Year 5 had an egg-citing time in maths this week.

All week we have been learning about volume, we begun the week by making cubes and cuboids out of cubes and calculating the volume of our shapes. By the end of the week we were eggs-tremely confident in how to calculate the volume of a cuboid by multiplying three measurements together.

On Thursday we were given an eggs-tremely difficult maths problem.

Mrs Hall gave us an egg, some scales, two beakers, some water, a ruler, a protractor and a piece of string.

We had to calculate the volume of the egg. Some of us tried to measure the surface with the string as we thought it was the same as calculating the area of a cuboid.  Yet, that did not work.

We thought we could weigh the egg but that did not work.

Egg-ventually (and with a lot of help and support from Mrs Hall) we solved the problem. Mrs Hall showed us to put the small beaker inside the big beaker and filled it with water. We realised that if we  dropped the egg (carefully) into the water it would displace some of the water. The water displaced would be the volume the egg took up.

It was definitely an egg-citing lesson!

In Year we have been thinking about the question:
Creation and science: conflicting or complementary?

We have discussed Creation as it is written in the Bible in Genesis 1 and 2. We can confidently explain how Christians believe the universe was created.

We have begun to explore the theory of Evolution and how that might differ from the Bible.

We created questions and used a Venn Diagram to see whether we could answer them using Genesis, the theory of Evolution or whether we could look for answers in both.

We are looking forward to exploring the differences of opinion in Christianity and how some Christians interpret Genesis.

During our writing lessons we have been learning about myths. We have learnt the myth Jason and the Argonauts. We can now recite the story with actions. Jason goes on an adventure to find the Golden Fleece and has to battle some evil creatures. Why not ask a member of Year 5 to recite the story?

To continue our learning about the plague in the 14th century, Year 5 have been studying illuminated manuscripts. These were books, mainly written by monks, that were heavily decorated. The decorations included intricately painted initials, borders and small images. Some of these books were even painted with real gold or silver as they were that special!

We designed our initial in the style of an illuminated manuscripts.

We had a special delivery in year 5 this week! The Alchemist left us potion to try and separate. It contained shingle from the Silver Shingle Beach, sand from the Rainbow Dunes and salt from the Windy Sea.

We discovered that we needed to sieve, filter and evaporate our solution so we could separate the different parts.

In science year 5 have been learning about forces. We have been looking at air resistance and gravity.

We investigated different materials to see which one would make a good parachute. We decided that the carpet would be too heavy.

In the end we decided to make our parachutes out of tissue paper. Securing a figure with 4 pieces of string.

Air resistance slowed down our parachutes so our figure so it could land safely.

As part of our topic in Year 5 we have been learning how the Ancient Egyptians built pyramids.

We built our pyramid

We had to try and see whether the ground was level and used different methods to test this.

We found out the Egyptians used water to see whether the ground was level.

We had to make sure our blocks of stone were completely straight so they would stack together properly.

Year 5 have been learning about the Ancient Egyptians. They have been fascinated by mummys and the act of mummification. As an introduction to our topic and to engage the children in our learning, Mrs Webster pretended to mummify Mr Burton.

We learnt that first the brain was pulled out of the nose using a special hook. Next all of the internal organs are removed. Then the body is covered in salt to dry it out, finally it is wrapped in cloth strips.

We saw internal organs (luckily from a sheep not Mr Burton’s!) in special jars called Canopic Jars.

We have been learning about shadows are formed.

We made reindeer shadow puppets, we had to carefully cut out our puppet and attach it to an art straw.

Using a light source (a torch) we investigated how shadows were formed. We investigated what happens when the object (the puppet) was put nearer or further away from the light source.

We found out that a shadow is formed when an object blocks the light.