Curriculum Maps
Take a look at us dressed as our favourite book characters for World Book Day. We spent the day doing activities linked to books, including: book bingo, writing raps about our favourite books; making bookmarks , and creating comics. We had a great day and already can't wait for next year!
Year 5 enjoyed their Art unit "I need space". Their final piece of work was a piece inspired by Teis Alber's " moonwalk" which includes a heavily textured background. The children created texture using a collagraph board and lots of different materials to then paint and print onto a larger piece of card. Finally, they sketched their own astronauts and added these in black and white to make them contrast with the colourful background. We loved creating this artwork, and the results were really effective!
Year 5 enjoyed a fantastic day making these beautiful lanterns in partnership with Bury Met. They had to make the base of the lantern out of willow branches and then create the rest of the structure, being careful not to poke anybody's eye out as they were very long! They then went on to paper the lanterns with tissue paper and a glue mixture which then dried hard.
The lanterns will have led lights added to them and be part of a lantern parade through Bury town centre, where the children can proudly display their hard work. Well done Year 5- they looked fantastic.
Year 5 have been inspired by the artist Cai Guo - Qiang to create their own scaled down installation art. They had to use carboard boxes to create the art inside. They then used stencils to stick in side the boxes. Cai Guo - Qiang used gunpowder for his installation art, so they used coloured powder paint! They used a variety of sands, paint, glue and various techniques to cover the inside of our installation spaces and then photographed the inside to scale with a small lego man. They looked very effective!
It was National Read a book day on the 6th September, so we celebrated by - you guessed it. Reading our favourite books in class ! We also shared a book together " Code Name Bananas " that we enjoyed listening to at the end of the day. Also, we made bookmarks for our books for the rest of the year.
Summer Term 2
Summer Term 1
A HUGE thank you to Ava's mum, who very kindly offered to teach Year 5 some amazing skills on World Nurse Day. The children learnt: how to deliver CPR, parts of the body, checking their heart rate, how to ring for help and how to bandage an injured person. They absolutely loved this experience, and have not stopped talking about it!
King's Coronation Celebration
English- The Highwayman
In English, we have been looking at the book The Highwayman. In this lesson, the children were exploring the characters and pulling out any similarities and differences that they could find. This lent itself really well to our next lesson, which was to write a character comparison text.
Maths- Measure angles up to 180 degrees
In maths, we are working on angles and measuring angles. The children have had the opportunity to use a protractor to accurately measure the angles. We used an interactive online tool to help us with this, as the children found it difficult to use the small protractors at first.
Bikeability sessions
The children have had a brilliant week learning the skills that are needed to ride safe on our roads. All of the children got the opportunity to take part, and they all ended the week with huge smiles on their faces!
Spring Term 2
Spring 2 -Good to be Green
For our Spring 2 Good to be Green treat, we decided to have a fun Easter afternoon. We started off by completing some Easter crafts in class which included: card making, hat making and Easter basket making. Then, we went outside to find some eggs that Miss Cusack had hid in the KS1 playground, which were harder to find than we initially thought! As you can see Dudley the dog even came out to help us. Overall, we all had a lovely afternoon and would like to wish everyone a very Happy Easter!
English- Prepositional Phrases
Today we have been working on propositional phrases as part of our English lesson. We are trying to get the children to use these more in their writing, as they provide descriptions of people and things. The children really enjoyed this activity, and we will be hoping to see more prepositional phrases in their work as the weeks go on.
History - Victorian Britain
In history, we are learning all about Victorian Britain. We are currently introducing why many families moves from rural villages to urban cities. The children have been exploring why families did this, even though we have learnt that life expectancy was lower in urban cities.
French- families
In French, we have been learning all about families. We have spent a couple of weeks now learning the different family names, all in French! This week, we played a little game where we had to match the picture with the correct word. We are getting very good at our French pronunciations.
Spring Term 1
Design and Technology: Pop-up book
In Design and Technology, our unit was all about making a pop-up book for a nursery rhyme. This took the children around 6 lessons to design and then make their books. The children had to follow the steps very carefully in order for their pop-up book outcome to be successful. Once we all made our books, we thought it would be a lovely idea to share these with Year 1. Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed reading their nursery rhymes with Year 1, and from all the smiley faces in the hall me and Miss Partington think Year 1 had a great time too!
