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Outstanding Science Work!

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Year 5 have been learning all about the life cycles of different plants. As a culmination of our learning, it was time to consider how plants in different environments may be different to the ones in our local surroundings.

Children were given the choice to research desert, marine or rainforest…

Posted by Miss Cammiss on 17 May 2021

Category: Class of 2015

Tags: Class 5 Science

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Earth Day

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Class 5 had an amazing Earth Day!

In English, we are already learning about deforestation, so we linked our learning to Earth day by finding arguments for and against deforestation linked to our Earth Day themes (waste, energy and transport).

We then learnt about plastic waste and pollution…

Posted by Miss Cammiss on 22 April 2021

Category: Class of 2015

Tags: Class 5 English S&L Art

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Dissection Fun

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Today, we launched our new SITE topic of lifes cycles. We will start by learning about the life cycle of plants this half term, and next half term, we will go on to learn about the life cycles of different animals.

We kick started our topic by dissecting lillies and learning the names and…

Posted by Miss Cammiss on 19 April 2021

Category: Class of 2015

Tags: Class 5 Science

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Oobleck

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This half term, we have been learning about materials and their properties. 

As a reward for their excellent behaviour and consistent hard work, we experimented with oobleck. Oobleck is a non-newtonian liquid which doesn't follow the laws of typical solids, liquids and gases. It changes its…

Posted by Miss Cammiss on 26 March 2021

Category: Class of 2015

Tags: Class 5 Science

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Christmas Party

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Year 5 danced their socks off at our Christmas party - we had so much fun!

Posted by Miss Cammiss on 16 December 2020

Category: Class of 2015

Tags: Class 5

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Christmas Crafts

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Class 5 really enjoyed completing their Christmas craft sent from Wetherby High School.

The class were tasked with building and decorating a model Christmas tree. There was lots of glitter and sparkle involved.... and most importantly, lots of fun too!

Posted by Miss Cammiss on 11 December 2020

Category: Class of 2015

Tags: Class 5 Design Technology

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Parachutes

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Today, we completed our SITE project, which was to make a working parachute using all of our knowledge about forces.

The children worked in small groups to plan and carefully select their resources before then making and testing their parachutes. We tested them by launching them out of the…

Posted by Miss Cammiss on 8 December 2020

Category: Class of 2015

Tags: Class 5 Science Design Technology

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Chocolatl Day

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What a day we've had! 

We started off by learning our Mayan names, which was a lot of fun! Did you know the Mayans were named after the day/month they were born in?!

We learnt about all the different traditional foods that the Mayans ate and even tried a native chocolatl recipe with chilli…

Posted by Miss Cammiss on 2 December 2020

Category: Class of 2015

Tags: Class 5 History

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No Pens Day

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Yesterday was No Pens Day, and we loved it! 

We started the day off learning some BSL: we learnt how to sign the alphabet, our names and some simple greetings like 'hello' and 'how're' you. The children really enjoyed the opportunity to learn a new method of communication and many of them are…

Posted by Miss Cammiss on 26 November 2020

Category: Class of 2015

Tags: Class 5 Science PSHE S&L

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Another Great Week

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We have had a superb week in Class 5 this week. One of our favourite lessons this week was our computing lesson, which we did without any computers or iPads!! We learnt about algorithms and then tried following an algorithm to create a miniature dance/movement routine. The children showed some…

Posted by Miss Cammiss on 20 November 2020

Category: Class of 2015

Tags: Class 5 Music Computing

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Remembrance Day

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Today, Class 5 learnt all about Remembrance Day: we started with our 1 minute silence at 11am; then we learnt about why we have Remembrance Day, who we remember and how we remember. The children created fact pages in their English books using what they had learnt and applying their new grammar…

Posted by Miss Cammiss on 11 November 2020

Category: Class of 2015

Tags: Class 5 English Art

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Forces

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In Class 5, we are now learning about forces in our science lessons. 

It is a tricky topic, but the children have started off SO well! We explored push and pull forces by having a go at a tug of war. We then drew force diagrams using force arrows to show the strength and direction of each…

Posted by Miss Cammiss on 3 November 2020

Category: Class of 2015

Tags: Class 5 Science

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