Over the past week, all the children in Year 5 have investigated, designed, made and evaluated their own pair of sandals. We cut our soles from cork material and used a variety of techniques to attach our straps to our soles and decorate our sandals.
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As part of their Ancient Greek topic, Year 5 have been investigating the Olympics and how it has evolved since the games began in Olympia. They worked as a team to put key events relating to the Olympics in chronological order, in a timeline. They then looked at each event in detail, looked at the ancient and modern Olympics and discussed how the games have changed throughout time.
Over the past two lessons, Year 5 have been learning about bullying in our Jigsaw lessons. We have discussed the differences between direct and indirect bullying and examples of both types. In pairs, we have made snakes and ladders games. At the foot of the ladders, we have written ideas for how bullying could be resolved and how we could help people who are being bullied and at the heads of the snakes we have written ways in which bullying could be made worse and different examples of direct and indirect bullying. Once our games were finished, we played them in our groups.
Over the past few maths lessons, Year 5 have been recapping multiplying by 10 and 100. We used place value charts and counters to create the number we were multiplying by 10 or 100 and then moved all digits one place (x10) or two places (x100) to the left. We then took this one step further and learned how to multiply numbers by 1,000. Again, we used our place value charts and counters to help us. We created the number we were multiplying and moved all digits three places to the left. Today, we recapped dividing numbers by 10. This time, we created the number we were dividing in our place value charts and moved all digits one place to the right. Over the next two lessons, we will be dividing numbers by 100 and 1,000.
Over the past couple of weeks, Year 5 have been looking at online safety in their computing lessons. We have looked at the SMART rules for keeping safe online and today we looked at passwords and plagiarism. We discussed why we need passwords and how to create a secure password and what plagiarism is and scenarios that would be classed as plagiarism. Following our discussions, we undertook some quizzes on Purple Mash to assess our learning.
Over the past three weeks, Year 5 have thoroughly enjoyed their mindfulness sessions in PE. They have learned techniques for calming themselves down when they’re feeling frustrated or angry and exercises that they can do in the morning to prepare themselves for the day.
As part of Global Enterprise Week, Year 5 became mini businessmen and women and created their own safari parks. They were given a budget of £50,000 to purchase a location, animals, facilities and attractions for their parks and a further £3,000 to spend on advertising for their parks. The children worked brilliantly in their teams and some children even displayed some outstanding leadership skills.
Once the children purchased everything for their parks, they created a map of their park and created posters, flyers and logos to advertise them. The finished designs were amazing!
Years 5 and 6 kicked off Anti-Bullying Week by taking part in Odd Socks Day. We wore odd socks to celebrate the fact that we are all different and unique in our own special way.
Throughout the week, Years 5 and 6 took part in PSHE lessons centred around anti-bullying.
Year 5 discussed different types of bullying, the different roles people can play in bullying and what we can do to help combat bullying.
Year 6 talked about how being different could affect someone’s life and discussed their own attitudes towards people who are different.
Year 5 have been looking at Greek pottery and the patterns and scenes that were painted on them. Using sketch pencils, they then created their own Greek pottery designs.
Some of our amazing artwork was even displayed in the pod!
As part of Child Mental Health Week, Year 5 have been exploring the concept of bravery. To start or discussion, we talked about what bravery is and what things come to mind when we think of bravery.
We then discussed how being brave makes us feel and challenges and obstacles we may face when we try to be brave.
Finally, we listened to the song This Is Me from The Greatest Showman. We discussed the meaning of the song and talked about how being our true selves is sometimes the bravest thing we can do.
