Please find attached the recommended activities for home learning in the event of school closure. Activity packs will be sent home alongside this document.
Non-screen activities – from Pobble
Year 5
Year 4 Skipping
Year 4 have been having weekly skipping lessons with Phil. Today, Linda came in for our Skipping School morning where we have learned lots of new skills and completed plenty of challenges! 😆😁 Now to prepare for the Skipping Festival… Continue Reading
Y5 Gymnastics
In gymnastics, the children have been working on developing their own synchronised floor routines using shapes such as tucks, straddles and pikes. They worked very hard to ensure they showed good body control. creativity and fluency in transitions. Each pair performed their routine to the rest of the class and we evaluated the performances. Continue Reading
Y5 Geography
Y5 have been learning about parts of the earth in geography. They have learned about lines of longitude and latitude and how they are used to locate specific places on the planet. They have also been learning about different time zones around the world and how to calculate the time in anther country using Prime… Continue Reading
Shine Time Cosmic Stretching
Shine Time activities started today and group of children chose to be part of ‘Cosmic Stretching’. The children all took part in a Harry Potter themed stretching session. The children listened to a condensed version of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. As the story was told the children all tried different stretching positions, for… Continue Reading
Futsal success
St. Teresa’s Under-11 side played in the second Newcastle group stage of the Pokemon Futsal Tournament yesterday. All games were fast and frantic, with a high tempo and plenty of skills on offer by all the boys and girls playing the game. St. Teresa’s drew their first game 1-1 and then went on a 4… Continue Reading
Hoops4Health Finals
One of our Year 5 teams progressed from the main group stage of the Hoops4Health programme competition and reached the Newcastle Finals on Friday night. The team played their semi-final on the Newcastle Eagles court before their main game at 7.30pm. It was an evenly contested match against a local middle school -a great achievement… Continue Reading
Area Model Multiplication
Year 5 started to learn about multiplying by 2 digit numbers using the area model. They used Dienes equipment to multiply the tens and ones and then added all of their answers together. This will help them to understand the reasoning behind formal written methods of multiplication. There were lots of opportunities in this practical… Continue Reading
Hoops4health
Year 5 have been working with The Newcastle Eagles in their Hoops4health programme. The Eagles came into school to deliver a roadshow and some coaching sessions before the children took part in a basketball tournament at The Eagles Community Arena. We took four teams to play in the tournament and everyone played extremely well. It… Continue Reading
Reading at St. Teresa’s
This week, Mr Turner and Mrs Mackenzie had the pleasure of visiting all the children’s classrooms looking at their learning environments. It was wonderful to see all the children’s work and all the great learning displays on show. Each class have fantastic areas that promote the love of reading to all our children. Children can… Continue Reading
