Year 5 completed the whole school maths investigation today.
They explored how different many ways they were able to make a symmetrical Incan necklace, using 9 beads of only 2 colours.
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Year 5 Maths
Year 5 have enjoyed learning about perimeter and area. They even got to go outside to explore the skill!
Year 5 Art
Year 5 have designed and created their own Greek pots out of clay this term.
Today, they were able to paint their intricate designs on and begin to evaluate their work.
Year 5 go outdoors!
Year 5 went to the outdoor classroom today as part of their seed dispersal learning.
They enjoyed searching and finding different types of seeds and predicting how they may have been dispersed.
Year 5 Science
Year 5 completed a British Science Week investigation today. They explored ‘does toast always land butter-side down?’
They learnt about probability and Murphy’s law and made predicitions.
It was lots of fun and some children even challenged themselves to see whether the type of bread made a difference!
Year 5 Author Visit
As part of world book week, Year 5 were lucky enough to have a visit from author Vanessa Taylor.
They explored her book ‘Baller Boys’ and created a peaceful protest to help save their football grounds.
It was also great to have a surprise visit from Marley the mascot!
Year 5 Maths
Year 5 have been exploring fractions and decimals.
Today, they looked at thousandths as decimals and showed fantastic grit and determination. They successfully used place value counters to help them and we are proud of their progress.
Year 5 writing
Year 5 have produced some fantastic biographies all about Katherine Johnson.
They focused hard on using relative clauses, fronted adverbials and parenthesis.
We are proud of their progress and of their grit and determination when using cursive handwriting.
Year 5 Science
Year 5 explored why we get day and night today.
They thought about the key words axis, rotate, facing and anti-clockwise.
Year 5 Stargazing
Year 5 had a fantastic evening stargazing.
They were able to learn about constellations and use the app ‘the night sky’ to find different ones.
They even enjoyed a hot chocolate and biscuit when they came back inside!
Thank you to everyone who came, the Year 5 team think you are all stars!
