Egg Decorating Day
Y6 completed their final egg day! We had entrants such as Titanegg, Croc-o-egg Dundee and Mario Egg. The 1st, 2nd and two third places are here.
Newton Drive, Framwellgate Moor, Durham, DH1 5BG
0191 386 5400
Framwellgate Moor Primary School
Forever Making Pupils Shine
Year 6 Gallery 2023-2024
Wooden bridges
Year 6 began building their Truss bridges out of wood. The class measured, sawed and sanded pieces of wood before gluing them together to form, the first part of their structure.
Soluble or insoluble?
As part of our materials topic, the class tested to see which materials were soluble or insoluble. After this we conducted an experiment to see whether or not the temperature affected the rate of evaporation.
Dodgeball
SSP coaches returned to give the class the opportunity to show off their dodgeball skills. The children played in house teams with Green team winning in our year group. Even Mr Anderson took part!
County Tag Rugby Final
The Y6 tag rugby team took part in the county finals this week after qualifying by winning the previous tournament. The team narrowly lost their first 3 games in the dying seconds. The team were able to win their final 2 games, one of them against the eventual semi finalists. The team finished 11th in the county overall. A big well done to the team!
Cricket
Year 6 enjoyed their cricket taster session with Alex from Durham Cricket. The children were shown how to bowl the ball with a bounce, hit the ball with the bat and what happens if they ball is caught by a fielder. A great afternoon had by all.
Jump Start Jonny!
Jump Start Jonny came to visit the school to take the children through some energetic workouts. Jonny put the children through their paces as he played all of their favourites even getting the teachers involved!
Forensic Science
As part of science week, we were tasked to solve a crime using forensic science. A safe had been robbed and the children had to analyse DNA and fingerprints to solve the crime after whittling down a list of suspects. Fortunately Year 6 solved the crime and the culprit was locked up!
Bread Making
Megan from Chartwells came to help teach Y6 how to make bread. They kneaded the dough and then shaped it forming plaits, flowers and the letters of their names. Thank you to Megan for all her help.
Spaghetti Truss Bridges
We continued our structures topic by building Truss bridges out of spaghetti. The class the added weights to check the strength of the bridges.
World Book Day
Reception and Year 6 shared some books together today for World Book Day. Year 6 came down to visit Reception and brought books for them to read. Reception also shared some of their own class books and Year 6 read to them. It was lovely sharing our favourite stories!
World Book Day
The children brought in a book to share with the class for World Book Day. We had a variety of riddles, joke books, comic books and interesting stories. The children also took part in a Masked Reader, where they had to guess which teacher was reading the story while they were disguised as lemons, strawberries, horses and chicken nuggets.
The Wolf on Trial
This week, we had some visitors as part of World Book Day. The children had to listen to the arguments from the wolf and the three little pigs. The children had to decide whether the wolf was guilty or not guilty. The children decided the the wolf was … not guilty!
Y6 Cooking
Blurb – Y6 started their cooking sessions at Framwellgate Moor Comprehensive School making an apple crumble. The children made their crumble before chopping apples and carefully laying them in the tins ready to cook. Next week, its pizza twirls!
Bridges
We began our DT structures unit by testing different bridges and discussing how the weight was dispersed. The class built a beam and arch bridge first before creating their own designs.
Healthy Club
The children have been working in raising the profile of healthy foods. Two children made a fruit hedgehog using a pineapple and grapes. The children will look at new ways to use food to create art.
Tag Rugby competition!
Our Y6 tag rugby team took part in a competition at Maiden Castle playing against 4 different schools. The team won 2 games drawing the others which lead to them topping their group and qualifying for the county finals! Well done to the team!
KS2 Internet Safety
Safer Internet Day 2024 took place on the 6th of February 2024, with celebrations and learning based around the theme ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online’. This year the KS2 assembly focussed on change online, this included: Children’s perspective on new and emerging technology, using the internet to make change for the better, the changes children want to see online and the things that can influence and change the way children think, feel and act online and offline.
Y6 Archery
Year 6 were able to take part in an archery session with Darren from SSP. They were taught the basics of archery and the safety aspects of it before firing at targets with many hitting the target!
Y5 & 6 Ancient Egypt
On Thursday 25th January Year 5 and 6 had a special ‘Expert’ visit our school. They have been learning all about Ancient Egypt in their History lessons and trying to answer the question: How did Tutankhamen die over 3000 years ago? Mr Mustafa Menshawy, a University Professor and Egyptian expert, was on hand to share his experiences of Ancient Egyptian times and his theories on how the Boy Pharaoh may have died. The children were all enthusiastic and Mr Meshawy was very impressed with their knowledge and impeccable behaviour!
STEM session with Durham University
Engineers from Durham University visited Year 5/6 to discuss their careers as an engineer. In Year 6, Gary Parker discussed wind energy to produce energy and electrical power. The class got to test wind power on various different devices before seeing which wind turbine would produce the most volts in a wind tunnel. A big thank you to Mr Szyniszewski for organising the sessions.
Microbits
Blurb – Miss Kaddoura, from Durham University, began teaching Y6 about microbit. In the lesson the children were taught how to program the microbits to show the words or image they wanted. The class will continue to learn more about microbit with Miss Kaddoura over the coming weeks.
Y6 Portraits
We created one line self-portraits, where we weren’t allowed to take our pencil off the page. Before tracing kindness poems around the pines to create a different effect. After this we painted or used collage to create a background before sticking our traced outlines over the top.
Y6 Christmas Biscuit Making
Y6 had the opportunity to make Christmas biscuits at Famwellgate Comprehensive. The children measured out all the ingredients and made a dough before cutting them into Christmas shapes. The children then decorated them beautifully. A big thank you to the Year 10 students for their help and Mrs Evans for having us.
