Red Rose Primary Upper Key Stage 2

Our School Council and Rights Respecting group met @KevanJonesMP and Councillor Scurfield on Friday to discuss road safety in the local area. Several suggestions were proposed and the children look forward to working with Durham County Council in the future.

Year 5 had a fantastic day yesterday. They were immersed into Anglo Saxon and Viking life through the fantastic @HistoricWksps. There was even a real battle in the hall!

The children enjoyed a demonstration from @musicworksLtd on Friday. Any pupils interested in guitar or keyboard lessons, please speak to the office.

The children experienced an amazing performance from the @TrustDurham musicians this morning! Wow!

A fabulous evening was had by all at The Red Rose Musical Showcase. Well done to all of the performers.

Year 6 had a fantastic day at the ⁦@DurhamCLS_SSP⁩ Quidditch festival. It was a little wet but that did not spoil the fun!

What a fantastic Y6 Enterprise week it has been. The year 6 children have ran and managed their own stalls this week and worked exceptionally hard to create and design products to sell to the school. A great week by all and we can’t wait to see the total figure of profit made!

Here are some photos of Year 5 enjoying their enrichment day at @ParkViewCLS yesterday.

NASA have spent the afternoon looking at different types of forests in Geography, they then researched and presented information about a specific named forest from somewhere in the world.

Year 5 enjoyed taking part in a Quidditch event yesterday. They certainly had the weather on their side @DurhamCLS_SSP

We have had a fantastic day celebrating ⁦@Nat_Numeracy⁩ Day 2023! Across KS2, we have made budgets plans, solved crimes with numerical clues, held times table competitions, looked into savings and even created a rap!

On behalf of all the school staff at Red Rose Primary School, we are exceptionally proud of the Year 6 children this week. They have demonstrated all of our school values this week and have done themselves proud. Congratulations Discovery and Mission!

Year 5 were programming robots to pick up magnets from around the desk .....

Year 5 have had a great experience with the team from Nissan. They have built Lego cars, designed robots, taken part in coding some robots to move and discussed what it’s like to work at Nissan #brilliant

Year 5 have been writing newspaper articles about strange missing memories in the city of Glasgow! This is links to our new book, The Nowhere Emporium, by ⁦@RossAuthor⁩ We’re so excited to find out what happens next!

Year 6 had a fantastic visit this week to ⁦@NissanUK⁩ Sunderland. They completed different skill tests and even got to meet Woody the robot who was able to draw pictures! It was a great experience and allowed us to step into the shoes of the largest employer in the region.

Some children in Year 5 began their Mini Police sessions on Monday. They enjoyed learning about what the police do and also tried on some uniform.

Year 6 have been creating their own art work inspired by Henri Matisse and the art movement of fauvism. Sophie described fauvism as “using bright colours and simple drawings of objects to create unique and unusual colour combinations.”