Year 6 have had an excellent day today, taking part in the ‘National Life’ programme. They have discussed their nation (looking at various landmarks within this), spoke about skills needed for different types of careers, organised their very own ‘community barbeque’ and even set up...
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...
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 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...
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...
Year 5 had a brilliant trip to Sunderland Winter Gardens! They were learning more about the rainforest and they completed an art workshop drawing a variety of rainforest leaves and plants. ...
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 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! ...
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 -...
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...