On Monday 22nd November, a group of Eco Warriors from West Lane visited Gateshead CLC to design their very own Eco friendly school, in a competition hosted by Open City, the architecture education organisation.

The children were given a series of tasks to complete, using a wide range of computer programs, using designing, drawing and writing skills. So busy and engaged were they, they didn't even ask for a morning break!

Eco comp.wmv

The children were given a series of advice sheets to help them with their designs.

C5 - Light.pdf

D1 - Energy.pdf

D4 - Water.pdf

D3 - Waste.pdf

Take a look below at this photostory to see what Year 5/6 got up to on their recent trip to Thornley Woods
Thornley Woods 2009.wmv

SATs Guide
http://www.satsguide.co.uk
A website that contains how-to's on nearly every subject and tips that will help you improve your score and make studying for SATS enjoyable.

ICT Teachers
http://www.icteachers.co.uk/children/children_sats.htm
The ICT Teachers site has lots of KS2 SATs practice questions.

BBC Bitesize
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/
Resources from the BBC covering English, Maths and Science.

Woodlands Junior School
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/
Includes sample questions taken from past Key Stage 2 SATs papers, as well as a whole host of interactive tests/quizzes.

Science Essentials
http://www.channel4learning.net/sites/essentials/science/index.shtml
Find out loads more about science by investigating the three areas: Choose Life, Material World and Get Physical.

KS2 Maths Tutor
http://www.legend.yorks.com/~calverms/contents.htm
Shape, Space and Measures revision.

Spell It
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/activities_y5/activity1.shtml
Interactive online activities and printable resources which teach spelling strategies, rules and patterns.

Miss Fothergill's class have been on a hunt, looking for different plants and insects that live around our school. We decided that we would like to try and make an insect using natural materials. So we went outside and collected lots of natural materials. We collected stones, sticks, leaves, pebbles, petals and lots more. Then we went back into the classroom and made some fantastic creations.
Can you guess what these insects are?

Today Y5/6 received an unexpected visit from the Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service. Paul and Lenny from the local Fire Service took time out of their busy schedule to give a talk about fire safety. Amongst other things they discussed the triangle of fire and ran through the procedures for staying safe in the event of a fire.

Below are some of the comments that Y5/6 made about what they had learnt during this talk.

Click to view pupils comments about the fire safety talk

Following our visit from Pippa Bell we have collected lots of natural materials and created our own land art. Tell us what you think. Can you guess what animals we made?

Our topic for this half term is 'A World without Flowers'We have been up to all sorts of exciting stuff. We are having a bean growing competition, growing food that we can eat (mint and parsley) and we even had a visit from Pippa Bell. She showed us lots of pictures of the different seasons of the year, we had to be art detectives and find clues to guess the season. It was very interesting.

Mrs Nugent was definitely inspired. She cut up a picture of Van Gogh's painting of 'The Sunflowers' then she gave us all a bit to copy using pastels and paint. Then we put all of our pieces together like a big jigsaw to reproduce the famous painting. What do you think?

Mrs Nugent's class have been planting beans this week. We are trying to find out what will happen to the beans. Most of the children think that the roots will grow first. Read our recounts which will tell you what happened. Why not visit our website again to see how our beans are getting on!

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