Year 5 have had a busy Art lesson today, sculpting materials and making structures using natural materials from the forest garden.
Year 5 had a fabulous PE lesson in cricket today, improving our batting and fielding skills and communicating with our team mates.
Year 5 had a very interesting debate in Geography yesterday around whether we should import food. Firstly, we arranged our sorting cards into diamond ranks by order of priority and spent time researching each point in more detail. We had two groups, proposers and opposers, and argued for and against the motion ‘People should always buy and eat food that is grown in their own country.’ We decided which side gave the strongest arguments and our Speaker of the House revealed the result of the vote.
Year 5 participated in a debate during English today, arguing the benefits and drawbacks of veganism.
Year 5 had a fabulous day at Rainton Meadows yesterday. We enjoyed an outdoor mini beast hunt followed by pond dipping.
Y5 took us on a trip to the 1980’s this morning with amazing performances of both ‘Africa’ and ‘Take on Me’ for our grandparents. Look how cool they look in their shades. Fab singing Y5! Well done!
Year 5 have had a super busy afternoon in forest school. We have relocated our flower beds into a better area ready to plant our vegetables
Year 5 continued learning the basics of cricket on Tuesday, including how to handle the bat and focusing on improving their overarm throwing skills.
Year Five are completing a blackout poetry sequence in English. Today, we explored three, very different blackout poems. We analysed and compared them by deciding which was our favourite poem and why, as well as uncovering the meaning behind each poem.
Year 5 completed this weeks Oracy task, describing land art focusing on uplevelling our vocabulary using synonyms.
