Class of 2019

Until the end of the year, our geography topic is the UK. Within this we will be practicing our map reading skills. Today we went outside to confirm our knowledge of an 8 point compass. We had a leader read aloud compass points and we had to throw the beanbag in the correct hula hoop. 
 

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Our first day in summer at the field! For our second lesson of athletics we walked down to the field to practice our long distance running, jumping and push throwing!

We had a visit from some lambs! We went to see them with our Buddies and had discussions about their first movements, their needs as living things and thought about the life cycle of sheep.

Today we had fun cracking codes and solving puzzles with our STEM Engineers Helen, Rachel and Mr Monk!

This term our RE topic is Women in the Old Testament. To begin our topic we started thinking about the important and inspirational women in our lives and then about famous women. We found out about Junk Tabei, Wangari Maathei, Malala Yousafzai, Greta Thunberg, Emmeline Pankhurst and Dr Gladys…

Today we held Year 5’s Viking Day.

We started off by learning about how the Vikings travelled and what was so special about their Longboats. We then had a go at creating our own, decorating them with sails and shields. 
 

We then found out about the Nordic Paganism. We learnt about the…

Today we used the plans we had created to make our final bread pieces in DT. 
Once the pieces were kneaded, shaped and baked we decorated them. 
Mrs Walsh was the judge. She chose 3 winners. 

Bread that was the most creative - Teddy D

Bread that was most like the plan - Amy L

Bread that…

Today in Year 5 we have been training to be Scientists. Dr Rigby came from Lancaster University to teach us about bacteria in the digestive system. We used microscopes to look at the intestine of a mouse and found out about good and bad bacteria and why we need both of these in our gut. 
Luke and…

We have been working on giving advice to help someone make a decision. We used the conscience alley technique. 
We took turns to be Alex (the main character from our new novel). Listening to the whispered advice from our friends, we had to decide whether to be a spy or not. 
In the book, Alex is…

Our new PE topic this term is rugby. 
In our first lesson we tried to increase our accuracy of swing passes, and today we tried to involve that accuracy in game scenarios!

We visited our buddies and had lots of fun decorating biscuits together.

In Science we have been learning about pollination and fertilisation in a flowering plant. We carefully dissected 2 different flowers to see if we could identify all the main parts of the flower.