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Year 5 Weekly News

Weekly update of activities in Year 5

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  • 16/01/25

    Friday 17th January 2025

    This week in Year 5, we have been learning about refugees in our English book. We decided to carry out a debate around the topic to help us write a balanced argument next week. We all worked really hard and worked on our listening skills to make sure we were building our ideas off other people's...
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  • 09/01/25

    Friday 10th January 2025

    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.
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  • 18/12/24

    Friday 20th December 2024

    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...
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  • 12/12/24

    Friday 13th December 2024

    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!
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  • 05/12/24

    Friday 6th December 2024

    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.
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  • 29/11/24

    Friday 29th November 2024

    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...
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  • 22/11/24

    Friday 22nd November 2024

    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...
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  • 14/11/24

    Friday 15th November 2024

    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.
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  • 08/11/24

    8th November 2024

    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. 
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  • 24/10/24

    25th October 2024

    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.
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  • 17/10/24

    18th October 2024

    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...
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  • 11/10/24

    11th October 2024

    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!
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