Off to a Winning Start!
It is with great joy that I can write that we were finally able to play in a Year 5 and 6 football fixture! It’s been such a long time…
It is with great joy that I can write that we were finally able to play in a Year 5 and 6 football fixture! It’s been such a long time…
Today, we had the amazing opportunity to meet Jacqueline Wilson over a Zoom call! She talked to us about her new book, The Primrose Railway Children. Jacqueline Wilson told us…
This morning, we used a computing program called Tinkercad to design floor plans/room layouts inspired by Roman villas. Using this program is quite tricky and fiddly but all of the…
This afternoon Year 5 took part in the first leg of the Woodland Football Championship! Both the boys and the girls competed in a year group battle for supremacy. The…
This week we continued our work on Boudicca and the Battle of Watling Street. We started to create news reports from eye witnesses to the fierce battle. In small groups,…
This week in English, we have been focusing on Ancient Greek myths. We have explored Theseus and the Minotaur as a class and different groups have focused on different Ancient…
In pairs, we imagined that we were either a Roman emperor or Roman soldier and created an interview based around the following questions. Why did you want to invade? How…
As part of our topic about invasions, 5LD immersed ourselves into Ancient Greek life on Tuesday afternoon! We became Ancient Greek children who had to save their friend from Spartan…
This week, we have had two fantastic art lessons where we have developed our drawing skills. In the first lesson, we followed a set of instructions to draw an ionic…
As part of our topic work on invasions, we have looked at various ways that armies and tribes work together to be successful in battle. Earlier in the week, the…
Today, all of Year 5 had their first BrassStart (formerly known as Soundstart) session! This music session is a fanstastic opportunity for all children to learn a brass instrument and…
This afternoon Year 5 spent the afternoon playing games in PE that required effective teamwork and communication as well as one of our school values, cooperation. The children were challenged…
This afternoon we were very lucky in Year 5 as we were joined by a pair of dragons! Our dragons (Mr Horlsey and Mr Johnson) grilled the children over their…
We have loved finishing off our smoothie project in Year 5! Over the last 2 days, we have made our healthy drinks, practiced our presentations and then were incredibly brave…
Please find below pictures of the in 5JW children holding the chicks before they went home earlier this week.
Unfortunately today is the day that our chicks return home. We have loved having them in the class and we are sad to see them go. Before they went, we…
No chick update today but an exciting opportunity to visit the Woodland Workshop and make friendship bracelets with Mrs Wood! We looked at the different techniques for making them before…
This afternoon, Mrs Wood taught us how to make ‘Chinese staircases’! We had a lovely time making them down at the story circle.
Today the chicks returned home after a weekend away. They had a chance to spread their wings and have a run around the classroom!
This weekend the chicks spent some time out of the classroom and at home with Mr Willars. They had the chance to get out of their cage and spread their…