Esh Construction Workshop
On Tuesday, Year 6 had the opportunity to visit New College Durham to take part in a construction workshop. The children learnt about the water cycle and how Esh Construction company are helping to tackle global warming. They also watched a demonstration on how water is filtered before exploring construction careers and going on a tour of the construction area of the college.
Diwali
Year 6 enjoyed learning about Diwali. It was lovely to hear how some of our class mates celebrated with families at the weekend. We even had a try at making Rangoli patterns.
Mono-printing
Mrs Atkinson from Framwellgate Comprehensive came to visit Y6 again to give them the opportunity to do some more mono-printing. The children shaded Anglo-Saxon and Viking images over the top of ink. This led to the ink pressing into the other side of the page creating the prints. The children enjoyed it and the results were fantastic!
Basketball
Year 6 had a fantastic morning with Darren Curry from SSP. They learned the rules of basketball, how to pass and dribble the ball and find appropriate spaces. The children worked well as a team and enjoyed playing games against each other.
Book Festival
For our book festival the children dressed as characters from their favourite books and brought in books or pieces of text to share with the class. Year 6 dressed as The Artful Dodger, The Cat in the Hat, Wednesday Addams and many other characters. In class they shared their texts which included Greek Mythology, Dog Man Adventures and Black Beauty.
Problem Solving
Year 6 tackled a problem using trial and improvement. The class were given a set of numbers and put them into a circle. The numbers next to each other had to add upto a square number. After a number of attempts many groups managed to complete the circle.
Jarrow Hall
What a fantastic day we had at Jarrow Hall learning about Anglo Saxons. In the morning the children looked at Anglo Saxon farming and explored an Anglo Saxon village. In the afternoon they got to try on battle helmets and hold weapons before engaging in a battle of their own
European day of languages
Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed learning Spanish on European Day of languages. They learnt how to say My Name is, how old they were and greet each other. We also identified Spanish colours and numbers.
Walk n Talk
Year 6 continued their Walk n Talk sessions with Darren. This week they walked in their groups discussing answers to certain questions from Darren based around working as a team. The group then put these answers to the test in teambuilding exercises.
Walk n Talk with Alex Dewar
Alex Dewar came to start off our Walk n Talk sessions. Alex came to talk about his time in the army, his injury and his time competing in the Invictus games. After this, he took the children for some team building games where the children had to communicate with each other well to complete them. Darren from SSP will continue to take them for Walk n Talk sessions for the rest of the term.
Y6 Teams House Captain Speeches
The green team Y6s performed their house captain speeches with great success! The house captains were voted for by the other members and will be announced in the first celebration assembly.
Well done to all of the year 6 children in blue house who delivered fantastic presentations for house captains. The children put a lot of effort into their presentations and delivered them with confidence. A great job by all.
Well done to our year 6 children in red house, who delivered fantastic presentations for house captains. The children showed confidence, spoke clearly and gave good eye contact. Well done to all involved.
The year 6 children in yellow house all delivered fantastic speeches to become house captain. We are so proud of the effort the children put into the presentations and the confidence they showed when delivering them.
Well done to all!
Space Race
After looking at artwork from the space race, Year 6 chose a part of an image from different styles of artwork and created 4 different images using various materials such as oil pastels, collage, watercolours and sketching.
Password tumbler
Year 6 began their computing unit by learning about the importance of passwords, what a secure password would be and how to keep passwords safe. The children created password tumblers with different words from different categories written down to generate random passwords they could use.
Sports Leaders
Some of our year 6 children took part in sports leader training with Darren from the SSP, they delivered sessions to the younger children in the afternoon. A great day had by all!
CONTACT DETAILS
Newton Drive, Framwellgate Moor, Durham, DH1 5BG
0191 386 5400
Framwellgate Moor Primary School
Forever Making Pupils Shine
Year 6 Gallery 2023-2024
Egg Decorating Day
Y6 completed their final egg day! We had entrants such as Titanegg, Croc-o-egg Dundee and Mario Egg. The 1st, 2nd and two third places are here.
Wooden bridges
Year 6 began building their Truss bridges out of wood. The class measured, sawed and sanded pieces of wood before gluing them together to form, the first part of their structure.
Soluble or insoluble?
As part of our materials topic, the class tested to see which materials were soluble or insoluble. After this we conducted an experiment to see whether or not the temperature affected the rate of evaporation.
Dodgeball
SSP coaches returned to give the class the opportunity to show off their dodgeball skills. The children played in house teams with Green team winning in our year group. Even Mr Anderson took part!
County Tag Rugby Final
The Y6 tag rugby team took part in the county finals this week after qualifying by winning the previous tournament. The team narrowly lost their first 3 games in the dying seconds. The team were able to win their final 2 games, one of them against the eventual semi finalists. The team finished 11th in the county overall. A big well done to the team!
Cricket
Year 6 enjoyed their cricket taster session with Alex from Durham Cricket. The children were shown how to bowl the ball with a bounce, hit the ball with the bat and what happens if they ball is caught by a fielder. A great afternoon had by all.
Jump Start Jonny!
Jump Start Jonny came to visit the school to take the children through some energetic workouts. Jonny put the children through their paces as he played all of their favourites even getting the teachers involved!
Forensic Science
As part of science week, we were tasked to solve a crime using forensic science. A safe had been robbed and the children had to analyse DNA and fingerprints to solve the crime after whittling down a list of suspects. Fortunately Year 6 solved the crime and the culprit was locked up!
Bread Making
Megan from Chartwells came to help teach Y6 how to make bread. They kneaded the dough and then shaped it forming plaits, flowers and the letters of their names. Thank you to Megan for all her help.
Spaghetti Truss Bridges
We continued our structures topic by building Truss bridges out of spaghetti. The class the added weights to check the strength of the bridges.
World Book Day
Reception and Year 6 shared some books together today for World Book Day. Year 6 came down to visit Reception and brought books for them to read. Reception also shared some of their own class books and Year 6 read to them. It was lovely sharing our favourite stories!
