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
’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...
Able Writer’s Day
Today, two children from Year 5 and two children from Year 6 were selected to take part in an Able Writer's Day at Kelvin Grove Primary School. Once we arrived, we were greeted by the author Thomas Rodgers. The children were set away with a task to demonstrate their...
Converting units of time
This morning in Maths, we began our new topic; Time. For our starter, we discussed what we can do or what can happen in different amounts of time. Some of our answers included the following: 1 minute - making a drink 1 hour - taking a nap 1 day - building a large lego...
Moving Toys
This afternoon in class, we have continued with our DT topic from last half term; Moving Toys. Before Christmas, we investigated a range of different moving toys, a range of cams and looked into how a cam mechanism works. Today, we started designing the background of...
Welcome back, Year 5!
Happy New Year! Year 5 have had a wonderful start to the new year. The children have been incredibly busy the last two days. In English, they re-capped what they learnt in the previous half term. The children also worked in small groups with an adult to complete a...