Class 5 Blog

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  21

  Mar

  English - Classroom on strike!

  Posted by Mrs J Clarke

  Today year 5 came into school to find most of their classroom equipment had been on strike due to poor treatment. To earn their furniture and stationary back, they had to write a poem from the point of view of the furniture and stationary. We wrote this in the style of 'Green Candles' by Humbert Wolfe. Children then had the opportunity to edit and then publish their poems. Thankfully, all furniture and stationary was returned after lunch.
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  20

  Mar

  DT/Art - Worry dolls

  Posted by Mrs J Clarke

  Today in DT/Art, we continued to apply our sewing skills to our sleeping bags and clothes for our worry dolls. I have been very impressed with the perseverance of year 5 during this topic, it has been a tricky skill to master.
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  18

  Mar

  RE - Palm Sunday and The Last Supper

  Posted by Mrs J Clarke

  In RE this week, we have recapped the events of Palm Sunday. We then looked at the story of The Last Supper. We listened to different versions of the story and read the verse from Matthew 26. We thought about how Jesus felt and the importance of the events of that evening.
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  14

  Mar

  Music - instruments

  Posted by Mrs J Clarke

  During music today, we used the glockenspiels to play along with the backing track of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. We then practised singing the song, especially verse 3. We also listened to a different hip hop song - Ready or Not by The Fugees, lot's of children enjoyed the song and many already knew it!
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  14

  Mar

  Footy Kids

  Posted by Mrs J Clarke

  This morning we had a visit from the team at Footy Kids. I was very impressed with the teamwork skills and unusually had a lot of requests for extra homework.
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  13

  Mar

  Art/DT - Making

  Posted by Mrs J Clarke

  This week we started to measure and cut our fabric for the sleeping bag and clothing for our Maya worry doll. Some children have also started to apply the sewing skills practised in previous lessons to join their materials.
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  11

  Mar

  RE - Palm Sunday

  Posted by Mrs J Clarke

  Today in RE, we started to re-visit key events during Holy Week. Today we looked at palm Sunday and thought about what the word 'Hosanna' tells us about how people felt about welcoming Jesus on Palm Sunday. We also had a go at singing 'Sing Hosanna'.
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  11

  Mar

  PSHE - Emergency procedures.

  Posted by Mrs J Clarke

  In PSHE today, we have been thinking about how to stay calm in an emergency and why this is important. We have learnt about the recovery position and when to use it. We also discussed how to get help if we didn't have a phone or didn't know our location. We definitely have some future paramedics in our class. Well done year 5!
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  10

  Mar

  Computing - data

  Posted by Mrs J Clarke

  In computing this term we are learning about fact-file databases. Today we have been looking out how to sort information that is stored in forms and tables. We have been looking at how to sort countries based on population, area and currency.
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  10

  Mar

  History - Maya calendar

  Posted by Mrs J Clarke

  In history today we have been learning more about the Maya calendar. The Maya marked time using 3 interlocking cycles. 52 years pass before the cycle lines up again. We then looked at what the date of our birthday would be on the Maya calendar. Today's date would be: 7 Ik, 5 Kumku.