The USA and the Americas

22nd October 2021A Hearn
This term in Oaks we have enjoyed learning about The USA and the Americas. We have used atlas’, maps, the internet and texts to find out specific information and compared American cities with ones in the UK. Some of the terminology we have been using this term as been hemisphere, latitude and longitude, biomes. We look forward to further developing these skills in the future. As part of our science topic ‘Living things and their habitat’ we grew mould, investigated the conditions which produced more fungi, learned about different microorganisms, classified living things and even learned some fascinating facts:
Did you you there is more bacteria in one teaspoon of soil than there are people on our planet?
Eventually we produced our own knowledge organiser to demonstrate what we have learned and the scientific vocabulary associated with this area.
In our English lessons we have been reading the book Wonder and exploring complex themes such as prejudice, friendships, kindness and acceptance. We have enjoyed reading this book and looking at the different perspectives of the complex characters, as parts are written in several first person accounts.
This term we have also enjoyed integrating with Plums as often as possible. I have been particularly impressed with the support and cooperation in PE lessons and how we have all been developing our drawing skills in art using perspectives and vanishing points.

Year 6 Summer Term

6th May 2021S Graham

After a tremendous half term back in school, focusing on adjusting back into school life, we are ready to celebrate and enjoy our final term in at Fellgate Primary School. Incredibly, we will be starting our class enterprise-Oaks Jolly Lollies. Throughout the term will be doing a lot of work organising, running and promoting our enterprise to achieve our goal to raise funds towards our leavers celebrations.

Our Summer term will be all about showing what we are capable of achieving, enjoying our learning and getting prepared for life after primary school. Our topic this term is Ancient Greece. We will be learning all about this civilization, how empires rise and fall as well as comparing it with modern day Greece. Towards the end of the year we will put lots of transition activities in place to support our children even further.

At Fellgate we want Oaks to thoroughly enjoy their remaining time in year 6 and  to be ready for the challenge of secondary school and beyond.

Spring Term 1

20th February 2021A Hearn
This term we have began by looking at conflict and specifically World War 2. We have focused on the UK during the blitz and the Battle of Britain. We have explored how children were evacuated and compared these events to our own lives, looked at balanced arguments and researched important information.
We have been developing our skills using word processing and presentation software. Creating our own Google slides to present to other children in our class.
In our remote learning we have been meeting up every day to take part in live lessons, support sessions, guided reading,  assemblies, to celebrate achievement and also play games and socialise with each other.
It has been a hard time for everyone but Oaks will come out of it stronger, ready to learn and face whatever challenges there may be in the future as we prepare for transition activities in the Summer term.

Autumn Topic- The USA

3rd November 2020A Hearn

In Oaks we have enjoyed being back in school, working hard and showing what we are capable of achieving.

Our topic this Autumn is the USA. We have been learning about different American states and cities, geographical features as well as physical and human features. We have been comparing where we live to key places in America. We have enjoyed using different ways of locating specific areas and places using atlases as well as the internet and Google Earth.

As part of our topic we are thoroughly enjoying reading our class text: Wonder, which really gives us a good perspective of life in an American school and shows us how to be kind to others.

In the future we will explore key American dates such as Thanksgiving and look at the US presidential election.

Mr Graham and Mrs Holman

Oaks Lockdown Activities

30th June 2020S Graham

Just look at all the things we have been doing during Lockdown. There are almost too many to count!

 

Some highlights include:

Making a pond from scratch

Baking Thurson’s secret flapjacks

Becoming a big sister to twins!

Finally earning Black Karate Reader bands!

Sending each other letters (including your teacher)

Rescuing a blind hamster (now called Rainbow)

Doing the Great North Solo challenge

and so, so, so, so many more…

Thank you for all the amazing messages, pictures, hard work and effort you have shown during lockdown. You make me proud to be your teacher.

 

Mr Graham

 

Buddy Reading

20th January 2020A Malone

Every Friday afternoon, Acorns and Oaks meet up for a ‘Buddy Reading’ session. It is a lovely time of the week when the youngest and oldest children in the school can share and enjoy books together, and learn from each other.

 

 

 

Helping our community- Hebburn Helps

7th January 2020S Graham

This term, Oaks have been looking at helping our community and learning about a local community charity, Hebburn Helps, a foodbank which provides local families with vital, everyday supplies. It was interesting to consider others and think about how some people find providing their families with food a struggle. Collectively, we decided, after researching and doing writing activities, to do something to help.

We came up with the idea of a reverse advent, where instead of receiving gifts or chocolate each day in December, we would choose to bring something in to give to this fantastic charity. Our donations ranged from toothbrushes, pillows, blankets and canned food among many other things.

Towards Christmas, one of the co-founded from Hebburn Helps came into school to look at our hard work and collect the donations. She was overwhelmed with the support and told us first hand how our collection would be used, which moved us all.

We agreed that we would arrange a trip to Hebburn Helps in the future as it was something the children were really interested in.

I was extremely proud of the children and we appreciated the support from all parents involved.

 

Thanksgiving!

7th January 2020S Graham

As part of our topic: The USA we have been learning about the history of Thanksgiving and comparing how people celebrate it nowadays. We took the time to socialise and appreciate things in our lives which we were grateful for. We realised that there were so many things to be thankful for and that we sometimes take things for granted. It was superb way to end our interesting topic by reflecting on our learning and being with our friends.

Summer Term: Achievements and Legacies

2nd May 2019V Scott

This term we will be preparing our class to do their SATS. These tests are an opportunity to demonstrating the children’s learning, not only from year 6, but from their time in primary school.

During our lessons, we will be learning about great achievements in history and challenging ourselves to think about what we want to achieve in school and in our lives now and after primary school.

We will be learning about how people have overcome challenges and why we still talk about some achievements now.

In summer term we will be starting our summer enterprise to raise money for our leaver’s hoodies: making healthy ice lollies to sell during the hot, summer months.

This term is really about celebrating our time in primary school, having fun and creating some memories as we prepare for secondary school.