This week in Y5 we have all started on a wonderful art project based on the book Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris .We did this by making printing blocks of different leaves and we also painted beautiful water colour nuts,berries and seeds.In all four classes everyone seems to be well…

Last week was the final performance of Y5's version of 'There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom' by Louis Sachar. We have all been rehearsing, learning lines and practising songs for this play for weeks. All 120 children did a fabulous job! Our dress rehearsal, performed to the Y6s, was good but a little…

This week we had an amazing time at the City Hall listening to the Halle Orchestra, which included lots different wonderful songs, like Finlandia and the Return of the Jedi. We also stood up all together and sung a song called Take Five styles. Every person had a sniff card that had three different smells…

This term, we have been reading "There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom" by Louis Sachar. As we are really enjoying reading this book, we have decided to do a production at the end of this term (29th of June). Most classes have received a letter about the part us pupils want to be. We are are really looking…

This term in topic our focus is water so in art the y5 classes are doing water collages. For the water collages we shaped them so they were something to do with water like rain drops or watering cans. We also started to read a book called There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom. It is about a boy called…

This week we watched the BBC Look North do the big 50 sofa challenge. we watched them push the red sofa being pulled and pushed past our school. when they got to our school, they stopped to film us! We all got the camera pointed at us. seeing the sofa being pushed and pulled past our school was very…

This week, Year 5 have been making Viking Longboats for are Topic about the Vikings. During this,we sawed wood to help us make the main structure. We also did a lot of sticking and cutting. We had to use a cam and other technical objects to help us attach our Viking man (which we made on Monday) to are…

This term, in Literacy we have been working on our Viking persuasive speech. The Viking topic, which is also linked to our Literacy, is called 'Why the Vikings were right to leave their homeland' (Scandinavia). In this piece of writing, we are aiming to put in some Super Sentence Starters, modal verbs,…

This term , our class ( Y5AP ) have been finishing working on a music piece about space and its atmosphere . Our class really enjoyed working on this piece ; we had several different groups and we all worked on a different music pieces with 5 different notes - G,A,B,F,E - . We also have been working…

On the 15th of March 2018 we had a very special visitor come into Lydgate Junior school. She was called Reverend Nockles. She taught us about the Easter story and how it meant so much to Christians like herself. After that, she showed us some very famous paintings of the Easter tales. The first one was…