Year 5/6

Yesterday, Year 5 and 6 went to The Sage, Gateshead to take part in this year's BIG SING. The theme for 2010 was 'Coming Home' and the children sang a huge array of songs based around this idea. As you will see from the photos, everyone had a fabulous day and we even had time to stop for a picnic lunch in Baltic Square. Luckily, we were also able to see The Millenium Bridge tilting whilst we were eating lunch. When we returned to school, all of the children were worn out from all of the walking, singing and dancing. It was a fantastic day for everyone.

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As part of their 'Land Before Time' topic, Year 5 have been making their own erupting volcanoes. They began by shaping their model and decorating it to make it look realistic. After that, as the grand finale, the pupils added vinegar, bicarbonate of soda, food dye and washing up liquid to make their volcanoes erupt! It was great fun!

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On Monday 24th May 2010, Year 6 made the most of the sunny weather by taking a trip to South Shields. They spent the day gathering data about the area for their 'Changing Coastlines' topic.

Firstly, the children had to map the area, ensuring that they included all the major landmarks and tourist attractions. After that, they completed a questionnaire and gathered information about traffic and tourists on a tally chart.

Since returning to school, the pupils have produced graphs and tables to display the information that they gathered on their trip. As a result, they have been really surprised by the contrast between South Shields and Wardley despite how close they are in location. The Year 6's have been able to draw conclusions about the way that tourisn shapes an area and how local people can contribute to this.

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Today Year 6 visited Durham County Cricket Ground as part of one of their literacy projects. For the past four weeks, they have been writing their own post-match reports about last year's County Championship final in which Durham won. During their visit today, they filmed their reports in the Sky Sports box as well as having a tour of the ground. Everyone had a great morning and the trip made a lovely end to the term.

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On Thursday 18th March 2010, the Year Six children were lucky enough to have a visit from Will Gidman, a professional cricketer, who plays for Durham. The children were able to ask questions (there were some excellent ones!) and Will told us about his life as a professional sportsperson.

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During the Spring term, the year 5/6 children will be imagining what the life be like in the Year 3000. Click on the link to find out what the children will be learning about.

Spring 2 'Year 3000' Parent info.doc

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Today in English, Year 6 have been pitching their product ideas to their very own set of Dragons. All week they have been writing a persuasive piece to convince the panel to 'make an offer' for their chocolate teapot. This morning they used their own list of reasons to try to convince the team of Dragons. Some pitches received generous offers whilst others were given feedback about how to improve their ideas.
The pupils and teacher (Mrs Wallace) all had a really enjoyable time during the role play activity.

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On Wednesday 16th December 2009, Year 5 and 6 had an amazing afternoon of dancing, singing and playing games to celebrate Christmas. An excellent time was had by all.

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On Thursday 19th November until Thursday 10th December, Wardley Primary School will be delivering an exciting and new Maths Family Learning course to parents, carers, grandparents or any other family members of children in Year 5.

It is a highly recommended course for Year 5 parents as it will help you and your child prepare for the SAT's next year.

The course has a variety of aims, including: developing parents/ carers knowledge and understanding of how and what their children will be learning at school, learning how to understand and complete tricky calculations and strategies to help your child at home. There will be opportunities for you to make your own fun resources to use with your child to help further their learning. The course also enables parents/carers to brush up on their own skills in a friendly and relaxed environment. If you wish, there is also the option to carry on the course longer and gain your own qualification.

The course begins on Thursday 19th November and runs from 2-4pm at Wardley Primary School. After school, your child will come along and join in the learning and it is a chance for you to share the new resources you have made with them.

Everyone is welcome - parents, carers, grandparents and other family members! Please click on the link below for further information or see Miss Gillie.
Wardley maths flyer 11.09.doc

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On Wednesday 10th June, Year 5 and 6 took part in the 2009 St Oswald's Hospice Sponsored Walk. The event took place at Gateshead International Stadium and the children (and teachers) were required to walk 4km for charity. Prior to the day, they each gathered sponsors which will now be collected and donated to St Oswald's Hospice. All of the children had a fantastic day and luckily it stayed dry.

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The Year 5/6 cricket team finished top of their league at the ASDA Kwik Cricket Festival at Felling Cricket Club. The children played four games and won each match comfortably. We ran out of time to play the winners of the other league to see who would represent Gateshead in the Kwik Cricket Finals. Unfortunately, the other team, Lingey House, had scored a greater number of runs over their four matches, therefore they got through to the finals. Mr Evans was delighted with the performace of the children, especially that of the three female members of the team, whose cricketing skills have significantly improved over the year. A teacher from Bede School commented on the very sporting nature of the Wardley team, She was really impressed with how the children encouraged each other and also the other teams that they played.

