Class 5 Blog

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  20

  Oct

  RE- Sikhism and commitment

  Posted by Miss S Hook

  In RE, children considered what was most important to them. As part of our focus on commitments, children plotted how much they would dedicate towards these things on a bar chart before explaining their reasons for this.
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  19

  Oct

  Spanish- Las frutas

  Posted by Miss S Hook

  In Spanish today, the children practised listening to different fruits and deciding if they were a masculine or feminine noun by moving to different sides of the room.
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  17

  Oct

  PE- Haka

  Posted by Miss S Hook

  Today in PE, Year 5 had their final lesson on the Haka for the term. The children worked together in groups to choreograph their own Haka, incorporating traditional movements and their own ideas and travelling. They performed this to the rest of the class before evaluating their work.
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  16

  Oct

  Computing- Systems

  Posted by Miss S Hook

  In computing, Year 5 took on the role of either ‘the searcher’, ‘the webpage’, or ‘the search engine’. Children had to work together to discuss what would influence search results from their perspective, and how they can be more specific in their descriptions to access accurate information.
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  13

  Oct

  RE- Sikhism and commitment

  Posted by Miss S Hook

  Today in RE, Year 5 looked at different Sikh practices and considered the different levels of effort that people put into these. They discussed why different people dedicate themselves to different practices and how other commitments can affect these.
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  12

  Oct

  Music - Rock music

  Posted by Miss S Hook

  In music, Year 5 listened and appraised ‘Smoke on the Water’ by Deep Purple before continuing practising ‘Livin’ On A Prayer’. We focused on finding the pulse in both songs and finding similarities within the rock genre.
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  10

  Oct

  Strictly Taster Session

  Posted by Miss S Hook

  Today the children had the opportunity to take part in a ‘Strictly Taster Session’. In this session we had great fun learning some steps for the Cha Cha!
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  09

  Oct

  History - Ancient Greek schools

  Posted by Miss S Hook

  In History, Year 5 searched the classroom for facts about schools in Ancient Greece and schools in the UK. The children had to decide which school the facts described, before considering the similarities and differences between the schools.
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  06

  Oct

  Geography - Alexander the Great's empire

  Posted by Miss S Hook

  Today, Year 5 used atlases in Geography to identify modern day countries and cities on a map of Alexander the Great’s empire. We also considered which areas Alexander the Great’s army would have found the most difficult to travel through.
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  05

  Oct

  Science - Experiment Planning

  Posted by Miss S Hook

  In science today, Year 5 worked together to plan an experiment to demonstrate how the Earth rotates on its axis. We looked at the terminology independent variable, controlled variable and dependent variable and applied these to our own experiment. We are looking forward to conducting this experiment in our science lesson next week!