YEAR 5 BLOG

To celebrate World Book Day, year 5 walked to the local library to listen to a story and spend time looking at some of the books.

5B had a fabulous afternoon with a carousel of activities linked to our History learning this term about The Mayan’s.  We were introduced to their chronology, used sticks and stones for Maths, attempted our own glyphs (an early form of writing) and used our locational knowledge to identify Mayan…

We enjoyed using the iPads to look at different techniques used in video editing.  We experimented with different camera angles and a variety of ranges: close, mid and long, deciding which gave the better quality of sound.  Some interesting photos and videos!

We ‘reached out’ and kicked off anti-bullying week by wearing our odd socks to show how unique every one of us is.  We then designed our own odd socks and celebrated our individuality.

Year 5 having enjoyed learning new netball skills and putting their chest pass and shooting pass into practise - some promising netballers amongst us

To celebrate the 70 years the Queen has been on the throne, 5B made some Union Jack bunting and learnt some interesting facts about Her Majesty’s reign.

In 5 Sacrament, as part of our history topic we have been learning about the Ancient Mayans.  This week we focused on how trading was an integral part to the survival of the Mayans.

We investigated what items they would have traded and then created our own market place and attempted to…

This week in 5S, we have been preparing for the art exhibition which is going to show case the amazing art work that we produced a couple of weeks ago.

In Year 5, we were inspired by Jackson Pollock and created some amazing street art with a twist.  Our pieces are called ‘Caught in the…

This half term in year 5 we will be spending some time with a specialist teacher to develop our skills in playing the ukulele.

Last week we learnt how to hold the ukulele correctly, the names of the strings and how to play the A chord.

This week we are learning all about major and minor…

All this term we have been investigating the work of pop artists and specifically the work of Andy Warhol.  We have looked at the techniques he used and have attempted to use them to create our own piece of pop art.

We took an everyday item and tried to produce a copy of it 4 times.  We then…

In our computing lessons this half term our focus is on online safety.  This week we have been discussing the idea of digital manipulation.  We investigated the reasons why this can be positive for some people but also how it can have a negative effect too.  The children learned that any picture…