Welcome to Year 5!

Year 5 is taught by Mrs Campbell and Miss Stokes, who are supported by a wonderful team of teaching assistants including Miss Jones and Miss Pilling!

This school year will be full of new exciting challenges and themes to support our learning! To help everyone to adjust and to settle in to their new class, please take note of the following information about our weekly routine. 

Physical Education:

Our PE days are as follows:

5C - Wednesday and Friday

5S - Wednesday and Friday

It is very important that the children are equipped with their kit for all of their PE lessons and that those who wear earrings can either take them out or cover them up with protective tape.

Reading:

We love reading together and rewarding independent reading in our class! Children are expected to bring their book and reading record to school everyday. This will help them to gain organisational skills which they will need in the very near future when they transition to high school. All children have been organised into an author team group and their reading diaries will be monitored once every week (a sticker on the front of their reading diary will remind them which is their day to be checked). If staff can see that children are reading regularly and are signing their book, showing what page they are up to, then they will achieve a team point for their whole school author group. At the end of the term, the author group with the most tokens wins a prize!

Homework:

Homework will be given out on Tuesday and will be due to be handed in the following Monday. 

Children can attend homework club on Tuesdays.

Autumn Term

Our First theme this year is 'Brilliant Britain'. Watch this space to see what we get up to!

Our Simchat Torah Experience

Year 5 have been learning about Judaism, looking at their place of worship, religious artefacts and traditional Jewish celebrations. On Monday, we celebrated Simchat Torah the festival that marks the end of one whole year reading the Torah every Saturday (Shabbat) in Synagogue. 

The children were fantastic and really got into the spirit of things, nobody more so than our fantastic Rabbi Harrison!

We celebrated with blessings, music and dancing!

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Viking Visit

We were extremely lucky to receive a visit from our Viking friend Steiner this week, he told shared with us the stories of old and told us the harrowing tales of his Viking friends. Steiner brought some fantastic artefacts along with him for us to have a look at, they were really interesting - who knew that the Vikings learned how to sew! 

We needed to choose a village chiefton and had a fierce game of 'knucklebones' to fight it out, with the victors emerging victorious, it wasn't over yet... we still needed to choose our Yarl (high leader of the Vikings). A tense game of Viking skittles followed and our leader was chosen!

The job of the Yarl was to look after their territories and to send warriors off to battle in the longships.

We practiced our rowing skills and then went on to learn and perfect our battle stances ready for war!

Our roars were so loud we scared our teachers - we think we would have made vicious Vikings indeed!

In Spring term, our theme has been 'Wonderful World'. 

In geography, we have looked at North America and comparing The Great Plains to the Yorkshire Dales, focusing on the contrast in climate zones. 

Linking this to our art, we created totem poles using recycled materials and we were lucky enough to have Mr Hill (a sculptor) come to teach us how to manipulate clay. We spent half a day with Mr Hill, who taught us various methods to produce a different style of totem pole.

This term we have also enjoyed our science unit, looking at Earth and Space. Using the terms 'waxing' and 'waning' we followed the lunar cycle for a month, recording the visible changes of the moon. Remember Miss Stokes' trick to identify whether the moon is waxing or waning: 

Hold up your right hand in the shape of a backwards C, if the visible part of the moon fits inside the C it is waxing.

Hold up your left hand in the shape of a C, if the visible part of the moon fits inside it, its is waning. 

Year 5 were set a homework challenge to recreate the solar system and we were blown away with these fantastic models!

Last week, we looked at the life cycle of a potato. We then planted our own in grow bags, they should hopefully be ready to harvest in one hundred days.