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School Blog Year 5

School Blog

Year 5

The blog for Pine, Poplar & Spruce
Mrs Madden, Miss Newman and Mrs Allan

Duxford War Museum!

By Miss Newman , in Year 5 - Wednesday, 20 November 2024

Today Year 5 visited Duxford War Museum. We got to see hundreds of military and civilian vehicles on display, plus exhibits on warfare linked to our ‘Conflict’ topic. We had an amazing day taking in all of the facts about how people lived during wartime.

Year 5 workshop “Together Against Racism”.

By Poplar class , in Year 5 - Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Today, Yaer 5 took part in a Together Against Racism workshop with Stevenage FC. The children learnt what it meant to be an ally and worked collaboratively to find out how they could support one another and make changes to their community. The children really enjoyed their session and felt empowered afterwards. 

Science solutions

By Mrs Allan, in Year 5 - Tuesday, 15 October 2024

This week in science the children are looking at filtering different materials.  We are discussing which filters work best for different materials and conducting experiments to prove or disprove our predictions.

We have certainly had some interesting results!

Brilliant Club Graduation!

By Miss Newman , in Year 5 - Friday, 5 July 2024

The Year 5 children who have taken part in the Brilliant Club Project this term have attended their Graduation event at SOAS University of London today. 
They enjoyed celebrating their achievements and reflecting upon their options for University after school. We also very much enjoyed having a tour of the university with current students, their library was very impressive with 1,500,000 books! We had the opportunity to celebrate their achievements in a graduation ceremony and the children have thoroughly enjoyed this special celebatory trip!

STEM Discovery Centre!

By Miss Newman , in Year 5 - Wednesday, 12 June 2024

Year 5 have had a fantastic day out on our STEM Discovery Centre trip. We took part in lots in exciting activities including designing our own tote bags with exploding paint and learning about the Mars rover.

We also had some time in the exploration room, which had lots of interesting things to look at and use, including an augmented reality sand box and a static electricity ball!

Kensuke’s Kingdom Book Reviews

By Miss Newman, in Year 5 - Wednesday, 22 May 2024

We have finished reading our core text for this term: Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. We have created our own book reviews to explain our thoughts and opinions about the story.

'The book is about a boy who is stranded on an island with company. He fell of a boat in the ocean, left alone to die...'

'I liked the part where the turtles came to Kensuke's kingdom because it felt heart warming that Kensuke helped them when they were born and they came back to where they were born!'

'I love that the book is imaginative and creative. I would recommend it to my Opa because he likes reading'

Festival of Ideas!

By Miss Newman , in Year 5 - Friday, 17 May 2024

Year 5 have had a wonderful day out at the University of Hertfordshire. Poplar class took part in a murder simulation and got to crack the case! It was led by former Metropolitan Police Inspector Ash Hornsby and the Law School team. The children learned about each stage of a criminal investigation and exactly what role the police, lawyers and courts play in bringing a murder suspect to justice. We took part in the cross-examination and some of them took on the role of barristers.  

Year 5 represented Fairlands wonderfully throughout the trip and we thoroughly enjoyed seeing all of the interactive and amazing things the University had to offer!

Macbeth!

By Mrs Allan, in Year 5 - Monday, 22 April 2024

Year 5 have been performing Shakespeare today!  In small groups the children performed the scene where Macbeth and Banquo meet three witches on the heath.  The used intonation and prosody to read and interpret all those very tricky old English words.  They did a fantastic job!

WOW DAY!

By Miss Newman , in Year 5 - Wednesday, 27 March 2024

Year 5 have had a fantastic wow day today! We all gathered in the hall to find out that we were going to be making bridges, as part of our 'Raging Rivers' topic. We had to use a lot of lollipop sticks in order to build the structure for our bridges. We then sketched out and painted a landscape that included a river to put our bridges on. At lunch time, we gathered materials to put on our landscapes to further enhance the 3D effect. All adults were really impressed with our resilience and determination throughout the day and we all really enjoyed it. We can't wait to take our masterpieces home with us tomorrow!

World Book Day

By Spruce, in Year 5 - Thursday, 14 March 2024

Spruce started their World Book Day at Hogwart's by being sorted by the Sorting Hat.  We had chosen 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' as our book for the day.
 
We had a reading of Chapter Two for the Apprentice Wizards and Witches so that they could find the characters, props and setting as well as write about the plot.  Next, Professor Ellis took the Practitioner Wizards and Witches to read their chapter (Chapter 3).  The Expert Wizards and Witches were on their own with chapter 4 or 5.
 
Our second task of the day was to turn their chapter into a script. The Wizard's and Witches were given the opportunity to act it out, if they wished to do so.  We had some amazing Hagrid and splendid Dudley and Harry performances.  
 
After a 'World Book Day' themed lunch and quiz, we watched the parts of the first film that matched with our chapters.  The final quest was to compare them. We discovered there were some similarities and many differences between the film and the book.  We discussed why this might be.
 
Then it was time to get on our broom sticks and off we flew...