Classes 11, 12 and 13 showered their mothers with love by holding an afternoon assembly on Friday 29th March. Each class recited a poem and the children read a story about the meaning of Mother’s Day. Every child gave their mother a daffodil and card and invited them to eat an afternoon tea of scones and crispy cakes.

Today class 11 visited ‘The Word’ in South Shields. We had a fantastic time, learning how to use google drive, and send and receive emails. We also created our own websites around our rain forest topic. We learned how to add photos, change fonts, add buttons and maps! It was great fun! The pupils all behaved impeccably and the staff at ‘The Word’ were impressed by their understanding, listening skills and computing ability.

In year 5 we have started looking at collage. We sketched animals from the rain forest then used different types of paper, card and tissue to collage the image. We had a great time! Here are some of the examples next to a sample of the images we copied from.

In class 11 we are learning about the rainforest. We have read The Great Kapok tree which is a book all about deforestation. From this we wrote balanced argument, giving views both for and against rainforests being destroyed.

Our class novel is Journey to the River Sea. Here we see, orphan Maia, leave the girls boarding school in London to journey to the Amazon to meet her long lost relatives, the Carters.  When she arrives in the Amazon, it isn’t long before she finds herself caught up in some extraordinary adventures!

We will be writing a range of genres around the text linked to The Rainforests including;

• A character description of Maia/Clovis
• A diary entry from the viewpoint of Maia
• A set of instructions
• A description of the rainforest
• An adventure narrative

As part of their art project this term, Year 5 have been doing some sketching – they have done mirror image pictures to copy the other side. For this we chose to sketch Hitler as it tied in with our topic work. We have also sketched detailed portraits of ourselves and drawn some still life images

Year 5 have been investigating …Why do we celebrate Remembrance Day?

We have –

• Found out why we have Remembrance day
• Investigated what the Royal British Legion is and what they do as a charity
• Found out why the poppy is used

We also did an assembly for the rest of the school –

On Friday 9^th November, Year 5 held a Remembrance Day assembly to remember those who have died sacrificing their lives, and to those who have fought and gave their lives for the rest of us and our future. As a school we held a minutes silence to think about those who have fought and died to give us the freedom we enjoy today. Children from each class then came and laid a wreath at our cenotaph.

Bikeability is underpinned by the National Standard for cycle training; a government-recognised set of principles for better and safer cycling. Bikeability is an improved, updated and more relevant version of the old cycling proficiency scheme, delivered by professional instructors.

From 10-13^th September, Year 5 took part in the level 2 Bikeability programme whereby instructors helped our children develop better, safer cycling habits. Well done to all those who took part.