It was our first week back at science club this week and we made our own wind socks. We learnt that the wind direction is the opposite to the way the sock is blowing.
Year 5/6 Science Club
Category : Miss Spetch’s Class
National Skipping Week
This week is National Skipping week and as a school we will be taking part to see how many jumps we can do. Each day, the children will get the opportunity to take part and count how many jumps they can do and we will create a school total each day. Watch this video to find out more.
Want to take part at home?
School council will be getting involved to see who can skip or jump in the most unusual places. All you need to do to get involved is take a picture or video of you jumping or skipping somewhere unusual and send it into school. The deadline for entries is Tuesday 2nd May. Winners will be announced on Friday 5th May.
Happy skipping!
Year 5 Spellings
This week we will be looking at different strategies to practise spellings with a focus on the statutory spellings. These are words that children should be able to spell at the end of each year group. Have a look at the strategies we use and the spellings below.
Class 15 – Great home learning!
A huge shoutout to Riley James and Ronnie for already completing some fantastic home learning this week. It’s great to see that you are both already hooked in to our new Expedition!
You’ll both be great experts on mining soon!
Well done! x
Year 5 – Hook Week so far!
So far this week, to immerse ourselves into our new Expedition, we have enjoyed a treasure hunt looking at different sources to predict what we think our learning will be about. We then built our background knowledge of Headstocks and began some artwork to display in the classroom.
Yesterday, we used our previous knowledge of pulleys to work in teams to design and build headstocks to lift pieces of coal.
A great start to the week – I wonder what we’ll be up to next!
Sport photos! ⚽️🏉
Mr Ambler and myself are creating a PE display for school. In this display, we want to celebrate our sporting successes across school whether it is a tournament, PE clubs or outside teams.
Please pass them onto your teacher and we will add these as part of our celebration 😀
Thanks,
Mr Gerrard and Mr Ambler 😆
Year 5 Updates
We hope you have all had a lovely Easter break and are ready for the summer term! There are a few changes for this half term.
PE
This half term we are having Kixx for our PE sessions. This means that PE will now be on a Monday afternoon. Please make sure you bring your PE kit, including trainers, every Monday.
XP Outdoors
On a Thursday morning, we have XP Outdoors. Please bring suitable clothing with you every Thursday.
If you have any questions about what kit is needed please don’t hesitate to ask.
Class 15 – Kixx!
This afternoon we have enjoyed our first session with Kixx! We have practiced passing using the inside and outside of our feet and ended in a fab tournament.
Please can all children bring PE Kits and suitable footwear each Monday starting from next week until half term. We will have Kixx sessions each Monday afternoon so this will replace PE on a Thursday.
Thank you! 🙂
Class 15 – Aspirations Week!
So far this week, to celebrate aspirations, we’ve been very lucky to have some great visitors that have shared their skills and jobs. We’ve been visited by Sarah and Geoff who both work within the XP Trust and have very different job roles; Victoria from Body Rockers, James Fenwick who is a fire-fighter and Cameron Robertson who is a Hotel Director onboard cruise ships. The children loved learning about each person and asked some great questions – thank you so much to you all!
Also this week, we’ve completed our XP Outdoors Crew task and used leaf printing to create a Crew banner. We’re looking forward to hanging it in our Crew Room after the Easter holidays.
Y5/6 Arts and Craft Club
This week at arts and craft club, we continued with the theme of Easter. They showed real perseverance with something that looks quite simple but was actually really fiddly when it came to getting everything to stay stuck together! Well done guys – a fab club as always!
From Mrs Jackson x
