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?
In our computing lesson today, children created a script which generated buttons that are able to draw a variety of shapes once clicked.
On Thursday 8th June 2017 Year 5 visited Blakesley Hall, a timber framed house, in Yardley, Birmingham. We explored the lives of Richard Smallbroke, his family and their servants.
We looked for clues in each room to discover what life might have been like. We visited the kitchen, dining room bedroom and long hall. Have a look at our photos.
Friday 19th May
Years 1 to 6 went to the Community Sports HUB to take part in sporting activities such as cricket, rounder’s, football, tennis and boxing. Everyone took part in each activity for 45 minutes. Despite the damp weather lots of fun was had by all. It was great to see all the children showing off what they had learnt in their PE lessons. The teachers have said that it was a fantastic day and great to see the children demonstrating their skill set out side of the classroom. This was great for the children’s physical development and we look forward to having more days like this next year.
Samir Y4 “My favourite sport was the tennis because we had lots of space to play which we don’t normally get in school.”
Tavani Y4 “My Favourite sport was cricket because we don’t normally play big games and I won a medal.”
Amira Y3 “I liked the football because it was really good playing on a proper grass pitch”
Reuben Y5 “Boxing was my favourite because the gym was really nice and I enjoyed using the bags.”
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.
Year 4 – Fear
We started our PHSE lesson with circle time this afternoon. Together we discussed fear and the effects it has on their own and other people’s behaviour.
Next we read the story ‘being alone’ and I asked the children varying questions. We had a lot of discussion time and children worked well.
Year 5 – Influence
In today’s lesson we discussed what is meant by the word ‘influence’ and the children looked at who and what influences them i.e. parents, adverts, friends.
After class discussions the children had to write a definition of the word influence and about some of the things that influence them.
Year 5 had a very strange character visiting their classroom this week. We were a little scared and confused by their appearance. Their visit marked the start of our new topic, Peasants, Princes and Pestilence. Have a look at the the photo of our visitor and ask Year 5 all about their odd costume and what was happening in and around London during 1348.
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 Year 5 some of us have been learning about different types of angles and how to measure them. It was hard at first to use a protractor accurately, but once we mastered the protractor slide it became easier. We also learnt the differences between acute, obtuse and reflex angles. Why not ask your child about the different types of angles?
Finally we have also been learning about the total number of angles on a straight line, angles in a triangle and quadrilateral and angles around a point. Why not ask you child to explain them?
Why not have a look at some of our work