Yesterday, Year 5 made a start on their new PE unit, tag rugby. This week our focus was on running. We paired up and worked on our running technique to stop our partners from being able to get our tag!
Year 5 have loved delving into their Sow, Grow and Farm unit this week. We braved the cold to head out and explore the school grounds to rate each areas suitability for an allotment plot. We thought about soil quality, access to water, shelter and ease of access too. We concluded that the raised beds were the most suitable for growing from our evaluations!
Year 5 started their new music unit around composition this week. We started with our COOL task, thinking back to our learning in a Year 4. We looked at what we knew about reading staff notation, and discussed the duration and pitch of different notes on a musical stave.
Year 5 began their Spanish unit yesterday afternoon. This half term we are focusing on places, and started by learning new vocabulary relating to places in a town.
Year 5 started their new topic, Sow, Grow, Farm, today. We recapped on what we could remember about food chains, and then looked at food webs within an allotment. We identified the producer, the consumers, both primary and secondary, and the apex predator. We also discussed how all of these are interdependent, and how taking one thing out of the food web affects all of the other parts.
Year 5 loved their Christmas lunch today! Thanks so much to Nicola and the wonderful kitchen staff 
Year 5 have been making space themed Christmas cards this week, tying in with their learning in science around Earth and Space. We were so impressed with their creations!
This week, Year 5 completed their Taotie art unit. Following on from our learning with the Oriental Museum last half term, we explored different taotie motifs, before creating our own, making moulds out of clay before filling them with plaster to create our own casting. Watch this space to see our final creations!
Year 5 completed their gold task in their DT unit, Moving Mechanisms, this week. We designed and made a pneumatic prototype, working towards a specific design criteria. Well done Year 5!
Y5/6 joined together to take part in a carousel activity to help them understand our British Values. After, they went into their own classes to have a debate/discussion: Who’s more important: Jesus or Santa? They had to use their knowledge of the British Values to help them answer the big question.
