Year 5

March 20, 2020

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.

March 13, 2020

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 [...]

February 28, 2020

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 [...]

February 17, 2020

Year 5 & 6 were taking part in the NSPCC’s Buddy’s Big Workout

February 4, 2020

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!

January 17, 2020

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 [...]

January 10, 2020

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!  

December 18, 2019

Mr Jones had lunch with all the Prep School children who had been awarded the highest star totals in each house in Years 3&4 / 5&6 / 7&8. Rendall enjoyed a special House Lunch for collecting the most citizenship stars this term. Well done to one and all!

December 18, 2019

Science 5HH have been looking at reversible and irreversible reactions. This culminated in an unusual ‘triple lesson’ last week, during which 4 investigations were completed to see if different reactions could be reversed or not. After the investigations, they witnessed a sugar snake and saw the coloured flame and huge snake that erupted, using the [...]