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Hip hop music in Year 5.
Year 5 have had great fun playing the glockenspiels to The Fresh Prince of Bel air this week in music.
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- 19/12/22
Christmas experience at St Cuthbert’s church
Today Year 5 have taken part in the Christmas experience. They spent the morning at St Cuthbert’s Church learning all about the Christmas story at different stations around the church.Read Full Story - 14/12/22
Year 5 Playground Leader Training
This week some Year 5 pupils attended Playground Leader Training at Gateshead Leisure Centre. They are very eager to now implement their training within school.Read Full Story - 07/12/22
How were the Anglo-Saxons able to see off the Viking threat?
In year 5 we created living graphs to show when the Vikings had control over England and when the Anglo-Saxons had fought back to gain control again. We discussed the reasons for this by looking at the events that happened at that time.Read Full Story - 25/11/22
Northern Children’s Book Festival Cressida Cowell Author Visit
As part of the Northern Children’s Book Festival, Years 4-6 had the opportunity to meet Cressida Cowell, who explained how she takes her initial idea and develops it to make a gripping story! The children now have lots of ideas for their own books and characters…Read Full Story - 18/11/22
Taking on the role of Historians
This afternoon we took on the role of Historians by looking at different sources of evidence. We had to decide which pieces of evidence best suited the given statements about religion in Anglo-Saxon times.Read Full Story - 18/11/22
Children in Need 2022
We have been answering the following question today relating to Children in Need: What is Children in Need doing to support people in our local area and how can I help? We found lots of projects in the North East which have been funded by Children in Need. We were amazed by the amount of money Ch...Read Full Story - 16/11/22
NUFC Multi-skills
This week we have continued to develop our multi-skills with the NUFC coach- focussing on our throwing and catching skills trying to score as many points as possible.Read Full Story - 16/11/22
Statistics in Year 5: line graphs
This morning we have been working on interpreting and understanding line graphs. We needed to understand different statements in order to create appropriate line graphs. We also had to use the information in the line graphs to explain whether we agreed or disagreed with different statements.Read Full Story - 15/11/22
Road Safety
This week all the children at Blaydon West have been learning about how to be safe near roads and what to do to help them safely cross the road.Read Full Story - 14/11/22
Reading buddy time
Year 1 and 5 have enjoyed another session with their reading buddies this afternoon.Read Full Story - 11/11/22
Remembrance Day
This morning we took part in a very special online Remembrance assembly.Read Full Story