Class of 2016

Today in Science we have planned and carried out our own investigations. 
Using balls as rocks we tested whether larger rocks created larger craters. 
Some of us chose to investigate whether the height the rock (ball) fell from changed the crater size. 

In RE we have been investigating the Christmas story.  We drew pictures of all the things and people we thought might have been at the first Christmas. We then investigated the Bible sources in the gospels of Matthew and Luke.
 

Can you work out which things from our list were mentioned in the…

In maths we have been learning about different types of numbers - ask anyone in Year 5 if you fancy hearing the famous Prime Number Rap!  Today it was... cube numbers.

We had lots of fun making the different cube numbers out of multilink. 1x1x1 was quite easy (needing only 1 multilink!)…

Today in Art we have designed and started to make our own clay tiles in the style of the Maya Civilisation. We created 4 symbols to represent us as individuals and incorporated these into a clay tile. When they are dry we will paint them. 

Today in Science we have been finding out about day and night and how they occur. In pairs one of us was the Sun and the other the Earth. As Earth spun on its own axis we watched the Sun appear and day begin. England was warmed and lit by the Sun all day before night fell and it grew darker and…

We are learning the names of fruits in French and then we will learn how to describe the fruits and give our opinions of them.  Today we played a dice and counter game linked to fruits.  We had to speak in French all the time.  It wasn't easy but we had fun!

In Year 5 we have been investigating persuasive writing.  We have read lots of examples and written our own persuasive leaflets.  Now we are preparing for a class debate.  Today we were given the topics for our debates:   

        It is wrong to spend billions of pounds on space…

We worked with Mikey and Jenny to learn about our Lancashire Heritage using music and dance. We danced the jig, the reel, the horn pipe, the waltz and the march. We had lots of fun. 

Today we have been learning to dance to traditional Lancashire music played on a fiddle. 

Today in Art we looked at the work of Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter who is famous for her self portraits. We found out a little about her life and learned how hard it had been. 
We tried to find adjectives to describe her painting, Self-Portrait with Monkeys,  before creating our own monkeys as…

We have started out new topic - The Magnificent Maya!  Today we thought about what we already know about the Maya.  We came up with lots of enquiry questions that we want to find out about during our topic.  

As historians, we know we need to use evidence to find out about the past.  We used…

Today we made and evaluated our musical instruments to complete our DT topic. 

We used our plans to create our instruments. We helped each other out and had lots of fun. Our instruments all made a sound and some of us even managed to create an instrument that we could change the pitch of, this…