Year 6 have been carrying out a parachute investigation. Pupils chose which variable they wanted to change eg area of parachute, mass on the parachute, number of ropes, shape of parachute etc and planned their investigation to see if this variable made any difference to the fall speed. We even took 3 readings for each fall of the chute- averaged them and drew a table and a bar chart or line graph.

Sorry it has taken so long to get these pictures up. Here are year 6 from last year at Blaydon pool thinking about the old times at Rowlands Gill Primary.

Thank you to Francesca, Mrs Best, Mrs Patchett and Mrs Poad for organising the event. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Mrs Mitchell.

On the 9th of December 2009 Year 5 and 6 performed in front of an estimate of 250 people.All of these talented children had only 3 weeks to learn their lines and practice their dances. It took great courage for them to enter the stage knowing how many people were watching and with the red hot lights beaming down on them.
All of the children had an extremely nerve racking time but also thoroughly enjoyed their experience. Here's what they had to say.....
Harriet Wilson said :"I was terrified when I went onto the stage, I was mostly scared because I was one of the first people to go on! Backstage it was incredibly hot and stuffy and that made it feel even scarier!"
Our teacher Mrs Mitchell said: "It was a flawless performance and everyone worked hard as a team. The soloists sang with confidence and enthusiasm."
Hannah Grey said : "The play took alot of planning and on the night all the hard work payed off! All the parents loved it."
Mr. Nolan very kindly videoed our performance which is now on sale for any of the children and parents to buy. That was the year 6's last Christmas performance so to make it more memorable for them they did the acting whilst the year 5's did the singing and dancing. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the night.

By Sophie McDermont and Olivia Best

1) apprehensive
2) common
3) different
4) difficult
5) excellent
6) follow
7) million
8) opposite
9) passenger
10) pollution
11) press
12) slippery
13) still
14) successful
15) sunny

Weekly Spellings 30/11/09

audience
centre
medicine
necessary
silence
extremely
gingerly
thoroughly
carefully
physically
regardless
selfless
hopeless
effortless
inventiveness
castles
climbing
should
designed
surprise

Weekly Spellings Mr Andrew/Mrs Mitchell Week commencing 16/11/09

rejoiced
giggled
sighed
retorted
demanded
whispered
bellowed
groaned
wailed
stammered
quivered
pleaded
implored
sympathised
acknowledged
answered

Bought
Brought
Fought
Thought
Sought
Daughter
Taught
Laughter
Caught
Naughty
Haughty
Nought
Slaughtered
stormy
chortled

quadrilateral
heptagon
octagon
octogenarian
nonagon
decagon
decathlete
quadruple
quartet
triceps
triangular
quintet
quintuplet
pentathlon
hexagon

Year 6 had a visit from a historian to talk about world war 2. The historian brought many artefacts from the 1940's to help the experience come alive.

Check out more photos in the photo gallery- just click on the photo gallery at the top of the page.

Enjoy the memories.

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Year 6 treated everyone to a fantastic and emotional final performance today, marking the end of their time at our school. The superb acting portrayed a school reunion in 2029, with scenes of some of the more memorable moments throughout their school lives, and predictions on how some of their teachers may look and sound in 20 years time.

The performance ended in a very tearful time for both children and parents, with the share price for Kleenex Tissues going trough the roof!

Congratulations to all involved, and good luck to all of Year 6 2009!

Here are a few reminders of the event:

Sats dates are still under discussion. I will inform parents on the website if there are any developments.

Mrs Mitchell.

The year 6 children learned all about using the buses for next year when they go to secondary school. Many urban myths were put to rest about the first day at secondary school by Mr Douglas the district bus manager.
The children were taken to Hookergate Secondary School in a double decker yellow scholar bus and from there they were taken to St Thomas More. Mr Douglas showed the children where to catch their different buses along the way and at what time they leave.
The day was very informative for the children and they got a little taste of what it will be like next year. Some were thinking more of their childhood though, by singing 'the wheels on the bus', rather than their future - much to Lewis' dismay.

