Category: Year 5
Year 5
Year 5 had an exhilarating lesson yesterday practicing their improvisational skills in Drama. The children took it in turns to tell a story and the rest of the class had seconds to improvise! We had funny stories about potatoes, sharks, dolphins, horses and a crazy man in the van!
Year 5
Year 5 have been learning about their gardens in science. Today they made mini ponds to encourage more wildlife. The ponds have stones in them so that insects can stand and drink., and have been camouflaged to make them attractive to wild life.
Year 5 Science
The Year 5’s had an interesting lesson testing their force metres and trying to work out the weight of different objects using their graphs.
World War 2 Day
On Thursday the Year 5 went back in time to the period when Great Britain was at war; World War 2! They had a wonderful opportunity to look at genuine artefacts from that time as well as listening to a genuine air raid siren. The children took part in First Aid activities where they had…
Harry Potter
The pupils are studying Harry Potter and in this lesson, Year 5 were becoming poets, emulating the regular rhyme scheme and structure featured in a poem in the chapter ‘The Sorting Hat’. They are writing in quatrains and have learnt to use resources such as a thesaurus and the speed sounds they use in spelling…
NSPCC’s Buddy’s Big Workout
Year 5 & 6 were taking part in the NSPCC’s Buddy’s Big Workout
Year 5 Science
Year 5 have designed their own experiment in order to get pure salt from rock salt. They ordered their equipment and are now in the process of seeing if their plan works!
Year 5
In Geography, Year 5 had fun making their own water turbines and learning about renewable energy. In PHSE they were discussing how to keep fit and healthy. They had been looking at their diets and deciding whether they are balanced. If not, what could we add to our diets to make them more balanced and…
Drama
Year 5 were practising their expressions in the mirror in Drama today. They practised sorrow, guilt, joy, disgust, love, anger and pity. Their peers then had to guess what expression they were showing and they had such fun whilst doing so!