Year 5 Blog

Year 5 enjoyed making their shields during our topic on "King Arthur - Truth or Legend".  They learnt about the Anglo Saxons and wrote some fabulous playscripts where they created new adventures for King Arthur.  They also acted out three of the plays to the class and Ms Thornton Jones, who was dazzled by the acting skills in Year 5. In fact, we think there are a number of budding actors and actresses in this class!

Science Week was a huge success last week!  Billy Branston’s Amazing Potato Factory was resident in the car park from Tuesday to Thursday and all of the children from Year 1 to Year 6 spent an hour in the bus. They engaged in hands on tasks such as planting; growing and storage; sorting and weighing and nutrition and cooking. Key Stage 2 were extremely lucky to visit the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester where they enjoyed fun and educational interative shows and activities.

Year 5 are enjoying their new topic - EXPLORING EUROPE!  For their homework task they spoke to members of their family about countries they have visited within Europe.  The result?  Some fantastic presentations together with photographs and items of interest from lots of different countries.  During the presentations the children used excellent speaking and listening skills and we have all learnt new facts about Europe.  For instance, Jessica told us all about the story of Nando's cockerel from Portugal.

Woodlands Week was a great success in Year 5.  We were able to use the school's new microscopes to study leaves.  The children were fascinated when Mrs Anson found galls on leaves which will eventually hatch into wasps.  They also discovered some black spots (tar spots) on some of the sycamore leaves.  We now know that this is evidence of there being little pollution in the air surrounding our school!   Another favourite activity was our Woodlands Art; the children brought in some interesting stems, leaves and flower heads to creatre some beautiful artwork on the school field.