Year Five: October 2023

Another busy month here in Year Five! 

We've begun studying bridges and their features:

Alfie

Andria

We've tried to 'show not tell' when describing characters:

Bethany

We considered our emotions:

We concluded our sci-fi stories:

Miao Miao

We continue to learn about keeping ourselves safe online:

Sebi

Sophia

On to November...

Year Five: March 2023

Live Poetry Lesson

5AC completed a live poetry lesson themed around masks and imagery with Pie Corbett, John Sutton and Deputy Mitchell.  The live lesson included: games, contributing in real time and getting feedback, learning poetry vocabulary, description, ‘the basics’, imagery. This was all demonstrated in the work they produced during the lesson.  Ten children were mentioned by name for good ideas/sentences/phrasing.  There was lots of enthusiasm, the children loved seeing their ideas published for others to see. The class were very excited about continuing the work independently which might include making some masks linked to their work over the Easter holidays!

https://radioblogging.padlet.org/deputymitchell2/29th-march-taster-session-b3p3dh9izzt5d5ho 

https://teachinglive.net/masks-and-poetry-jotcast/

PSHCE

Year Five have been learning about basic first aid in PSHCE and spent some time practising the recovery position!

Art

Year Five have been practising our sewing skills in preparation for our final piece of textiles work. It was a lot of fun and took lots of concentration.

Science Day

Year Five had a wonderful day investigating who ‘stole’ the Pokemon card learning forensic science skills. We were sad to learn that it was in fact Mr Hamilton who committed the crime… oh dear Mr Hamilton. Below is an example chromatography, which we used to help us decide the method we should use to figure out who's pen was used to write the mystery message.

The Year Five staff and children worked hard all day as Scene of Crime Officers to find the culprit.

Science 

As part of our Science module, we have been learning about properties of materials. Here you can see us learning about separating materials. The classes had lots of fun.

Computing

Fabulous skills have been developed in computing this term such as: sorting, filtering, querying (including multi-criteria questions) and graphing data.  There have been interesting discussions regarding data sets (esp. Titanic passenger list).

Maths

As part of our maths work this term, we have been learning all about fractions: finding fractions of amounts, adding and subtracting fractions and more! The children have worked so hard learning a skill which is really quite tricky. Below, you can see the classes matching equivalent fractions. Well done, Year Five!

 

Sign Language Week

On Wednesday, some of our pupils took part in a BSL lesson delivered by a BSL teacher online. Sign Language Week is celebrated every year in March to commemorate the first time BSL was acknowledged as a language in its own right by the UK Government on 18 March 2003. It was not until 28 April 2022, that BSL was finally recognised in law as an indigenous language of Great Britain in the BSL Act (2022). The aim of this year’s week was to celebrate and educate people about BSL, to encourage more people to start learning the language, and to protect and preserve BSL for future generations. 

Amelia L wrote the following:

As the cogs began to turn once again, a flicker of light sparked within. Watching,  waiting, anticipating its first move, the rise of the machine was imminent… 

Nobody knew what it would do; for a moment a suspense filled the room. Then, the noise stopped. Up the machine rose with its red eyes staring at the people. 

In a deep voice it barked, “Where am I ?” 

Nobody dared to make a sound. 

“I said where am I?!” 

The machine screamed much louder though and punched the glass surrounding it. 

A very quivery voice said, “A lab.” 

“And how did I get here? He shouted. 

“We created you.” said the now shaking voice. 

“What do you mean created me?” the machine muttered. 

“You are an experiment.” 

“No this can’t be, I was made to take over the world!” 

…and with that he crashed through the door leaving the scientists open mouthed.

Very engaging, Amelia, well done!

Life Bus!

Year Five were lucky enough to have the Life Bus this week. Whilst there, we were able to learn about how to live a healthy lifestyle and the ways in which we can say no to things we don't agree with doing, even when we might feel pressure to do so. 

This Week In Year Five

This Week In Year Five

In Year Five this week, we have been doing a lot of fun things. In English, we designed our very own Pokémon, leading to writing a non-chronological report about our Pokémon.  We can’t wait until the Pokémon Go event!

In maths, we started learning about statistics. We looked at how to read and create our own bar graphs and line graphs, and we solved some tricky Barvember problems with help from the bar model.

We carried on creating our games in computing, and learnt some fascinating facts about mountains and volcanoes in geography.  5AC and 5EV also had their last yoga lesson.  This was fantastic, but we’re sad the lessons are over.  We ended the week by thinking about how we can be kinder to one another.

We had a lot of fun!

Creating our own Pokémon

Some of the tricky problems we've looked at.