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Following the recent Pupil Leaders meeting, we have now started a lunchtime Art Club for Key Stage 2! JJ and KMT have planned the ideas for the Club, ranging from sketching charactes to photographic art! Today's group enjoyed being part of the first club and produced some amazing sketches! Well done everyone! Mrs Blomeley
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A big thank you to the parents who came to Year 5 tonight to look at their child’s books. The children were very keen to show off the work they have produced so far in Year 5, and rightly so! Parents enjoyed seeing their work and the children should be very proud! Mrs Blomeley
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Year 5’s new writing genre is Balanced Arguments! They started the genre with a discussion, related to their upcoming Class Compliments afternoon. The class had a split decision as to whether they should wear pyjamas or not for their well-earned treat? Arguments for both sides were put forward, with some excellent points of view. The question was, did they manage to persuade anyone to change their minds? Mrs Blomeley
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Year 5 have had a brilliant week in general and they have received so many awards! Headteacher's awards were given for amazing work in Maths and for being a helpful member of the class! Good to be Green awards were given for following our school values of being Ready, Respectful and Safe, as well as Bronze awards for achieving 100 star points! Brilliant work on Mathletics led to a variety of certificates and, finally, our footballers were the runners up in the Greater Manchester County Championships! We are extremely proud of them all! Mrs Blomeley
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To complete their Science topic on Forces, Year 5 had a challenge to use air resistance to create a parachute that could land their "egg" astronaut safely, in the slowest possible time! The children followed their own designs, with a few adaptations, and tried to use materials that would give their parachutes the greatest air resistance. After our testing, the children unwrapped their carefully covered eggs, to reveal whether they had landed intact! Brilliant scientific work Year 5! And great fun too! Mrs Blomeley
Our Year 5 and 6's showed great skill in the dodgeball competition tonight with our A team coming top of their group and progressing to the Tameside finals. Our B team showed great teamwork and really improved throughout their matches - they caught lots of people out and showed great dodging skills. Great job everyone!
Our Year 5 and 6 boys football team were the runners up in the Greater Manchester county championships. All the boys played really well but were beaten in the final by North Cheshire Jewish Primary School in a well fought game. The boys not only were a credit to our school but also represented Tameside well. We are so proud of you for making the final boys, well done!
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Year 5 have been working so hard to tackle the tricky concept of Fractions lately! It has been said that the only way to demonstrate you have mastered an idea is to be able to explain and teach it to someone else. This week we have been lucky to have some 'extra' teachers in class! They have chosen some of the trickier White Rose Maths questions and confidently explained how to arrive at the answers! They were amazing and they all clearly helped others to understand some of the different aspects of Fractions! Mrs Blomeley
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Today, the children re-enacted the exciting scene from "The Explorer", where the characters discovered a pineapple AND a sloth! They named the sloth Abacaxi, which we also discovered means "pineapple" in Portugese. The children loved showing off their acting skills and did an amazing job! We have some budding thespians in Year 5! Mrs Blomeley
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Year 5 imagined they were characters from our class text "The Explorer" today! They tasted a variety of fruits that they might have to eat if they were trapped in the Rainforest, left to their own devices! Their overall favourite was pineapple, followed by Sharon fruit, which they described as "sweet as popcorcm". Their least favourite fruit were the figs! A big thank you to Mrs Hallam who helped to cut and slice the fruit for us all to share! Mrs Blomeley
