Over the last two weeks in Year 5 all four classes have been working on a DT project. We have created Viking longship models, which move! By turning a crank, a cam rotates, which then makes the Viking on board the longship look like he is rowing. We based our design on various examples of moving toys…

Viking Longships. On Thursday 23rd of January, Y5NL and Y5EC went out into the playground (Top Yard) to find out the size of a real Viking long ship at 23 m long and 5 m wide. This was measured by children (us). It was really fun and a nice way to enjoy the majestic, fresh air. This was huge as you can…

We won Y5's Dragons' Den competition by creating a cool comic app. We won the prize of a trip to Kelham Island Cutlery Works and got a special tour of Bullian's chocolate factory. It was great fun and we learnt a lot about chocolate. We made our very own unique chocolate bars with different yummy toppings.…

This term we have started to learn about the Vikings and this blogwill tell you about the them.Did you knowthat Vikings didn't wear horns on their helmets? Vikingsleft Scandinavia because the farming land was not good and the population wasgrowing and that means that lots of people were starving to death.…

This term, our y5 children have been working extremely hard on their Dragons Den project. Their task was to come up with an invention, in order to gain an 'investment' from the Dragons. They have been coming up with some awesome ideas from Military laser quests at home, to Delicious doughnuts! We will…

In our DT topic this term, Y5 have been busy designing and baking our own flavoured bread. We learnt how to knead the dough (it's hard work and takes at least 10 minutes!) and tasted a selection of breads to give us ideas about what flavour to choose for our own. Here are some of our successful breads!

Egyptian Day On the 22nd October 2019 it was our Y5 Egyptian Day. We hadlots of fun and did many different activities. Drama One of the things we did was drama. We learnt the story of Osiris theEgyptian god of the underworld. We acted the story in groups and filmed it oniPads, it was really enjoyable.…

As part of our topic on Ancient Egypt, Y5 have been doing some research in ICT about how to make mummies. We found out lots of facts and then we used these in our literacy work to write our own Mummification Manual for a trainee embalmer. The whole process is really gruesome! Did you know that they used…

We're really proud of how well all the children in Y5 have continued to come into school full of enthusiasm as this first term moves quickly onward. There are a few things to be looking out for over the coming weeks:*All children should now be bringing home their maths homework book and their spelling…

We have had a great start to year 5 this week. All the children have risen to the challenge of life in year 5 with great enthusiasm. As the children have all remained in the same class groupings and they are now very familiar with the junior school, we just launched straight into our normal timetable…