Planetarium Visit – Science
On the 17th January, we had a mobile planetarium visit our school (Wonderdome). Our presenter was called Chris; Chris taught us lots of new and interesting information about space. Chris showed us what it was really like to explore space. The environment created by the dome was completely dark and immersed all the children into a wonderful experience of the universe! Chris gave us some challenge questions to go away and research. Once we were back in class, we got the computers out and had a fun science morning listening to what each other learnt, and researching complex questions.
Physical Education- Gymnastics and Dance
This half term, our unit in PE is Gymnastics and Dance. We have been learning a range of rolls such as: log rolls and forward rolls. Moving on from this, we have then explored different movements, positions and stretches working in small groups and pairs. The children are really enjoying this unit as it is enhancing and developing their teamwork skills and understanding of how to use their voices to communicate in a clear and positive way.
Autumn 2
Art
In Art, our unit is called ‘I need space’. We have explored the purpose and impact of images from the ‘Space race’ era of the 1950s and 60s; developing independence and decision-making using open-ended and experimental processes; combining drawing and collagraph printmaking to create a futuristic image. The children have had thoroughly enjoyed this unit, which has been lovely to see their confidence for art grow. As you can see from the pictures, this unit took a lot of time and patience as we worked with ink.
English
In English, our current book is called ‘A Boy and a Bear in a Boat’. We have had lots of fun with this book so far, as it offers us a variety of writing outcomes and engaging task to hook our interests. One of our lessons looked at the bears interesting approach to sandwich fillings. As we read the book, we quickly realised that this bear was not fussy at all, and would simply eat anything he could get his paws on! The children got the opportunity to sample the food the bear enjoyed. This included broccoli, custard and banana sandwiches (yuk!). We explored the taste, texture and smell of each sandwich we made.
Autumn 1
Science- Changes of Materials
Over the last three weeks, science has been really fun and hands on (just how science should be!). We have conducted a couple of experiments where we have looked at how materials can change and be adapted. One of the lessons that the children really enjoyed was where we looked at how sugar dissolves differently in cold water compared to hot water. We learnt that sugar dissolves faster in hot water than it does in cold water because hot water has more energy than cold water. When water is heated, the molecules gain energy and, thus, move faster. As they move faster, they come into contact with the sugar more often, causing it to dissolve faster.
Art- Steven Brown
During our first week in Year 5, we looked at the artist Steven Brown. We learnt that Steven Brown works with lines and colour (lots of colour!). The children really enjoyed this activity, which doesn't surprise me with how effective all their work looks, and we have created both a class display and corridor display using their work. I hope you like looking at their work as much as I did!
History- Egyptians
Our unit for history is Egyptians. The children are really enjoying this unit, and are learning lots of new and wonderful things about Egyptian life. The children have done quite a bit of work about Egyptians now, which I hope they have been telling you all about at home, and have recently completed a Crimewatch lesson where they played the role as detectives and had to find the victims of several tomb robberies. The children loved getting into role, as you might just be able to see this from the excitement and puzzled look on their faces!
Class of 2022 - 2023
End of class 2021 - 2022
In our Design and Technology lessons, we have designed and made our own stuffed toys ; all from a simple pillow case! We designed and cut out the main body and any other parts of our toys. We then used a blanket stitch to sew our material together and stuffed them with wool. We finally added any decoration like googly eyes and other materials to make them look realistic. The sewing was tricky, but once we got the hang off it- we were off!
Year 5 enjoyed playing " The Masked Reader" for world book day. We had 3 clues to guess the celebrity, and 3 clues to guess the book they were reading. We enjoyed the game, and we enjoyed learning about some of our favourite celebrities favourite books too!
As part of our world book day, the children were involved with a live BBC lesson which was broadcast across schools in the country. The children enjoyed hearing from different authors and joined in with a story writing activity. The children also had chance in the day to talk about and share their favourite books with their classmates.
Year 5 had a great start to our History topic on The Victorians. We spent the day learning a play all about the Victorians and performed it to Year 6 at the end of the day. The class were fantastic at remembering all of their lines and spoke clearly and confidently. Not only did they have a great day full of drama, but they also learnt an awful lot about the Victorian period including : workhouses, schools, where they went on holiday, inventors and much more! We can't to wait to follow this up with more history lessons in class.
As part of our art skills lessons, we have been learning how to draw from observations. The first part of our task was to collect sweet wrappers and cut and place them in an interesting way to create layers. We then carefully sketched them and coloured them in with bright colours.
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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