Year 5
Year 5
Mrs Blackwell
Email address: blackwell.l@welearn365.com
Year 5 have been using Microbits to design EWS or Early Warning Systems. We have used the inputs, sensors and pins to respond to codes to alert us to different environmental changes. We have devised an alert for light level, water level, light level and finally heat levels. We thought about how these early warning systems would help people react to natural disasters.
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Marble Run Challenge
To celebrate British Science Week year 5 took part in a marble run challenge. Using a set selection of resources the children had to make a marble run that slowed down their marble as much as possible. They timed their marble runs and then adapted them to try to slow the marble even more.
Young Voices 2025!
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Area Athletics
Year 5 and 6 competed against other schools in the area in track and field events. All the children had a great time and showed generosity in their support of each other.
Learning Celebration - Volcanoes!
Parents and carers joined Y5 to hear all about their theme learning and look at their books. They shared the information they have learned about volcanoes as part of their natural disasters theme and we made our own eruptions!
National Space Centre
Year 5's 'Earth and Space' science topic kicked off at the Space Centre today. The children had a brilliant time learning about space, visiting the planetarium and trying out lots of hands on activities.
Clean up the beach
The children used their knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how the contents of our 'dirty beach' might be separated. They decided on a method that used magnets, filtering, sieving and evaporating.
Year 5 & 6 Carol Concert
Children’s Forest group 2
Children’s Forest group one
DT testing arches to spread the load on bridges.
Fire safety talk
DT building bridges. Y5 tested beam shape and compared strength.
Odd socks day for Anti-bullying Week
Year 5 Dodgeball Competition.
Botanical Gardens. Year 5 had a great day leaning about tropical plants and their uses. We also got to handle some rainforest animals!
Learning celebration. Year 5 shared their learning about the Maya civilisation. They completed a fact hunt with their adults.
Visit from Ricardo to investigate how simple machines, such as pulleys, levers and gears, make machines work and make our life much easier.
Using paper helicopters to investigate the effects of air resistance during science
World Mental Health Day - Crafting, meditation and singing
3D paper sculpture techniques. Art masterclass
Welcome back Year 5!
Important information
PE - For the first half term PE will be on Wednesday and / or Thursday. Please ensure your child has a full PE kit (in school everyday) including a white t-shirt, black shorts, black jogging bottoms, a black long sleeved top and trainers.
Homework
- Maths homework will be given out on a Thursday and will be due in the following Thursday
- English homework will be given out on Friday and will be due in the following Friday.
- Spellings will also be set on a Friday and there will be a spelling test the following Friday. Spellings can be found on the Spelling Shed website and on the class page. Please ask if you do not have a login.
- Reading. It is also incredibly important for your child to continue reading on a regular basis (at least 4 times a week). Your child can read to themselves or to an adult. We would also encourage 'book talk' at home - discussing the plot of the story, the characters, your child's favourite part of the book, making predictions about what they think might happen next.