meeting with the local councillor

By Olivia Mead23rd May 2023

On Friday, our school councillors and house captains had an exciting meeting with our local councillor – Councillor Henry. Our children had the opportunity to have their voices heard by the councillor about what they do within Christopher Pickering to support the school. Councillor Henry shared some useful tips about how we can work together with her to incorporate British Values (even more than we already do!) into our school.

After our meeting, our house captains took the pleasure of showing Councillor Henry around our school, gardens and playground. They took ownership and developed leadership with the help of our special visitor!

Stop river pollution!

By Olivia Mead23rd May 2023

In our Rivers and Mountains topic, we have been learning all about where our water comes from and how to keep it healthy and clean. Today, the children created their own posters about river pollution! Here are some of the children’s amazing and creative posters!

Year 5 RE – Pilgrimages of different faiths

By Mr J SUTTON18th May 2023

In today’s lesson the children looked at different pilgrimages that occur throughout differing faiths. The children were able to compare the places and activities that occur and were able to explain how they were similar and different. Fatima was able to explain to the rest of the class about her pilgrimage to Mecca for the Islamic celebration Hajj. The children really enjoyed looking at similarities between Hajj and the Jewish pilgrimage to the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

To understand that belonging to an online community can have positive and negative consequences.

By Olivia Mead12th May 2023

In today’s PSHCE lesson, year 5 had a discussion about how to stay safe online and the positives and negatives of an online community. We played the  ‘online safety’ game: Each child had three cards, one labelled ‘safe’, one ‘unsafe’ and one ‘I’m not sure’.

The teacher read out different statements and the children made decisions, using their cards to show the class their answer.

Some of the statements were both safe and unsafe depending on the context, so we used this opportunity to explain that being online can have good/bad/positive/negative consequences.

Easier statements:

  • Sending a picture of yourself to your Mum/Dad/Gran
  • Texting a happy emoji to your friend
  • Sending someone an unkind message
  • Snap chatting with someone you don’t know
  • Watching a children’s TV programme online that a trusted adult has found for you
  • Playing a puzzle game online and answering a message from somebody else playing who you don’t know
  • Posting your phone number online so anybody can see it
  • Joining in with something online that someone says is a secret

Harder statements:

  • Playing a computer game with a 16-age limit
  • Joining a social network about a favourite sport or hobby
  • Sending a picture of yourself in your underwear
  • Joking about someone’s appearance in a text
  • Making your gaming username and personal details public
  • Keeping an online ‘streak’ with a friend going for 200 days or more
  • Posting a funny video of a cat playing the piano on Youtube
  • Chatting live to an online gamer who has just joined in with your game
  • Agreeing to have a private chat with someone online

 

Year 5 were able to share their thoughts and feelings on each statement; the lesson was extremely useful for the pupils to learn and adapt their knowledge of online safety.

The water cycle

By Olivia Mead3rd May 2023

Year 5 have some exciting visitors this morning for our rivers and mountains topic. We are learning all about the water cycle and where we get our clean water from. Thank you to the Yorkshire Water Company!

Special visitors for child development

By Olivia Mead29th April 2023

 Miss Mead and Mr Sutton’s class have been learning about the human life cycle in our science lessons. Today, we had three very special visitors, Mrs Sutton, Luke and Elliot (Mr Sutton’s wife and children). Our children had the opportunity to ask education questions about Luke and Elliot’s development; they learnt lots of new knowledge about the changes that occur between 0 years and 1 years.

La Ropa (clothes)

By Olivia Mead24th April 2023

In our Spanish lesson this week, year 5 learned how to say what they wear in Spanish. We learned the first eleven words for items of clothing. The children created a dictionary of their new words in Spanish; they then used this dictionary to complete a word search.

The children had amazing resilience!!

Max was the winner as he completed his cross word the fastest. Well done Max!

story mapping!

By Olivia Mead24th April 2023

In today’s English lesson, Year 5 started a new unit called The Lighthouse. To familiarise ourselves with the unit, we created a story map which consolidated our understanding. We spoke about the opening, build up, dilemma, resolution and ending.

Here are some of our story maps!

Easter service

By Mr J SUTTON28th March 2023

In today’s assembly the children were welcomed by the Reverend Copley who shared the meaning of Easter with the children. They were thoroughly engaged in his Easter message and loved the story about how Easter eggs should be empty just like the tomb that Jesus was placed in. All of the children listened eagerly as the message of Easter was shared in an engaging and practical way.