Summer

Year 5 I was so proud of you all in your performance of, 'Pirate's of the Curry Bean.' You were amazing and I had so much fun with you doing it. Learning all your lines, stage directions, song words and then performing with such confidence was lovely to see.

Some of the class have completed Bikability 2 today.

DT - Mr Gair, who is a DT teacher and past pupil, worked with the children to produce their dream homes. They looked at what an architect is, what a sustainable house would include and that their design could fit on the land they had.e

Sports 2026

Thank you to everyone who came and cheered at our sports event this afternoon. The children are a credit to you and it was lovely seeing them having fun. Well done to all the adults who raced too!

Well done to all of our drummers, guitarists and keyboard players who have been enjoying their lessons with Jay and performed to the whole school!

Bikeability putting our skills into practise on the roads around school.

PE - Handball practise.

Practising our cycling skills including how to signal and looking behind to ensure we had room to manoeuvre during bikeability on Tuesday.

Creating a Guidebook

What makes a place extraordinary, fascinating and magical? We travelled the world with imagination and curiosity to create a guidebook led by the British library. We wrote about places using guidebooks, maps and our own visual creations. Ben Shires led the event and we participated in workshops led by authors Viviane Schwarz and Rashmi Sirdeshpande.

Developing our handball skills with our coach Marlan.

National Festival of Fieldwork

The National Festival of Fieldwork takes place throughout June and we started our fieldwork activities today with a zoom visit with the explorer and geographer Daniel Raven-Ellison and Emma Espley, a consultant to the Geographical Association, who we have worked with in the past. We learned about land use and what are we mis/using earth for? We went out around our local area and explored land use and where we could make a change and why. We enjoyed taking part in all of the activities and using maps of Newburn. We plotted routes and used six figure grid references.

DT Pop up Books

In DT, we explored different pop up books and their mechanisms. We designed and made our own using sliders, rotary, pull tabs, parallel folds, moving arms and wheels and enjoyed investigating various effects and techniques.

Making honey with Mr Vyle and using an apple press.

Developing our racquet holding and tennis rally skills.

Solving problems measuring angles with protractors.

Thank you for a fantastic 3 days away last week Year 5 I was incredibly proud of you all. All of the staff at Newby Wiske commented on how caring, fun and well behaved you all were. Other instructors commented to Paige about how much they had enjoyed having you and you should feel proud of yourselves and of everything you achieved over those three days. The rest of the residential photos can be seen under parents/trips and visits/2025-2026.