Blog by Tag: Year 5

Today, we started our new unit on Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. We were posed the questions ‘Why did the Anglo-Saxons invade Britain?’ We had to use our deduction skills by looking at various clues to work out the reasons.

Our class novel is called ‘Stormbreaker’ by Anthony Horowitz.  Today, we read a chapter where the main character is asked to become a spy. We discussed all the pros and cons that he would face making his decision. We then took part in a ‘conscience alley’. The children had to whisper reasons for…

Today, we met up with our buddies and gave them a gift we had made and a Christmas card. We played together and then watch the pantomime ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. What a lovely morning it was! 
 

We had a great time at our Christmas party. We played lots of games and had treats too.

In History, we have been using our inference skills to look at different photos of artefacts from the Kingdom of Benin and decide what they could be. We answered questions such as ‘What is it?’, ‘’Who would use/own it?’, ‘What is it used for?’ and ‘What is it made…

We have been learning about the Kingdom of Benin and today we discussed the hierarchy of jobs. We worked with our partner to decide which jobs we thought were considered more important and which were of less importance. Then we had the answers revealed. We were surprised that acrobats were…

October is Black History Month, we have been learning about people who have influenced others through sport, arts, actions or their work. We have learnt so much about the good deeds of others.

We have been practising our times tables and learning about factors. We have created a display to help us remember what a factor is. 

October celebrates Black History Month, so today Year 5 took part in the online assembly that lots of schools across the country also joined. We discussed the theme of ‘Standing Firm in Power and Pride’.

Some of our Year 5 and 6 boys spent the day at Lancaster and Morecambe College, taking part in the inter schools tournament. We tried hard in the group stages but we didn’t make it further than the first of the knock- out rounds ( where we narrowly lost 1-0 to Grosvenor Park). Well done to all the…

In preparation for writing our story next week, we took part in a virtual children’s author workshop with Mikey Please. He told us all about the process of writing a children’s book and showed us lots of his illustrations. It was interesting to see the different stages it takes to write and…

Today, we spent time playing with Reception class. We had lots of toys, books and games and had the chance to talk to all the children. We were then paired up with our buddies and are looking forward to having lots of fun getting to know them this year.