Last Friday all of year 5 walked down to Sheffield University to attend their annual Xmas Lecture for Children. The Octagon Centre was jam packed with very excited (and very noisy!) primary school children.The inspirational Prof Tim Birkhead presented an interactive talk entitled 'The Life of Birds'.…

This week in year 5 we started our next Literacy unit. This is a 'Speaking and Listening' unit that develops the children's presentational skills and their ability to talk persuasively in front of an audience. All the children have been put into groups of 3 by their class teacher to design a new product…

This week in year 5 we completed our DT topic all about bread. Our topic began with a discussion about all the different types of bread that are eaten around the world to highlight what an important food source bread is for many people. We then learned how to make a simple plain white bread roll. The…

This half term we made Egyptian Amulets out of clay for Art, we found it super fun! We also stuck/pressed jewels/beads onto the clay to make it look amazing and realistic. When the clay had dried we started to paint it Egyptian colours such as red,yellow,blue,silver and gold, the colours made a fascinating…

On Thursday , we had an Egyptian day. We enjoyed the pretend mummy embalming and wrapping and acting out an Egyptian story including the gods. Because it was a special occasion, we dressed up as Egyptian citizens .We played a Egyptian board game with a snake called Mehan with tricky questions.On Monday,…

P.EThis term, in P.E, we have been learning all about hockey and about the rules of this game. All of us are really starting to get the hang of it. Every week we all walk down to the bottom yard and play lots of games against each other with smiles on our faces. Some times its very hard when the weather…

Mummification ManualsThis week we have finished writing our mummy making manuals. We are very proud and pleased how they turned out. We have spent about 3 weeks preparing and writing these pieces. Some parts of these instructions were a bit disgusting to write (especially pulling the brain out through…

Egyptian AmuletsThis week in art we have enjoyed making Egyptian amulets out of air drying clay and beads. We did this by slowly and carefully moulding the clay into the shape we designed this included pyramids, snakes and the eye of Horus. Also, we pushed in decorative beads to add a splash of colour.…

This week we have been working really hard doing several things.We have designed an amulet in Art which we will be making in clay next week. This is part of our Egyptian topic work.Also,in maths we have been working really hard.We were adding four digit numbers together using column addition.We all really…

Egyptian writing is what we have been doing so far in English and in numeracy we been doing rounding, roman numerals and negative numbers. In topic we are learning about ancient Egypt. In music we are learning the drums. In RE (religious education) we have been doing the brotherhood of the Khalsa. In…