World Book Day
The children brought in a book to share with the class for World Book Day. We had a variety of riddles, joke books, comic books and interesting stories. The children also took part in a Masked Reader, where they had to guess which teacher was reading the story while they were disguised as lemons, strawberries, horses and chicken nuggets.
The Wolf on Trial
This week, we had some visitors as part of World Book Day. The children had to listen to the arguments from the wolf and the three little pigs. The children had to decide whether the wolf was guilty or not guilty. The children decided the the wolf was … not guilty!
Y6 Cooking
Blurb – Y6 started their cooking sessions at Framwellgate Moor Comprehensive School making an apple crumble. The children made their crumble before chopping apples and carefully laying them in the tins ready to cook. Next week, its pizza twirls!
Bridges
We began our DT structures unit by testing different bridges and discussing how the weight was dispersed. The class built a beam and arch bridge first before creating their own designs.
Healthy Club
The children have been working in raising the profile of healthy foods. Two children made a fruit hedgehog using a pineapple and grapes. The children will look at new ways to use food to create art.
Tag Rugby competition!
Our Y6 tag rugby team took part in a competition at Maiden Castle playing against 4 different schools. The team won 2 games drawing the others which lead to them topping their group and qualifying for the county finals! Well done to the team!
KS2 Internet Safety
Safer Internet Day 2024 took place on the 6th of February 2024, with celebrations and learning based around the theme ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online’. This year the KS2 assembly focussed on change online, this included: Children’s perspective on new and emerging technology, using the internet to make change for the better, the changes children want to see online and the things that can influence and change the way children think, feel and act online and offline.
Y6 Archery
Year 6 were able to take part in an archery session with Darren from SSP. They were taught the basics of archery and the safety aspects of it before firing at targets with many hitting the target!
Y5 & 6 Ancient Egypt
On Thursday 25th January Year 5 and 6 had a special ‘Expert’ visit our school. They have been learning all about Ancient Egypt in their History lessons and trying to answer the question: How did Tutankhamen die over 3000 years ago? Mr Mustafa Menshawy, a University Professor and Egyptian expert, was on hand to share his experiences of Ancient Egyptian times and his theories on how the Boy Pharaoh may have died. The children were all enthusiastic and Mr Meshawy was very impressed with their knowledge and impeccable behaviour!
STEM session with Durham University
Engineers from Durham University visited Year 5/6 to discuss their careers as an engineer. In Year 6, Gary Parker discussed wind energy to produce energy and electrical power. The class got to test wind power on various different devices before seeing which wind turbine would produce the most volts in a wind tunnel. A big thank you to Mr Szyniszewski for organising the sessions.
Microbits
Blurb – Miss Kaddoura, from Durham University, began teaching Y6 about microbit. In the lesson the children were taught how to program the microbits to show the words or image they wanted. The class will continue to learn more about microbit with Miss Kaddoura over the coming weeks.
Y6 Portraits
We created one line self-portraits, where we weren’t allowed to take our pencil off the page. Before tracing kindness poems around the pines to create a different effect. After this we painted or used collage to create a background before sticking our traced outlines over the top.
Y6 Christmas Biscuit Making
Y6 had the opportunity to make Christmas biscuits at Famwellgate Comprehensive. The children measured out all the ingredients and made a dough before cutting them into Christmas shapes. The children then decorated them beautifully. A big thank you to the Year 10 students for their help and Mrs Evans for having us.
Esh Construction Workshop
On Tuesday, Year 6 had the opportunity to visit New College Durham to take part in a construction workshop. The children learnt about the water cycle and how Esh Construction company are helping to tackle global warming. They also watched a demonstration on how water is filtered before exploring construction careers and going on a tour of the construction area of the college.
Diwali
Year 6 enjoyed learning about Diwali. It was lovely to hear how some of our class mates celebrated with families at the weekend. We even had a try at making Rangoli patterns.
Mono-printing
Mrs Atkinson from Framwellgate Comprehensive came to visit Y6 again to give them the opportunity to do some more mono-printing. The children shaded Anglo-Saxon and Viking images over the top of ink. This led to the ink pressing into the other side of the page creating the prints. The children enjoyed it and the results were fantastic!
Basketball
Year 6 had a fantastic morning with Darren Curry from SSP. They learned the rules of basketball, how to pass and dribble the ball and find appropriate spaces. The children worked well as a team and enjoyed playing games against each other.
Book Festival
For our book festival the children dressed as characters from their favourite books and brought in books or pieces of text to share with the class. Year 6 dressed as The Artful Dodger, The Cat in the Hat, Wednesday Addams and many other characters. In class they shared their texts which included Greek Mythology, Dog Man Adventures and Black Beauty.
Problem Solving
Year 6 tackled a problem using trial and improvement. The class were given a set of numbers and put them into a circle. The numbers next to each other had to add upto a square number. After a number of attempts many groups managed to complete the circle.
Jarrow Hall
What a fantastic day we had at Jarrow Hall learning about Anglo Saxons. In the morning the children looked at Anglo Saxon farming and explored an Anglo Saxon village. In the afternoon they got to try on battle helmets and hold weapons before engaging in a battle of their own
European day of languages
Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed learning Spanish on European Day of languages. They learnt how to say My Name is, how old they were and greet each other. We also identified Spanish colours and numbers.
Walk n Talk
Year 6 continued their Walk n Talk sessions with Darren. This week they walked in their groups discussing answers to certain questions from Darren based around working as a team. The group then put these answers to the test in teambuilding exercises.
Walk n Talk with Alex Dewar
Alex Dewar came to start off our Walk n Talk sessions. Alex came to talk about his time in the army, his injury and his time competing in the Invictus games. After this, he took the children for some team building games where the children had to communicate with each other well to complete them. Darren from SSP will continue to take them for Walk n Talk sessions for the rest of the term.
