the remembrance service to all those service men and women who have been killed serving their country. The children used their skills to create a wonderful watercolour for our whole school display.
Rights Respecting Gold demonstrated by all.
Cornerstones Curriculum Engagement – Allotment – 11.11.24
UNCRC Article 28 – right to education
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?
What a super trip we have had in Class 5 today – an excursion to one of our family’s real-life, working Allotments. It was wonderful to see the different sections to the allotment and the types of plantation and wild-life that is housed there. Our children particularly enjoyed looking at the orchid trees and the geese in the enclosure. We can’t wait to dive into our new topic and begin to design our very own allotments.
Homework – Science – 15.11.24
Please find attached this week’s homework – Science.
Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary (MY WORK SECTION) by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try to read to your parent / carer and have your Reading Record signed to show how well you have read.
PSHCE – UK Parliamentary – DEBATES – 7.11.24
UNCRC Article 13 – freedom of expression
A wonderful session today where the children participated in a debate in preparation for our UK Parliamentary Coffee Morning next week. We enjoyed debating the statement – All mobile phones should be banned for children under the age of 16.
We gave some super arguments for and against and can’t wait to have the debate with our adults.
Rights respecting gold ethos demonstrated by all.
PE – SSCo Kaitlin – 7.11.24
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
A super session today when our children enhanced their football skills with Kaitlin from the SSCo programme, to complete a series of football skills.
Rights respecting gold ethos demonstrated by all our children.
Forest School – 6.11.24
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
A super session today when the children from class 5 participated in their first Forest School session of the term. They worked collaborately as a team to search for a variety of natural resources in preparation to build a structure for their Allotment challenge in Cornerstones Curriculum – Allotment.
PSHCE – Confidence and Resilience – 5.11.24
UNCRC Article 28 – right to education
A super session today where we welcomed Louise into class 5 to discuss Confidence and Resilience and how these key skills can help us to make better decisions and succeed in life.
Rights Respecting gold ethos demonstrated by all.
Music – Ukulele – 5.11.24
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
Well done to Class 5 on their next ukulele session with Mr. Stokoe. We are really progressing with our chords and can begin to hear some lovely sounds as a whole class.
Homework – Numeracy – 8.11.24
Please find attached this week’s homework – Numeracy.
Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary (MY WORK SECTION) by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try to read to your parent / carer and have your Reading Record signed to show how well you have read.
Class 5’s Forest School
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 Structures – Mini Allotments
- Safely make a fire
All lessons will be taught by myself (Mr. Graham) and the first session will begin Wednesday 6th November 2024.
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.
Welcome Back Class 5
Cornerstones Curriculum – Allotment
I hope that you have all had a wonderful, relaxing half term and are ready for the next 7 weeks; welcome back Class 5, Year 5 and 6.
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?
As well as our topic, the children will continue to develop their Ukulele in Music, as well as enhancing our Literacy and Numeracy skills. Our Year 6 children are excited to continue their preparations for the upcoming SATs, and our extra-curricular clubs will continue on Tuesday and Thursday. All children in Class 5 will be encouraged to join in the fun on these After-School Clubs.
We are trying to encourage our children to read at least once every week at home, asking parents / carers to give a brief comment in their reading diary. Please ensure that your child returns their reading book to school daily.
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.
Class 5 will have PE on Wednesday and Thursdays. 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.
Harvest Festival – 25.10.24
UNCRC Article 12 – freedom of thought, belief and religion
Well done to all our children who participated in our Harvest Festival at the local Church with Rev. Michael; poems, songs and readings were beautifully shared with our parents, carers and families and thank you all for your kind donations of food that is now on its way to the foodbank in Chester-le-Street.
Rights Respecting gold ethos demonstrated by all.
Homework – Literacy – 21.10.24
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.
Homework – Science – 14.10.24
Please find attached this week’s homework – Science.
Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary (MY WORK SECTION) by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try to read to your parent / carer and have your Reading Record signed to show how well you have read.
