Tag: Class 5
Aboriginal art
Today, we revisited our 'Our World' topic from last half term to finish off our learning about the continent of Australia.
We were SO lucky that one of our class members owns a didgeridoo and was kind enough to bring it in to show us all. After a demonstration, everyone had a go at trying to…
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Seven Worlds, One Planet
Following our topic of 'Our World', David Attenborough has released a new series airing on BBC every Sunday evening.
The series follows a different continent every week - just like we did in class!
Episode one was all about Antarctica, and surprisingly about the abundance of life that can…
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Space Buggys
Today we made our space buggies using all the information we have learnt about the planets in our solar system. The children chose a planet to design a space buggy for and created a design which had a practical specification. For example some children's space buggies designed for Mars included…
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Reasoning Champions
To further our reasoning and problem solving skills linked to addition and subtraction, we have had a go at some super tricky maths questions this morning.
The children worked very hard with their partners to crack the problem and we even ended up with multiple solutions!
Once we had…
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Space Buggys: design phase
Following last week's computing lesson in which we researched the conditions and terrian of a chosen planet, we have now started to design our SITE project for this half term. We will be making a 'planet buggy' which will be suited to travel on a different planet.
We started by drawing our…
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Learning Logs
Wow, wow, wow!
Class 5 were set the task of designing a home which would be suitable for another planet.
Everyone has absolutely blown me away with their efforts and research. From diagrams to information pages to models, I could tell that everyone had tried super hard to ensure their…
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Topic Visitor
A huge thank you to one of our Governers who came in to Class 5 today to share her knowledge of Africa with us.
We learnt about apartheid and why all the borders between countries in Africa are straight lines. The children worked together to come up with a fantastic definition of democracy - we…
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Welcome to Year 5
Welcome to Year 5!
Since starting Year 5, the children have settled excellently and I am sure their great behaviour will continue, which has only made me more excited to work with them this year. We have started by setting out expectations of UKS2 including recapping our learning for life…
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Modern Day Slavery
Today we had a visitor called Ele from the Just Enough Group, who delivered a very inspiring workshop about Modern Day Slavery.
We learnt the story of how William Wilberforce started the process of banning slavery in the early 1800s but was ignored by the government. After collecting signatures…
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Herd Farm
Herd Farm Residential was an amazing two days where everyone pushed themselves to their limits and managed to overcome their fears - our favourite thing to say since getting back has been, "I didn't want to do it because I was scared, but then I did and I loved it!"
We all had such an…
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Day in the life of a High School Student
Today we have experienced a day in the life of a high school student at Wetherby High School. The children loved having the chance to mix with their Bramham friends for the day and get to know each other a little more in the run up to our residential in a couple of weeks. They were also commended…
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Art Day
On our whole school art day, Year Five studied the impact of plastic pollution on marine life, in particular, whales. We were shocked to hear just how much damage plastic pollution can have on our oceans and quickly became very passionate about the topic. As a result, we were able to produce some…
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