Today we had lots of fun celebrating England getting to the final of the Euros. We designed and decorated our gingerbread men in football kits, completed football themed activities, ate party food and played football (in the rain!).
Over the last couple of weeks, Year 5 have been working together to create some fantastic collage Art, which is proudly being displayed in the school hall. The children began working in pairs to create colourful “doodles” using pastels and water colours and some black and white pieces for contrast. Read more…
Today year 5 enjoyed finding out about the theory of evolution as part of their new science topic. First we found the definitions of some new vocabulary hidden outside and we now know the meanings of species, variation, adaptation and evolution. After this we carried out a ‘Battle of the Read more…
A fantastic 1st day back for Year 5! We have started to identify the features and shapes of a text in English, ready to write our own informative non-chronological report about an animal. We looked at angles in maths and have been introduced to using a protractor. We have worked Read more…
We had an amazing time for our final forest school session in year 5 today! Quotes from the children included: “That was the best day ever!” and “Can we do it all again?” We started off the session completing a teamwork task. Everyone had to work as a team to Read more…
In computing this half-term, Year 5 have been creating their own games. They have analysed other games, designed settings and themes, designed characters, changed animations and sounds that their character makes, written instructions and evaluated their peers’ games to help future designs. We are really impressed with their completed games! Read more…
Year 5 had their 5th forest school session today! The children explored the area and found and identified a range of minibeasts. We found snails, worms, centipedes and millipedes. We then discussed how we can improve the area for the fauna and for ourselves. The children then used the skills Read more…
Year 5 had a fantastic time at Forest School today! We showed off our knowledge of the area by playing a game where we had to name the flora in the area. We also learnt about a Ghillie kettle and how they can be used to heat water using fire. Read more…
In Year 5, we have been learning about what happens to our body as we get older. Last week we learnt about how we change from childhood to early adulthood through puberty, and how puberty occurs in animals too. This week we looked at changes from early adulthood to old Read more…
Year 5 enjoyed their forest school sessions today, despite the wet weather. We started the session by discussing the flora and fauna in the area. Everybody was given a piece of flora and kept it hidden. We then used our language skills to describe the piece of flora to try Read more…