Year 5
Geography
Year 5 have been learning about Climate Change in Geography this term. They have been very passionate about what is happening on their planet and decided that we needed to make a change! They wrote letters to Mrs Hughes about what we should do as a school and that they wanted to put a food recycling system in place, asking her for the funding to do this. The children have been given the means to follow through and are going to do an assembly to KS2 about what they are planning.
Basketball Workshop
Year 5 had a fantastic morning with coach Mark, learning all the skills they need to become professional basketball players.
Maths
In Maths we have spent the past few weeks looking at fraction, percentages and decimals. All of year 5 have perserved with this, working hard to convert them and find percentages of amounts. To end this area of learning the children has an active Maths lesson, where they had to run and find their matching fraction, decimal or percentage.
English
For the past few week, we have been reading the book 'Kensuke's kingdom' by Michael Morpurgo. The children have really enjoyed the adventure side of this story and have created some fantastic piece of writing from our stimulus. Here are some letters that the Year 5s wrote, wanting to share their story.
Art Week
During Art week, we were looking at the creation of Greek Vases as this will be our History topic after the half term. We designed (using historical inspiration); moulded and painted our vases. We all worked extremely hard, enjoying each part of the process.
Music
Year 5 have has a fantastic start to the Summer Term, especially in Music with their tenor horn lessons.
Science Week
During Science Week Year 5 were testing different types of forces. We created our own parachute that had to keep an egg from breaking (to test air resistance and gravity); tested buoyancy by creating our own tin boats and seeing how much it could hold and created our own pully mechanism.
History Week
This week the children have gone back in time to the land of Ancient Egypt. We started our journey by breaking our way through Tutankhamun's curst pyramid, with us having to decipher different secret messages in hieroglyphics in order to break the code and escape safely. We then looked in more detail at how the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt were mummified; testing out newly learnt knowledge on a banana. From this, we made our very own papyrus paper, which we attempted to to weave in the same fashion as the Ancient Egyptians. We ended our week by writing a set of instructions on the process of mummification on our papyrus paper.
Steel Drums
The children, including Miss Cooper and Mrs Smith, had the most wonderful time on the steel drums. It really brought our previous learning of Trinidad (from our English book 'Coming to England') alive. They loved guessing the different songs played to them and even more so, having a go themselves. We definitely have some budding musicians in Year 5.
Meet the teacher
Science
In Science we have been learning about materials and their properties; using scientific vocabulary such as opaque, translucent and transparent. At first we organised different materials by their properties thinking about how we could test their transparency or how waterproof they are. Following this, we organised how we would run a fair test.
Maths
In Maths we have been looking at place value, comparing numbers and ordering numbers; playing lots of different games to consolidate our learning. The children have enjoyed working with large numbers and have shown an enthusiasm for their learning.
English
In English we have been focusing our learning on the book 'Coming to England'. We have been researching about Trinadad and even tasted some plantain, which had mixed reviews. The book has shocked many of the children and made them feel passionate about universal equality and discrimination. We are currently researching the 'Windrush Generation'; from this we will be writing a newspaper article.