25 Jun

Cheerleading in Year 5

Mrs Winder our resident Cheerleader talked to us today about the history of Cheerleading. She showed us some of the medals her and her team had won and we watched some experts show us how it was done. Mrs Winder then took us outside and taught us some of the basic moves.

25 Jun

African Wildlife

Today Peter Nutsford came to talk to us about Endangered Animals of East Africa. He is a wildlife photographer and shared his photos, videos and experiences of mountain gorillas, rhinos and warthogs. Peter was amazing and the children enjoyed the presentation. At the end of the session Peter…

20 Jun

Year 5 Williamsons’s Park Visit (2025)

In our geography lessons we have been looking at the UK and our local area. 
 

After a very warm walk to Williamson’s Park, we did some sketch drawings from the Ashton Memorial and spoke about human and physical features of Lancaster. 
We then had a walk around Friend’s Garden and had our…

20 May

Cricket taster session

Today we were lucky enough to have a taster cricket session. We practiced our batting skills as well as our fielding skills. 
 

12 May

8 Point Compass Y5

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. 
 

29 Apr

Athletics at the Field

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!

 

28 Apr

Lambs!

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.

 

23 Apr

STEM Engineering

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

22 Apr

Inspirational and Important Women - RE

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…

17 Mar

Viking Day 2025!

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…

6 Feb

The Great Scotforth Bread Bake Off 2025

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…

31 Jan

Being Scientists

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…