Blog by Tag: Year 5

We have been investigating The Highwayman poem in literacy and discussing who was to blame to the death of Bess the landlord’s daughter. Our chief suspects are Tim the ostler, The Highwayman, Bess herself and the Red-Coat soldiers.  In groups we wrote formal, persuasive speeches to try to persuade…

We have been learning about Jesus as a teacher and in particular the stories he told. Today we looked at different parables in our groups and acted them out for the rest of the class. We looked at the Parable of the Great Feast, the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the Parable of the Unforgiving…

The athletics team had an exciting afternoon at the Lancaster schools athletics tournament today. Although they didn’t win a medal, they showed great skill, perseverance and a positive attitude throughout. Well done to you all!

We have been exploring the classic poem The Highwayman in both literacy and dance. Today we focused on the character of the Highwayman himself and used dance to communicate his journey across the dark, windswept moors.  We have been working hard to include different dance elements such as travel,…

We have been exploring different characters from The Highwayman poem.  Today we had the chance to interview both Bess and The Highwayman himself!  He was quite a charming and funny character, and we learnt a lot about his past...

In Year 5, we have been exploring Alfred Noyes' famous narrative poem The Highwayman.  We have enjoyed acting out some of the scenes using freeze frames. Today we planned a retelling of the poem from the point of view of one of its characters. We tried to use vocabulary from the poem to create a…

Today in Computing we have been sending messages using Morse code. We wrote messages to a friend before using light from a torch to send messages. At the end of the lesson we tried using Morse Code Keyer online. It was really tricky.

Look at our finished bread rolls. Hopefully they will taste as good as they look and smell. Well done to all our budding bakers. 

Today we have been making bread rolls using a basic recipe. Now that we know the ingredients we need and how to combine them, we can use this to help us design our own bread next lesson. 
 

In computing we are learning to encode, send and decode messages in our Cryptography unit. Using flags is difficult and it was like learning a whole new language.

We have been comparing the seeds in different fruits this week in Science. We looked at size, shape, colour and number. Next lesson we will be looking at how seeds are dispersed.

We have been using Base 10 and place value counters to help us multiply 2 digit numbers. Using this apparatus meant we could see when exchanges needed to be made.