Year 5 working hard exploring area and perimeter.
How many rectilinear shapes can you make with an area of 6cm2?
How many shapes can you make with a perimeter double it’s area?
What do you notice?
Year 5 and Year 6 have been focusing on Place Value in Maths so far this term. We have investigated numbers with up to 7-digits and have recapped rounding numbers to the nearest 10/100/1,000 and 10,000.
We have investigated negative numbers and their place on the number line and explored using them in context while researching and comparing average temperatures.
We have spent time ordering and comparing numbers and are ready to use our Place Value knowledge as we move onto Addition and Subtraction next week.
In PSHE Year 5 have been learning to work collaboratively. As part of this the children were set the challenge to work as a team to create the tallest tower possible (which was strong enough to balance one of Coco’s toys on the top).
The children demonstrated the ability to work beautifully as part of a team and thoroughly enjoyed this challenge.
Today our school council welcomed Jarrow MP Kate Osborne to Valley View.
Ms Osborne enjoyed a tour of the school before entering into a challenging question and answer session with the School Council.
The children did lots of research to prepare for the meeting. They asked about the Women and Equalities Committee, what they could do about climate change, how they could get more money for fun equipment in school and if Kate Osborne MP had ever met Boris Johnson !
The Student Council made a great impression Kate Osborne commended them all praising the excellent selection process the school used to elect school councillors.
We look forward to another meeting soon!
We made lovley community links with Calf Close residential home last year when pupils from our choir visited the residents to sing Christmas songs.
This year the children participated in the Hearts for Home project. Each child designed a heart with a personal message of kindness or Seasons greeting!
Today members of our school council, delivered the hearts to our friends and wished them a Happy Christmas!
Children from Valley View and Hedworthfield Primary Schools produced some stunning art work to commerate Remembrance Day 2020.
The art work was placed at the Cenotaph in Monkton Village.
We will remember them.
This week our pupils attended the 10th annual South Tyneside FAB (Friends Against Bullying) awards and we won !
The children delivered a presentation about the work that they do in family groups.
Our children were amazing, acting as great ambassadors for our school.
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.
We are delighted to announce that we have been chosen to participate in the National School Breakfast Programme (NSBP)
This support from the NSBP, funded by the Department for Education and delivered by the Charities Family Action and Magic Breakfast, will enable us to expand breakfast provision in our school and reach additional disadvantaged children with a healthy free breakfast.
