In addition to our artwork and writing for the Black History Month Exhibition, Year 5 also wrote inspirational poems, based on celebrating black history and important figures, such as Mary Secole, Paul Stephenson and Martin Luther King.  Performing these poems was the most exciting part, as the...

In Science this week, we have continued our investigations into different materials, this time looking at the properties of insulation – the ability to keep heat in and cold out.  The children were tasked with discovering which materials made good insulators.  Choosing materials from...

In Science, the children in Year 5 have been investigating the properties of different materials.  They grouped materials in Carroll Diagrams, according to their properties: hardness, transparency, magnetism and conductivity - whether they could conduct electricity.

Back to school for only one day, and the children in Year 5 were off on a trip. We visited the Houses of Parliament where we actually got to watch MPs in the House of Commons and the Lords and Dames in the House of Lords.  We also took a tour around the rest of the Palace of Westminster, includ...

This week in Year 5 we were finalising our Islamic tiles.  We finished painting them and put them all together to create one big piece of art.

This week in Year 5 we are looking at cracking codes.  We learnt about the different types of codes like Semaphore and Morse codes.  We did some activities to practice making and cracking codes.