Y6 Teams House Captain Speeches
The green team Y6s performed their house captain speeches with great success! The house captains were voted for by the other members and will be announced in the first celebration assembly.
Well done to all of the year 6 children in blue house who delivered fantastic presentations for house captains. The children put a lot of effort into their presentations and delivered them with confidence. A great job by all.
Well done to our year 6 children in red house, who delivered fantastic presentations for house captains. The children showed confidence, spoke clearly and gave good eye contact. Well done to all involved.
The year 6 children in yellow house all delivered fantastic speeches to become house captain. We are so proud of the effort the children put into the presentations and the confidence they showed when delivering them.
Well done to all!
Space Race
After looking at artwork from the space race, Year 6 chose a part of an image from different styles of artwork and created 4 different images using various materials such as oil pastels, collage, watercolours and sketching.
Password tumbler
Year 6 began their computing unit by learning about the importance of passwords, what a secure password would be and how to keep passwords safe. The children created password tumblers with different words from different categories written down to generate random passwords they could use.
Sports Leaders
Some of our year 6 children took part in sports leader training with Darren from the SSP, they delivered sessions to the younger children in the afternoon. A great day had by all!
CONTACT DETAILS
Newton Drive, Framwellgate Moor, Durham, DH1 5BG
0191 386 5400
Framwellgate Moor Primary School
Forever Making Pupils Shine
Year 6 Gallery 2023-2024
Egg Decorating Day
Y6 completed their final egg day! We had entrants such as Titanegg, Croc-o-egg Dundee and Mario Egg. The 1st, 2nd and two third places are here.
Wooden bridges
Year 6 began building their Truss bridges out of wood. The class measured, sawed and sanded pieces of wood before gluing them together to form, the first part of their structure.
Soluble or insoluble?
As part of our materials topic, the class tested to see which materials were soluble or insoluble. After this we conducted an experiment to see whether or not the temperature affected the rate of evaporation.
Dodgeball
SSP coaches returned to give the class the opportunity to show off their dodgeball skills. The children played in house teams with Green team winning in our year group. Even Mr Anderson took part!
County Tag Rugby Final
The Y6 tag rugby team took part in the county finals this week after qualifying by winning the previous tournament. The team narrowly lost their first 3 games in the dying seconds. The team were able to win their final 2 games, one of them against the eventual semi finalists. The team finished 11th in the county overall. A big well done to the team!
Cricket
Year 6 enjoyed their cricket taster session with Alex from Durham Cricket. The children were shown how to bowl the ball with a bounce, hit the ball with the bat and what happens if they ball is caught by a fielder. A great afternoon had by all.
Jump Start Jonny!
Jump Start Jonny came to visit the school to take the children through some energetic workouts. Jonny put the children through their paces as he played all of their favourites even getting the teachers involved!
Forensic Science
As part of science week, we were tasked to solve a crime using forensic science. A safe had been robbed and the children had to analyse DNA and fingerprints to solve the crime after whittling down a list of suspects. Fortunately Year 6 solved the crime and the culprit was locked up!
Bread Making
Megan from Chartwells came to help teach Y6 how to make bread. They kneaded the dough and then shaped it forming plaits, flowers and the letters of their names. Thank you to Megan for all her help.
Spaghetti Truss Bridges
We continued our structures topic by building Truss bridges out of spaghetti. The class the added weights to check the strength of the bridges.
World Book Day
Reception and Year 6 shared some books together today for World Book Day. Year 6 came down to visit Reception and brought books for them to read. Reception also shared some of their own class books and Year 6 read to them. It was lovely sharing our favourite stories!
World Book Day
The children brought in a book to share with the class for World Book Day. We had a variety of riddles, joke books, comic books and interesting stories. The children also took part in a Masked Reader, where they had to guess which teacher was reading the story while they were disguised as lemons, strawberries, horses and chicken nuggets.
The Wolf on Trial
This week, we had some visitors as part of World Book Day. The children had to listen to the arguments from the wolf and the three little pigs. The children had to decide whether the wolf was guilty or not guilty. The children decided the the wolf was … not guilty!
Y6 Cooking
Blurb – Y6 started their cooking sessions at Framwellgate Moor Comprehensive School making an apple crumble. The children made their crumble before chopping apples and carefully laying them in the tins ready to cook. Next week, its pizza twirls!
Bridges
We began our DT structures unit by testing different bridges and discussing how the weight was dispersed. The class built a beam and arch bridge first before creating their own designs.
Healthy Club
The children have been working in raising the profile of healthy foods. Two children made a fruit hedgehog using a pineapple and grapes. The children will look at new ways to use food to create art.
Tag Rugby competition!
Our Y6 tag rugby team took part in a competition at Maiden Castle playing against 4 different schools. The team won 2 games drawing the others which lead to them topping their group and qualifying for the county finals! Well done to the team!
KS2 Internet Safety
Safer Internet Day 2024 took place on the 6th of February 2024, with celebrations and learning based around the theme ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online’. This year the KS2 assembly focussed on change online, this included: Children’s perspective on new and emerging technology, using the internet to make change for the better, the changes children want to see online and the things that can influence and change the way children think, feel and act online and offline.
Y6 Archery
Year 6 were able to take part in an archery session with Darren from SSP. They were taught the basics of archery and the safety aspects of it before firing at targets with many hitting the target!
Y5 & 6 Ancient Egypt
On Thursday 25th January Year 5 and 6 had a special ‘Expert’ visit our school. They have been learning all about Ancient Egypt in their History lessons and trying to answer the question: How did Tutankhamen die over 3000 years ago? Mr Mustafa Menshawy, a University Professor and Egyptian expert, was on hand to share his experiences of Ancient Egyptian times and his theories on how the Boy Pharaoh may have died. The children were all enthusiastic and Mr Meshawy was very impressed with their knowledge and impeccable behaviour!
