Year 5 | Hedworthfield Primary School

School Council Trip to the Town Hall

8th November 2019Cathryn Henderson

Our newly elected school council from Valley View and Hedworthfield were welcomed by the Deputy Mayor for a tour of the Town Hall in South Shields this week.

The children learned about the history of the Town Hall, they created their own school crest, they participated in a very challenging question time and took a vote on whether to ban homework or not !

It was a great visit, our school council were amazing ambassadors for our schools.

Thank you so much to the Town Hall staff, Deputy Mayor and Councillors who made us feel so welcome.

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Year 5 Farm School

7th November 2019Cathryn Henderson

Our Year 5 children started their farm school experience this week. They made a journey stick as they familiarised ourselves with the farm surroundings, meeting and feeding some very interesting animals on the way !

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Dog Trust

6th November 2019Cathryn Henderson

We had a visit from the Dog Trust today, The children learned about how dogs have feelings and how we would approach a dog to keep us safe and not to distress the dog.

Maths is so much fun!

19th September 2019Cathryn Henderson

Year 5 and 6 have made a wonderful start to maths this year: we have been thoroughly enjoying revising our understanding of place value. We have used number discs and diagrams to practise partitioning numbers in lots of different ways. We have also been outside finding number bonds to 10,000 and 1 million in the sunshine. We can now find our ‘number partner’ in 2 mins 47 seconds! Maths is so much fun!

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Baby Chicks

9th May 2019Cathryn Henderson

Look at our baby chicks hatching !

Gardening Club

3rd May 2019Cathryn Henderson

The children are learning all about plants in gardening club. They have been working very hard planting flowers around the school grounds and sowing seeds in the Hedworthfield vegetable plot.

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Hedworthfield Primary Citizenship Award

26th March 2019Cathryn Henderson

We are very proud to share pictures of PC Talbut presenting one of our pupils with a well deserved Citizenship Award for his participation in the Eco Bricks project under way in school.

Years 5 & 6 learning about fossils, evolution and inheritance

8th January 2019Cathryn Henderson

This term year 5 and 6 have been learning about fossils, evolution and inheritance. We investigated our own fossils including a plesiosaur’s vertebrae and a mammoth’s molar. After observing, we began to hypothesise about the lives of these pants and animals. We also had a fascinating trip to the Hancock museum where we learned all about how animals adapt to their environment.We loved looking at the skulls and thinking about what they tell us about human evolution.

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