Blog by Tag: Year 5

This term our dance has been linked to our history topic of the Vikings.  We have practised and performed a battle dance.  Here are some short video clips of our rehearsals.

These lovely year 5 pupils represented the school brilliantly today at Pupil Parliament. They found out about climate change and started thinking about how to make school a more sustainable place. 

Some of the Year 5 and Year 6 girls enjoyed an afternoon of fun and football with girls from St. Luke's Primary School in Skerton. Coaches from Morecambe Football Club organised a skills session for us, before we played a friendly match. Despite the wind and rain, everyone had fun and showed great…

As part of World Book Week we read dinosaur books with our Reception buddies.

As part of World Book Week we had a visit from our Year 5 buddies. They read a selection of dinosaur books with us. 

We had a lovely time with our buddies on the book trail through Dorrrington Wood as part of our World Book celebrations.

Yesterday we made our own instruction sheets for a board game of our choice. 
Today we used the instructions to help us set up and play the games in groups. We evaluated each other and found something they had done really well and something they could improve next time. 

In RE we have been learning about the stories Jesus told so today Diana from NISCU visited us.  She talked to us about the Prodigal Son, the Story of the Sower and the Story of the Unforgiving Servant.  She showed us some very funny videos that showed the stories well.  We had to think really hard…

Today we welcomed Meldred the Anglo-Saxon to our school to tell us all about life in Anglo-Saxon England. She told us the ancient story of Beowulf and all about Alfred the Great.  We also learnt about settlements and created our own villages named after their leaders: Anyaport, Frankfort,…

In maths we have been investigating patterns in different multiplication tables. We looked at the digital roots of the different tables and drew the shapes that these made onto circles. We were amazed by the different shapes that were created. We tried to work logically and carefully so we could…

We have been learning about religion in Britain during Anglo-Saxon times.

First of all we learnt about different gods from the Anglo-Saxon pagan beliefs. We then acted out the story of how Christianity came to Britain from missionaries from both Ireland and Rome.

We found out that it was a…

We have been exploring the story and characters from The Highwayman. Recently we have written our own stories and speeches linked to this dramatic poem. We have edited them and presented them in neat for display. Enjoy reading them!