Year 5 Weekly News

Weekly update of activities in Year 5

January 2025

31/01/25
Friday 31st January 2025
This week in Science we were learning about the impact of air resistance on an object. We discussed why air resistance is useful and discussed the best materials for a parachute. We then hypothesized and wrote a method as to how we would carry out our fair test. We then tested air resistance on para...
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23/01/25
Friday 24th January 2025
This week we started learning our music unit for spring. We learnt about samba batucada and where it originates from. We also learnt about the instruments that are used in this music. We then practised creating a beat to fit the type of music we heard.
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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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