Year 5

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!

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…

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!

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

Well done Year 5

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…

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!

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.

Today in science Year 5 explored what would happen when white vinegar and baking soda react to each other.

We noticed that when there was a chemical reaction between the two a gas, carbon dioxide, was created which filled the bag. We hoped for the bags to explode, but as the bags were too…

In this afternoon's music lesson, Year 5 delved into the Blues genre of music. We learnt where it originated from and talked about the genre's themes.

We then listened to Moanin' Lisa Blues - YouTube and discussed what was being sang by Lisa Simpson.

Well done Year…

This afternoon, Year 5 used atlases to locate the 8 countries, the mountain range, the Alps are spread across. Great work Year 5!

This morning, we've been working hard on expanded number forms. Well done Year 5!

This afternoon Year 5 learnt the ingredients needed for a fire and then explored how the volume of a glass determines the length of time the flame will burn for when in a closed space.

Well done!