Year 5

Welcome to Year 5 2024-25 with Mrs Brown and Miss Burrell.

We would encourage you to keep an eye on these pages as we like to share aspects of the children’s learning and experiences from Silver Birch and Pine classes. 

25th October 2024 - Performance poetry

Y5 have spent the past week practising the nonsense poem 'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Caroll in small groups. Today, they performed to their classes - each group had their own unique take on the poem which resulted in a whole range of different performances. We were so impressed by the prosody, intonation and expression the children used. 

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15th October 2024 - DT Sewing

Y5 have completed their DT unit this term with the creation of their up-cycled, sustainable Christmas tree decorations. The children all worked so hard and helped each other to be successful. The brief had them including 3 different stitches - running stitch, blanket stitch and back stitch. We think that you will agree that they all look amazing. We must extend a huge thank you to Mrs Lyon and Mrs Lovell along with the amazing parent/nanny helpers that joined us on the day - we could not have done this without your help! 

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16th September 2024 - Outdoor PE

Year 5 have been making the most of the weather during their outdoor PE sessions. The focus for the term is tag rugby and, so far, they have looked at refining passing and moving to create an attack that results in a try as well as exploring different passing styles (miss pass), which can be used to outwit defenders to score a try. It is great to see how much effort they are all putting in. Well done Year 5! 

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28th June 2024 - STEM computing workshop

Year 5 were lucky enough to have Garry Packer back in again for some more STEM fun! This time, building and racing Lego robots. The children did a great job at making unique robots (all with names!) and programming them to travel to a line, turn around and travel back again. Fantastic computing Year 5 - and thank you again, so much, Garry!

14th May 2024 - Geography

Y5 have been learning all about rivers and hills/mountains in their Geography lessons this term. The children have been looking at OS maps and symbols. As part of this, they needed to be able to understand the purpose of contour lines on a map. The children did a great job of creating their own contour line hills in their groups. 

8th May 2024 - School Nurses Visit

Year 5 were lucky enough to have school health nurses from Sirona health and care in to give a talk about smoking/vaping, alcohol (including looking through ‘beer goggles’) and drugs. It was very interactive and informative - the children learned the reasons why people use these substances and the ways to keep ourselves well and safe. 

1st May 2024 - Computing (Crumble Kits)

Y5 were lucky enough to have STEM Ambassador, Garry Packer, in to tackle 'crumble kits'. The groups/pairs worked collaboratively to combine algorithms on a computer with physical computing components. They had to build a circuit that included the crumble controller and use blocks to write a program to power a motor that created a spinner. The children tackled each challenge that Garry gave them with enthusiasm and showed great problem solving skills. 

Term 4 - Art (Sculpture) 

In term 4, Year 5 were tasked with creating their very own jester masks. They starting by learning a variety of joining techniques - specifically with cardboard. Then, they had to create their cardboard armature. Following this, they learned how to Papier mache with a flour/water mixture - this was tricky as they had to be careful not to lose the mask’s facial features. Finally, the time came to paint them and we are sure you will agree that they turned out fabulously! 

14th December 2023 - Pen pal letters

Y5 have recapped their knowledge of letter writing and the differences between informal and formal language in order to write an informal letter to a child in a school in Epernay, France. Why there you ask? Well, Epernay is one of Clevedon's twinned towns and we are lucky enough to be able to be a part of keeping relationships going between our towns. We look forward to recieving their letters in return! 

12th October 2023 - DT (sewing)

Today, the children were able to put all of their learning from the past term into practice by creating their eco-friendly Christmas decorations. They showcased their newly learned stitches on their carefully designed decorations. 

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22nd June 2023 - Crumble Kits!

Y5 were lucky enough to have STEM ambassador Garry Packer in again and this time it was to tackle ‘crumble kits’ ! The groups worked collaboratively to combine algorithms on a computer with physical computing components. They had to build a circuit that included the crumble controller and use blocks to write a program to turn a light on and off. The children tackled each challenge that Garry gave them with enthusiasm and showed great problem solving skills. Garry said he thought the children worked really well and there were some great solutions.

17th-21st April 2023 - Mill on the Brue Residential camp

Y5 did us proud this week with their exceptional behaviour and extraordinary bravery at Mill on the Brue. The children pushed themselves out of their comfort zones with activities such as zip lining, leap of faith, axe throwing and archery to name a few. It was such a pleasure to accompany Y5 this week. 

23rd March 2023 - Coins and notes

As part of their enquiry, Y5 have been learning about trade and currency. This week, they had a range of coins - old/new/foreign - to order throughout history on a timeline. Following this, as engineers, they ranked the set of coins/notes they had from best-worst using criteria such as material, durability, longevity, appearance, size and weight. A lot of interesting discussions were had across all of the groups. 

11th January 2023 - Finding/Losing stories

As author readers and writers, Year 5 have begun their work on their new narrative type - finding and losing stories - with a focus on openings and endings. They came in today to find that a number of well-known stories had LOST their opening paragraphs so we had to FIND them and match them to the correct front cover! They were all over the playground! 

They followed this by carrying out a 'story opening investigation' where, in groups, they investigated the opening paragraph of a range of stories and identified what type of opening was used e.g. diaglogue/action/hook/setting. 

A bonus outcome from these lessons has been the excited children who have decided that they want to begin reading one of the books they looked at during their investigation BASED ON their opening paragraph! 

15th December 2022 - Belief Enquiry

Y5 completed their enquiry ‘How can you show what you believe in?’ this week by creating two clay tiles as their challenge. As artists, they learnt clay techniques such as slabbing, relief and using slip to make their tile designs come to life. As philosophers, they designed tiles to show the beliefs of the Mayans and themselves.

 30th September 2022 - Explorer Dome (Scientists)

Year 5 had a fabulous morning inside the ‘explorer dome’ as part of their enquiry ‘What does Earth look like from the Solar System?’

As Scientists, they explored our planet, moon, sun and solar system. They got to see how they move and what we see in the sky. They then went star-spotting to discover the constellations as they will appear tonight and discovered the stories behind them through the gods and heroes, myths and monsters from Ancient Greece.