5-6 Blog
Spring 2010
Mrs Spencer's class is currently working on a school linking project. This involves our school working with two other schools in Leeds. We will be attending a joint school trip on the 5th March. We have prepared for this trip by sending boxees containing friendship chains, pictures and things about our school to the other children in the project and we are looking forward to having some new friends.
Tuesday 15th December
Today the children in Year 6 performed their Nativity play, for all their friends and family. The school hall was full to capacity and it was standing room only. A superb performance was had by all and a special thank you must go to our wonderful choir from Year 3, 4 and 5. Have a look at the slide show and see if you can spot yourself.
Week commencing 16/11/09
The children in year 5/6 have been learning about refuges. We have thought about what it is like to be isolated from others and we have been learning about the plight of children our age.
The children in year 5 have just finished reading the novel 'Children in Winter'. We have thoroughly enjoyed reading it. We have produced some excellent drama and wriitng based on the book.
Week commencing 09/11/09
On a cold autumn day, years 5 and 6 went on a fieldtrip to Otley Chevin Park. They did lots of mapwork which followed on from the Ordanace Servey work they had been doing in geography this term.
Here are some pictures:
Week commencing 02/11/09
The children in Mrs Spencer's Literacy class have been reading the book 'Children in Winter', they have used drama and writing to explore the content of the book.
Welcome to the first blog of this school year.
In our 5-6 Geogoraphy we have being learning about otley.
Many 5-6 after school clubs are great, for example gymnastics it is a great way to stay healthy and have fun.There are many after school clubs going on in school like football,art club,athletics,enterprise,cooking club and homework club.They all go on on a weekly basis.
In Mrs Hunts year 6 English class we have being learning about poetry and we have been making our own poems using similes.
Here are some pictures of our recent visit to Mrs Chippendale's allotment.
Week commencing 20/7/09
Year 6 leavers spent the afternoon getting soaked on Monday! The St Nicholas tradition of younger pupils throwing sponges at the outgoing Year 6 pupils went with a splash!
Week commencing 22/6/09
Year 5 went to an art session at Corpus Christi. A special well done to Conal who won a prize for his excellent work.
Week commencing 15/06/09
YEAR 6 RESIDENTIAL
We are having a fantastic, marvellous, amazing time on residential. Some of us are missing our families, and Mrs Young who hasn't been able to join us. (Mrs Rainbow cried herself to sleep last night), but it is nice to be spending time with our friends away from school. The food has been very nice and some of us feel sick from eating too much. Ewan has made great friends with the cows, when he couldn't sleep. There were numerous midnight feasts to be had. Shelby and Demi had an incident in the bathroom locking them out, but all is ok now. Today we have been on a long walk through fields, over moutains and some of us fell head over heels. Most of us have rolled down the hill and piled on Mr Kane.
We are feeling really lucky about the golorius weather and we hope it continues tomorrow.
We have also had the opportunity to spend time thinking about our move to high school and reflecting about our relationship with God.
Year 6.
Week commencing 18/5/09
Year 6 have been learning about what it would be like to have to go out to work. They have done some work experience this week at Thwaite Mills and Armley Mills.They all really enjoyed it.
Year 5/6 have also had a fun day out this week at Lotherton Hall where they have been able to play lots of games outdoors. Luckily, the weather managed to stay fairly dry for them.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
To all Year 6 for completing their SATS this week.
Week commencing 11/5/09
In Literacy this week, Miss Wallis' class have been writing newspaper reports about the sinking of the Titanic. In Numeracy, year 5 have been learning about shape, space and measure.
Week commencing 4/5/09
In English,Miss Wallis class have been reading 'The Turblent Term of Tyke Tiler.' We have all really enjoyed reading this book as it had lots of twists and cliffhangers.
In DT, year 5 have been making their own re-usable bags and learning to sew.
Year 5 have also had a rugby coach come into school this week and help to develop their skills for our upcoming tag rugby tournament.
Week commencing 16/03/09
On thursday Year 5 had the amazing opportunity to attend a concert performed by the Orchestra of Opera North, at Leeds Town Hall. The building and the performance amazed us all and we especially enjoyed Riverdance. Here our some pictures from our day. 
Week commencing 09/03/09
On Monday year 5 had a visit from some Firemen from Gipton Fire Station. They came to talk to use about making sure we have a Fire Escape Plan and the importance of keeping safe when travelling in a car. We did some role play and watched a video. It was a very interesting morning. Also on Monday Year 6 had a Basketball coaching who came in and helped us develop our Basketball skills.
In ICT we have have begun our topic creating talking books and so far have a variety of topics inlcuding, The Victorians, Famous Artists, Lent and Space.
In English Year 6 having been planning to write their Biography about someone they know or someone famous. Miss Wallis' class have been writing their modern day Cinderella stories. Mr Kane's class have been doing drama to help them write Ballard poems.
Week commencing 23/02/09
In 5/6 EW this week we have been finishing off our containers,take a look at our pictures below.
In ICT we have been making some 2D animations about Nursey Rhymes. They will be available for viewing shortly.
This week in French, year 6 wrote instructions for how to make crepes.
Miss Wallis' English class are reading stories from other cultures and have been reading different Cinderella stories from around the world.
Week commencing 09/02/09
It has been a very hectic term in 5/6. We unfortunately had to cancel our Victorian trip due to the weather, but we have been doing lots of other exciting things.
Miss Wallis’ English class have been writing poems, which you can see by clicking the link (Year 5 English) and we have also been writing instructions on how to make smoothies. If you would like to try some of our recipes see below.
Apple Smoothie Raspberry smoothie
The Super Smoothie Mango and Grape smoothie
The super berry burst Banana Milk Shake
Pineapple Surprise Raspberry surprise
Week commencing 26/01/09
This week we have been doing some work on Chinese New Year. Here are some pictures of our work. We are all well on with our art topic about containers and we are using papier marche to make our containers and tea pots.
Welcome to the first blog of 2009. It has been a hetic few weeks since returning to school, but everyone in 5/6 is working hard.
Here are some pictures of the musical instruments we were making before Christmas.
Week commencing 15/12/08
Welcome to the last blog of 2008. It has been a very hetic week in school. On Tuesday night we performed the KS2 Nativity Play 'Artaban'. See the pictures and listen to the songs on the Upper Key Stage 2 classroom page.
This week some children from 5/6 have been out singing at our local Old People's Home.
On Thursday we had our Christmas Party, including St. Nick's got Talent and a school disco.
Here are some examples of the talented singers we had perform at our Talent show.