Year Five: May 2023

Below are some images of our learning from May 2023. This month, we have written explanation texts, drawn impossible images, considered why a river may or may not be dammed and improved our knowledge of triangles and their dimensions. 

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!

Sharing and Grouping!

 This week the children have been writing their own word problems to demonstrate their knowledge of sharing and grouping within maths. 

Drawing Line Graphs

 

Our Week This Week

In Year Five this week, we have been learning about area in maths. It has gotten harder and more challenging every day. Instead of regular shapes, we have been calculating the area of composite shapes. On some of the shapes, Year Five had to calculate the missing sides of the shape first.

For English, we have been learning about poetry. We have been finding out about different poetic devices and at the end of the week we wrote a modelled poem on the four seasons.

In art, we have been preparing to create a galaxy themed piece of art. We have been inspired by Emma Lindstrom’s art work. Throughout the week, we have been learning how to draw a sphere and different art techniques. The sphere was in black and white and went from dark to light depending on where the sun was shining from.

In P.E, we have been learning about health and fitness. We had a little slip to see what we were testing throughout the learning scheme. We calculated how fast we were at running a certain distance, how far we can jump and other P.E skills.

In music, 5EV been learning about jazz music and playing instruments. In both 5AC and 5MH we have been practising a song called Make You Feel My Love by Adele.

                    By Lucas C, Ella F, Leia B and Sid McF

Christmas is coming!

This has been a very exciting week in Year Five.  In maths, we used Number Link boards to help us apply our knowledge of the 1-12 times tables to harder times tables (like the 0.04 times table, or the 7000 time table).

On Wednesday, we had a great time hunting for our Pokémon non-chronological reports in the playground.  All our work can be read on our class blogs:

Level 5 Certificate

5AC:   http://cjs5ac.edublogs.org/
5EV:   http://5evwonderwall.home.blog/
5MH:  http://5mhmasterwriters.100wc.net/
5SF:    http://5sfcjs.edublogs.org/

Some people even managed to get to be a Level Five Pokémon trainer because they found every single one.

The Boat Race tutorial

We have been working hard to finish our Scratch games, taking some time to try out the Boat Race Tutorial on the Code Club website to help us with our coding.  We also explored what life would be like as a mountain climber by creating our own short play or mime about a famous expedition.

On Friday, it was Christmas Decoration Day!  It was really good fun talking and writing about Christmas adverts, solving maths puzzles about Santa's stocking and making a range of decorations for the classroom.  The best bit was getting to wear our Christmas jumpers and listen to Christmas songs while we worked.

A Look into Our Learning

Making the most of the fantastic library.

Writing letters to our future selves.

Solving the Mad Hatter's problems with his seating plan.

Investigating multiples and common factors.

Answering questions about a newspaper report. 

Exploring place value using base ten blocks.

Maths: Angles Art

While studying angles, we looked for ways to incorporate some art too. 

Well done Layla, Phoebe and Willow!

Reasoning with Decimals and Fractions

Maths reasoning from Lennon and Nicola.

What Could the Perimeter of the Rectangle Be?

Reasoning in Maths

Reasoning questions are some of the most difficult we work on in maths. How would you get on with explaining these, and what do you think of the children's responses?