Year 5 had an excellent time participating in the Bearpee challenge for Children in Need. Miss Mead even showed the children how it was done… the children definitely scored higher!
Category : Year 5/6
We are so proud to have held our first Christopher Pickering Art Exhibition.
The whole school spent several weeks in preperation practising our art skills using different medias and exploring different artists work in order to create our art work. Some of us used collage, some used oil pastels, colour washing, paint, pencil and marker pens to name just some of the media in our final masterpieces. We drew on all the rt skills we have developed so far to help us create our fantastic art work and combined this with the influence of different artists including Tracey Savage, Van Gough, Paul Klee and Kandinsky.
We were all very proud when had the opportunity to visit the gallery and see our work displayed in frames and named just like true artists.
We hope that everybody who had chance to visit the gallery had a lovely time.
This week, Year 5 have been taking part in the Bikeability course! The children have been working extremely hard to improve their cycling skills… the confidence of the children has sky rocketed: they are doing fabulously!
Here are some images of the children being super independent.
Y5’s knowledge and understanding of Anient Greece was put to test in our end of unit Kahoot quiz! A huge well done to our top 3 winners: Danielle placing 3rd, Simon placing 2nd and our winner, Dylan (real life historian!).
In History, year 5 have been learning all about Ancient Greece. Today, we focused on a fearless Macedonian king and military genius, Alexander the Great. The children worked in groups to piece together a timeline of Alexander the Great’s life and important achievements.
We learnt lots of knew sticky knowledge and gathered the causes and consequences to his actions in Ancient Greece.
This week in music, the children were able to produce their first sounds using the clarinet. Lots of children found this hard to start off with and couldn’t get their mouths in the correct configuration to produce a sound on the reed. Through lots of determination the whole class were proud to be able to make their first sounds.
Today, year 5 were lucky enough to have a visit from members of the Bahai faith who explained how they expressed their faith. The children were able to understand and explore the Bahai faith. They asked excellent questions about the faith and were wowed with the religious beliefs that they held (equality and unity). The children really enjoyed looking at the different places of worship where people of the Bahai faith have services.
Within our art lessons this half term, Y6 have been focusing on creating depth and accurate proportions through the use of one-point perspective drawing techniques. In this particular lesson, we practised drawing the Humber Bridge thinking about the ‘vanishing point’ and how to ensure everything led to the one-point perspective. Great work year 6!
Our writing focus in English at the moment is ‘balanced arguments’ and Year 6 have been enjoying to opportunity to consider positives and negatives relating to a range of topics. We have also had the opportunity to take part in verbal debates and the children were fantastic at voicing their opinions and backing up their arguments with evidence and statistics to help justify their viewpoints.
Year 6 have been studying the continents of North and South America and have been locating the countries, using atlases, which form these continents. We were amazed by the sheer size of these continents and how far reaching they are to the north and south of the globe! We then used digimap online to investigate levels of precipitation, average temperature, and population density of different regions within these continents.