STEM session with Durham University
Engineers from Durham University visited Year 5/6 to discuss their careers as an engineer. In Year 6, Gary Parker discussed wind energy to produce energy and electrical power. The class got to test wind power on various different devices before seeing which wind turbine would produce the most volts in a wind tunnel. A big thank you to Mr Szyniszewski for organising the sessions.
Microbits
Blurb – Miss Kaddoura, from Durham University, began teaching Y6 about microbit. In the lesson the children were taught how to program the microbits to show the words or image they wanted. The class will continue to learn more about microbit with Miss Kaddoura over the coming weeks.
Y6 Portraits
We created one line self-portraits, where we weren’t allowed to take our pencil off the page. Before tracing kindness poems around the pines to create a different effect. After this we painted or used collage to create a background before sticking our traced outlines over the top.
Y6 Christmas Biscuit Making
Y6 had the opportunity to make Christmas biscuits at Famwellgate Comprehensive. The children measured out all the ingredients and made a dough before cutting them into Christmas shapes. The children then decorated them beautifully. A big thank you to the Year 10 students for their help and Mrs Evans for having us.
Esh Construction Workshop
On Tuesday, Year 6 had the opportunity to visit New College Durham to take part in a construction workshop. The children learnt about the water cycle and how Esh Construction company are helping to tackle global warming. They also watched a demonstration on how water is filtered before exploring construction careers and going on a tour of the construction area of the college.
Diwali
Year 6 enjoyed learning about Diwali. It was lovely to hear how some of our class mates celebrated with families at the weekend. We even had a try at making Rangoli patterns.
Mono-printing
Mrs Atkinson from Framwellgate Comprehensive came to visit Y6 again to give them the opportunity to do some more mono-printing. The children shaded Anglo-Saxon and Viking images over the top of ink. This led to the ink pressing into the other side of the page creating the prints. The children enjoyed it and the results were fantastic!
Basketball
Year 6 had a fantastic morning with Darren Curry from SSP. They learned the rules of basketball, how to pass and dribble the ball and find appropriate spaces. The children worked well as a team and enjoyed playing games against each other.
Book Festival
For our book festival the children dressed as characters from their favourite books and brought in books or pieces of text to share with the class. Year 6 dressed as The Artful Dodger, The Cat in the Hat, Wednesday Addams and many other characters. In class they shared their texts which included Greek Mythology, Dog Man Adventures and Black Beauty.
Problem Solving
Year 6 tackled a problem using trial and improvement. The class were given a set of numbers and put them into a circle. The numbers next to each other had to add upto a square number. After a number of attempts many groups managed to complete the circle.
Jarrow Hall
What a fantastic day we had at Jarrow Hall learning about Anglo Saxons. In the morning the children looked at Anglo Saxon farming and explored an Anglo Saxon village. In the afternoon they got to try on battle helmets and hold weapons before engaging in a battle of their own
European day of languages
Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed learning Spanish on European Day of languages. They learnt how to say My Name is, how old they were and greet each other. We also identified Spanish colours and numbers.
Walk n Talk
Year 6 continued their Walk n Talk sessions with Darren. This week they walked in their groups discussing answers to certain questions from Darren based around working as a team. The group then put these answers to the test in teambuilding exercises.
Walk n Talk with Alex Dewar
Alex Dewar came to start off our Walk n Talk sessions. Alex came to talk about his time in the army, his injury and his time competing in the Invictus games. After this, he took the children for some team building games where the children had to communicate with each other well to complete them. Darren from SSP will continue to take them for Walk n Talk sessions for the rest of the term.
Y6 Teams House Captain Speeches
The green team Y6s performed their house captain speeches with great success! The house captains were voted for by the other members and will be announced in the first celebration assembly.
Well done to all of the year 6 children in blue house who delivered fantastic presentations for house captains. The children put a lot of effort into their presentations and delivered them with confidence. A great job by all.
Well done to our year 6 children in red house, who delivered fantastic presentations for house captains. The children showed confidence, spoke clearly and gave good eye contact. Well done to all involved.
The year 6 children in yellow house all delivered fantastic speeches to become house captain. We are so proud of the effort the children put into the presentations and the confidence they showed when delivering them.
Well done to all!
Space Race
After looking at artwork from the space race, Year 6 chose a part of an image from different styles of artwork and created 4 different images using various materials such as oil pastels, collage, watercolours and sketching.
Password tumbler
Year 6 began their computing unit by learning about the importance of passwords, what a secure password would be and how to keep passwords safe. The children created password tumblers with different words from different categories written down to generate random passwords they could use.
Sports Leaders
Some of our year 6 children took part in sports leader training with Darren from the SSP, they delivered sessions to the younger children in the afternoon. A great day had by all!
CONTACT DETAILS
Newton Drive, Framwellgate Moor, Durham, DH1 5BG
0191 386 5400
Framwellgate Moor Primary School
Forever Making Pupils Shine
Year 6 Gallery 2023-2024
Egg Decorating Day
Y6 completed their final egg day! We had entrants such as Titanegg, Croc-o-egg Dundee and Mario Egg. The 1st, 2nd and two third places are here.
Wooden bridges
Year 6 began building their Truss bridges out of wood. The class measured, sawed and sanded pieces of wood before gluing them together to form, the first part of their structure.
Soluble or insoluble?
As part of our materials topic, the class tested to see which materials were soluble or insoluble. After this we conducted an experiment to see whether or not the temperature affected the rate of evaporation.
Dodgeball
SSP coaches returned to give the class the opportunity to show off their dodgeball skills. The children played in house teams with Green team winning in our year group. Even Mr Anderson took part!
County Tag Rugby Final
The Y6 tag rugby team took part in the county finals this week after qualifying by winning the previous tournament. The team narrowly lost their first 3 games in the dying seconds. The team were able to win their final 2 games, one of them against the eventual semi finalists. The team finished 11th in the county overall. A big well done to the team!
