Our unit of work this week in English was Performance Poetry. We listened to, rehearsed and performed a number of poems about plastic pollution. We enjoyed working in groups to decide on the different techniques that we were going to use when performing the poem 'Just...
English
Poetry Week
This week, we celebrated Poetry Day on Thursday 3rd October. Each class in school were asked to learn a poem throughout the week. This was when performed in front of the rest of the school and to the children’s parents and carers at the end of the school day. Our poem...
Our School Councillor Speeches
Today in class, the children who had prepared and planned their school councillor speeches had the chance to speak to their peers about why they should be chosen as Year 5 school councillor. The children showed so much confidence! We have so many children who have put...
Our Year 5 Collective Worship Assembly
This morning, Year 5 took part in their first collective worship assembly of the year. The theme for our assembly was ‘Kindness.’ First, as a whole school, we sang a hymn called ‘Who put the colours in the rainbow?’. We chose this hymn because we as children, a school...
Computing – Systems and Searching
Our Computing topic this half term is ‘Systems and Searching’. First, we discussed the question, ‘What does the word system mean?’ Some comments included: ‘A journey’ ‘A system will be used for apps such as YouTube and Amazon’ ’The World Wide Web plays a part in lots...
Rivers
In Geography this half term, we are learning about Rivers. Last week, we answered the question; ‘Where are the world’s major rivers?’ We used atlases and google earth to find these rivers and learnt that lots of these major rivers are found in the continent of Asia....