Blog by Tag: Year 5

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…

After watching a clip of Niagara Falls, we used our senses to imagine what it must have been like watching Annie Edson Taylor as she crossed the Falls in her barrel.

We worked together and selected vocabulary linked to what we would see, hear and how we would have felt at the time.

This will…

We have been learning about subtractive drawing. This is an art technique that involves covering a surface with charcoal or graphite and then erasing parts of it to create an image.

The children focused on creating a setting or landscape in the style of Frank Auerbach.

The children worked in pairs to identify numbers up to 10,000 presented in a range of ways.

Lola explained, ‘I found this activity fun as it was similar to solving a puzzle.’