Blog Author: Mrs Newby

As part of our British Science Week work, Year 5 visited Strudda Farm to learn about growth. They found out about the importance of the growth of wheat, corn and barley in order to produce a lot of the foods they love to eat. They were delighted to pet new born lambs and chicks and were thrilled…

Year 5 designed and made biome dioramas. We have been studying the world’s biomes and we used our knowledge to create them. 
 

Year 5 have been learning about friction. We discussed when friction is helpful and unhelpful especially in certain sports like skiing. We carried out an experiment with jelly cubes, chopsticks and oil. We picked up the jelly cubes with the chopsticks, without oil on them first and then with oil…

Year 5 have been learning about what STEM stands for and jobs that involve using these subjects. We were very lucky to receive an Innovabox from some nuclear graduates who created this activity box to promote an awareness of STEM in schools. One of the activities was to challenge us to create a…

Year 5 have had lots of fun celebrating World Book Day. We learnt all about the importance of reading and     how to choose a book we will enjoy. We finished the day by sharing books with children in Year 2. 
 

Year 5 have been learning all about space and earth. They have researched information about planets in our solar system and designed their own planets. Today Jeremy Hunt, a local astronomer, came to school to give a talk all about the stars. The children all leant lots of new facts and Matthew was…

Year 5 have had a fantastic week doing Cyclewise. They have learnt lots of new skills including how to turn in and out of junctions safely. They have had lots of fun cycling around Egremont putting these skills into practice.

Year 5 have been learning all about safer gaming and came up with guidelines on how to stay safe when gaming. They had lots of fabulous advice from not giving out any personal information to strategies for what to do if people are being mean. All the children had so much to contribute to our class…

Year 5 have been learning how to write 4 figure grid references and how to use them. They used their skills to find exact locations of different places.

As part of our work during anti- bullying week Year 5 designed an anti- bullying Superhero. They thought about how their Superhero’s powers would stop bullies, how they would protect the vulnerable and what they stand up for. 
 

We have all had a busy week carrying out lots of different maths activities. We have taken part in a maths treasure hunt, played lots of fun maths games and represented numbers using bar models, part whole models, place value charts and place value counters. We also took part in a national times…

Year 5 had a fantastic day at the Beacon studying Chardin’s painting of ‘The House of Cards’ which is on loan from the National Art Gallery. We practiced building a house of cards like the boy in the painting and soon discovered how tricky this is. We then designed our own playing…