Year six have competed in the Asda Cricket Tournament today. Everyone really enjoyed the day and weather was perfect for cricket play.
Our A team reached the semi-final, put they were pipped at the post by High Spen's team. They came fourth in the end which was excellent.
The day was really good fun and really well organised.

River Tyne

River Usk

Year 6 have been learning about rivers this term. They have studied the River Usk in Wales and used this knowledge to study our local river- the River Tyne. The children then wanted to share all they had learned and created powerpoints of either the Usk River or the River Tyne. We hope you enjoy them.

The River Usk.ppt

Mrs Poad has done an amazing job teaching the children Art this year and they have written and performed a puppet show in Art class. The children have recorded their work and they are here for everyone to see. I hope you enjoy them as much as the key stage one classes have. Just click on a link to see the puppet shows.
The Five a Day Team.wmv
MillieMarbles.wmv
Woodie and Cookie.wmv
Cactus Juice.wmv

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An excellent website for science revision - see how well you do. Then check out the questions that correspond to the topic

Science revision

Whole Sats Papers on this website.

Whole SATs Papers

Or topic based questions on this website.

Topic Organised Questions Go into Sats revision and then past papers.

Happy Revision!!!!

my mum.wmv

Mam.wmv

Francesca -My Mum.wmv

Science SATS revision underway.

Spot the tutors!

The 'Can can' from Offenbach's 'Orpheus and the Underworld'

Getting ready to perform the 'Can Can'.

Detective McGuffin will find you!

Pippi Longstocking - a character created by the Swedish author, Astrid Lingren.

Moses makes an appearance on World Book Day.

Welcome from Mrs Mitchell

Year visited Heworth CLC today and had a great time learning more about World War 2. They've made animations of eerie blitz skies. They also had a chance to use control insight where they begin to learn how to write programs to control different buzzers and lights.
They've all had an excellent time and many thanks to Mr Jeeves and all the staff at Heworth who helped us.

Click on the pictures to enlarge.

Our fabulous athletics team were taking part in the Hookergate cluster athletics competition. May I just say firstly that the children were a delight to take to Hookergate and they did us proud behaviour-wise and talent-wise.
All the children did a great job, with some of the children taking first place in some of the events. It was pointed out to me that Francis Atkinson had completed the hurdle race in an amazing time. Very impressive! But there were many more that did really well.
Sarah Needham, the organiser of the event, deserves a massive thanks for putting on the event that was enjoyed by everyone. A team of 16 will be going on to the Gateshead Arena for our cluster. Fingers crossed that some of our children will be on the team. Sarah will tell us later next week.

Year 6 entered the basketball tournament for the Hookergate cluster today. There was tough competition from High Spen and West Lane. Our teams did really well and worked really hard; team one came third and team 2 got the fair play award for excellent fairplay during the whole tournament.
I was really proud of the excellent behaviour of all the children that came. I would like to thank Sarah Needham for organising the event; the kids loved it! Thank you also to Mrs Slee for coming along and lending a hand.

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Some parents were looking for an example of the literacy paper at parents evening..
Here's one from the SATS in 2005.
English2005ReadingResource.doc
English2005ReadingQuestions.doc
English2005WritingSpelling.doc

Here are some helpful websites for Literacy.

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/writingfun/writingfun.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/

In 6A we've been learning how to play 'Dancing around the bonfire' on the recorder. High 'D' was tricky at first but we're getting the hang of it now! If you need any help with any of the recorder notes, ask a pupil in 6A. We'll try to help you to succeed.

In 6A we have been learning about series and parallel circuits. We've also been learning how to make a motor turn clockwise and anti-clockwise by changing the direction the cell (1.5V) or battery (3V) is placed in the circuit. Our electrical circuit diagrams drawing skills have improved too.

The children have create biographies using photostory. Here is some of their hard work. More will be added soon.

Pablo Picasso.wmv

Here are some Science questions if you're wondering what you will be expected to do.
Give them a try!
Materials Level 3 questions.doc
Materials Level 4 questions.doc
Level 5 Materials Questions.doc

You will need Microsoft Word to look at these documents.

