Year 5

YEAR 5 2019 - 2020

Welcome to Team 5

Meet the team

Miss Angela Tarlowski

Mrs Claire Hodson

Mrs Clare Tindsley

Mrs Laura Whitehead

Autumn Term 1 - our knowledge organiser

Overview of our year:

Year overview 19-20.docx

Weekly Timetable

Things to remember:

Tuesdays - Swimming

Wednesdays - spelling test for Class 12, maths facts test for Mrs Tindsley and Mrs Whitehead's maths group

Thursdays - spelling test for Class 11, maths facts test for Miss Tarlowski's maths group, Indoor P.E

Fridays - Diaries checked for a minimum of 3 reads.

Dates for your diary:

Friday 27th September - Macmillan Coffee Morning and Mini Marathon

Friday 4th October - INSET DAY

Wednesday 9th October - Parents Evening

Thursday 17th October - Parents Evening

Friday 13th December - Christmas Jumper Day

Monday 16th December - PROUD assembly - 2.15pm

Wednesday 24th - Thursday 25th June - WALESBY camp

FLYING HIGH AT 50

a kite making workshop to celebrate 50 years of the school!

Class 12

Class 11

VISITING GOOSE FAIR

We visited Goose Fair to make sketches using view finders. We are going to use them as inspiration for pointillism paintings that we will frame.

Class 12

Class 11

Making picture Frames using a hacksaw

OUR FIRST AMIGO VISIT

Year 5 have a nominated friend from F2. Throughout the year, we meet up to share stories, carry out fun activities, play games and act as a friendly, supportive older friend. This half term, we met our amigos for the first time and shared our favourite stories with them. We're all looking forward to our next visit

Class 12 Amigos

Class 11 and Chestnuts

Welcome back! We're looking forward to seeing you all again.

Our exciting new topic for this half term will be...

'OUR GOOSE FAIR!'

One Day Wonder - Our Goose Fair!

Children worked in teams of three or four and designed, made and evaluated a fairground ride that could be part of Goose Fair. Materials were limited to art straws, card and masking tape. We had a brilliant day!

Class 11

Class 12

MEMORIES FROM LAST YEAR:

SUMMER TERM

This is a busy term! Our new shared reading book is Northern Lights by Philip Pullman. Based around this we are learning about: the water cycle; the lifecycle of plants and animals; how to recover materials from solutions and the geography of the Arctic Circle. We will also be covering RSE and drugs education. Most of our writing links to these topics including: an explanation of the water cycle, persuasive writing and fictional pieces based around Northern Lights.

Our first week back focussed on RE - Islam and all of our learning centred around this topic, culminating in children each producing their own mini text book, complete with cover, contents and glossary.

WALESBY!

These displays shows us with our 'daemons' that we pained on our WOW day! Daemons are animals that are part of you 'self' and reflect your personality in the book.

Amigo Easter Egg Hunt

We enjoyed a lovely Easter egg hunt with our Amigos today, the chocolate was definitely a winner!

ROMEO AND JULIET WEEK

We have enjoyed getting to know the story of Romeo and Juliet and have been lucky enough to have had a drama practitioner spend the day in Year 5.

Our visit to the local mosque

Ancient Greek Day

WORLD BOOK DAY!

Our Topic for Spring Term 2 is Ancient Greece.

SPRING 1

National Justice Museum

The children had a fantastic day at the National Justice Museum! They took part in a re-enactment of a trial in court, investigated a 'murder' scene, explored the museums, visited the dungeons and 'tried' some Victorian punishments!

MAKING BREAD!

Year 5 have done a brilliant job in learning all about bread! They have learnt how the flour is made, tasted different bread, written instructions for making bread, designed logos, created packages and finally made and evaluated their own bread!

Reminders:

Parent Workshop on Shared Reading - Tuesday 22nd January at 9:05 - 10:00
Trip letters and money to be handed in asap please, for The National Justice Museum (Monday 11th February)
Indoor PE will now be on a Monday, due to no swimming on a Wednesday, can we make sure all children have appropriate kit please.

As part of our new topic on Crime and Punishment, the children created a court scene in class. They were brilliant at taking on a variety of roles and at the end had to decide on a suitable punishment for the accused.

CHRISTMAS AMIGO FUN!

AUTUMN 2

This half term, our topic is SPACE

Meteorite and Crater Investigation

After discussing what meteorites were, we carried out an investigation to find out the impact of different sized objects falling in a tray of flour. We made predictions, carried out a fair test, made observations, recorded the method and based our conclusion on our evidence.

Visiting St Leo's church - remembering 100 years since the end of WW1

Visiting Strelley Library to Watch a WW1 Play

CELEBRATING CHILDREN IN NEED

BREAKING NEWS!

WOW DAY IN YEAR 5!

'STRANGE' OBJECTS FOUND ON THE FIELD?

ARE THEY EXTRATERRESTRIAL?!

AUTUMN TERM 1

Our topic for this half term is WORLD WAR 1. Our work in reading, writing, history, geography and art all focus on this event. Our topic had an exciting start with our 'WOW Day' where we listened to the sounds and noises of warfare in the trenches and carried out drama, art work and writing based on it. We also made remembrance messages and poppies to take to next term. Our day finished with finding out some WOW facts about WW1 using the internet. A fun and informative day was had by all!

Candle workshop

exploring changes in materials

Separating Trench Water in Science

As part of our science work, we mixed up some trench water to link with our topic of World War 1. We mixed up water, oil, shrapnel (paper clips), stones (marbles) and soil. In groups, children planned, predicted and used a variety of resources to separate each component part.