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
Our visit to a Jewish Synagogue
This morning, Year 5 visited a Jewish Synagogue in Newcastle as part of their learning of; Judaism in RE. We met Jonathan and Helen Brady who were our speakers for the day and who lead their progressive synagogue. First, we learnt that the lectern that was in...
Music throughout the years
This half term in Music, Year 5 have been looking at music throughout the years. First, we listened to different pieces of Jazz Music, including; Nina Simone and Louie Armstrong. We learnt about a musician called Ella Fitzgerald, who was famous for ‘scatting’, which...
Tree Planting
Last week, we were very fortunate to welcome Jess to St. Aidan's from the Royal Forestry Society. Jess worked with the School Council and children throughout the school to plant over 170 tree saplings in our school grounds. The children learnt that planting trees...
Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions
At the beginning of this week in Maths, focused on converting improper fractions to mixed numbers. We used our division knowledge to work out how many whole numbers were in each fraction and how much fraction was left over. Today, we converted a mixed number into an...
’Think Good, Feel Good’
This afternoon, some children from Year 5 and 6 were chosen to take part in a new programme called; ‘Think Good, Feel Good’. The programme will run for 6 weeks with Miss Greenwell and Hannah Long from Gateshead Council. The first session was called; ‘Be kind to...
Planning a formal letter
On Friday morning in English, Year 5 began planning the writing of a formal letter. Our piece of writing this half term is based on ‘Shackleton’s Journey’. The children are writing a letter, pretending to apply for a job on board Shackleton’s ship, ‘The Endurance’, to...