Category Archives: Year 5
Year 5 teachers are Mrs Adams, Mrs Stanton and Miss Adams
Science Week in Y5
What a brilliant day it has been in year 5 investigating ‘How can animals fly?’ Firstly, we researched animals that can fly then we investigated different moving mechanisms, such as […]
How can animals fly?
Today, year 5 were set the challenge to design and create moving dragon wings as part of science week. We researched levers, pulleys and other moving mechanisms to help our […]
Y5 visit to Oakwood school
This morning some Y5 children visited Oakwood secondary school to participate in a science workshop. They tested friction on different materials and measured the force in Newtons. They all had […]
Get Caught Reading Competition
Well done to the winners of our ‘get caught reading’ competition!
Ring a bell at random and read!
To celebrate World Book Day 2020 and Book Week, we have had impromptu reading sessions to read our favourite books. What a lovely surprise!
Viking Research
This afternoon 5S have been researching and learning about the Vikings. We used iPads to conduct our research and then each group presented what they had learned for the rest […]
Lesson planning
The children worked hard this afternoon researching their given area on the Vikings. They then had to teach the rest of the class what they had found out in preparation […]
Dragon Models
Today 5S have been making their dragon models ready to begin their animations next week which are based on the book ‘To Train Your Dragon’. We looked at our designs […]
Modelling
We brought our designs to life today by making our dragons ready for animation making.
Y5&6 writing workshop with author Harriet Goodwin
Some Y5&6 pupils have had the opportunity to attend a writing workshop with author Harriet Goodwin. They have been inspired by her creativity and have started writing their own exciting […]
Y5 – Being an Upstander
This afternoon Y5 took part in a workshop on how to be an ‘upstander’. This involved role playing to learn how to help support each other and be an upstander […]
Discovering the parts of flowers
In Y5AAD this afternoon we dissected flowers to look at all the different parts. We were especially interested to find the sticky parts and seeds in the stem.
Y5AAD Planning our animation
This afternoon we have been using a storyboard to plan our stop motion animation. We can’t wait to bring them to life using plasticine and iPads.
Y5AAD persuasive letter writing
In Y5AAD we created sentences using persuasive features to invite Mrs Fearnley to watch our play at the Civic. We shared our ideas on padlet and worked well as a […]
Reading award
Today we presented our Hilary Ford awards to our children who have made the most progress in reading this term in each class. Well done and remember…keep reading! 📚
Year 5 Christmas Party!
Year 5 have all had a brilliant afternoon at the Christmas party. We played lots of party games and had some delicious food. The pictures show how much fun we […]
Scratch Programming
In Y5S we have been making our own games in ICT using Scratch. We have based our games on our favourite Shakespeare plays. We can’t wait to play the games […]
Tudor Art
This week in Y5S we have been using a range of different skills to create Tudor artwork. We used pencil sketching to complete portraits of Tudor monarchs which we are […]
