Here are some pictures of some of the things we have been doing in class this term:
P.E Gymnastics - investigating balancing using different parts of our body and different ways of travelling. P.E Uni Hoc - learning indoor hockey skills.
Art – looking a different examples of containers and designing our own to make out of clay in a few weeks time.
Science Gases all around us – lots of experiments related to air! Looking at where the air is and what happens to air? Were going to be making air rockets next and seeing who can build the fastest one!
Topic The Tudors - researching ‘who was Henry Vlll?’ and completing posters to show our answers.
ICT – looking at simple programming.
We have been so busy in Year 5 so far in 2012, so many amazing things to include!
2012 is now here. Please read my newsletter to see what the children are learning this term.
jan Y5 letter
Here are just some of the things we have been doing in class recently include: making snowflakes with our Y3 buddies (that are up in the hall as Christmas decorations), using drills, saws and glue guns to make a moving cam mechanism for our Christmas moving toy, using digital blue cameras and modelling clay to make models and to film our own nativity animation film, looking at ‘pop art’, making up dances to ‘thriller’ and having fun in Literacy performing raps! We have been so busy in Year 5, so many amazing things to include!
This week in Buddy time, Year 5 started teaching Year 3 the art of speed stacking! Year 5 planned their first lesson together and then gave their buddy an introduction to speed stacking with rules and handy hints, then they progressed onto the first activity. Year 5 were working on their leadership skills and needed to show team work, communication skills and patience!
This week in Y5 we enjoyed trying some indoor athletics in our P.E lesson. We had 6 activities, all had bronze, silver and gold medal challenges that we had to work towards. We had to set ourselves a challenge target and see if could achieve this. We shared what skills we used in each activity and also came up with platinum level challenges to make the tasks more challenging.
My favourite were the ropes! I enjoyed climbing them and i achieved the gold medal challenge by getting to the top of it! Tom B
My best was definitely throwing the medicine ball! I liked throwing the heavy ball as far as I could, I got the gold medal challenge. Angelos
I liked the standing high jump because you thought it would be rerally hard but actually it was good fun and quite easy. Steven
I liked the standing high jump and the ropes. The standing high jump because I liked to see how high you could jump above your stretch, and the ropes because I got to the top and achieved gold medal challenge. Ellie
Probably the speed bounce! I got the gold medal challenge and it was so much fun. My legs didnt even ache after all of that jumping! Kelly
I say the medicine ball was my favourite, I liked throwing the ball and I achieved the silver medal challenge. We made it harder by sitting down and trying to throw it. Amber
My favourite was the medicine ball because it is a fun activity. You have to see how far you can throw the heavy ball. Alice
My favourite activity was standing long jump because I liked to see how far I could jump. I got a silver medal in the challenge. Molly
I liked the standing triple jump because it was new to me and I had never done it before! It was a good challenge to do but quite tricky. Daniel B
My favourite was the bean bag challenge. I had to concentrate to get all the bean bags in the correct coloured hoop. We made the challenge harder by throwing with your opposite hand. Orlaith
We were totally overwhelmed by the very creative entries for our Olympic dish homework competition! It gave the teachers a very tough job deciding on an overall winner! We had some class winners who recieved a 2012 pin badge, 4 highly commended entries and an overall winner, whose entry has gone through to represent our school in the competition.
Highly commended – Sasha T YR, Ryan B Y3, Chelsea H Y4 and Kim B Y6
Overall winner – Owen P Y5
Well done to everyone who entered, all of the entries are displayed in our library, so come in and have a look!
Just some of the things we have been doing in class include; building and testing paper aeroplanes, playing blind football and having rugby sessions with Shane.
