The Gates Primary SchoolYear 5/6 - Doves: Blog items
Doves - LGBT+ Month - Pop n Olly
Date: 9th Feb 2021 @ 4:17pm
LGBT+ Rainbow Month
As part of LGBT+ Rainbow Month in school, we were given the fantastic opportunity of sending some questions in to Olly Pike.
Pop'n'Olly is an LGBTQ+ equality educational resource used by children, parents, carers and teachers. The educational resources, used in primary schools across the UK, and beyond, to teach about equality, diversity and acceptance.
Today, we were able to watch a video created by Olly answering all of our questions about LGBT and his resources.
The children loved it - here is what some of them said:
Isabella- "I liked this video and I learnt that you can be anything you want to be as long as you are happy,"
Erin - "Olly's video taught more about LGBT+ and that everyone is equal. The books are great to teach more about the LGBT+ community,"
Oliver - "I learnt aht we need to accept how people feel and we should accept that. I also learnt that it doesn't matter if you are different as long as you are happy,"
Jasmine - "I thought that the video was really good because it explained quite a lot. I also really liked the two boosk which Olly read for us, they were very interesting!"
Date: 5th Feb 2021 @ 12:00pm
Computing - Microbits
In computing this week, Doves have been developing their skill of coding with Microbits. The children were able to use coding to create a love heart and also create a name tag, where a word is formed.
They loved it!
Date: 5th Feb 2021 @ 9:53am
Weekly Awards
⭐️Star of the Week⭐️
My star of the week this week is for Lilly! Lilly has been an all-round superstar in class this week. She has shown positive attitudes to all aspects of school life, demonstrating maturity. In all lessons, she has put in 100% effort, growing in confident through consistently demonstrating resilience.
Spelling Award
The spelling award goes to Heidi this week for practising consistently every day!
TT Rockstars Award
This week the winner is Kailtyn for always practising her times tables.
Reading Solutions
Well done to the following children, who have this week moved up a level on their Reading Plus- Oliver Bl and Ellie.
Reading Challenge
Well done to Emelia who has won the reading challenge this week for reading 5 times.
Date: 5th Feb 2021 @ 7:59am
Home Learning:
Another week of home learning, Seesaw activities and amazing outcomes from the Dove Class:
We have covered a lot this week:
Understanding and writing figurative language(Writing)
Learning some tricky Fraction work (Maths)
Analysing Christian Christmas Adverts (R.E)
What is a raw material? (Science)
Understanding and explainingt the water cycle (Geography).
Keep up the hard work Doves!
Here are a selection of work from those lessons!
Date: 29th Jan 2021 @ 9:42am
Weekly Awards
⭐️Star of the Week⭐️
My star of the week this week is for Kate! Despite learning from home, Kate has continued to be a role model with her positive attitudes to her learning. She engages with all home learning, morning tasks, afternoon, and extra curricular, submitting exceptional outcomes to all. She has shown a consistent positive attitude to her learn and a drive to continue developing.
Spelling Award
The spelling award goes to Clayton this week. Clayton has completed 61 spellings games this week!
TT Rockstars Award
This week the winner is Abigail. Abigail has spent 2m and 49s on average every day practising her times tables.
Reading Solutions
Well done to the following children, who have this week moved up a level on their Reading Plus- Heidi, Jasmine, Aoife and Henry!
Reading Challenge
Well done to Lucy who has won the reading challenge this week for reading 5 times.
Date: 28th Jan 2021 @ 1:56pm
Home Learning:
Another week of home learning, Seesaw activities and amazing outcomes from the Dove Class:
We have covered a lot this week:
Writing up our Fairy Tale Newspaper Report (Writing)
Learning some tricky Maths - Fractions
Become investigative journalists, interviewing Mary and Joseph (R.E)
What makes something pure? (Science)
Create a modelled example showing the journey of a river (Geography).
Keep up the hard work Doves!
Here are a selection of work from those lessons!
Date: 26th Jan 2021 @ 2:33pm
Computing - Sequencing
This afternoon in Computing we learnt the term sequencing. We learnt that sequencing is a set of instructions which must be carrid out in the correct order. If the sequence is carried out in a different order, the outcome changes.
We looked at how we could apply our knowledge of sequencing to Scratch and 2Logo. We looked at the coding and discussed how we could use it to sequence a shape.
Here are some examples:
Date: 26th Jan 2021 @ 2:27pm
P.E - Fitter Future
As it rained this afternoon, we brought our P.E into the classroom.
We used Fitter Future to follow some tiring yet motivating workouts. The children worked super hard and most definitely needed a lie down after it!
Date: 22nd Jan 2021 @ 2:50pm
Weekly Awards
⭐️Star of the Week⭐️
Well done my Star this week! She has worked exceptionally hard both in school and outside of school, challenging herself in all aspects. In addition to this, she has worked hard to be more independent within lessons, demonstrating resilience towards her learning!
Spelling Award
The spelling award goes to Isabella this week. Isabella has completed 128 spellings games this week!
TT Rockstars Award
This week the winner is Rebecca for consistently practising her times tables.
Date: 21st Jan 2021 @ 4:22pm
Home Learning
We have had another amazing week of outcomes from those children learning at home. I have been so impressed by the standard and quality of work sent into Seesaw and been in awe of how hard you are all working.
We have covered a lot this week:
Writing up our Fairy Tale Newspaper Report (Writing)
Learning some tricky Maths - Fractions
Creating a wanted poster on The Messiah (R.E)
Reading a book which promotes diversity (LGBT)
Demonstrating our understanding of a river (Geography).
