Year Five
Welcome to Year 5!
Our teacher is Mrs Bullerwell.
We hope you’ll visit our page regularly to see what we’ve been up to.
Year Five Blog Posts
Muddy Monsters After School Club
Every Thursday after school, Phil from Muddy Monsters is holding a Forest School club for children in Key Stage 2. Usually, the children would be exploring Forest School in our school grounds, however, because of the weather in Gateshead today, it put a stop to our...
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....
Tag Rugby
In year 5 this half term, our topic is tag rugby. We have focused on the correct way to grip a rugby ball and the importance of carrying it in two hands when travelling. We have been working on passing and receiving a ball and doing this under pressure in a game...
Blues Music
In Music this half term, Year 5 will be focusing on ‘Blues Music’. First, Stuart played the children a blues song, ‘Why I sing the blues’ by BB king. The children listened to the song then appraised it. Some comments included: ‘It’s quite jazzy and uplifting.’ ‘Was...
Chapel
This morning, Year 5 visited the Chapel for the first time this year with Reverend Yvonne, to take part in a whole class communion service. Reverend Yvonne said that 2 days ago on 16th September, was the 16th Sunday after Pentecost and that we celebrate the creation...
What we’ve been up to this week…
This week in Year 5, the children have worked incredibly hard in each of their lessons. In Science, we looked at the human cycle. We discussed what happens to our bodies and how we grow and develop as we get older. In English, we continued our topic of ‘Fairytales’,...