Penultimate week

With just one more full week to go until Christmas holidays, year 5 have been particularly busy preparing for their pantomime performance. The script was written by the children and their first performance yesterday was a great success. Creating and rehearsing this has meant that all literacy lessons this week and even some maths ones have been replaced with pantomime preparations. In addition to this they have learned about rounding numbers in maths and have also been practicing their African drumming, ready for another performance next week. We will have a new member of the class joining us from Monday and everyone is looking forward to a fun final week!

Reform of the year 5 blog

Hello,

at the beginning of this school year the children were put in charge of writing the class blog. Unfortunately this has proved to be too impractical to continue due to the level of support required by most and restrictions in availability of both equipment and time. Because of these factors I will now take responsibility for writing here - Mr Brown.

Over the last few weeks we have been looking at myths, legends and fairytales in literacy, multiplication and division in maths and Mozambique for topic. The end of the last topic saw year 5 build wooden models (with some adult help) so that we could recreate the famous Viking raid on Lindisfarne in AD 793. The models suffered the same fate as the original buildings of the time - they were burned!

For our main topic this term we are building towards a performance to which parents will be invited (details will follow in a newsletter nearer the time) combining African drumming and the telling of an African folk tale. We are currently planning to perform at 11:00 on Wednesday 14th December.

At the same time we are planning and rehearsing our pantomime to be performed in the last week of term. Year 5 are doing a performance of Beauty and the Beast and the children are currently writing scripts and thinking about stage directions and props.

We hope you enjoy the highlights from the end of last term!

On Monday we went swimming it was fun,

we focused on front crawl.

on Tuesday we did some dancing with Claire our dance teacher.

we did hip hop. we got put in groups of 3 and made up a dance each

then at the end we showed everybody else.

On Wednesday we did football with Sam and Billy.

The scores were 1-0.

After football we came in got changed and went out to break.

When we got in we had drumming lessons we played a African tune.

on Thursday we learned about I.C.T and topic.

In I.C.T we did a Podcast with our partner,and we listed to some african music and the ones we liked we saved into our folder and put them on our Podcast.

In topic we looked up about the Viking gods the Viking gods our called Odin,Thor,Heimadall,Loki and Freya.

On Friday we had a celebration assembly.

We got the golden rope because we were good in the playground and we got 10 minutes extra play.

at the end of the day we had golden time some of us went to the I.C.T room and some of us went outside.

By Ella & Giles

On Monday we were doing addition using number lines with money. And in English we have been looking at speech. Then in the afternoon we went swimming and in swimming we did a distance test. The shallow end did a width and the middle and deep end did a length.

On Tuesday we did P.E in the afternoon and one team kept on drawing with the other team.

On Wednesday 10 of us did a celebration assembly and we demonstrated the game we have been playing in P.E called kubb. We also played football too.

On Thursday in maths we planned a maths holiday. Then after break in English we looked at Michael Morpurgo and shared our facts with our tables.

On Friday in maths we planed our maths holiday again!

And in the afternoon for golden time we went out side to the top playground to play football!

Last week we were looking at prime numbers and we also did our times tables. On Wednesday it was also no pens Wednesday. So we were not allowed to use a pen or pencil. In the afternoon we did sign language, we had to use flags and each group got a word to spell out and then the other groups had to guess what the word was.

In English we were looking at speech from two stories called The lottie project and plane crazy. We had to underline speech from both of those two stories . In p.e. we practised our throwing and catching. In I.C.T. we had to find out some facts about the Vikings .We also did drumming and we did football and we got really hot and muddy. It was really good fun in the end.

We also have a new girl in our class she is really nice. We like having her in our class. We also did win the attendance so we got ten minutes extra play YES we all shouted!

On Thursday we had a new supply teacher called miss Navellou.

We also played Kubbs in PE it is a viking game were you have to throw
bean bags at the other teams Kubbs and try not to knock down the king.
This week in maths we have been subtracting big numbers using different methods.

We have also been reading there's a Viking in my bed.

We also did some drama in literacy about Lottie project and plane crazy.

Spot has come back forever!!!!!!!

Monday 19th September

Last week, on Wednesday we all played football with some Bristol city football club coaches and some people scored a goal. After that a lady came in and taught us how to play the African drums and if you smack the drums really hard your hands would go bright red and it hurt!

We all really like our new head teacher and he even does really really cool magic tricks and we don't know how he does them because they are so good!

On Friday Callum was star of the week and we all won the golden switch. It is so shiny!

Thank goodness it is the weekend!

[By Tommygeorge and Libby]

On Monday in literacy we read the legend Beowulf. It was really grusome and very disgusting with lots of blood in.

