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Belong-Believe-Achieve
Year 5
Welcome to Year 5!
Our Class Teacher is Miss Steadman
Our Teaching Assistant is Mrs Happe
Have you seen the Kids’ Zone? Play games and visit some cool websites. You can vote for your favourites.
Year 5 Non Negotiables for Writing, Reading and Maths
Curriculum Letters
Welcome Meeting
In English the children have worked hard to write descriptive dialogues.
PSCHE - we made board games to show good ways and bad ways to deal with bullying. If you land on a snake then you have done the wrong thing and have to moved down. If you land on a ladder you did the right thing and move up!
Skipping workshop
Our Diwali dance workshop was fantastic! The children picked up the dance so quickly and did a great job performing it.
Diwali cinquains and Rangoli multiplication.
Diwali hands with Henna designs
We had so much fun on Ancient Egypt day! We made cartouches, Egyptian necklaces and oil pastel scenes.
At Hudnall Park we did lots of fun art activities! We made sculptures, went on a colour hunt in the woods and practised mixing colours. It was lots of fun!
This week we had a growth mindset workshop. We had to use our growth mindset to draw a picture. We learnt that it’s ok to make mistakes, to never give up and always try our best.
In English we have written diary entries about building the pyramids in Ancient Egypt.
In Art we made papyrus paper and drew Egyptian tomb paintings onto them.
It was lovely weather on Tuesday so we took our English lesson outside! We performed pieces of drama pretending to be pharaohs in Ancient Egypt and people building the pyramids.
Wow what a fantastic start to Year 5. The children have worked really hard and it’s been great to get to know each other! Here are just some of the brilliant pieces of work we’ve completed this week.
Our Learning Journey 2020-2021
Thank you so much for the lovely gifts and for all your support this year parents! Well done to all the children who have worked so hard. 
Well done for being great learning CHAMPs! Have a fantastic summer!
Our book is set in the Victorian era so we studied a famous Victorian artist William Morris. We created wallpaper art inspired by his work. They are fantastic and the children are very proud of their work.
In Maths we went on a treasure hunt! We had to solve the word problems and then find the answers somewhere around the school.
On PowerPoint we created a balanced argument about one of the characters from Street Child. We confidently shared our arguments to the class.
Sports Week was so much fun. We had fantastic CHAMP skills and showed lots of Olympic and Paralympic values. Thank you to Jensen for taking some lovely pictures!
Middle distance
Relay race
Race 3
Race 2
Race 1
Our book Street Child is set in the Victorian era. The character Jim is sent to a workhouse. We have created some beautiful reports about the workhouse. We tried so hard with the presentation!
It was such lovely weather we had our English lesson outside! We used drama and freeze frames to recreate scenes from the book Street Child.
We made factor bugs and wrote the factors of a number on the insect’s legs.
Here’s a sneak peak of our documentary ‘Life’. We pretended to be presenters and talked about the life cycle of different living things.
Another sneak peak..l
Planning a suspense story.
Some of our marble runs in action!
Making marble runs.
Athletics in P.E.
Non-chronological reports about our favourite games.
Earth Day 2021 - The whole school planted sunflowers.
Labelling the map of Europe using an atlas.
Growing sunflowers for Earth Day.
In Science we had to hunt for the definitions for different parts of a flower.
Growing flowers has inspired our art! We tried to use a style from an artist using focal points.
In The Secret Sky Garden, Funni grows plants to improve the environment. We are growing our own plants too!
Labelling the features of a river. We used lots of different materials to make our river and had to find the source, mouth, tributaries and meanders.
Our mindfulness rainbow!
We have had a great first day back at school! We are working on some collaborative art.
Our published stories. We worked so hard on these.
Year 5 singing Silent Night for the nativity. They did a fantastic job!
Our lovely calendars.
Roman Mosaics
Colouring by rounding.
The beautiful Christmas tree with our fantastic reindeer decorations on it!
Our stories are fantastic!
Making games on Scratch.
The Roman Army. We learnt about their armour, formations and what life was like as a Roman soldier.
Firework poems!
We have drawn factor rainbows to find factors of numbers systematically.
Space art - we have started sketching and shading the planets.
French comic strips:
Year 5's Class Assembly
Egyptian day was great fun. Look at our amazing art!
Everyone worked so hard on their Egyptian themed art!
Our amazing writing!
Our Egyptian writing. We worked so hard on these!
Our collaborative mindfulness art.
Our drama lesson was so fun! We pretended to be pharaohs to help us write a diary entry.
We have learnt lots about how society was organised in Ancient Egypt.
We are reading diary entries from Ancient Egypt this week. They’re really interesting!
The children have made a fantastic start! We have been using different methods to add and subtract numbers.
Our Learning Journey 2019/2020
We took part in a Knex challenge. We had to build a windmill.
In D&T we are making marble runs. So far we have been practising how to make a strong base.
In P.E. we have been practising the Hakka.
We have lots of fun at Kidzania! We learnt lots about different jobs!
Bird Watching Day - We spotted and recorded lots of different species of birds around the school grounds. We thought about how we could help protect birds.
For Cooking and Nutrition Day, we completed a Pizza Project! We designed pizzas and their packaging and evaluated pizzas that we made!
For Charlie and the Chocolate Factory day, we 'performance read' extracts from the book. We had to use good expression and pace!
We were motivated to convert units of measurements in Maths!
In Science our new topic is Forces. We made parachutes and tested them out.
Our new Geography topic is Magnificent Mountains. We have done some research and located famous mountains on a map.
We are reading Kensuke's Kingdom. We have made predictions on the book and thought about the theme of sailing around the world.
We tried hard in P.E. this week. Our new topic is Gymnastics.
Look at our tomb art this week! We based it on tomb paintings found inside the pyramids!
Our fractions work this week:
Our newspaper articles:
We have finished our Tutunkhamun masks! We were really persevering with them and they look fantastic!
We are enjoying writing newspaper reports about Tutunkhamun's discovery. We have also revised formal language to help us with this.
We have been learning about fractions in maths.
We have worked hard to create travel brochures about Australia as part of Take One Country.
