In Year 5, the children have been learning about the differences in the life cycles of mammals, amphibians, insects and birds. They enjoyed drawing the life cycles and describing the life processes of reproduction in some plants and animals, Including Humans. They understood that humans...
This week in Year 5, we learnt to use selection to control the outcomes in an interactive quiz. We first completed our quiz designs by using design templates to identify the questions that we will ask, and the outcomes for both correct and incorrect answers....
This week, the children have made great progress in developing their mechanical toys using cams. They created a prototype before interviewing children from Year 1 to research what toy design would be most effective. The children then created a cross sectional diagram of their design...
This week, the children have been preparing events for Sports Day with the specialist PE coach. Activities will include field and track events. They have also been developing and exploring practical and teamwork skills through set challenges and map reading. This has enabled them to...
Year 5 have been investigating complements to 1 for numbers with up to 2 decimal places. They used counters to make links between 1, tenths and hundredths in order to understand the corresponding number bonds to 1. This also enabled the children to understand how...
Year 5 will be reading ‘Charlotte’s Web’ this term. The book is about friendship between a pig and a spider. To immerse the children, we dived into our creative hook and made paper spiderwebs, origami pigs and paper spiders. The children enjoyed developing their artistic...
Year 5 learnt how to build a structure using cutting tools and a glue gun. Working as a team, they created their structure ready to house the moving element they designed. The children built a prototype of their mechanical toy using gears and evaluated their...
In our Year 5 Talk for Writing, we are writing a diary entry based on an extract from the book ‘Clockwork’ by Phillip Pullman. We have been identifying the different emotions experienced by the character ‘Fritz’. We freeze framed the different emotions he experienced and...
Year 5 have been learning about gears, pulleys and levers. We have looked at how gears work and the force produced by different gear ratios. We are working towards incorporating what we have learnt to create a structure with a moving element. [gallery ids="20159,20160,20161,20162,20163"]...
Year 5 have been practising a range of balancing skills in our Gymnastics lessons including the arch, dish, pike, straddle, front and back support. We also combined these by creating a short sequence using some travelling techniques such as frog leaping, hopping, cartwheeling. [gallery ids="20077,20078,20079,20080,20081,20082"]...