On Tuesday we read it again but this time with Mr Mackie as you all know he has been off since the beginning of term 6 so now hes back!!!!!!!!!!!!to let you know that we will be starting our topic a bit late because of the delay.

On Wednesday we went on a school trip to @Bristol with Mr Mackie. On our way we saw loads of gorillas. If you dont already know some of the schools in Bristol have painted them to represent the gorillas at Bristol zoo. They have been put all around bristol so keep your eye out. Luckwells is in the flying frog cafe on North street. It is spotty and colurful. Back on to our trip. When we got there we saw a man dressed as a pirate. He was handing out fliers for a pirate tour. When we got into @Bristol we were given a place to put our bags. Afterwards we were given our tickets and went into our classroom where we had a workshop about animation. We made our own animations. The themes were: Bendys strange day out, Problem at the zoo, Dance routine, Monsters meet earth animals & Space adventure. We were each given badges to represent our jobs. There were set and camera (x2), Director (x2) & Animator (x2). Then it was time for lunch. After lunch we went to the planetarium. We learnt all about planets and certain stars. We made shapes using the stars. After that we went to search around the rest of @Bristol. A majority of us went into the animate it section. Some went into the news studio. Then we went into the shop to buy science and animation stuff with our money. Then after a busy day we went home.

On Thursdy we did our storyboards and chose our group for our animation.It was really fun we also done our twelve points of the story.After Lunch we finished the rest of the things for the animation and done a bit of guided reading.Then for P.E we played bench ball.

On Friday morning we planned our end of the year comment sheet.After Lunch We done the draft of the end of the year comment sheet.Then we done our BIG WRITE !!!!! end of the year comment sheet.After that we had our golden time.We also done swap hour y5 went to y6 and we chose our topics they were

A Day In The Life Of A Greek.

Apollo (Space)

Living Process

Olympics

Changing Enviroment of Weston Super Mare

Thailand

(BY:RYLEY & KITTY) (Y5 BLOG)

Term 6 week 3 update

As you probably know Mr mackie is off school caused by emergency surgery. Hopefully he will return on the fourth of July . Get well soon Mr M !! This week we have gone crazy about magnets . We did a test which involved going round the school to find out what was magnetic we enjoyed ourselves greatly.

We are weirdly reading and watching Doctor who clips so we can make are one Doctor who script after few after noons next week we will tell you in are next blog.

We also did a.life project about fitness we learnt about

things like how smoking can effect you and your body

and in the afternoon we did a fitness test with obstacles and football,

hula hooping and skipping with lots of other workouts.

On friday we had our marble treat we were aloud to bring in a console or game and we had great fun playing on our ds's and laptops. I think that mario kart championships won "the most played vote"!!

wE AL

Kensuke's Kingdom

This week Year 6 have begun transition work for secondary school and our new topic on the Ancient Greeks.

We have read the first two chapters of Kensuke's kingdom and completed a diary entry as one of the characters. James C and Kiera wrote very good diary enteries which are on display in the classroom.

In numeracy we have been completing investigations using prime numbers, factors and prime factors. Hopefully we will remember what these all mean after the weekend.

We started our topic on the Ancient Greeks. We will be focusing on The Olympics and have already begun looking at City States. We are working in City State Teams for our topic work and will be using our research to write our Leavers Concert.

We will be Maypole Dancing Monday morning and look forward to seeing you all there.

Wednesday 15th June

We have had a very fun week this week!

On Monday we started doing instrustions in English. We had to draw a picture and then we had to use instructions to explain to our partner how to draw the picture. We got lots of different results!

On Tuesday we got to go Ashton Park school to see what it was like. We did four different subjects, they were: Spanish, Science, D.T and Maths. In spanish we got to go on the computers and play on spanish games. In D.T we made our own Keyrings. In maths and science we had to do 30 puzzles and at the end it made a word. It was very tricky. We all had a brilliant day.

On Wednesday in English we did some more instructions. We had to get some multilink blocks and make a model and then we had to give our partner instructions on how to make it.In science we had a lump of plastercine and a bowl of water. We had to make a shape with the plastercine, weigh it and then we had to drop into the water and see if it would sink or float.

On Thursday we did some more Probabilityin maths. We had to get with a partner and we had to write 5 statements each. Then we had to draw a line in our books and put where we think each statement would go. We could put it on Impossible, Uncertain, Possible, Good chance and Certain.

On Friday we had a very busy day. Four different teachers came in to apply for a job at our school. We did Place Value with each teacher. We have had a brilliant week and we look forward to seeing who gets to be the new teacher.

P.S Get well soon Mr Mackie! x x