Keep up the hard work Doves!
Here are some of the outcomes from those lessons!
Date: 19th Jan 2021 @ 1:22pm
Art - The Great Wave
This term so far we have been focusing on developing our drawing and painting, aiming to recreate art similar to Japanese Artist: Hokusai.
In the first week of Art, we evaluated his work looking specifically at the colour used and the lines. In our second week, we used a range of dry media to extend a small obscure part of The Great Wave (a painting which is widely known and recognised by Hokusai).
This week, we used our skills to create our own versions of The Great Wave. We discussed the term compsition and thought carefully about the objects which we wanted in the foreground, middle ground and background.
Have a look at our drawings so far!
Date: 15th Jan 2021 @ 3:35pm
Home Learning,
I am incredibly proud of all the children who are learning from home. The work you have been submitting through Seesaw is amazing and I can see all the hard work you have been putting in to each and every activity. I am incredibly proud of you all!
Here are some great pieces of work from this week!
Date: 15th Jan 2021 @ 3:24pm
Weekly Awards
⭐️Star of the Week⭐️
My star of the week this week is for Henry! Henry has blown me away with his maturity to adapt to the changes of learning from home. He has continued to engage with all learning at home from morning tasks, afternoon tasks and extra curricular opportunities like The Gates Games. In addition to this, every day he strives to complete his work to the best standard, awaiting feedback on his work before you returns and edits and improves. I have been blow away with your maturity and hard work!
Spelling Award
The spelling award goes to Kate this week. Kate has completed 32 spellings games this week!
TT Rockstars Award
This week the winner is Emelia. Emelia has spent 5m and 51s on average every day practising her times tables.
Date: 15th Dec 2020 @ 12:22pm
Nature Documentary
For the past two days in our writing lessons, Dove Class have been creating their own Nature Documentaries.
Using their writing, the children used the iPads and IMovie to creae a David Attenborough style documentary. They have worked so hard to produce a super piece of writing and a performance to accompany it.
Head over to Seesaw to have a listen!
Date: 15th Dec 2020 @ 7:58am
Rivington Pike
As part of our Geography topic and Gates Great Expectations, Dove Class walked up to the top of Rivington Pike.
They persevered up to the top before using their new map skills to identify locations from our view at the top, we even learnt about the history of Rivington Pike throughout the trip.
Date: 11th Dec 2020 @ 2:51pm
Santa Dash
This morning, we had a great time completing the Santa Dash. As a class, we ran around the track 368 times in 15 minutes.
They showed great resilience and a positive attitude!
Well done Doves!!
Date: 11th Dec 2020 @ 2:41pm
Evolutionary Study
This afternoon in Science the children have been researching and presenting evolutionary information on an animal of their choice.
We used a range of resources to help up with this such as: the internet, books from the school library and our Science knowledge organisers.
Date: 11th Dec 2020 @ 2:32pm
Star of the Week
Week in and week out this young lady continues to work tirelessly showing a positive attitude to her learning. This week in particular, she has blown me away with her animal documentary writing where she has consistently applied all of her previous learning in a confident way, showing her true writing potential.
Keep it up!
Date: 11th Dec 2020 @ 2:26pm
Spelling, Times Tables Winner and Reading Challenge
Well done to our Spelling and Times Tables Winner who have worked amazingly this week, ensuring to practise their tasks daily.
Also, a big well done to our Reading Challenge winner who has consistently read and achieved 5 reading comprehensions a week!
Date: 4th Dec 2020 @ 2:50pm
Design and Technology
This afternoon, we continued to develop our skills of mechanisms, applying them to create our moving toy. We used the strongest material, corrugated plastic, to build our frame/structure. To do this, we used the hot glue gun as our joining method.
Following on from this, we used a saw to cut our axel to the correc size.
Next week, we will create our cam and apply the final pieces! I am so excited to see the final results.
Date: 4th Dec 2020 @ 12:26pm
Star of the Week
Well done to our Star this week who has risen to multiple challenges across the subjects. He has moved up to the next step in his Maths work and has continued to demonstrate a strong knowledge and understanding,showing resilience. This has been evident in P.E aswell, where he has shown a postive attitude towards learning new gymnastic skills and completing physical activity challenges.
Date: 4th Dec 2020 @ 12:23pm
Spelling, Times Tables Winner and Reading Challenge
Well done to our Spelling and Times Tables Winner who have worked amazingly this week, ensuring to practise their tasks daily.
Also, a big well done to our Reading Challenge winners for the last two weeks who have consistently read and achieved 5 reading comprehensions a week!
Date: 3rd Dec 2020 @ 5:03pm
Reverse Advent
Thank you for all of the generous donations we received today for the Reverse Advent Collections!
Date: 3rd Dec 2020 @ 5:02pm
LO: To draw a sketch map
This afternoon in Dove Class we looked at how to draw an sketch map.
First, we looked at what a sketch map is, we learnt that this is a representation of a map which is used to show the particular features of an area.
We then looked at what we need to include in a sketch map: Title, drawing the sketching area, sketching, key and labelling.
Date: 27th Nov 2020 @ 4:36pm
PSHE - To understand and use first-aid techniques
Today we learnt about Basic Life Support through the St John Ambulance Presentation,
We learnt about the importance of communicating details when calling for help and even learnt a mneumonic to support us - LIONEL (Location, Incident, Other Services, Number of People, Extent of the injuries and Location).
Following on from this, we looked at what we could do if somebody is unresponsive. We looked at the primary survery and the 5 steps:
1- Check for Danger
2 - Response
3- Shout for help
4 - Airway
5 - Breathing.
