In our History lesson, we observed and analysed Anglo-Saxon artefacts. Using these sources, we tried to imagine the life style they lived. The children were interested by how creative they were since they used to make their own shoes out of cow skin and their...
This week, year 5 has been using the hands-on learning approach to understand equivalent fractions. We folded strips of paper into, halves, thirds, quarters, sixths, eigths and twelfths. We created a fraction wall using the strips of paper and used this to find as many...
English Creative Hook lesson Starting our new English writing unit on myths, we immersed ourselves into the art of story telling, by imaging that we were seated around a fire as we listened to and shared stories of the past. Stories of great heroes who valiantly...
Year 5 hosted an Art exhibition where they displayed their Tudor paintings. The children worked very hard with learning to draw facial features and to mix colours using powder paint to create the Tudor portraits. Thank you to everyone who attended our exhibition. It was...
Year 5 are continuing their science investigation looking at reversible and irreversible changes. We completed an experiment to see how we can reverse a salt water solution through evaporation. We observed the effects of different liquids and solids on metal, we found out that through...
Year 5 trip at Eastbury Manor House: It was a very interesting and informative day when the students in Year 5 lived the life of a Tudor! The children were greeted by three very knowledgeable and experienced actors who shared much about the Tudor period which...
This week in Year 5, we have been investigating reversible and irreversible materials. We mixed sand and gravel together in containers to see to how we can separate the mixed components using a sieve. We also created a mixture of sand/glitter and water, passed the...
In Year 5 this week, the children have been busy learning the beat of a Bossa Nova song and have been practising the head in their Music lesson. During the session, they improvised and experimented with the notes, GGAAB, substituting it for other notes. There...
Year 5 will be investigating the reversible and irreversible changes of solids, liquids and gases. The children started off our topic by exploring different groups of materials and their properties. We looked at what materials magnets attract, the transparency and hardness of different materials and...
In PE this week the children have been learning fitness skills. This included doing squat jumps, high knees, step back jacks, spiderman climbers, lunge jump and the wall sit. The emphasis in the lesson was to keep a straight back and shoulders. Ask the children...