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…

24 Jun

Flags Y5

To help decorate our school for multicultural week we researched flags from around the world and chose one to draw ourselves.

24 Jun

Mexico Y5

As part of multicultural week we had a look at Mexico. 
We spoke about culture, food and music. 
We made guacamole to eat with tortilla chips. It was a bigger hit than the Greek salad!

 

24 Jun

Africa research Y5

We tried following an African dancing video as well as finding out more about the continent of Africa. 
In groups we then chose countries to research, we chose: Kenya, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Madagascar and Ghana. 
We created posters and presented them to the rest of the class. 
 

23 Jun

Greece Y5

To start Multicultural week we looked at Greece. 
We made Greek salad (with mixed reviews!) and looked at the evil eye tradition, by making our own evil eye charms out of salt dough.

 

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!