Category: Year 5 Blog

As part of our Allotment topic, Year 5 have been learning about food chains and how these food chains are linked together in a habitat, to create Food webs. Here, Year 5 were trying to re-create a food web which may be present on an allotment, but they also had to consider what might happen within that food web when/if

This week, Year 5 found out that working out the answers to mental addition calculations, can be very taxing not only on the brain, but also on the legs!

5W recently ventured outside to help create ideas for a descriptive piece of writing about a secret garden. It was cold. With our eyes closed, it felt lonely. The wind ‘slapped’ our faces. We could actually ‘hear’ the silence.

Here we are using wood and small hand saws to create small herb planters that we took home for our kitchens.

We cooked on the fire after learning how to maintain it and safely put it out and check that it’s completely gone.

In this session we used a dangerous tool called the Billhook! We used this to split wood!

Here we are discussing the Friends and Foes of an Allotment. We then talked about how we could create ‘yes no’ styled flow diagram to classify them as well.

Year 5 forest school children were clearing the path on Guilsborough Road. A lot of trimmed hedges over the years had built up so we cleared it to make the footpath twice as wide again.