What a time 5B have been having since returning to school in September!

Due to a few technical difficulties, we haven’t been able to keep you up-to-date on a weekly basis but, suffice to say, we have been very busy throughout last half term and this one – so far!

As part of our ‘Castles’ topic we visited the Newcastle Keep and Tynemouth Priory. We learned all about knights at the Newcastle Keep and got look at, and try on, lots of real armour, which was great fun!

We have done lots of cooking this half-term as, in addition to our food technology lessons, our design and technology topic was ‘Bread.’ We baked a lovely wholemeal loaf, a cheese loaf and a cheese and onion plaited loaf. YUM!

In food technology, we’ve been cooking lots of foods that we might want to make on our own, like toast, scrambled eggs and sandwiches. Our chopping and spreading skills are becoming worthy of Masterchef!

Before half-term we got into the spirit of Halloween (albeit a little in advance!). We carved a pumpkin together and had a scary shindig in class. We ate petrifying popcorn and dreadful donuts and we drank spider’s blood and caterpillar wee…although they tasted suspiciously like blackcurrant and orange juice so we wonder if the grown-ups were telling us the truth?

We all enjoyed the fireworks and mini-bonfire on the afternoon of Bonfire Night – Mr Todd put on a brilliant display, as always.

Obviously, we have all been working hard on our literacy, maths and science, too, as well as other subjects.

We’re looking forward to keeping you posted every week about what we’ve been up to so don’t forget to look at our blog on a regular basis!