Blog Author: Karen-Jane Bowers

This week in science we have been learning about separating materials.

These are from a practical maths lesson we did this week looking at finding fractions of quantities.  We used manipulatives, howeever we are encourgaing children at home to find fractions of anything they can find: toy cars, football cards, pasta tubes etc.

Today we had a delivery from Mr Willy Wonka!!

He asked us to use our senses to describe his very new invention!

It had a selection of chocolate which covered marshmallows, scattered sprinkles and jelly sweets.

The Oompah Loompah was also very clever as he had been listening to our lessons…

We had great fun today when we celebrate World Book Day with our theme being something magical.

Today we celebrated World Book Day. We were able to dress in costumes and had a magical theme to celebrate 25 yeas since the release of the first Harry Potter book.

Much to our surprise, after reading the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, our magic beans actually worked!!!! After we had left them on the floor they must have sprouted - even without the things that we learned most plants need to grow! (That's water, sunlight and, in most cases, soil!) Our…

For Safety Internet day, year 5 looked at how we can keep ourself and our friends safe online. We discussed the differences between; banter, teasing, bullying and joking. 
We then created dice to show scenarios of the above for our friends to then decide if it showed; banter, bullying, teasing…

A morning of pretty mixed weather! The children were absolutely brilliant today. The first group probably had the best of the weather and were able to have a go with the fire strikers. Then, the rain came and both groups were just fantastic shelter building and working out ways to protect the…

A morning of pretty mixed weather! The children were absolutely brilliant today. The first group probably had the best of the weather and were able to have a go with the fire strikers. Then, the rain came and both groups were just fantastic shelter building and working out ways to protect the…

During our Online Safety Day we looked at a recipe for a safer internet.

This term, we have been learning the story of 'The Three Little Pigs'. We have acted out the story, created a hinge to trap the wolf and tested which material would make the best roof for the little pigs house. We also looked at Native American wolf masks and created our own! 

We have been building up our gymnastic skills, from looking at how we balance, to learning jumping and climbing techniques. The class have been really engaged in their learning and loved learning new skills before sharing them with the rest of the class.