Year 5 blog

• Saturday 18 March 2023 Science week This week, year 5 carried out a wide range of interesting scientific activities.
• Saturday 11 March 2023 Investigating Jewellery Design This week, we began our investigation into the world of Ancient Mayan Jewellery. We carried out research into how it was made and why it was so important to the Mayan people.
• Friday 3 March 2023 The World of Non-fiction This year, our World Book Day event centred around non-fiction texts. Year 5 brought in a wonderful array of books, including texts about ballet, The Ancient Egyptians, cricket stars and pet dogs. Their imaginative costumes added great excitement to our day. Back in class we described our books to our friends and produced posters designed to encourage to delve into them.
• Tuesday 28 February 2023 The life cycle of a flowering plant
• Monday 27 February 2023 We're going on a dragon hunt This term we are reading the text - Dragonology.
• Monday 27 February 2023 What happened when the Vikings invaded Lindisfarne? Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to be part of the Viking invasion of Lindisfarne
• Sunday 22 January 2023 Materials Workshop On Friday morning, we were lucky enough to have a workshop led by SETPOINT. This completed our science topic on materials.
• Sunday 15 January 2023 Thermal Insulation When we began our journey into thermal insulation, the temperature had not risen above 0 degrees C in a week. We really needed to keep warm.
• Saturday 3 December 2022 The Art of Being a Mayan This term, our artwork has been centred around the Mayan way of life. We began by creating fabric squares. We used our printing skills to present our views about the way Mayans lived. Some of us created an abstract piece of work portraying farming life, while others created work showing the importance Mayans place on astronomy. We now plan to enhance them using our embroidery skills.
• Friday 18 November 2022 Family Learning Week Year 5 have had a very exciting family learning week. We have carried out a range of activities where we have had to apply our scientific and design knowledge to solve problems. On Tuesday, we designed tiny breath powered rockets. We worked hard to add features that allowed them to travel the greatest distance possible. Wednesday saw us develop tin foil boats using our knowledge of upthrust and gravity. Finally on Thursday we solved a mystery using the separation technique of chromatography. During each session we came to recognise how vital it was to work as a team and listen to each other carefully.
• Sunday 13 November 2022 Into The Weddell Sea Shackleton's expedition was full of danger and difficulty. At one point, the Endurance had to push its way through packed ice.
• Saturday 5 November 2022 How big is our solar system?
• Saturday 5 November 2022 Holy or Loving? During the autumn term, we have been thinking about the holy and loving nature of God.
• Saturday 15 October 2022 Shackleton and his crew The crew that Earnest Shackleton put together for his Endurance expedition to the Antarctic where an interesting bunch.
• Saturday 8 October 2022 Why does the sun rise in the east and set in the west?
• Thursday 29 September 2022 Adventures into the world of Lego WeDo This week we have begun to investigate how programme and control devises that work away from the computer itself.
• Monday 26 September 2022 Rounding Numbers This week's maths has been all about developing the skill of rounding to the nearest multiple of 10, 100 or 1000. This is a very important skill as it means we can estimate the answers to calculations.
• Monday 19 September 2022 The Queen in Colour and Line This week, both our English and art work have been reflective of Her Majesty The Queen.
• Sunday 11 September 2022 What does it mean to be well educated?
• Tuesday 7 June 2022 Hurray for Hudnall The sun shone for us today at Hudnall and we had a wonderful time.
• Tuesday 7 June 2022 A joyful jubilee Year 5 had a wonderful day celebrating the Jubilee. We began our day with maths fluency around the number 70 and problems involving finding the fractions of The Queen's life she has spent on different things.
• Friday 27 May 2022 Fair Trade
• Friday 27 May 2022 Outdoor Learning In honour of thejubilee, this term outdoor learning project is based around trees.
• Monday 23 May 2022 Christian Aid The Worship Acolytes from both years 3 and 5 planned a wonderful range of activities for Christian Aid Day.
• Wednesday 11 May 2022 Angles Outdoors During maths this week, we have been learning about and investigating angles in the outdoor environment.
• Tuesday 10 May 2022 The Norsemen have arrived.
• Tuesday 10 May 2022 The KNEX Challenge
• Sunday 6 February 2022 Sustainable Recipes Our design and technology learning this term has been around cookery andsustainability.
• Sunday 6 February 2022 We're going on a dragon hunt This term we are reading the text - Dragonology.
• Sunday 6 February 2022 Mayan Art This term, our art work has been centred around the Mayan way of life. We began by creating a fabric banner. We used our printing and sewing skills to present our views about the way Mayans lived. Some of us created an abstract piece of work portraying farming life, while others created work showing the importance Mayans place on astronomy.
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