Here are some sats questions to keep your brains ticking over.
NumberLevel5Test A.doc
Number Level4Test A.doc
Number Level 3 Test A.doc

We have been studying angles this week. Here are some SATS questions for angles.
Angle Problems.doc
Try some measuring questions.
MeasuringScalesLevel3.doc
MeasuringScalesLevel4.doc
MeasuringScalesLevel5.doc

I hope this helps. More on the way, so get ready Year 6!

In year 6, we are learning about children in World War 2. The children have pretended that they have been evacuated and hate staying with their host families.
Their task was to persuade their parents to take them back. Our target is to improve sentence structure and punctuation this year. Their work is excellent.
Well parents, have they been persuasive enough? Would you take them back?
Let your children know.
Rosie Askew's Letter.doc
Georgina Arkley- Letter.doc
Francesca Best-Letter.doc
Tom Potts-Letter.doc
Megan Patchett-Letter.doc
Mathew Slee-Letter.doc

We say goodbye to the class of 2008. Here are some of the photos of the year group.
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Year 6 have spent a couple of days at our residential destination of Gibside. I think everyone really enjoyed the trip. During their two days at Gibside they had activities like pond dipping, minibeast hunts, long evening walks and orienteering. Even with all this activity, the children were full of energy for the evening time. Where do they get their energy? Although many had no energy for the walk home (surprisingly). Here are a few photos of the trip.

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Year 6 have been on a trip to the Farne Islands today. The trip was a great success and I think everyone enjoyed themselves even if some people were feeling a little seasick. We braved the sea, we braved the birds attacking and we braved Karl's projectiles. Here are a few photos to remind you of your trip.

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6M have been writing some excellent detective stories. They've used powerpoint to narrate them so all you have to do is listen and enjoy a good who dunnit????

Mark Hickey- Detective Story
Charlotte Slee - Detective Purslee and the Missing Boy
Ellie Thomas- Bad Day at the Office
Hannah Watson- Frank Sniffer- Pet Detective
Hannah Musgrove- Where is Midnight?

Children in 6M have produced some very scary horror stories. The children worked really hard to write stories that used lots of different sounds and onomatopoeic words so that they could create a scary powerpoint. Beware!!!
Hannah Musgrove- Halloween Town High
Mark Hickey- Halloween Story
Charlotte Slee- Scary Story
Emily Crawford- Halloween Story
Ellie Thomas- A Spooky Night

Hannah Watson- Hung Hair
Kaitie Dogan- The Deadly Doll
Karl Denton- The Halloween Ghost Story
Cameron Lamb- Get Scared
Georgia Telford - The Halloween Ghost Story

The children had a real treat today with a visit from Ali from the Newcastle Vipers Ice Hockey team. He came to see what the children knew about the importance of healthy living, exercise and education. I think he was blown away with the amazing answers to his questions from our children.
Dylan(from 6M) was chosen, due to his excellent improvement in attendance, to dress up like an ice hockey player. Ali also rewarded each child in the school with a ticket for the game on Wednesday the 14th of November, when they will be playing Edinbrough. We wish them all the luck in the world for the game.
Here are some pictures of the exciting visit.

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In Literacy, children have been researching and writing about famous people. They have collected photos for their biography and finally they have put together a photostory to show off all their hard work. Here's an example of what we have been doing.
Download the file to see the biography.

Roald Dahl Biography (wmv)

Children in year 6 have been studying about interdependence and adaptations of different organisms. They are learning how to create food webs using information about the different organisms. They are doing really well. Keep it up 6M!

Mrs Mitchell

What the Children say....
Mrs Mitchell is funny, kind and always helpful. Mrs Mitchell listens to us and treats us like grown-ups. She is a great teacher and she is very good at singing, art, maths and literacy. She is really good at directing our school plays. Mrs Mitchell is friendly, she is a very thoughtful teacher. Mrs Mitchell makes her lessons fun. She has a great accent and is a very fashionable teacher.