Year Five: December 2023

Another busy month in Year Five!

A brief dip into descriptive writing...

...before filming, editing and screening our anti-bullying play scripts.

There were exciting ends to our space and forces topics in science with the research, building and testing of rockets and bridges.

We looked at the everyday life of the Anglo Saxons and constructed a Lego timeline of streets through time from the Stone Age to modern day:

Stone Age

Romans

Anglo Saxons and Vikings

Modern Day

Now adept at all things Google Drawings, we perfected our vector drawing skills.

Grace

Antonia

There was lots of music, both regular lessons and rehearsals for the Christmas carol concert, and the grand finale of indoor P.E. was the performance of space dances, the choreography of each group showing great progress and creativity.

What an amazing first term in Year Five!  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  See you in 2024!

Bridges

In design and technology this term, we have been learning about the structure of bridges. This culminated with groups in each class building a bridge and the class voting for which one they felt was the best. This afternoon, we held a competition where the four chosen bridges were tested over a 1 metre span. We tested them by adding marbles. The winning bridge managed to hold an impressive 125 marbles! 

Bridges Sparky Start

Introducing our new and exciting topic for DT: we are making bridges! Here are some of our first attempts for our Sparky Start.  We tested the strength of our bridges using up to one hundred marbles.