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To celebrate the end of SATs, Year 6 went on a trip to Whickham Thorns Activity Centre. Throughout the day, the children were split into four groups and they took part in a carousel of exciting activities. The activities were snow-tubes, rock-climbing, the assault course and archery.

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This week, as part of our 'Sporting Heroes' topic, we have been learning all about the game of cricket. We have found out about the history of cricket, the equipment needed for the sport and the rules of the game. We have also been finding out about cricket in our local area.

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On Monday 1st June we started our new 'Sporting Heroes' topic. We knew that we had to expect something special as our entry point (after eating chocolate and cooking chilli) but we were not expecting to meet an actual famous professional sporting hero. To our amazement, Peter Beardsley arrived at our school with two Newcastle United Foundation coaches and we spent the afternoon learning more about fitness and the life of an athlete. In addition, we played some games to help us improve our football skills and we also learned about hydration.

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Four children in Year 5 have taken part in a lego robotics competition at Heworth Grange CLC. The children found out how to programme a lego robot to move, turn, responded to distance, sound and touch.

The children then put these skills into practise with 6 challenging activities against other local schools.

At the end of the competition, the children finished third, and received a new memory stick each. The children were very knowledgeable and they were a credit to the school.

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On the Friday before the Easter break, Mr Malik held an assembly to give out the prizes for our annual egg decorating competition. There was a winner and runner up for each year group and Mr Malik explained that it was eggtremely hard to choose the winners. "It was very clear that all of the children had tried their very best and this year the eggs were very creative and imaginative." he said.

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On Tuesday 24th March 2009, Rebecca came to visit us from Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens. She explained the water cycle to us and talked to us about the importance of water conservation. We really enjoyed the presentation because some of us had to wear funny hats with different weather symbols on them. The banner showed the cycle in a really easy way so that we could understand the journey of our water. Rebecca also told us about the importance of water and helped us think about how we could use it as an energy source.

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Year 5 made some paper windmills to see where the best location to have a Wind Farm would be.
They took them outside and as it was a windy day, there were some fantastic results!

The wind was too strong for some though.....

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The truth is not out there - not yet anyway!Yesterday the Year 5/6 teachers created a hoax to try and develop the writing and imagination of the Year 5/6 children. The 'alien' landing was staged, we used any silver objects we could find in school and made some green goo from wallpaper paste and food colouring. It was very interesting to see the reaction of the children and I look forward to reading their stories. Sorry to scare you, but it was fun!!!

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The key question of are we alone in the universe became a little clearer today!At approximately 8:55a.m. a strange phenonmenon appeared in the skies above Wardley. Suddenly it fell from the sky and crashed onto the school field. Year 5 and 6 pupils went to investigate! - they kept a safe distance away until the exact contents were explored by a representative of Newcastle University Space Development. These are the initial photographs from the scene, more detail is to follow....

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Last year the children from Key Stage One and Key Stage Two were asked to take part in a competition to compose a short poem for three stone seats that were to be made and put into Wardley Park for the community to use.

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We designed a musical instrument to play at a sporting event. We made sure that they were loud and exciting. We painted them bright colours. We think that they worked brilliantly. Take a look and decide for yourself...

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We have been learning about St Bede and his life at St Paul's Monastery in Jarrow. St Paul's Church is still standing 1300 years after being built. It was an amazing experience to visit the church in which Bede would have actually worshipped. When we visited the church we had the opportunity to become monks for the morning.

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Jane Gosling came to our school from Bede's World to show us how to use a quill pen and ink. We made our Christmas cards using the same style of writing that St Bede and the other monks would have used in St Paul's Monastery in Jarrow.
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Mr Scott's dad came to visit to tell us about his job as a shipbuilder. He worked as a joiner and gave us lots of information about what it was like to work on the Tyne.

Click on the link if you want to see some of our diary entries and more pictures.

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On Thursday 12th June 2008, Y5/6 spent the day in the Ingram Valley, Alnwick, investigating the River Breamish / Till (the only river in the North East of England with two names!).

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On the 23rd May 2008, the Y6 children celebrated their SATS freedom with a wicked day out at Whickham Thorns. Everyone tried out; snow tubing, archery, the obstacle course and climbing.

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