Year 5
Welcome to Year 5
Class Teacher - Miss Tolson
Teaching Assistants - Mrs Boden and Miss Watson
Maths
We started this half-term looking at perimeter and area.
English
Religious Education
Class Worship
Art
This half-term we looked at 3D art installations. We looked at Dame Phyllida Barlow, famous for her art installations. On World Art Day we create a fabulous 3D art installation, made from boxes. We based our art on on the famous architect and artist,
Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
Science
This half-term we looked at living things and their habitats. Following on from our previous science topic of human development, including reproduction, we looked at the reproductive parts of a flower.
History
Music
Maths
Year 5 enjoy the morning challenge of 40 questions in 100 seconds. We have learned about the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages.
English
World Book Day brought about the love of books and reading. Year 5 made some beautiful stories in a jar and their costumes, well...look for yourself.
We had a visit to our local library for World Poetry Day. We had lots of fun, looking at nonsense poems, acrostic poems, as well as having a treasure hunt round the library. We fully enjoyed the afternoon and thank our local library staff.
Whilst learning about story settings, we wrote some fabulous settings to the film, "The Ruin". Children watched the video as a stimulus to write a descriptive setting. Well done year 5.
Design and Technology
This half-term we have been looking at mechanisms. We started by designing gears with different materials, to understand how material choice is important.
We finished out DT project on gears by introducing a pulley, to haul up the Easter goodies (chocolate coins and eggs). We even made a pulley with 3 fixed wheels.
RE
This half term we have been looking at Desert to Garden, retracing the steps of Jesus in the Desert and leading up to Lent, Palm Sunday and Holy Week. We have been sending the Lenten Journal home with some amazing entries being added.
Class Worship
Our first lesson brings us to the important time of Lent, when Jesus was travelling through the desert and tempted by the devil. Our class leaders led the session beautifully, helping other children when needed.
Science
This half-term we have been looking at human development, starting with gestation periods for animals, including humans. We have also looked at changes during puberty and how this affects our bodies and development through to an adult.
We also had a science day at St Pius which the children loved. They looked at electricity and energy sources and made their own windmill design. They also looked at aeroplane designs and how nature has influenced the design of mechanisms.
Music
We have started our new term looking at a crescendo. It is quite a difficult task but Year 5 have embraced it.
Geography
We visited our local library, as part of our theme of rivers. We looked at fish that live in rivers and the oceans and discussed as a group some of the longest rivers in the world. We also made a model barge, the type found on our local River Don.
Continuing with our topic of Rivers, we visited the River Don in Rotherham. Looking at the Lady of our Chapel on the Bridge (it used to have a jail !), looking at the canal and the weir on the River Don. We also tested the speed of the water using dog biscuits, seeing how long it took to go under the bridge and out the other side.
Maths
Year 5 started their half-term looking at multiplication and division. We looked at short division with remainders. We then applied our learning to maths problems. Recapping on fractions from just before Christmas, we have moved onto multiplying fractions.
We learnt how to play the fun yet simple game "Shut the Box". A fabulous game to encourage play with number.
Number Day
On Friday 6th February we celebrated Number Day. We rocked with our maths skills, looking at applying our skills to many different maths games. We wore totally awesome costumes too!
English
We started our half-term looking at fiction, using our book Who Let the Gods Out. We have used this book as a basis for inverted commas, looking at how to use speech marks correctly. We have practised our skill of using speech marks by writing the dialogue to silent animation.
Our used our knowledge of the Maya to create an information text. Here are some of the work we produced.
Religious Education
What a beautiful set of rules created by one of our pupils, after reading about the New Law.
We looked at the transfiguration of Jesus and created some beautiful comic strips.
We looked at our inner self when learning about what it is like to be a Christian. We then looked at what lights up our world.
Class Worship
Year 5 enjoy the responsibility of organising the class worship. Each week has a theme and the class join in with the activities.
The Lord is our light, we showed how we can be the light to people in our lives too.
Science
Our latest science topic brought about fun this afternoon, looking at contact and non-contact forces. Iron filings and magnets demonstrated forces in a fun way.
