Year 5 have really enjoyed the start of their new unit in PE. They have really focused on developing their forehand and enjoyed a competitive game situation using the skills improved in their lesson.
Category : Year 5/6
In year 5 this week we have been investigating and observing which materials are soluble and insoluble in water. We then took the experiment further after discovering that sugar was an excellent soluble in water and then investigated if it would create a soluble solution when added into oil, cordial and washing up liquid. 
This week in music year 5 have been focusing on their singing and performing skills using the song ‘Wanna be a rockstar’. A few more weeks of practice and we will be performing it to an audience. Preview only till the big performance.
Every year , Children’s Mental Health Week takes place during February. This year the theme is,
‘ Let’s connect’.
Connecting with others helps us to share experiences with people we trust and care about. Positive relationships give us opportunities to share our feelings and get someone else’s views on what we are experiencing. Positive relationships give us a sense of feeling and belonging.
The BIG QUESTIONS:
What is mental health?
How can we look after our own mental health?
How can we look after the mental health
of others ?
What can we do to keep our minds healthy?
After lengthy discussions the children were asked to come up with a Mental Health Action Plan…
And when all the hard work is done – chill time – with a purpose!
Colouring is a healthy way to relieve stress. It calms the brain and helps your body relax. This can improve sleep and fatigue while decreasing body aches, heart rate, respiration, and feelings of depression and anxiety.
A perfect way to end the day.
Chrildren’s Mental Health Week activity:
This week, we have been celebrating children’s mental health and raising awareness for what makes us happy and recognising our own personal triggers that make us feel down. As recognition for what things make us happy, we created our own paper chain full of ideas. Some drawings included:
- Family
- Friends
- Reading
- School
- Teachers
- Food
- Sports
- Nature
- Animals
Here is our finished product!
On Wednesday, Year 5 visited an egineering company – OSL – where they took part in arange of activities linking to the subject. The activities included:
- Completing a circuit to sound a buzzer
- Using their knowledge of construction to put together a triangle using nuts and bolts
- Conduct an experiment to act against gravity – using plastic bottles, water and tubes
During these activities, the children learnt a substansive amount of knowledge about how to become an engineer and what the job role consists of.
Here are some images of the children during the day:
For the second half of the day, we then went to an architectural business – GGP. Here the children took part in an activity where they had to build their on bridge out of straws, which had to withstand a brick. We had so much fun!
Over this half term in year 5 we have been building our Spanish vocabulary to be able to become weather presents in Spain and explain to others what the country is like in different places in Spain looking both at regions (North, South, East, West and Central) and actual Spanish places. The children loved becoming presenters and did a fantastic job!
In todays clarinet lesson the children were able to increase their note knowledge and added the note Fsharp to their repertoire. They were able to use this note to practice and play the song Long note song.
In lesson today, year 5’s really delved into the question what do I believe in? They came up with some amazing answers including self belief, believing in peace and hope along with kindness and understanding. They were able to compare their beliefs with people who have faith and what they believe, and were able to see lots of similarities between peoples faith and their own worldviews.
London Experience January 2023
The Y6 house captains and Y5 school councillors were given the fantastic opportunity to visit London to experience our capital city, see some of the famous landmarks and to find out about Democracy and how this country is ran by visiting parliament. Unfortunately, due to the rail strikes we had to postpone the date of our initial trip which meant that we couldn’t visit the Houses of Parliament.
On the 11th January, we set off from Hull to Kings Cross which took us just under 3 hours. When we arrived we headed straight to the underground and caught the tube to Tower Bridge. When we got there we ate lunch in the sunshine overlooking the Tower of London which made a fantastic spot to have something to eat.
We went into the Tower of London which is a historic castle originally built William Conqueror where he built a stone tower fortress overlooking London. Over the years we found out that it has been used for a multitude of things – a prison, a place to torture criminals, a zoo, the Royal Armouries, The Royal Mint and a place to protect the crown jewels. We saw the empty case where the King Edward crown had been taken to prepare for King Charles’ coronation!
After spending a few hours in the Tower of London we made our way onto Tower Bridge and identified all of the landmarks along the River Thames. Then we went to see the Horse Guards and made our way to Downing Street. Here we spent a bit of time learning about who goes to Downing Street, who lives there and why. We were lucky enough to see Rishi Sunak, well his car, whizz by into Downing Street – there were lots of police vehicles with the cars!
We then walked up to the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben and found out about what happens in these buildings and how decisions in these buildings have an impact on us. The Palace of Westminster and Big Ben are synonymous with democracy and have become a symbol of parliament around the world – our school council elections are based on the voting systems that happen in this country when electing a political party representative.
After this we went up to Buckingham Palace and walked through St James’s park before heading back to Kings Cross and back home to Hull! A fantastic experience!