18 Oct

Year 5 with Factors

 

Today Year 5's maths lesson was something a bit different. We all had fun writing, on the tables, factors of numbers.

Well done Year 5!

17 Oct

Year 5 Create Doodlers

Building on yesterday's knowledge of electrical circuits, Year 5 created their own doodlers. 

The creating of the doodlers created several issues where the class had to use their problem solving skills to make sure the doodler moved across the paper.

Fantastic team work Year 5!

16 Oct

Year 5 Electrical Systems

In Design and Technology today, Year 5 explored the world of electrical circuits. We built our own circuits with a motor. We will use our knowledge from today for our next D&T session where we will create our own doodlers.

14 Oct

Year 5 Up Levelling Work

This morning, Year 5's literacy lesson involved looking at a diary entry from the fearless Annie Edson Taylor.

The class had to assess the work, looking for any mistakes and then correcting them.

 

Well done Year 5!

10 Oct

Year 5 - Making an Alloy

Year 5 had an exciting science lesson today! They created model alloys using Play-Doh as the base material. By adding different additives like sand and salt, they explored how these changes affected the properties of their “alloys.” It was a hands-on experiment that helped them understand the…

10 Oct

KS2 Disco

Yesterday after school, KS2 held their Autumn disco. There were lots of fantastic dance moves on show!
We hope you all had fun!

 

7 Oct

Year 5 - Mapping Annie Edson Taylor's journey down river

Today in literacy, Year 5 plotted the journey of Ms Taylor as she travelled down stream in her balls towards the raging falls of Niagara. 
Children showcased their use of fronted adverbials and also wrote down what emotions Annie would have been feeling.

Well done Year 5!

4 Oct

Take A Chance!

Prizes!  Find out about our ‘Take a Chance’ initiative to celebrate and reward our pupils for their hard work and dedication.

How It Works:

  • Earning ‘Take a Chance’ Slips: Throughout the week, children can earn ‘Take a Chance’ slips from their class teachers. These slips are awarded for…
3 Oct

Year 5 Magnetic and Non Magnetic

This afternoon, Year 5 have been hard at work at seeing which items were magnetic an non magnetic.

Well done Year 5

26 Sep

Y5 Science - Reversible Changes with Chocolate

This afternoon in science, Year 5 had quite the tasty experiment whilst looking at the difference in physical qualities of chocolate before and after having heat applied. We heated the chocolate up in our mouths and hands.

We also compared room temperature chocolate to frozen chocolate.

Well…

26 Sep

Y5 - Literacy - What kind of person was Annie Edson-Taylor?

This morning in literacy, we were looking at various words that could describe Annie Edson-Taylor the main character, from our class book this half term, Queen of the Falls.
If we were unsure on a word, we used a dictionary to find its definition.

Great work Year 5!

23 Sep

Y5 - Using Boolean Operators

 

Today in Year 5's computing session, we explored the use of Boolean Operators when using search engines, such as Google, Yahoo and Bing.

We also looked at how search results differ from Google,Yahoo and Bing.