Cricket
Year 6 enjoyed their cricket taster session with Alex from Durham Cricket. The children were shown how to bowl the ball with a bounce, hit the ball with the bat and what happens if they ball is caught by a fielder. A great afternoon had by all.
Jump Start Jonny!
Jump Start Jonny came to visit the school to take the children through some energetic workouts. Jonny put the children through their paces as he played all of their favourites even getting the teachers involved!
Forensic Science
As part of science week, we were tasked to solve a crime using forensic science. A safe had been robbed and the children had to analyse DNA and fingerprints to solve the crime after whittling down a list of suspects. Fortunately Year 6 solved the crime and the culprit was locked up!
Bread Making
Megan from Chartwells came to help teach Y6 how to make bread. They kneaded the dough and then shaped it forming plaits, flowers and the letters of their names. Thank you to Megan for all her help.
Spaghetti Truss Bridges
We continued our structures topic by building Truss bridges out of spaghetti. The class the added weights to check the strength of the bridges.
World Book Day
Reception and Year 6 shared some books together today for World Book Day. Year 6 came down to visit Reception and brought books for them to read. Reception also shared some of their own class books and Year 6 read to them. It was lovely sharing our favourite stories!
World Book Day
The children brought in a book to share with the class for World Book Day. We had a variety of riddles, joke books, comic books and interesting stories. The children also took part in a Masked Reader, where they had to guess which teacher was reading the story while they were disguised as lemons, strawberries, horses and chicken nuggets.
The Wolf on Trial
This week, we had some visitors as part of World Book Day. The children had to listen to the arguments from the wolf and the three little pigs. The children had to decide whether the wolf was guilty or not guilty. The children decided the the wolf was … not guilty!
Y6 Cooking
Blurb – Y6 started their cooking sessions at Framwellgate Moor Comprehensive School making an apple crumble. The children made their crumble before chopping apples and carefully laying them in the tins ready to cook. Next week, its pizza twirls!
Bridges
We began our DT structures unit by testing different bridges and discussing how the weight was dispersed. The class built a beam and arch bridge first before creating their own designs.
Healthy Club
The children have been working in raising the profile of healthy foods. Two children made a fruit hedgehog using a pineapple and grapes. The children will look at new ways to use food to create art.
Tag Rugby competition!
Our Y6 tag rugby team took part in a competition at Maiden Castle playing against 4 different schools. The team won 2 games drawing the others which lead to them topping their group and qualifying for the county finals! Well done to the team!
KS2 Internet Safety
Safer Internet Day 2024 took place on the 6th of February 2024, with celebrations and learning based around the theme ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online’. This year the KS2 assembly focussed on change online, this included: Children’s perspective on new and emerging technology, using the internet to make change for the better, the changes children want to see online and the things that can influence and change the way children think, feel and act online and offline.
Y6 Archery
Year 6 were able to take part in an archery session with Darren from SSP. They were taught the basics of archery and the safety aspects of it before firing at targets with many hitting the target!
Y5 & 6 Ancient Egypt
On Thursday 25th January Year 5 and 6 had a special ‘Expert’ visit our school. They have been learning all about Ancient Egypt in their History lessons and trying to answer the question: How did Tutankhamen die over 3000 years ago? Mr Mustafa Menshawy, a University Professor and Egyptian expert, was on hand to share his experiences of Ancient Egyptian times and his theories on how the Boy Pharaoh may have died. The children were all enthusiastic and Mr Meshawy was very impressed with their knowledge and impeccable behaviour!
STEM session with Durham University
Engineers from Durham University visited Year 5/6 to discuss their careers as an engineer. In Year 6, Gary Parker discussed wind energy to produce energy and electrical power. The class got to test wind power on various different devices before seeing which wind turbine would produce the most volts in a wind tunnel. A big thank you to Mr Szyniszewski for organising the sessions.
Microbits
Blurb – Miss Kaddoura, from Durham University, began teaching Y6 about microbit. In the lesson the children were taught how to program the microbits to show the words or image they wanted. The class will continue to learn more about microbit with Miss Kaddoura over the coming weeks.
Y6 Portraits
We created one line self-portraits, where we weren’t allowed to take our pencil off the page. Before tracing kindness poems around the pines to create a different effect. After this we painted or used collage to create a background before sticking our traced outlines over the top.
Y6 Christmas Biscuit Making
Y6 had the opportunity to make Christmas biscuits at Famwellgate Comprehensive. The children measured out all the ingredients and made a dough before cutting them into Christmas shapes. The children then decorated them beautifully. A big thank you to the Year 10 students for their help and Mrs Evans for having us.
Esh Construction Workshop
On Tuesday, Year 6 had the opportunity to visit New College Durham to take part in a construction workshop. The children learnt about the water cycle and how Esh Construction company are helping to tackle global warming. They also watched a demonstration on how water is filtered before exploring construction careers and going on a tour of the construction area of the college.
Diwali
Year 6 enjoyed learning about Diwali. It was lovely to hear how some of our class mates celebrated with families at the weekend. We even had a try at making Rangoli patterns.
Mono-printing
Mrs Atkinson from Framwellgate Comprehensive came to visit Y6 again to give them the opportunity to do some more mono-printing. The children shaded Anglo-Saxon and Viking images over the top of ink. This led to the ink pressing into the other side of the page creating the prints. The children enjoyed it and the results were fantastic!
Basketball
Year 6 had a fantastic morning with Darren Curry from SSP. They learned the rules of basketball, how to pass and dribble the ball and find appropriate spaces. The children worked well as a team and enjoyed playing games against each other.
Book Festival
For our book festival the children dressed as characters from their favourite books and brought in books or pieces of text to share with the class. Year 6 dressed as The Artful Dodger, The Cat in the Hat, Wednesday Addams and many other characters. In class they shared their texts which included Greek Mythology, Dog Man Adventures and Black Beauty.
