Year 5

Spring Term 2nd Half

Have a look at some of the exciting topics we will be covering this half term.

Music

This half term we have been investigating rock music, we learnt the words to  ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’ and then used a variety of instruments to accompany the song – we sounded amazing!

Thursday 5^th March - World Book Day

Today the children dressed as some amazing characters inspired by David Walliams and Roald Dahl. Throughout the day, the children read a variety of books, wrote their own David Walliams inspired stories and also shared their favourite books with their Year 1 Maths Buddies. 

PE

Over the spring term, Year 5 have been training like an astronaut. They have completed a variety of activities which have built their bone and muscle strength, developed their co-ordination and improved their balance and spacial awareness.

Following on from this training, the children are now using all of these skills in their hockey lessons to pass, dribble and shoot effectively.

Lego Day

What a fantastic day of building, investigating and teamwork! Today we followed quite tricky instructions to make a space buggy. Then we changed the gears on our buggies to find out the effect it had on the speed and distance travelled. Some of our results were quite unusual but in general we found that smaller gears made the buggy go quicker and larger gears made the buggy go slower. We also created craters to see if our buggies could travel over them.

Monday 20th January

Today we learned about the relative sizes of and distance between the planets.   We drew each planet to scale  using a compass or string. 1cm=1000km. To do this we had to find out the diameter of each planet, then we halved the diameter to find the radius. We set our compass so that the distance between points was the radius. For larger planets, we measured a piece of string which was the same size as the radius. Drawing the planets to scale really helped us to appreciate the size of each planet. Next we worked out the distance from the sun, again to scale 1cm = 1 million km. Finally we went into the playground and measured the distances of planet from the sun and we all stood in the correct positions. We couldn’t believe how far along the field Neptune was!

Topic Space Day

What a fantastic first day back we have had learning about what it takes to be an astronaut.

At the start of the day we were invited by Tim peak to take part in the UNSA Astro challenge. We spent the morning taking part in lots of different challenges to develop the key skills astronauts need: teamwork, listening and communication, memory and problem solving.  In the afternoon we worked in teams to achieve the first UNSA space cadet badge: Build and Launch a Rocket

http://unspaceagency.com/ 

Spring Term 2020

Happy New Year! We have a very exciting term ahead, starting with our fantastic 'Space' topic. Have a look at our topic grid to find out some of the areas we will be covering.

Anglo—Saxon  Houses

What a fantastic 2 days we have had working on our engineering and teamwork skills. We worked in groups of 3 to design and build Anglo-Saxon style houses. First, we drew a plan to scale and then carefully measured and sawed the wood for the frame. We had to be very precise when gluing our frame together to create strong and accurate joins. Team work was essential as we fixed the base and top in place. We persevered even when we found parts of the construction tricky; this was especially the case with the roof! Our final frames were very strong and sturdy. Even though our frames were constructed in exactly the same way, all of our houses look different thanks to their creative and imaginative exteriors.

Viking Rock

Here is the backing track and song words for the song we will be singing during our class assembly on Thursday 12th December.

Welcombe Hills

On Friday 11^th October we went to The Welcombe Hills to develop our mapping skills and to learn about bush crafts.
We walked through Stratford up to Welcombe Hills, using a route we had plotted on an OS map. When we reached the hills Mrs Newman taught us how to make a fire using a magnesium rod and steel and we enjoyed toasting marshmallows on sticks we whittled ourselves.

We also enjoyed sketching around the obelisk, learnt how to use a compass and picked lots of blackberries.

World Maths Day

15.10.19

Today we had a fantastic day celebrating the wonder of maths. Our day was full of challenges, puzzles and activities to tax our brains and help us develop our team work and perseverance skills. The day began with an ‘escape from forest school’ activity. We followed clues around the forest school, answering a range of maths questions to help generate a code which led to our escape. After play we completed some card challenges, working in pairs to arrange cards according to different criteria, trying to find as many solutions as possible. After lunch we created ‘curves of pursuit’ which are amazing mathematical patterns made from regular polygons. We also completed team challenges throughout the day scanning QR codes to help us answer questions. The day ended with a whole school maths quiz—leading to Emerald being crowned  Maths house champions!

Year 5 Code Club

Year 5 are extremely lucky to be the first year group to take part in Code Club. During Code Club on Monday after school, the children use a software called Scratch, to create a variety of games and activities.  Mrs Bowen and Miss Harris (who deliver code club) are excited to introduce more children to the world of coding.

Art

To get to know our new classmates, we worked in pairs using only newspaper, tape and wire to create these fantastic paper mache herons and swans. We are very proud of our finished artwork.

Welcome to Year 5!

What a busy few weeks we have had settling into our new classes. We are thrilled at the new friendships which have been formed and the sense of belonging and teamwork demonstrated by all Herons (taught by Mrs Luckhurst & Mrs Thomas) and Swans (taught by Miss Harris).

Here is an overview of all the exciting things we will be doing this half term, details about our trip to the Clopton Hills will go out shortly.