Wow what a fantastic, fun week we have had in Juniper! We have made Christmas cards and calendars, took part in Christmas grammar and maths challenges, took part in a spelling bee with the other year 5 class and year 6, learnt how to draw the grinch, made s’mores and Read more…
Year 5 have made some fantastic calendars during art lessons this week. First we thought about warm and cool colours and which colours we associate with different seasons. We then used watercolour paints to create the backgrounds. After this we used lines and patterns to draw symbols of the seasons.
Well done to all of our 40 Christmas raffle winners! We hope you enjoy the fantastic prizes. A huge thank you to everyone who bought tickets, we have raised an amazing £1133! This money will be put towards the children’s activities.
Today Juniper completed their hour of code for hour of code week. The children had to create a Grinch themed game by creating algorithms. There were various levels to pass which included programming a drone to collect presents to take back to Whoville and riding the Sleigh, with various obstacles Read more…
Tonight, Year 5 had their Christmas movie night. We had lots of fun watching ‘Christmas Chronicles’ whilst eating popcorn and drinking hot chocolate with marshmallows 😋
This week, Year 5 have been making baubles for their Christmas craft, which can be bought by families. First, we had our pictures taken. For one photo we chose to put on fun Christmas accessories and for the other we had a nice picture with a festive background. We cut Read more…
This morning, Year 5 enjoyed taking part in a space detective workshop. We launched off into space and had a zoom call with a space expert. She was very knowledgeable and could answer all of our questions. We were particularly interested in finding out about rockets as part of our Read more…
Today we learnt about craters and how they are formed and about different types of craters. We focussed on craters created by meteorites and about why the moon appears to have so many craters compared to Earth. We then Discussed what affect we though the size, weight and speed of Read more…
This afternoon, we decided to get out of the classroom and into the fresh air to do some problem solving revision on what we have learnt so far in year 5. We worked in pairs to solve a number of multi-step addition, subtraction, number and place value problems. Each answer Read more…
Today, Year 5 have been learning about the moon. We found out lots of information about it and used equipment to understand it’s movement and why we have a light side and a dark side of the moon. We then made an information booklet, which included key information that we Read more…