Year 5 News

Year 5 Residential: Tuesday Another lovely sunny day and most of us made it around our long walk with smiles… most of us! There were some tired children by teatime. Today we found out all about the moors and how they were once used for lead mining. Can you spot us in the old lead mine and chimney?  These days …

Year 5 Residential: Monday A lovely, sunny first day exploring the countryside and the nearby village of Reeth.  Everyone is settled into their rooms and enjoying themselves!

Year 5 Residential: We Have Arrived! We have arrived safely and are enjoying our first walk to the nearby village of Reeth. Lovely blue skies, a bit of plodging and stone throwing and then we will get a well deserved ice-cream when we reach the village. Signal permitting, we will share some more pictures this evening.

The Y5 and Y6 girls cricket competition took place at Castle Eden Cricket Club yesterday. The girls worked brilliantly as a team and showed excellent sporting values. After winning lots of their matches, the team made it to the final and came second overall. We are very proud of their achievement.

This morning we all went to church to crown Mary. We have been learning that May is the month of Mary. Our First Holy Communion children have been leading the rosary at parish mass each Saturday afternoon and today they led us in a decade of the Rosary before we crowned Mary. Well done also to our graceful dancers who …

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Jubilee Ready! We have been getting ourselves ready for our Jubilee celebrations after half term with some art to make our new entrance feel patriotic and party-ready! Thank you to all our classes for your beautiful portraits and drawings.

On Thursday 19th May our Dance Club took part in the Sports Partnership Dance Showcase at Blackhall Community Centre where selected schools had been chosen to showcase their dances. Our Dance Club did such a wonderful performance again. We are so proud of what they have achieved, having the courage to get up on stage in front of over 250 …

Click the link to see the Year 4,5 and 6 Dance Festival performance. Dance Festival Video

Last week, Dance Club took part in the Sports Partnerships Dance Festival. Our children had a chance to show other schools what they had been working on over the year. Our Dance Club was made up of children from years 4, 5 and 6 and they have all worked really hard especially as they were not always able to be …

Parent Appointments We will be holding face to face parent appointments after the Easter holiday on Thursday 28th April. If you would like to make an appointment, please select your child’s class below and complete the attached form. Please make a note of the time you select as this will not be sent out to you separately. Reception Class Year …

Grown ups were treated to a demonstration from the after school fencing club tonight. Children got to show off all of the skills and tactics they had learnt in the last 5 weeks and even compete with the electrical equipment used in proper competitions. It was fabulous to see how much all of the children had grown and developed since …

Year 5 Science – Plant Reproduction In Year 5 we have been learning about how flowering plants reproduce with pollen and eggs and how some plants also create clones of themselves using runners, tubers and bulbs. It was lovely to plant some things to improve our school environment. Thank you to Mrs Parlett’s mam, Kath, who came in and showed …

A big thank you to all of our families who have been so generous in their donations this week for our Ukraine appeal – as you can see we collected a lot in a very short space of time. Mrs Kharko and some of our children sorted everything and it was collected on Friday. As a Rights Respecting School we …

Some children in Y5 and Y6 enjoyed their first experience of fencing yesterday. The qualified coach showed them a range of skills and they were able to try them out while wearing the protective clothing. They learnt the names of the swords and even had a try of using them. We look forward to see what the coming weeks will …

Today we worked with Adam Bushnell to create and describe a witchy character after exploring the local legend of Peg Powler, the grindylow who hides in the River Tees.  We read a description of the witch’s cottage and then created our own character using natural resources in our school grounds for inspiration – including mud!! We wrote some descriptive words …

Today, some of our Year 5 and 6 children represented our school in the Swimming Gala hosted by Easington Sports Partnership at Peterlee Leisure Centre. We had a fantastic morning competing in races using different swimming strokes. We won some of the heats and came 5th overall. Well done to all of the children that attended, they showed excellent sporting …

Wow! Congratulations to our amazing gymnastics stars!  Gold medals for our Y1/2 A team and Y5/6 A team and silver medals for our Y3/4 A team. Our Y3/4 B Team just missed out on medals but came third. Well done to our brilliant Y5 second place champ who will now go through to County Finals!  A huge well done to …

Today, some of our Y5 and Y6 pupils went to a Boccia competition. Both teams did extremely well and had a fabulous time. Well done on representing the school brilliantly.

Year 5 have enjoyed problem solving using multiplicative reasoning. It sounds really complicated but it means using our understanding of multiplication to solve real life problems.