This week Year 5 have started their new PSHE topic on health and wellbeing. We are learning about first aid and did an acting lesson on what to do in different emergency scenarios.
This week in Year 5 we have been looking at solubility in Science. We were discussing what happens when sugar is mixed with tea and if it can be separated. We went outside and carried out a demonstration of what a solid, liquid and gas would look like and the effects this would have if tea was mixed...
This week Year 5 have been working really hard practicing their songs for the KS2 Nativity at church. At church, we sang beautifully and even sang the songs without using the lyrics. We now feel ready for Christmas!
This week in English we have been preparing to write a suspense story. We performed some drama to get into character and practised showing emotions without speaking. We had fun acting in pairs.
This week in Year 5 we had the Co Crew/ Bonanza Creative come to our school to carry out a workshop about CO. We learnt about what a good healthy flame and a bad flame looks like. We created a piece of drama to try and remember how to identify CO at home as you cannot see it, hear it, smell it, tast...
This week, Year 5 have started a project on writing a blog on South America. We carried out lots of research and then worked in partners to write the introduction to our blog on chromebooks.
Our first topic to write about was the Amazon Rainforest and we found out how big it is! We also lov...
This week we started our new topic in P.E. We were learning about gymnastics and worked in pairs to create three counterbalanced moves. We then performed them for our class.
This week in R.E. we have started our topic of Advent. We did some drama and acted out what we might do in preparation for Christmas and what we could do as we wait in hope. We came up with some fantastic ideas like going to mass, praying and spending time with family.
This week, the children have been finalising their catching games. We managed to complete our game, allowing the sprite to catch an object and give us a score! We had so much fun and spent time playing our game.
This week in Year 5 we have been preparing our Black History Moth exhibition. We have been making boxing gloves out of clay, linking to our focus figure Lennox Lewis, to show what we are fighting for. Some of our ideas were equality, freedom, respect, peace and hope. We have worked...
This week, Year 5 have been learning about neurodiversity, and we researched dyspraxia.
We all picked a different activity to contribute to our class book. We have a range of drawings, poems, posters and stories that we can't wait to share with everyone at St. Joseph's!
This week we have been planning a catching game in computing. Our aim is to have a sprite that will catch a falling object and give us a point. We had to plan what we will create before making it on scratch.