Tag: Class 5
Greek Sandals
We have spent this half term learning about the Ancient Greeks and how they lived. Today we researched, designed and then made our own Greek Sandals.
Using our history knowledge of what the Greeks wore and the activities they did, we carefully selected the colours, materials and decorations to…
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Angles
Today we had a taster of our maths topic for after half term: angles.
We recapped everything we had learnt in year four about the different names for different types of angles and after half term we will start using protractors to continue our learning. Today, we used the iPads to measure…
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Red Nose Day
We loved marking Red Nose Day 2019 in Class 5 with all of our wacky outfit ideas!
We had wigs, glasses, deely boppers, wacky hair styles, unusual hair accessories, odd shoes, odd socks, face paint, hair dye and most importantly of all - lots of red!
I think between the whole class, we could…
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Mystery Boxes
Today, we were given 6 mystery boxes which were superglued shut; there was no chance we were going to be able to open them!
Our job as scientists was to work scientifically using our observational skills along with everything we have already learnt about materials and their properties so far…
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World Book Day
We have had a wonderful time in Class 5 celebrating World Book Day.
We read ‘The Word Collector’ by Peter Reynolds and decided to become word collectors ourselves. Class 5 shared adjectives and nouns they had written about their characters and played popcorn and SPLAT to learn some new words…
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Debate Competition
Today we took part in Leeds Primary Schools Debating Competition.
The motion was "Children under 14 years of age should take part in paid work" and we proposed the motion.
Despite a nervous bus journey, our team was confident, persuasive and clear. Their arguments were spoken with…
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Safer Internet Day
As our topic in PSHE at the moment is staying safe (including both in real life and on the internet), we already know lots about how to stay safe on the Internet.
We starter our Safer Internet Day by recapping all that we know about the risks of using the Internet and also our Golden Rules for…
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MAYAN DAY
The children had a fantastic day on Wednesday when we fully immersed ourselves in the lives of the Maya through drama, speaking and listening.
We were joined by the year 5 class from Bramham for the day and the children were put in to mixed groups. By the end of the day, the children had made…
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Cubed numbers, a visit from the Fire & Rescue service and Newton metres!
Class 5 have had another hard working week learning about:
- Relative and embedded relative clauses in English
- Squared and cubed numbers in maths
- How the Maya lived in topic
- What gravity is in SITE
- Why Jerusalum is a special place to different religions in RE
- Fire safety in…
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First Week Back
Class 5 have had a successful first week back to school and we're hoping their hard work and high efforts will continue throughout the half term.
Here's a few things we have learnt this week:
- How to use co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions correctly (with help from our new…
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PLANET BUGGYS
Well done to Class 5 who have had a successful start to the year and are now settled in to being fully fledged Year Fives!
We finished off the half term by completing our SITE project of 'Planet Buggys'.
The children used a saw and a glue gun to create the base of their buggy before adding…
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Mental Maths
This week in maths, we have used the formal written method to check our mental maths.
Children wrote 2 random numbers on their whiteboards. They then had to work together to mentally add their numbers together. Children then used the formal written method to check their answers.
Next week…
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