Category: Year 5 Blog
Last Friday, 31st January, some of our choir children set off for an unforgettable day at the BP Pulse Live arena. Our adventure began at 12pm when we tucked into our lunch, buzzing with anticipation for the coach journey ahead. We arrived at the venue with plenty of time to spare, settling into our seats towards the back left of
To help cement our understanding of formal written methods of multiplication, the children have been engaging in several fun and interactive activities that allow them to share their knowledge and support each other. They really enjoying trying to reach the end of ‘The Gauntlet’ and we saw great improvement in their resilience throughout these tasks.
We tested how we can create a mechanical advantage to lift heavy objects either using levers or a pulley system. We talked about how important these systems are in places which aren’t able to utilise expensive machinery or live in places where it isn’t possible to get those machines to where they are needed.
10 children from year 5 had the excellent opportunity of attending several workshops with our local PSCO to get a flavour of what it is like working for and with the police force. They investigated crime scenes and even conducted a mock trial!
We have been mixing with white, black and grey to great moody landscape paintings based on a Monet picture. Although we are only using one colour (blue or yellow) we are able to create a full landscape picture with lots of depth.
In geography we have been looking at how we can use 4 and 6-figure grid references to accurately pinpoint locations on a map. We found this quite tricky but worked well in teams to support each other in find different locations.
Year 5 have been testing differently shaped objects to see how quickly they can move through water and discussed how if we increase surface area, we can slow objects down. We then conducted similar experiments with differently sized parachutes to test the effects of air resistance