Welcome to Year 5

I am looking forward to working with you all this year! Keep an eye on this page for updates about our learning and useful information about what is happening in school.  Pop back and visit often to see what we have been up to!

Please remember:

•  All uniform, PE kit, coats and wellies should be labelled.
• Coats, filled water bottles and book bags should be in school everyday.
• For morning playtime children may bring 25p to spend at the tuckshop or bring their own healthy snack - absolutely no nuts please.

*Children will need their PE kit every Friday.

Spring 2:

Dragon Eyes

The children have worked incredibly hard on their oil pastel dragon eyes. They are so vivid, bold and unique! Now we get to admire this amazing display everyday in our classroom. We hope you love the ourcomes as much as we do!

Literacy: Imagination Stations!

We are creating a narrative in our literacy sessions: an alternative chapter for the story of Beowulf. Sometimes it can be tricky to write a story from our own heads... so we used lego, plasticine, paper straws and all kinds of other thimgs to get our imaginations flowing. They really helped us with our story openings.

Active Learning in History

In year 5, we like to get moving! The children went orienteering in pairs to find out information about King Alfred the Great. It tested their reading comprehension, historical thinking and teamwork skills.

Monoprints

In art, we have been studying the work of Kevork Mourad - a very talented printing artist. We have explored mark-making in our sessions and the children worked hard to combine collage and monoprinting to produce a Viking rune piece. As the Norse people were pagan, our collages reflect nature in an abstract way. The print is a Viking rune that the children chose to represent themselves.

Because the children were so sensible and efficient when working with the ink and rollers, they were each able to do a second print! They also got to experiment with creating negative space. Take a look:

Viking Workshop!

Thank you to the History Squad for coming to visit us and help us further understand the Vikings! We learnt so much and it was so exciting to examine the artefacts - some replicas, some genuine!

Maths: Finding Fractions of Amounts

Have a look at how we have been using practical resources to help build our fractions knowledge.

Spring 1:

Physics: Upthrust Investigation

In science, we explored how upthrust occurs. We found out that an object will float on water if the amount of upthrust acting on it is greater than its weight. We also looked at how an object's surface area affects how it floats. As you can see... things got rather messy!

Forest School: Viking Longboats

Have a look at our Viking longboats that we made in forest school! In class, we have been learning all about why the Vikings were such a threatening force by sea. They had specially made boats that were long, sleek and fast - perfect for sailing up narrow rivers. We also found out that they had the head of a fierce creature on the fron of their boats which they believed would frighten the spirits of the land they were about to invade.

Re-enacting the Viking Raid at Lindisfarne in 793 AD:

In history, we have been learning all about the Vikings - including their raid on the island of Lindisfarne in 793 AD. So what better way to explore the past than to re-enact it! We played the roles of Vikings and monks: thinking about the strategies the Vikings would have used and how the monks would have reacted.

Autumn 2:

Design Technology: Make-Do-And-Mend Christmas Decorations

We worked incredibly hard to produce our very own Christmas ornaments. We started by investigating Richard Steiff and how stuffed toys are made. Then we went on to practice running stitch, cross stitch and blanket stitch. Luckily we had some resident experts who attend sewing club to offer words of advice. We are so proud of our outcomes!

Our walk to Bramhall War Memorial:

We walked to the memorial in Bramhall to pay our respects to those lost in both WW1 and WW2. We prepared in school by brushing up on our map skills in our geography lessons and then went on to make a poppy wreath in history.

Our visit to Stockport Air Raid Shelters:

We had a fantastic time visiting the air raid shelters in the centre of Stockport to support our learning focus: WW2.

While we were there, we got to experience what a night in the shelters would have been like. We explored the tunnels, visited the sick-bay and nurses station, and even saw the toilets... yuck! Later, we practised putting on our gas masks and visited the clothing exchange. Here, we learnt practised doing our househild chores. Shh, don't tell our grown-ups!

Autumn 1:

This half-term we have been diving into a range of topics.

History: investigating WW2 and the impact of this on Britain, as well as the hardships faced by others across Europe and further afield.

Computing: coding and programming MicroBits to complete different functions.

Art: exploring form through drawing and analysing the work of Henry Moore.

RE: discussing our Big Question: 'Why do some people believe in God?'

RE: 'Why do people believe in God?'

This term, we will be investigating our Big Question: 'Why do people believe in God?'

Part of our journey has been to look at arguments that a Theist may have to prove God's existence. We went outside to collect different things found in nature and examined them to see if we could find evidence of an 'intelligent designer'. 

We were amazed by the detail we could see up-close! Take a look:

Art: Henry Moore Sculptures

We have been exploring form through drawing this half-term - focusing on Henry Moore's WW2 shelter sketches.

We then progressed to making our very own Moore-inspired sculptures using wire and modroc. We concentrated on showing emotion through the form of the figures and kept the faces anonymous, just as Moore did.

They look quite haunting, sombre and really capture the feeling of war. Have a look at our works-in-progress: