Riverside Primary Academy | Key Stage Two

Key Stage Two

Y3/Y4 Futsal Taster

Tomorrow dinnertime, the children in Y3 and Y4 will have the opportunity to take part in a game of futsal. Futsal is a variant of association football played on a hard court, smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It is usually considered a version of five-a-side football. If...

Year 6 Make Spitfires from WW2

Over the past two days, the children in Y6 have been creating clay Spitfires (one of the most famous aircrafts used in WW2). They learned lots of interesting facts along the way! Such as: The name Spitfire was taken from an old English word meaning someone...

Year 6 Receive Letters from their Spanish Pen Pals!

Year 6 were thrilled this morning to find out they had received a letter back from their Spanish pen pals, who they wrote to a few weeks ago. The children worked hard to decipher and translate the Spanish letter to English so that they could...

Ratio with Pancakes in Y6

This week, the children in Year 6 have been learning about ratio in maths. So today, in aid of Shrove Tuesday, they put their mathematical skills to the test with pancake ratios. For example: The ratio of flour to eggs to milk to oil is 100 : 2...

WW2 Rationing Recipes in Year 6

Year 6 have had an excellent day today using WW2 recipes to bake some delicious treats for each other. They made: An eggless fruit cake A chocolate cake Cheese scones - the favourite! Carrot cookies Whilst their group wasn't cooking, they produced some...

Year 5 Art and Sewing

Year 5 have been making some brilliant art and DT linked to their rainforest topic. They have been sewing a rainforest animal or flower and they have been drawing some rainforest animals. Well done Year 5!  ...

3D Shape Making in Year 6

Year 6 had an excellent time in maths today creating 3D shapes using cocktail sticks to represent the shapes' edges and marshmallows to represent the vertices. Some shapes were easy to create like the cube. However, some appeared to be a little bit more challenging -...

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let it Snow

A red weather warning was issued at Riverside this morning as a freak snowstorm covered the school yard at playtime on the last day of term. The children adapted well to the changing climate and had tremendous fun in the snow! From all the staff at Riverside...

Year 4 Woodland Walk

On the 21st November, Year 4 had a fantastic time exploring the environment and walking through the woods at Winlaton Mill. Thank You Mrs Judge!   [gallery type="slideshow" ids="21751,21752,21753,21762,21754,21755,21756,21757,21758,21759,21761"]...