Year 5 had a great time last week in York. They visited the DIG museum and found out all about the role of archaeologists and even had a go at digging for artefacts themselves. During their visit to the Jorvik centre they got to experience what life was like for the Vikings - even the smell! Back...

Year 5 have spent this half-term researching different Bolognese recipes. They then created their own recipes by adding in new ingredients or choosing substitutes.  By following their recipes they have worked hard chopping, grating and preparing different vegetables as well as meat. Some g...

Today, Year 5 took part in an online Remembrance assembly with many other children in the area. They learnt about the importance of remembrance and why it is important to remember. They each created a poppy and added a reason why we remember today and created a class display with them. Year 5 also d...

Today, Year 5 has taken part in STEMFEST in space, which has been held online today. They have taken part in a workshop all about Monster black holes led by a research associate in Astrophysics from Newcastle University. This afternoon, they found out all about space missions from a member of the Al...

Year 5 have had a fantastic day up at Kielder exploring where the source of the River Tyne is. They drew sketch maps of what they could see as well as looking at the land use and counting the number of cars to allow us to compare this with our visits to Corbridge and Tynemouth. We then headed to...

Year 5 have spent the morning with some members of The Environment Agency learning all about the impacts of flooding and what they do to prevent flooding in our local areas. We also found out about links between climate change and flooding. From this we discussed renewable sources of energy to help...