Problem Solving
Year 6 tackled a problem using trial and improvement. The class were given a set of numbers and put them into a circle. The numbers next to each other had to add upto a square number. After a number of attempts many groups managed to complete the circle.
Jarrow Hall
What a fantastic day we had at Jarrow Hall learning about Anglo Saxons. In the morning the children looked at Anglo Saxon farming and explored an Anglo Saxon village. In the afternoon they got to try on battle helmets and hold weapons before engaging in a battle of their own
European day of languages
Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed learning Spanish on European Day of languages. They learnt how to say My Name is, how old they were and greet each other. We also identified Spanish colours and numbers.
Walk n Talk
Year 6 continued their Walk n Talk sessions with Darren. This week they walked in their groups discussing answers to certain questions from Darren based around working as a team. The group then put these answers to the test in teambuilding exercises.
Walk n Talk with Alex Dewar
Alex Dewar came to start off our Walk n Talk sessions. Alex came to talk about his time in the army, his injury and his time competing in the Invictus games. After this, he took the children for some team building games where the children had to communicate with each other well to complete them. Darren from SSP will continue to take them for Walk n Talk sessions for the rest of the term.
Y6 Teams House Captain Speeches
The green team Y6s performed their house captain speeches with great success! The house captains were voted for by the other members and will be announced in the first celebration assembly.
Well done to all of the year 6 children in blue house who delivered fantastic presentations for house captains. The children put a lot of effort into their presentations and delivered them with confidence. A great job by all.
Well done to our year 6 children in red house, who delivered fantastic presentations for house captains. The children showed confidence, spoke clearly and gave good eye contact. Well done to all involved.
The year 6 children in yellow house all delivered fantastic speeches to become house captain. We are so proud of the effort the children put into the presentations and the confidence they showed when delivering them.
Well done to all!
Space Race
After looking at artwork from the space race, Year 6 chose a part of an image from different styles of artwork and created 4 different images using various materials such as oil pastels, collage, watercolours and sketching.
Password tumbler
Year 6 began their computing unit by learning about the importance of passwords, what a secure password would be and how to keep passwords safe. The children created password tumblers with different words from different categories written down to generate random passwords they could use.
Sports Leaders
Some of our year 6 children took part in sports leader training with Darren from the SSP, they delivered sessions to the younger children in the afternoon. A great day had by all!
CONTACT DETAILS
Newton Drive, Framwellgate Moor, Durham, DH1 5BG
0191 386 5400
Framwellgate Moor Primary School
Forever Making Pupils Shine
Year 6 Gallery 2023-2024
Egg Decorating Day
Y6 completed their final egg day! We had entrants such as Titanegg, Croc-o-egg Dundee and Mario Egg. The 1st, 2nd and two third places are here.
Wooden bridges
Year 6 began building their Truss bridges out of wood. The class measured, sawed and sanded pieces of wood before gluing them together to form, the first part of their structure.
Soluble or insoluble?
As part of our materials topic, the class tested to see which materials were soluble or insoluble. After this we conducted an experiment to see whether or not the temperature affected the rate of evaporation.
Dodgeball
SSP coaches returned to give the class the opportunity to show off their dodgeball skills. The children played in house teams with Green team winning in our year group. Even Mr Anderson took part!
County Tag Rugby Final
The Y6 tag rugby team took part in the county finals this week after qualifying by winning the previous tournament. The team narrowly lost their first 3 games in the dying seconds. The team were able to win their final 2 games, one of them against the eventual semi finalists. The team finished 11th in the county overall. A big well done to the team!
Cricket
Year 6 enjoyed their cricket taster session with Alex from Durham Cricket. The children were shown how to bowl the ball with a bounce, hit the ball with the bat and what happens if they ball is caught by a fielder. A great afternoon had by all.
Jump Start Jonny!
Jump Start Jonny came to visit the school to take the children through some energetic workouts. Jonny put the children through their paces as he played all of their favourites even getting the teachers involved!
Forensic Science
As part of science week, we were tasked to solve a crime using forensic science. A safe had been robbed and the children had to analyse DNA and fingerprints to solve the crime after whittling down a list of suspects. Fortunately Year 6 solved the crime and the culprit was locked up!
Bread Making
Megan from Chartwells came to help teach Y6 how to make bread. They kneaded the dough and then shaped it forming plaits, flowers and the letters of their names. Thank you to Megan for all her help.
Spaghetti Truss Bridges
We continued our structures topic by building Truss bridges out of spaghetti. The class the added weights to check the strength of the bridges.
World Book Day
Reception and Year 6 shared some books together today for World Book Day. Year 6 came down to visit Reception and brought books for them to read. Reception also shared some of their own class books and Year 6 read to them. It was lovely sharing our favourite stories!
World Book Day
The children brought in a book to share with the class for World Book Day. We had a variety of riddles, joke books, comic books and interesting stories. The children also took part in a Masked Reader, where they had to guess which teacher was reading the story while they were disguised as lemons, strawberries, horses and chicken nuggets.
The Wolf on Trial
This week, we had some visitors as part of World Book Day. The children had to listen to the arguments from the wolf and the three little pigs. The children had to decide whether the wolf was guilty or not guilty. The children decided the the wolf was … not guilty!
Y6 Cooking
Blurb – Y6 started their cooking sessions at Framwellgate Moor Comprehensive School making an apple crumble. The children made their crumble before chopping apples and carefully laying them in the tins ready to cook. Next week, its pizza twirls!
Bridges
We began our DT structures unit by testing different bridges and discussing how the weight was dispersed. The class built a beam and arch bridge first before creating their own designs.
Healthy Club
The children have been working in raising the profile of healthy foods. Two children made a fruit hedgehog using a pineapple and grapes. The children will look at new ways to use food to create art.
Tag Rugby competition!
Our Y6 tag rugby team took part in a competition at Maiden Castle playing against 4 different schools. The team won 2 games drawing the others which lead to them topping their group and qualifying for the county finals! Well done to the team!
