Riverside Primary Academy | Key Stage Two

Key Stage Two

Year 3 & 4 Hindu Visitor

Yesterday Year 3 and 4 had a special visitor, Kirtida from Newcastle Hindu Temple. She came with lots of exciting Hindu artefacts and clothing for us to explore. We enjoyed finding out lots of interesting information about the Hindu religion, we listened to Kirtida sing,...

World Book Day!

Today, we celebrated world book day in school and dressed up as our favourite book or story characters, or in comfy clothes, for a day of reading and book related activities! We started the day with an assembly by Mrs Knott to talk about Reading and...

Making Volcanoes in Year 4

Year 4 have been studying Natural Disasters last half term. In geography, we investigated a variety of disasters such as; volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis and floods.  In Computing, we used Excel to create graphs and charts about earthquakes. In English, we wrote instructions about How to...

Y5 Trip – Sunderland Winter Gardens

On Tuesday, year 5 had an excellent day visiting Sunderland Winter Gardens. We spent the morning completing a scavenger hunt in the rainforest for clues. We also had time in the afternoon to explore the museum. The children had a fabulous day!      ...

Year 3 and Year 4 Christmas Party

Year 3 and Year 4 had fantastic festive fun at our class party. Children enjoyed dancing, pass the parcel , musical statues and corners games, finishing off with some yummy party food! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the LKS2 team! ...

Church Visit

This week Lower Key Stage 2 had a lovely afternoon trip to Dunston Methodist Church where we were warmly welcomed by Minister Brigitta with juice and biscuits. Whilst we were there we completed some fun activities which consolidated our work in the classroom. The children...

Eco-Cops Host Assembly

On Friday, our Eco-Cops presented an assembly to the whole school explaining the importance of looking after our world. They discussed ways to be more sustainable at school and what we could do at home too.  We agreed to try and use less electricity, recycle,...

Y5A Space Challenge – Road to RIAT

Yesterday, Year 5 took part in a space challenge called 'Road to RIAT'. In the morning, we created designed, created and tested rockets. During the afternoon we designed our own sustainable aircraft as part of a competition. The children demonstrated excellent teamwork and resilience whilst...

Year 5B – STEM Day

Year 5b class took part in a STEM day with other schools via YouTube Live this week. The children had to design and create a rocket and even had a special shoutout on the live video. Check it out below.   [embed]https://youtube.com/shorts/HSHUX-9cJTw?feature=share?rel=0[/embed] ...

Fun with the Romans!

Year 3 and Year 4 had a special visitor this week, Richard the 'History Bloke'. We explored Roman artefacts, marched like Roman soldiers, wrote our names in Latin with ink and played a three in a row game called Rota. Ask your child to tell...