Year 5/6 | Christopher Pickering Primary School

Year 6 Crime and Punishment

By Mrs D WILKINSON8th January 2023

Our Year 6 history curriculum provides a platform to enrich children’s awareness of the past and develop their historical consciousness. Our curriculum builds on pupils’ understanding of British, world and local history, looking at the influence that Britain had on the wider world, and how the wider world has influenced Britain.

The latest History topic for Year 6 is ‘Crime and Punishment ‘.

For the first lesson the children were given the task of arranging historical events in chronological order.

Chronology is the science of locating historical events in time. It relies upon chronometry, which is also known as timekeeping, and historiography, which examines the writing of history and the use of historical methods.

Looking for the evidence…

Logical thinking…

Historians heads on…

Searching for clues…

Making decisions….

Why are timelines important ?

A timeline is a visual learning aid that helps children organize a series of events in the order they happened. Each event or person should have a date (or time) clearly marked on the timeline. Timelines provide a framework to show potential relationships between historical events.

Year 5 Cinquain poetry

By Mr J SUTTON4th January 2023

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.

Year 6 Chocolatiers

By Mrs D WILKINSON16th December 2022

Year 6 have been thinking about the 3P’s in their Design and Technology unit of work.

Design and make a Product for a Person with a Purpose

As technologists Y6 were challenged to design chocolate truffles that were to be a gift.

DT is not just about ‘making’. There are lots of steps that come before and after that !

Investigate – Learning about existing products

Focused Practical Task – Practising vital skills

Design – Designing a range of possible products

Make – Making the product

Evaluate – Looking back on what you did and considering what went well, what didn’t go so well and thinking about what you would have done differently

Our Learning Journey took us through each of these stages.

For two weeks the children were challenged to be chocolatiers.

Work in progress!!!

Now time to decorate !!!! Preparing the packaging!!!

Nearly there!!!

What a professional looking finish !!!

Year 5 Clarinet Long note song

By Mr J SUTTON14th December 2022

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.

year 5 RE – Christmas – What is peace?

By Mr J SUTTON9th December 2022

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.

Year 6 White Ribbon

By Mrs D WILKINSON6th December 2022

White Ribbon Accreditation ensures organisations take a strategic approach to ending male violence against women by engaging with men and boys, changing cultures and raising awareness. With this years theme being “Let’s Be The Change” , the focus is to create meaningful change through conversations and education, with the goal to end all forms of violence and abuse .

Year 6 were all happy to sign Our White Ribbon Promise.

Kind Hands,

Kind Feet,

Kind words to all.

We are a non violence school.

We respect each other.

We also had a very lengthy discussion about different ways in which we could offer help , if we were approached , by someone who had been a victim of abuse.

RE Year 5 – Is Christmas only for Christians? – How is Christmas celebrated around the world?

By Mr J SUTTON2nd December 2022

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.

DT – Creating Ancient Greek Sandals

By Olivia Mead2nd December 2022

Within our Autumn Design and Technology unit, we have investigated a range of sandals, focusing on the material, purpose, audience, occasion and functionality. Today’s focus was the practical task which required the children to trace around their foot, cutting the template very carefully and precisely to form the sole of their sandal. The children then created their chosen style of sandal by sewing the straps onto the sole.

Year 6 Baking Mad !!!

By Mrs D WILKINSON16th November 2022

Having an easy go to cupcake recipe will help you out at various different occasions throughout the year!

Cupcakes are usually one of the first recipes that novice bakers learn to make, whether that is as a child, or as an adult. Cupcakes are really easy to make from scratch, they require very few ingredients and are super simple to make.

How To Make (Easy) Cupcakes From Scratch

If you follow this method for making basic cupcakes you’ll have great results. This is an easy recipe to use to encourage children to get baking.

It’s a really easy list of ingredients to remember for this cupcake recipe:

125g caster sugar
125g butter, softened (or margarine)
125g self raising flour
2 large eggs (don’t know why there are 3 in the picture)
1tsp vanilla essence

The best way to get GREAT results are to mix the ingredients step by step;

Preheat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4
Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla extract together in a bowl.
Add the eggs and flour (sift the flour in).
Beat everything together until the mixture is smooth. If you are using an electric whisk or stand mixer be careful not to over mix or the texture of the cupcakes will come out too dense.
Use a tablespoon to half fill each case with the cupcake mixture. You may need to use a teaspoon or knife to help scrape all the mixture off.
Bake in oven for 20 minutes.
When the cupcakes are ready they will have risen and be a golden brown colour. If in doubt, check they are cooked though by inserting a metal skewer/cocktail stick and checking if it comes out dry.

And that’s how easy it is!

Just out of the oven- we need to let them cool before icing!!!