Year 5 have begun to learn to play the recorder.
In this lesson they have been learning the basics for reading music too. They learnt the difference between a crotchet and a minim.
See how they got on in this video
Category : Year 5/6
Throughout October, we are celebrating and teaching children about the importance of Black History Month within school. We always openly discuss Black History throughout our day-to-day learning at Christopher Pickering, however it is great to have even more of a focus on celebrating individuals who have overcome adversity during their lifetimes.
We have taken opportunities within whole school and phase assemblies to discuss why it is so important we discuss Black History and how we, as a country, can learn and move forward from mistakes that have been made in the past. We have also been watching videos and discussing individuals such as Rosa Parks, Mary Seacole and Harriet Tubman – 3 amazingly brave and influential black women who stood up for their beliefs and freedom. These assemblies have stimulated powerful and meaningful discussions amongst our children.
-
- Year 1
-
- Year 2 – Hollie and Gracie
-
- Year 3 – Rebecca and Billy
-
- Year 4 – Sophia and Bailey
-
- Year 5 – Lola and Riley
-
- Year 6 – Jay and Gracie
-
- Year 6 – Jenson
-
- Year 6 – Jamie and Evie
World Mental Health Day we wore yellow to school and in return we donated money to the charity Young Minds Trust, which helps young people who are struggling with their mental health. In our assembly, we learned about what mental health is, what we can do to improve our mental health and what we should do if we are every feeling sad. Throughout the day, we took part in mindfulness sessions and throughout the week, we will be completing activities based around promoting positive mental health.
Tonight was our first girls football game since early 2020! What a fantastic return they had with a thrilling game against a strong Francis Askew team. The girls started strong and quickly went up 1-0. In the final moments our girls were leading 3-2 when FA seized their chance and drew scores level just before the whistle. The girls held their nerves and eventually won on penalties!
Well done girls!
Back (L/R): Evie, Issy, Sapphire, Alesha & Lily
Front (L/R): Alesha, Grace & Charlotte
Over the past few days, the children from Years 1-6 have been taking part in electing their new school councillors. The children who were interested in being a school councillor wrote their names down on our sign up sheets then presented a speech to their year group, stating why they would make a super school councillor. The children then voted for the two children they would like to represent their year group at school council meetings.
Our new school councillors are:
Year 1: William O and Dixie-Lee J
Year 2: Hollie J and Grace A-M
Year 3: Rebecca R and Billy B
Year 4: Bailey F and Sophia G
Year 5: Riley Y and Lola F
Year 6: Jenson F, Ella C, Chloe C, Freddie F, Jay H, Gracie E, Phoebe M and Jamie C
The Year 6’s will also be house captains.
Tonight was our first competitive football game in 580 days! After a long long wait the boys finally got to play for their school and what a fantastic job they did too!
Each player was making his debut in the first away fixture of the 7-aside league to Francis Askew Primary. The boys got off to a flying start with and early goal from Tinashe and a few minutes later he bagged his second. Some strong possession in midfield saw goals follow from Lucas, Jack and finally Kacper. An all round strong performance and great was to kick start the year. Well done boys.
(L/R): Harrie, Freddie, Kasper, Ewan, Tinashe, Jack, Lucas and Harley
For our science experiment this term, year 6 were extremely excited to take part in a pig heart dissection!
We have been working hard learning about the circulatory system and the importance of the heart. This was a great opportunity to explore the 4 different chambers and arteries as we carefully examined the inside of the heart.
Also, within our guided reading lessons, we have been studying the book ‘Pig Heart Boy’ by Malorie Blackman and the main character, Cameron, is due to receive a pig heart transplant.
We could even gently insert our fingers into the vena cava and the pulmonary veins to see which chambers the blood would flow into!
Y6 students had a fantastic day of learning at Sirius Academy West today. We took part in a carousel of olympic themed activities and demonstrated fantastic team work to win as many point as possible for the countries we were representing!
In the maths session, we playing ‘archery maths’ and studied sprint times from the 100m races. This tested our mental maths skills and ability to order numbers up to 2 decimal places. We also enjoyed spotting lines of symmetry on the countries’ fags!
We worked really hard in art to develop our light sketching skills and design and draw our own olympic mascots.
In computing, we programmed an electronic game of squash and loved spending time in the designated computer suites!
We had so much fun playing competitive geography games which tested our knowledge on the countries involved in hosting the olympics and also the continents in which they were held!
In Science, Year 5 have been investigating the heliocentric and geocentric models of the universe. We looked at the differences between the two models and summarised our findings in our books.
