Year 5: Gallery
Date: 26th Apr 2022 @ 12:03pm
Listen to our performance showcasing all our brass instrument learning this year!
Date: 22nd Apr 2022 @ 9:32am
We launched our new Big Question this week: Rainforests - essential or desirable? We began our launch by getting to know the trees in our school environment - we used all our senses to explore them and even located our tree by feel only whilst being blindfolded! One of the reasons we decided trees were essential was because of their importance in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere so our second task was to calculate the amount of carbon dioxide stored in our tree to work out just how useful it was to us at our school.
Year 5 as Wallace and Gromit - investigating levers, pulleys and gears.
Date: 15th Apr 2022 @ 10:06am
We became Wallace and Gromit for an afternoon investigating levers, pulleys and gears as part of our Sceicne topic Forces. Our challenges were to launch a ping pong ball as high as possible only using spoons of different sizes and to pick up some equipment off the classroom floor without using our hands.
Date: 29th Mar 2022 @ 9:38pm
We had a calm end to our day today with a yoga session - breathing exercises, body stretches and postivie affirmations.
School Linking Trip to Burnley Youth Theatre
Date: 28th Mar 2022 @ 8:34pm
We have had a fabulous drama day at Burnley Youth Theatre with our linking school Yealand C of E Primary School. Our day consisted of drama games, forming a group drama piece which involved freeze frames and actions and then showcasing our work in the theatre. The theme of diversity, working together and participating were threaded through all our activities and I know Year 5 left feeling they had made new friends and are already looking forward to meeting Yealand again in the summer term.
Date: 27th Mar 2022 @ 11:48pm
Year 5 had a great time developing their racket skills and then applying these in a team game.
Date: 21st Mar 2022 @ 8:55pm
In Science today we investigated the usefulness of friction in every day by completing a jelly challenge - can you move all the jelly cubes from one plate to another using chopsticks? Repeat the task but this time the jelly cubes are covered in oil! We then used our findings to design new walking boots for Bear Grylls to assist him in walking up an icy mountain.
Date: 7th Mar 2022 @ 6:00pm
This afternoon we were learning about air resistance and how important it is to parachutes. Our task was to design and make a parachute that would safely bring a raw egg down to land without breaking it! Unfortunately, Mrs. Mather did not end up with enough eggs left for her tea!
Date: 6th Mar 2022 @ 11:29pm
World Book Day 2022 gave Year 5 a chance to focus on a book from another country. We are reading The Fastest Boy in the World by Elizabeth Laird. It is set in Ethiopia and is enabling us to find out about life in another country and compare it with our own. We can't believe what the main character has just found out about his Grandad!
Here we are dressed in the colours of the Ethiopian flag or as our favourite book characters.
Our Big Question Launch morning
Date: 22nd Feb 2022 @ 8:58pm
We have had a fabulous morning launching our new BIG QUESTION: 'To Invent Or Not To Invent - That Is The Question.' We played the first known organised ball game invented by the Mayans, which was unbelievably tricky, and debated inventions that have had positive and negative outcomes. Our morning was rounded up by us becoming inventors and trying to solve a real-world problem for the farmers of Nepal called The Squashed Tomato Challenge.
Date: 11th Feb 2022 @ 4:11pm
We have loved making our space inspired artworks using multi-media. I think mod-roc was definitely the favourite and the messiest!
Date: 11th Feb 2022 @ 4:05pm
We have all worn our scarves to school today to raise awareness of Mental Health Week. The acronym SCARF feeds into all of our PSHE leanring and our class values and ethos.
S - safety
C - caring
A - achievement
R - resilience
F - friendship
Date: 31st Jan 2022 @ 5:34pm
We had a great time during the Football Festival on Friday with Dave from South Ribble Sports Development!
We tried out lots of new skills!
Date: 31st Jan 2022 @ 12:43am
Our RE lessons on the Hindu faith have been enhanced thank you to one of our pupils who brought in some artefacts and explained their significance and importance to her and her family. Thank you.
Date: 26th Jan 2022 @ 8:47am
Year 5 are official published poets! These are our poems based on the theme 'This Is Me.' We used similes, metaphors, alliteration and personification to create fabulous poems which describe ourselves.
Date: 24th Jan 2022 @ 1:46pm
The Year 5 classroom has been taken over this half-term and transported into space! We are immersing ourselves with science fiction stories by Andrew Norriss; investigating the Mars Rover in Computing; learning about the sun, moon and Earth in Science and writing space metaphors in French.
Date: 24th Jan 2022 @ 1:34pm
Year 5 are now experts on budgeting and spending on 'needs not wants' first. We had a brilliant and really informative morning learning through role play, stories and money facts.
Date: 16th Dec 2021 @ 8:46am
We loved our Science lesson at Priory learning about soluble and insoluble substances. We learnt about different chemical warning symbols and all had to wear goggles when using the different substances.
Forest Schools - Anglo Saxon Bread Making
Date: 16th Dec 2021 @ 8:38am
Year 5 had an amazing finish to their Forest Schools sessions this week - baking bread using the open fire just like the Anglo Saxons used to. We also planted saplings in the Forest Schools area to create a hedge of hawthorn.
Anglo Saxon Dwellings in Forest Schools
Date: 24th Nov 2021 @ 3:40pm
In Forest School this week we learnt about Anglo-Saxon homes and how they were created. We discovered their homes face the sun and that they used wattle and daub to stick their walls together - we loved making this as we got unbelievably muddy!
Date: 10th Nov 2021 @ 4:13pm
We had a fabulous start to our day with a paralympics activity session in the hall. We discovered how tricky it is to save goals using only our hearing and learnt how to play curling and boccia.
Date: 9th Nov 2021 @ 5:02pm
We loved our first week of Forest School making maps using landmarks like the Anglo Saxons and discovering the names of different plants and mushrooms in our Wild Wood area. We can't wait for next week where we will be learning about fire and how it was used in Anglo Saxon times and in future sessions, we are hoping to bake bread on the open fire and learn about equality and equity around the world.
Plant Life Cycles - dissecting and observing
Date: 11th Oct 2021 @ 9:37pm
We dissected lily flowers today to investigate male and female parts of plants and studied each part carefully using magnifying glasses. We also used these to observe the different sections of a huge sunflower head. We are drying it out so we can all grow giant sunfowers next year.
Debt Aware - Money Skills for Life
Date: 29th Sep 2021 @ 4:28pm
Managing Money
Year 5 have had their first visit of the year from Mr. Souter. He spent the afternoon with us to begin a series of workshops on Money Management - Lessons for Life.
This session focused on our understanding of NEEDS and WANTS and the difference between these. We learnt the definition of debt and the difference beween good and bad debt. All the children listened, laughed and learnt. Mr Souter has asked for 4 Money Mentors to be chosen from the class who will prepare and deliver the next Money Management session to us. Watch this space!
Date: 27th Sep 2021 @ 5:31pm
George inspired us to be resilient and embrace challenges as a way of learning and increasing our self-confidence.
