Blog by Tag: Year 5

This week the children created Danish open sandwiches.

Working in pairs, they carefully tasted and selected the ingredients to use for their own sandwich.

We then evaluated our sandwiches for taste and what we would change.

Luca 5A, ‘I really enjoyed the taste of the cucumber and cheese…

We have been exploring copyright. As a class discussed what copyright is and why it is important.

The children created posters explaining what is copyright as well as the terms public domain and fair use.

The children have worked in small groups to recount Annie’s journey in her barrel as she approaches the end of the falls.

We focused on summarising the key events as well as thinking about how Annie would have felt at each stage. 

Today we have been discussing, ‘Why are our diets so different?‘

In small groups we worked together to create flatbreads using flour, salt, olive oil and cold water.

The children enjoyed working in groups and mixing the ingredients and kneading the dough.

Nancy 5A, ‘I really enjoyed…

During this term we have been looking at the work of Freidensreich Hundertwasser. 

Using his paintings as our inspiration we designed and painted our own versions of his work.

In this lesson we explored using hieroglyphics as musical symbols.

After listening to The Bangles, ‘Walk like an Egyptian’, we discussed what symbols would be suitable to go along with the song.

In pairs, we created our own composition using hieroglyphics and selected suitable sounds to go…

In this lesson, we looked at the different ways and reasons why children are measured and weighed.

As a class, we measured our hands spans and then took an average for the class, boys and girls.

Our conclusion was, ‘the larger the handspan, the taller the person.’

Today Year 5 were tasked with solving a range of mathematical problems in order to stop the Robotrons.

The children worked in small groups and applied a range of skills to find the codes needed.

Thank you to Subject Revolution for leading a brilliant afternoon and the Year 6 volunteers for…

Throughout this term the children have been learning about the Great Lakes of North America.

In this lesson we explored what happened to the SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior.  

We independently researched to find out more information about the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and what caused it to…

Learning the Recorder in Year 5!

Children in Year 5 started their instrumental lessons with Mr Lacey-Kiggins today as they started to learn about the recorder: how to begin to play it and how to begin to read music notation. For the remainder of the term, the children will be learning the…

This week we have focused on learning the Spanish names for the days of the week and months of the year.

The children are really enjoying their weekly Spanish lessons.

Following on from our lesson on search engines, we looked at a clip of the Chocolate Whopper from Burger King and researched the life of the Pacific Tree Octopus. We then discussed how the clips and links we viewed were fake.

We reinforced the importance of using trustworthy websites and using…