Year 5 2024-2025 Blog

Year 5 have been learning about Earth and the Solar System this term.  They were given a task to create chalk pictures of the planets, making sure they were drawn to scale and placed in their position in relation to the Sun.  The childlren have learnt a mnemonic to help them remember this information: My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming (planets).  Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.  The class demonstrated great team work (look how many children helped to make the Sun) and also had great fun. The results were very impressive.  Well done Year 5!

Year 5 travelled back in time to the Victorian age when they visited Quarry Bank Mill in Styal on 7th October.  Dressed in clothes of the Victorian period, the children arrived as apprentices and stepped right into a school lesson! Apart from writing and maths they were taught about some of the medical procedures of the time, such as bloodsucking leeches!  A visit to the mill, where they experienced the noisy machinery,  helped them to empathise with the poor children who worked there two hundred years ago.  We all enjoyed the day as you can see from this selection of photographs. 

To celebrate the historical moment when Queen Elizabeth surpassed the reign of her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria, Year 5 produced homework projects about the similarities and differences between the two queens.  The results were fantastic and included power point presentations, leaflets, hand written posters and even an imaginative race track which demonstrated the hurdles both Queens had encountered during their reigns. Some children added interesting artefacts to their presentations, such as newspapers, Victorian coins and a scrap book from the Victorian era.