Today the year 5’s visited Sirius Academy to partake in an amazing day of Creative and Performing Arts. The children loved watching the performance ‘The Adam’s Family’ before being part of the crew. Children were given workshops to enhance their drama skills and become an undead cast member before practicing and performing a dance routine. They also got the chance to add to the set of the final show through creating props that will be used on the actual performance nights!
Year 5 have really been enjoying comparing different databases today. They were very knowledgeable whilst identifying differences and similarities between computer based databases and paper ones. They could identify the different fields and could sort them using a range or information.
In todays lesson year 5’s really enjoyed looking at the music notes and breaking the codes using letter notations to find words. The children really loved refreshing their memory on how to read the treble base notes using the acronyms FACE for the SPACE and Every Good Boy Deserves Foottball when looking at notes on a line.
In todays lesson, Year 5 discussed the different people who they listen to and follow advice from in their lives. We discussed why we listen to certain people and maybe not listen to others. Whilst comparing our answers, we thought about if people of faith would have similar people that they listened to and were able to justify why they might have similar thoughts to others. Within the lesson, we looked at who would also inspire us. By looking at some well known inspirational people and looking at some less known we talked about if some deeds were better than others. The children came up with the conclusion that not everyone who inspires us has to be in the public eye and that everyone can be an inspiration no matter their beliefs or faith.
Today we have started to look at the features of Cinquain poetry and how it differs from other poetry that we have looked at. We have started to create our own Cinquain poems about the beach.
The children were introduced to the note A today through the song ‘ solid sound. The children really loved playing between the notes A and G and getting the correct rhythm and really created a lovely composition.
In today’s lesson the children considered what peace means and how this concept links to Jesus. They investigated how the message of Christmas is celebrated around the world and explored festivals of peace that are celebrated throughout the year. The children particularly enjoyed looking at how different Christmas traditions were done in different countries due to culture, nationality and ethnicity. We were able to draw on children’s experience within the class about how they will/will not be celebrating Christmas or how they will be doing something similar/different to others due to their beliefs. The children were able to look at Christmas through the faiths we have in the classroom: Islam, Christianity and Jehovah Witness.
In the lesson today year 5 looked at how Christians celebrate Christmas and debated the message it brings for the Christian faith. We looked at a variety of sources of evidence about how Christians around the world may celebrate differing traditions and looked at what was similar and what was different. We talked about how in our class the children may be celebrating Christmas and how a person of faiths house may be different to their own. We also discussed as a class about those who do not celebrate Christmas and how their lives might be like at this time.
This morning in English, Year 5 have been immersing themselves in the invaluable heritage of tales from Greek myths and legends that are filled with envious gods, courageous heroes and epic adventures to hook them into our new unit of English work: creating a Greek mythical story.
Today in year 5 we looked at how mechanisms can be built using cogs and how useful this can be. We looked at creating different mechanisms using the driver, idler and follower cogs. The children were able to explain how the cogs counter rotation helps create movement.