Year 5 Literacy - Arthur and The Golden Rope
This half term, year 5 have been basing their literacy work around the story of 'Arthur and The Golden Rope'.
A summary of this amazing tale - Arthur decides to make the journey to the great hall and help Thor catch the wicked Fenrir. There, he is set the almost impossible task of sourcing…
Year 5 - Fun with Fractions
To support some of our Y5 today, a FRACTION of the class was having a WHOLE lot of fun with fractions!
Pupils were able to use their fractions knowledge in various ways, such as cutting a Wagon Wheel in HALF and QUARTERS and splitting oranges into eighths to bring segments back together to make…
Year 5 Storyboarding
In our literacy lessons, Year 5 have been channelling their inner directors and working together to create a storyboard for a scene from 'Arthur and The Golden Rope'.
We had to plan out how the scene would be shot if we were the director, we had to take into consideration how we would capture a…
Year 5 Science - Irreversible Changes
In science today, year 5 explored what irreversible change would happen when an acid (vinegar) and alkali (bicarbonate of soda) were mixed together.
We had a method to follow, we were asked what caused the bag would inflate, and what would happen if we changed the size of the bag.
We…
Year 5 Science - Changing Materials
Today in Science we explored the fire triangle and the 3 components of what's needed to create a fire. Year 5 learnt that as soon as you remove a component of that triangle, the fire will extinguish.
We also did an experiment to see how long a flame would burn in different-sized glasses. We…
Year 5 Design and Technology - Pop Up Book
This afternoon, Year 5 have been exploring the mechanics of a pop-up book, by creating their own version.
We researched and developed design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that are fit for purpose, aimed at particular younger children.
Great…
Year 5 Growing our fraction knowledge with the help of Numicon.
This morning in Year 5, we have been ordering fractions with mixed numerators and denominators. To help us with our converting we made use of numicon.
We also used our knowledge of multiples, which we learnt last term, to help us with our learning.
Fantastic fraction work year…
Whole School Vocabulary Focus
Each class has been promoting and developing our pupils' knowledge and understanding of new vocabulary. In Literacy, pupils have explored tier 1, 2 and 3 words linked to their topic, Read, Write Inc. or Pathways to Write. In other subject areas such as Geography and IT, pupils are investigating…
Our Learning Boards
In another small step forward in improving our school (perhaps more of a tweak really), today we introduced our mobile ‘Learning Boards’ for every class from Year 1 to Year 6. These will help our teachers make it really clear what new knowledge, skills and vocab we intend to learn or practise in…
Year 5 Music ‘Shosholoza’.
In Music, Year 5 have been looking at South African music. We've been singing a capella and playing instruments along to the song ‘Shosholoza’, which is a song from those who speak Xhosa.
We've learnt that songs sung in other languages can contain sounds that are unfamiliar to us, like the…