We looked at when forces are equal and how this allows for things to balance.
We looked at friction and the materials that would cause the most friction when pulling a shoe across them. We measured in Newtons by using a force meter. Continuing with friction we made a CD hovercraft to demonstrate how air can create less friction between two surfaces.
Continuing with forces, we looked at air resistance through an investigation, then we made paper "helicopters" to fly.
History
Year 5 are looking at the Ancient Maya. We started by located where the Ancient Maya lived on a world map: in Central America. We have also looked at Ancient Mayan Gods and created some of our own too! Did you know the ancient Maya have a base 20 number system. Our children managed to read and create some numbers too.
Music
Mr Edge continues to deliver our music on a Friday, teaching Year 5 about reading music: quavers, crotchets and semi-quavers are just a few of the terms we are learning.
We have been introduced to minims. Our singing at the correct pitch and number of beats is improving greatly.
Modern Foreign Languages (MFL)
We started our Spanish this half-term revisiting basic greetings and have now progressed onto learning about La Clase (The class). We can now tell you what some of the things in our classroom are called in Spanish.
Art
We've made a cracking start with our art and drew ourselves.
Moving into our next lesson we wrote our names or phrases in the style of our faces. Truly amazing talent we have in year 5. I'm sure you will agree.
Continuing with art we have now added our own background.
We've used the backgrounds we created the previous week and used carbon paper to trace over our self-drawn word pictures. Amazing work!
Experimenting with media and colour, beautiful results.
P.E.
This half-term we have started two different ball games: rounders and netball. Our lovely coach from Rotherham United is teaching year 5 about the rules of netball, whilst Miss Tolson is teaching year 5 about basic throwing and catching skills, which will lead to playing games of rounders.
We got to play rounders outside, which was great fun for us all. Fabulous big hits from both girls and boys.
Maths
In maths this half-term we have looked at fractions, column addition and subtraction as well as multiplication and division. Next half-term will see further application of fractions when looking at fractions, percentages and decimals.
We will revisit the four rules of calculation, particularly focussing on division and multiplication to ensure confidence, fluency and application to worded problems.
English
In English, we have looked at different sentence structures and applied this to persuasive writing. We created persuasive posters encouraging Mrs Williams to visit the Amazon Rainforest. This was based on knowledge from our Geography topic where we learnt about Brazil and compared it with where we live in Yorkshire.
Religious Education
What a beautiful time to join St Joseph's with Advent and the celebrations involved. We started our Advent by making a wreath, which was blessed before being returned to class. We have read our short stories from the Bible at the end of each day and hung the appropriate bauble on our Jesse tree. We visited church for mass as well as making Christingles. We have had a busy half-term!
Class Worship
Year 5 children are incredible in organising how they wish to deliver class worship, then reading a Gospel and reflecting on this as a class.
Science
This half-term year 5 has explored states of matter: solids, liquids and gases. We have looked at different materials to use as an insulator, magnets and their uses in industry, as well as materials that are soluble and insoluble.
Geography
Our topic has been comparing Brazil and where we live. We have learnt quite a lot about the Amazon Rainforest, as well as neighbouring countries and economic activities. We also looked at the water cycle and how rivers are formed from source to mouth. Year 5 worked together in teams to produce some rather awesome-looking models.
Music
Mr Edge from the Hallam Diocese, continues to provide high quality singing teaching. The last day of term we had Christmas music and Year 5 showed Mr Edge how much they had enjoyed the sessions by giving him a hug. We also delivered our fabulous carol concert in our local church where we sang collaboratively with Year 6. Our children sounded like angels.
Design and Technology
Mrs Boden and Miss Watson have modelled and supported year 5 to sew some lovely puppets. For some children this was the first time they had sewn. I am sure you would agree that the children did extremely well.
P.E. & Dance
This half-term we had our lovely dance tutor lead Year 5 into wonderful, short production based on the Amazon Rainforest.
Library Visits
Year 5 enjoyed visiting the local library where they learnt more about Brazil which is their current Geography topic. They completed different learning activities and even made a Brazilian mask!
