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6 March 2021

Pray, Stop, Go Jars Year 5

During Lent every time year 5 pray, stop themselves doing something they know they shouldn’t or go out of their way to do something for others they are going to write it down and put it in their Lenten jars. At the end of Lent hopefully they will have a jar of messages to remind them of all the…

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6 March 2021

Year 5 World Book Day 2021

In Year 5 we celebrated World Book day by showing our favourite book and explaining why we enjoyed it both in class and on zoom. We designed our own board games based around a book and had great fun playing them afterwards. We also got creative and designed characters from a book out of a potato.…

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3 March 2021

Lenten Leaves Y5

As part of their work on Lent year 5 thought about something they have done that they were sorry for and wrote it down on one side of the leaf. When they had finished they turned the leaf over and wrote about something good they could do for Lent. In taking part in this activity they turned over a…

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25 February 2021

Y5 'Design and Make' Moon Buggies

As part of their topic on space Y5 were challenged with the task of designing and making a moon buggy with similar features to the Lunar Roving Vehicle used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo programme during 1971 and 1972. As you can see they all did a great job!
 

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12 February 2021

Y5 Safer Internet Day

Year 5 enjoyed joining in the BBC live lesson on Safer Internet Usage. They learnt how the internet is a great source of information but they should always check that what they read is reliable. They made their own newspaper headlines and we all had to guess if they were real or fake. 

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12 February 2021

The Firework Maker’s Daughter Y5 work

Over this half term year 5 have been reading The Firework Maker’s Daughter by Philip Pullman. They have created some wonderful work related to the book including reports, diary and newspaper writing, designing fireworks, character descriptions and finally some impressive book…

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5 February 2021

Children’s Mental Health Week 2021

During Mental Health awareness week Y5 learnt about the importance of Well being and made posters to show how this can be achieved. We discussed what we like doing to make us feel happy and made worry boxes to put all our worries in so we can focus on happy things instead.

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5 February 2021

Designing Fireworks

Year 5 have been reading 'The Firework Maker’s Daughter’ and were asked to design a firework that could help Lila and Lalchand win the competition! I think you’ll agree we have some future pyrotechnicians in the making! 

 

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29 January 2021

Y5 Space

Y5’s home learning on Space.

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29 January 2021

Y5 Biomes

Y5 created dioramas to show their understanding of the world’s biomes.

 

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26 January 2021

Y5 Posters

Year 5 have been learning about the importance of recycling, reusing and reducing what we use in order to protect our planet.

They have also created posters to show the importance of living a healthy lifestyle by having the correct amount of sleep, exercise and healthy food. 
 

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18 December 2020

Y5 Maya Civilization

Y5 were given a Maya civilization project. They could create something of  their choice to show what they had learnt. This is what they came up with. The imagination and creativity has been absolutely amazing. Well done everyone!

 

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