Author: Sandra Ashworth
29
Feb
Shackleton Role Play in Y5
[gallery ids="28844,28845,28846,28847,28848,28849,28850,28851,28852,28853"] Year 5s have been reading Ice Trap! by M. P. Roberton and Meredith Hooper. Here we acted out being reporters and interviewing Shackleton on his feelings when Endurance finally succumbed to the ice and his dream of crossing the Antarctic failed....
08
Feb
Marvellous Mechanisms
Year 5 science this week was looking at simple mechanisms to help us lower forces. We ended our lesson with some fun 'Wallace and Gromit' style inventions using gears, levers and pulleys to do lots of really useful stuff! We loved inventing and sharing our...
08
Feb
Dazzling Divisions
Year 5 mathematicians learned short division this week. Here we are breaking it down using our counters. This is all part of how we learn through the concrete to the pictorial and finally to the abstract formal short division method! ...
01
Feb
Oral Storytelling
This week we've enjoyed hearing some oral storytelling from a video of the amazing first Oral Storytelling Laureate Taffy Thomas and from some members of the class. Here you can see a team of storytellers who came together to retell the story of the Gruffalo. ...
01
Feb
Year 5 Science
This week, Year 5s enjoyed testing which shapes created the most and least water resistance when dropped through a container of water. We had all made predictions about which was the most streamlined shape, after which came the testing. Whose prediction would be correct? ...
01
Feb
Hot Seating in Year 5
This week we were putting ourselves into the shoes of Dr. Leila, a character from our current class book Oranges in No Man's Land by Elizabeth Laird. The children did an excellent job answering questions from the class on Dr. Leila's thoughts and feelings about...
23
Nov
5A’s Caged Bird Art Part 1
[gallery ids="23206,23205,23204,23203,23202"] Year 5 spent 2 weeks studying the poem 'The Caged Bird' by Maya Angelou. It inspired us to write our own poetry and to create artwork. We will post photos of our finished pieces soon....