Art
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
We are all very proud and impressed with our efforts in art this term; we initially sketched then used pastels to create textures through shading and smudging to recreate drawings Charles Darwin created during his exhibition to the Galapagos.
Geography / Computing
UNCRC Article 28 – right to education
A super lesson today in Geography where the children identified all factors that endangered animals and how we can help reduce this. The children also found a variety of animal species who have become extinct giving geographical reasons for this.
Potential Future Careers – Cricket
Well done to both Archie and Harry for their fabulous efforts in cricket this year for their out of school club – Sacriston.
We definitely have potential superstars on our hands and potential future Careers in Cricket.
Potential Future Careers – Judo
Well done to Jacob who has been working very hard in his out of school club and earned an unbelievable achievement in becoming a junior coach in his Judo. We definitely have a future star and a potential future Career in martial arts.
UNCRC – Fair Trade – 20.9.24
Fabulous work today in Class 5 when we identified what Fair Trade is and how we can help support this.
Homework – Literacy – 30.9.24
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.
Computing / Geography – 25.9.24
UNCRC Article 17 – access to media
Well done to all our children today when we brilliantly researched the Galápagos Islands using trusted websites.
We created an information leaflet as part of our Geography to illustrate features of the Islands.
Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.
French – Colours – 23.9.24
UNCRC Article 28 – right to education
Another excellent MFL lesson when we recap on the basic colours in French and learned a variety of new in preparation to add details to describe our clothing. Our pronunciation is certainly improving. Rights respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our children.
Homework – Science – 23.9.24
Please find attached this week’s homework – Science.
Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary (MY WORK SECTION) by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try to read to your parent / carer and have your Reading Record signed to show how well you have read.
Computing / Geography – Darwin’s Route to the Galapagos – 19.9.24
UNCRC Article 17 – access to media
Another fabulous lesson on Darwin’s Delights today where our children were given the task to plot a variety of locations along Darwin’s route to the Galapagos. The children used Google Maps as part of their Computing skills as well as their Geographical knowledge of the equator and lines of Cancer, Capricorn, Northern and Southern Hemispheres to describe each location plotted.
Well done to all our wonderful children.
Music – Ukulele – 17.9.24
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
A wonderful second lesson with Mr Stokoe today when we recapped on our chords (C, A minor, F).
We listened to the fabulous Jake Shimabukuro – Over the Rainbow.
Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our children.
Homework – Numeracy – 16.9.24
Please find attached this week’s homework – Numeracy.
Once you have completed your homework, please upload your work onto DB Primary (MY WORK SECTION) by Friday’s deadline. Remember to try to read to your parent / carer and have your Reading Record signed to show how well you have read.
PE – Rugby – Marc – 13.9.24
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
Our first rugby session of the term saw our children participate in passing and moving techniques. Well done everyone.
PE – Games – Mr. Beverage – 10.9.24
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
Another super PE session today with Mr. Beverage – indoors due to the rain – where our children developed their leadership and teamwork skills. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.
Music – Ukulele – 10.9.24
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
A wonderful first lesson with Mr Stokoe today when we began our ukulele lessons by relearning the chords C, C7, F and G.
We listened to the Beatles and have started to play Hey Jude.
Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our children.
Homework – Literacy – 9.9.24
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.
PE – Games – 6.9.24
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
A super PE session today when our children demonstrated teamwork and encouragement to work with a partner and complete a series of games in the quickest time possible. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.
Cornerstones Curriculum – Darwin’s Delights – 6.9.24
UNCRC Article 31 – leisure, play and artistic culture
UNCRC Article 28 – right to education
What a fabulous way to be introduced to our wonderful new Cornerstones topic with the Engagement – Specimen Studies. We all investigated a range of images of animals including snails, worms, gerbils, hamsters and chicks and observed their characteristics and features. We then became an explorer ourselves – like Charles Darwin – and drew the specimens and labelled common body parts. We then made a list of research questions that could help us to find out more about each specimen. Rights respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our children.
Welcome to Class 5
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 Thursday – 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 will be issued on Wednesday and returned ready for a spell-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 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.
Mr. Graham
