Our DT topic this half term is; ‘Moving Toys’. We have looked at a range of different moving toys over the last couple of weeks, resulting in us learning some new topic words such as; linear, cam mechanism and rotary. Before the end of half term, we will have designed...
Year Five
Writing our Non-Chronological Report
This week in English, we have been writing our draft and final piece of our non-chronological report about rivers. First, we all came up with a heading for our report. Some of our headers included; ‘The journey of a river’ or ‘All about rivers’. We then wrote an...
Music – Nativity Song Practise
This afternoon in our Music lesson, we continued practising our nativity songs. We have tried incredibly hard over the last few weeks, learning the words, tempo and pitch of each song. Mrs Bullerwell and Miss Greenwell are very impressed at how quick we have picked...
Northern Children’s Book Festival
This afternoon in school, the children from Key Stage 2 were visited by Steve from The Northern Children’s Book Festival. First, he asked us what we already knew about the job of an author and illustrator. He then asked if we have heard of the author Dr Seuss and what...
Weight
Today in Maths, Year 5 out that they would be covering a new topic; ‘Kilograms and Kilometres’. In our lesson, the children looked at grams and kilograms. They were shown different weights; 1g, 10g, 500g and 1kg. They then used these weights to compare how light and...
Friendship Week
Last week in school, we celebrated Friendship week. The theme this year was ‘Kindness’. Across the week, Mrs Bullerwell and Miss Greenwell looked out for acts of kindness in class. Our acts of kindness that we observed were; giving advice to friends in Maths lessons,...