On Friday, year 5 visited Jarrow Library as part of our reading for pleasure in English. We enjoyed listening to stories, we chose our own books and have brought books back to school. We’re really looking forward to reading our books. Check out some of our photos!
Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed their ‘Breakfast with a Book’ yesterday morning with Year 1. We enjoyed toast and juice whilst sharing lots of books with our younger friends. Thank you Year 1 for a lovely reading for pleasure morning. Check out some of our photos!
This morning, Year 5 competed in the Sportshall Athletics competition at Temple Park. We competed in various track and field events. We finished in the top 5! Check out some of our in action photos! 
Year 5 enjoyed their No Pens Day! We started the day off discussing a perplexed picture before adding fractions greater than 1 with practical resources and using our iPads for a quiz. We then did our speaking and listening lesson for English and practised orally rehearsing clear instructions to our partner. In Science, we made our own Earth, Sun and Moon model before we showcased our learning to our parents at the end of the day. Check out some of our photos!
Year 5 had their third Sportshall Athletics lesson this afternoon in P.E. We focussed on quick acceleration for the track relays and obstacle relays. On the field, we practised our accuracy and precision skills in the target throw. Check out some of our in action photos!
Year 5 had great fun dressing up and supporting Children in Need last Friday. We began by completing a word search, writing our own acrostic poem and answering a Children in Need reading comprehension before heading into the hall to take part in a Children in Need escape game! We had great fun supporting this worthy cause.
Year 5 represented Bede Burn at the remembrance service held in Monkton Village on Tuesday. The class were very respectful during the service and were even congratulated by the Mayor of South Tyneside and members of the public on their conduct. Our class councillors Olivia and Zaki did a lovely job when they laid the school’s wreath on our behalf. Well done for making us proud Year 5.
Year 5 had their second Sportshall Athletics lesson this afternoon in P.E. After warming up, we practised the standing long jump and 5 strides for the field events. Also, we reminded ourselves of how to safelyuse the reverser boards before practising with them and adding in the high stepper for the obstacle relay. Check out some of our in action photos!
Friday night was a late one for our Year 5 class, who went stargazing this week at the Twice Brewed Inn in Hexham. We gathered together with our friends at St Oswald’s School first to watch some videos showing the sheer size of some of the planets in space which lead to a very animated discussion and really ignited everyone’s curiosity and excitement! After filling up on our packed lunches we headed off into the night!
Unfortunately, the weather was not on our side as the sky was very cloudy and misty, making it impossible to see any stars at all. Not to be deterred, the staff from Kielder Observatory, ensured we made the most of it and gave us a very informative discussion all about stars, planets, asteroids and the galaxy and we even got to see some bits of asteroids close up! Then we headed into the planetarium to be shown how the sky would have looked where we were if it hadn’t been for the clouds and how to recognise constellations in the night sky.
Although it wasn’t quite what was planned, we all had an amazing time and can’t wait to learn more about space in our new topic of “Earth and Space”.
Year 5 have embraced their new D.T. topic, “Moving Mechanisms” this week by investigating the effects of pneumatics and the many ways it can be used. We conducted a number of experiments looking at how compressed air works, which will help us design and make our own pneumatic machine that can perform a useful function in the home.
