This week saw the final performance to parents of the play that Y5 have been working hard on over the past six weeks. It is an adaptation of the book 'There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom' by American author, Louis Sachar. We read this short novel as our 'book study' in the summer term: the whole class…

In year 5 we have been painting people carrying water. This links to our topic which is water. In our lessons we have been learning about water shortages - this is why we painted them. We first painted a background as a sunset and a dark foreground. Secondly, we painted the people. Lastly, we added extra…

This week in RRS, we have been learning about being a Plastic Clever School, which means that, as a school, we are raising awareness and campaigning for this project. As year 5, we are writing to different newspapers, radios, government and shops about how our school wants to help change the world. The…

This week we on Monday 5AP and 5SH went to the mosque and we saw a great big chandelier in the prayer hall. Our guide showed us how the Muslims wash themselves (Wudu) before they pray.On Tuesday we did athletics and threw foam javelins and did a relay with relay batons. On Wednesday we had a supply teacher…

Wednesday’s Science Week activities had two objectives: to understand some of the environmental impact of plastic pollution, and to understand what they could do to reduce the problem. We used these silicone oven-mitts as a simulation of a seabird’s beak. Having littered the ocean surface with plastics…

We have had some incredible experiences over the first 2 days of Science Week 2019 in year 5. We had inspirational talks from several parents who are working in various different scientific fields. Professor Williamson showed us how he would extract the DNA from an egg and we looked at what all the different…

This week all of year 5 went on a trip to the national space centre. While we were there we visited the planetarium where we learnt about how difficult it is to live in space and how you needed lots of training to become a professional astronaut. Also as well as the planetarium we went up to the top…

Y5 have had a great time celebrating World Book Day today. We enjoyed swapping books at playtime, tried not to get too wet on our outdoor book scavenger hunt and even discovered the identity of some secret readers around school. There were so many fabulous costumes on show around school. Even the teachers…

Week beginning Monday March 11th is Science Week for all of Lydgate Junior School. We will NOT be setting any new maths, spelling or grammar homework that week. Instead the children have their Planet Research homework to complete as well as the Science Week homework task.The year 5 team

This week,in English,we have been learning and writing about the mystical setting on the planet Pandora.It has been an interesting experience for all of us.We are all very pleased with our efforts and how these great pieces of work turned out. We had to include all the Y5 writing features and skills.…