KS2 Internet Safety
Safer Internet Day 2024 took place on the 6th of February 2024, with celebrations and learning based around the theme ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online’. This year the KS2 assembly focussed on change online, this included: Children’s perspective on new and emerging technology, using the internet to make change for the better, the changes children want to see online and the things that can influence and change the way children think, feel and act online and offline.
Y6 Archery
Year 6 were able to take part in an archery session with Darren from SSP. They were taught the basics of archery and the safety aspects of it before firing at targets with many hitting the target!
Y5 & 6 Ancient Egypt
On Thursday 25th January Year 5 and 6 had a special ‘Expert’ visit our school. They have been learning all about Ancient Egypt in their History lessons and trying to answer the question: How did Tutankhamen die over 3000 years ago? Mr Mustafa Menshawy, a University Professor and Egyptian expert, was on hand to share his experiences of Ancient Egyptian times and his theories on how the Boy Pharaoh may have died. The children were all enthusiastic and Mr Meshawy was very impressed with their knowledge and impeccable behaviour!
STEM session with Durham University
Engineers from Durham University visited Year 5/6 to discuss their careers as an engineer. In Year 6, Gary Parker discussed wind energy to produce energy and electrical power. The class got to test wind power on various different devices before seeing which wind turbine would produce the most volts in a wind tunnel. A big thank you to Mr Szyniszewski for organising the sessions.
Microbits
Blurb – Miss Kaddoura, from Durham University, began teaching Y6 about microbit. In the lesson the children were taught how to program the microbits to show the words or image they wanted. The class will continue to learn more about microbit with Miss Kaddoura over the coming weeks.
Y6 Portraits
We created one line self-portraits, where we weren’t allowed to take our pencil off the page. Before tracing kindness poems around the pines to create a different effect. After this we painted or used collage to create a background before sticking our traced outlines over the top.
Y6 Christmas Biscuit Making
Y6 had the opportunity to make Christmas biscuits at Famwellgate Comprehensive. The children measured out all the ingredients and made a dough before cutting them into Christmas shapes. The children then decorated them beautifully. A big thank you to the Year 10 students for their help and Mrs Evans for having us.
Esh Construction Workshop
On Tuesday, Year 6 had the opportunity to visit New College Durham to take part in a construction workshop. The children learnt about the water cycle and how Esh Construction company are helping to tackle global warming. They also watched a demonstration on how water is filtered before exploring construction careers and going on a tour of the construction area of the college.
Diwali
Year 6 enjoyed learning about Diwali. It was lovely to hear how some of our class mates celebrated with families at the weekend. We even had a try at making Rangoli patterns.
Mono-printing
Mrs Atkinson from Framwellgate Comprehensive came to visit Y6 again to give them the opportunity to do some more mono-printing. The children shaded Anglo-Saxon and Viking images over the top of ink. This led to the ink pressing into the other side of the page creating the prints. The children enjoyed it and the results were fantastic!
Basketball
Year 6 had a fantastic morning with Darren Curry from SSP. They learned the rules of basketball, how to pass and dribble the ball and find appropriate spaces. The children worked well as a team and enjoyed playing games against each other.
Book Festival
For our book festival the children dressed as characters from their favourite books and brought in books or pieces of text to share with the class. Year 6 dressed as The Artful Dodger, The Cat in the Hat, Wednesday Addams and many other characters. In class they shared their texts which included Greek Mythology, Dog Man Adventures and Black Beauty.
Problem Solving
Year 6 tackled a problem using trial and improvement. The class were given a set of numbers and put them into a circle. The numbers next to each other had to add upto a square number. After a number of attempts many groups managed to complete the circle.
Jarrow Hall
What a fantastic day we had at Jarrow Hall learning about Anglo Saxons. In the morning the children looked at Anglo Saxon farming and explored an Anglo Saxon village. In the afternoon they got to try on battle helmets and hold weapons before engaging in a battle of their own
European day of languages
Year 6 thoroughly enjoyed learning Spanish on European Day of languages. They learnt how to say My Name is, how old they were and greet each other. We also identified Spanish colours and numbers.
Walk n Talk
Year 6 continued their Walk n Talk sessions with Darren. This week they walked in their groups discussing answers to certain questions from Darren based around working as a team. The group then put these answers to the test in teambuilding exercises.
Walk n Talk with Alex Dewar
Alex Dewar came to start off our Walk n Talk sessions. Alex came to talk about his time in the army, his injury and his time competing in the Invictus games. After this, he took the children for some team building games where the children had to communicate with each other well to complete them. Darren from SSP will continue to take them for Walk n Talk sessions for the rest of the term.
Y6 Teams House Captain Speeches
The green team Y6s performed their house captain speeches with great success! The house captains were voted for by the other members and will be announced in the first celebration assembly.
Well done to all of the year 6 children in blue house who delivered fantastic presentations for house captains. The children put a lot of effort into their presentations and delivered them with confidence. A great job by all.
Well done to our year 6 children in red house, who delivered fantastic presentations for house captains. The children showed confidence, spoke clearly and gave good eye contact. Well done to all involved.
The year 6 children in yellow house all delivered fantastic speeches to become house captain. We are so proud of the effort the children put into the presentations and the confidence they showed when delivering them.
Well done to all!
Space Race
After looking at artwork from the space race, Year 6 chose a part of an image from different styles of artwork and created 4 different images using various materials such as oil pastels, collage, watercolours and sketching.
Password tumbler
Year 6 began their computing unit by learning about the importance of passwords, what a secure password would be and how to keep passwords safe. The children created password tumblers with different words from different categories written down to generate random passwords they could use.
Sports Leaders
Some of our year 6 children took part in sports leader training with Darren from the SSP, they delivered sessions to the younger children in the afternoon. A great day had by all!
CONTACT DETAILS