Welcome To Year 5

We hope you enjoy seeing our fantastic learning in year 5!

Class Teacher: Mr Perry

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Cunningham

WINTER TERM: WEEKS 4-6

It's been an action-packed couple of weeks: we have started the topic of Travel Writing in English, neared the end of our addition and subtraction unit  in Maths, invented games to understands rewards and responsibilities in PSHE, learned to talk about the weather in Spanish, and much else besides. The most photogenic lesson, though, was surely when we made T-shirt designs in DT. The children had designed their own logos for imaginary companies, which they brough colourfully to life: 

WINTER TERM: WEEK 3

Year 5 had a busy week: we started a new topic in maths (addition and subtraction) and wrote up our stories based on Greek myth. Perhaps the most exciting part of the week was our visit from an olympic gymnast (Saffron Severn), who wowed the whole school with her amazing moves. Year 5 also got the chance to show off their athletic abilities with a special activity in the hall, completing a sequence of challenging exercises.

WINTER TERM: WEEK 2

For our first entry of the year on our class page, we have photos of the class' performance of their BRIGHT assembly. The children did a lovely job explaining the meaning of the acronym BRIGHT, which expresses our school values (Belief, Resilience, Independence, Grace, Helpfulness and Tenacity). Everyone did tremendously well standing in front of the school and explaining each term.

Other highlights of the week included some intriguing designs for T-shirts in DT, which, once made, we look forward to showcasing here soon!

In Science this term, our topic is forces. This week we were investigating what can effect air resistance. In groups, we were dropping parachutes from a set height and seeing what can affect the speed. The variables we investigated were the size of the parachute, the length of the string and the material of the parachute. We will be presenting and discussing our findings next week.

In Maths this week, we have been focusing on shape and looking at nets. We used apparatus to investigate which nets made a cube and which didn't. From this, we were able to reason as to what properties were needed to make the net of a cube.

In English, we have just started a new unit focusing on William Shakespeare's Macbeth. We were exploring whether Macbeths should or should not kill King Duncan in order to become king. Children decided whether they were for or against the argument and then said aloud their argument in a conscience alley.

We will then be writing up a discussion text to explore both sides of the argument.   

To celebrate the end of term, we went to visit the British History Museum where we consolidated our learning focusing on Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece (from last term) We loved seeing all of the exhibits, especially seeing some really life mummies!

As part of our Design and Technology unit, we made some bread that we designed. We made the dough and then added our own ingredients and shaped the bread according to our design breif. We really enjoyed making the bread as well as tasting it!

Year 5 and 6 had a great time at the Indoor Athletics competition. We were competing against 7 other schools across two heats in a range of track and field events. All of the pupil's gave 100% and did a brilliant job in representing the school. Overall we came 3rd in the competition - well done Four Swannes!

Year 5 had a fantastic time during World Book Day. We spent the whole day carrying out activities linked to books, including:

Carrying out activities linked to an online workshop

Writing poems linked to our class novel 'The Boy in The Tower'

Carrying out reading surveys in Maths

This week in Art, we continued to work on our collaborative Pop Art pieces. We used collage to complete our superhero outlines, we then went over the background with a wash before completing the pieces using a pointillism technique. 

The finished pieces will be on display along the KS1 corridor. 

During this week, we continued our unit on Football. In this lesson we focused on controlling the ball and our shooting accuracy.

In our Art lessons, we have begun to look at examples of Pop Art and techniques that artists use to create their pieces. 

One example was their use of dots. We used bold colours to fill our onomatopoeiac words.

We are going to apply this technique to our collaborative pieces of artwork - we look forward to charing these with you over the next couple of weeks!

Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed our Whole School unit on 'Small in The City'

For our final piece of work, we wrote a diary entry in the role of the main character loosing her cat. 

We included features such as emotive language, writing in first person/past tense and description.

We hope you enjoy them!

This week, Year 5 have been reading the Little Match Girl and created some wonderful diary entries. It is a story that generated lots of meaningful conversations.

31st October 2022

This week we have begun looking at cinquain poetry in English and multiplying and dividing both whole numbers and decimal numbers by 10,100 and 1000 in maths. It has been a busy week of learning!

17th October 2022

This week, we have been celebrating Black History Month. In history, Year 5 looked the famous figure, Ignatius Sancho, a British writer and composer born in the 18th century. In geography, we focused on the country Somalia and created wonderful pieces of artwork inspired by the vibrant coloured and patterned fabrics. We also looked at the average temperature throughout the year in both Somalia and England and presented the information into a bar graph.

10th October 2022

This week the children have been working hard on their class assembly. They worked in groups to focus on an area of the curriculum covered so far and presented this in a clear and informative way. It was lovely to see so many of our families supporting the children for the main event! 

26th September 2022

This week, Y5 have been working hard at understanding negative numbers and using them in real life situations. They have also solved problems using them and are beginning to become more confident in finding the difference between a set of numbers.

19th September 2022

In Guided Reading this week, we studied the book, 'The Wolves in the Wall' by Neil Gaiman. We discussed the characters, the plot and thought critically about the author's intention. Despite this book being in the category of a picture book, the children analysed its purpose, generating a meaningful conversation.

In maths this week, we have been learning about place value in large numbers. We have completed various activities to help us to order and compare numbers.

We have had an exciting week getting to know each other in Y5. We completed 'All About Me Hoodies' and looked at our outer and inner selves to create lovely pieces of artwork for our display.

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Archive Year 5 

Sports Day

Year 5 took part in an Ancient Greece day where they had the opportunity to take part in various activities similar to those that would have been carried out during this era. The day was a huge success and thoroughly enjoyed by all!