Our Year Five #GE2017 #MockElection

Today is the 2017 General Election Day. Today, Year Five spent the day learning about the process of electing a government.

In Year Five, we have four classes. Each class took on the name of a political party: Vision, Transform, Tomorrow and Future. They chose what ministries their party would have and who would be the minister for that ministry. 

Next, each ministry, lead by their minister, wrote their part of the manifesto.

We all sat and listened to each party deliver their manifesto.

After that, each child visited the Polling Station to cast their vote. 

Votes have been tallied and Yr 5 have a winner in their election. Congratulations to 5SF: The Tomorrow Party with 40% of the vote #GE2017

— Crosshall Junior Sch (@CrosshallJunior) 9 June 2017

We had children responsible for counting the votes. The results were as follows...

5DA/LM - 10.7%
5BH - 27.7%
5SF - 40.2%
5AC - 21.4%
Spoiled Ballots - 0.9%

We hope it was useful in learning about the General Election. 

 

Grace's Tessellation

Spider Plant Propagation

Today, we needed to learn about propagation as a method to create new plants. So, we had a go and created guides for anyone else who would like to try it:

Freddie E:

Freya:

 Annie, Cora and Olivia:

Annabel, Mia and Milena:

How to Make a Moving Toy

Equipment

• cardboard box
• camshaft ( x1)
• bench hook
• guider
• followers
• background
• foreground
• dowelling ( as many sticks as needed )
• hacksaw
• character
• glue gun
• laminating pouches
• laminator

1. Firstly, think of the design you are doing: think about the person who it is for and think of what they like.
2. Secondly, construct the box and glue gun the back flaps shut.
3. After that measure and cut ( with the hacksaw and bench hook ) the doweling for the camshaft (16 cm ), followers ( any reasonable size ) and the handle  ( 5-6 cm ).
4. When the doweling has been cut to the right sizes choose your cam (I chose an egg-shaped one).
5. Next, to create the background, foreground and character,  printing or painting is fine ( if printed make sure the picture is not too blurry and make sure it is free for printing ). If the character is going to spin around, you need to print the it twice (once as a mirror image) so you can see it both ways.
6. Before sticking on the background, foreground and character, gluing the parts of your box together is VITAL !! (You must stick the handle, cam and doweling together inside the box).

7. Then you need to stick on your background and foreground to the box. Stick the character onto the follower.
8. Congratulations !!! Have fun and enjoy playing with the fantastic toy made by you !!!!!!

                                                                                          

    By Olivia F 5BH

Jellyfish Poems

Poems written today by Sami and Milena:

Plant Reproduction

Science from a Year Five girl:

Dear Prime Minister

As part of our 'Lightning Writing' activities, we wrote some emails to the Prime Minister suggesting some things which might be done to improve our country. Some of the best examples are below:

Dear Prime Minister,

I would like to make a few changes to our country. Firstly, schools need to make learning more fun, so, for example, take the learning outside.

Secondly, the dinners: why have, say, fish fingers, which are on Wednesday. Can’t we have a mix up?

Yours sincerely,

Amy M

Dear Prime Minister,

I think you could make the country better by giving homes to the homeless because every person in the world deserves a home to stay warm and have shelter from storms.

Yours sincerely,

Lola N-M

Dear Prime Minister,

I think this country could be better by adding more houses all around our neighbourhood, but only where people want it.

When they build houses, they can’t be flats; they have to be proper houses because it will include more people near and around you. Also it will make the lives happier and easier as well.

Yours sincerely,

Aston L