In Art this term, our focus is 3D sculpture! We made a fantastic start by creating some 'on-desk' sculptures, followed by some much bigger and better ones in the hall! So much fun!

As part of our living things and their habitats unit in Science, we dissected a flower this afternoon! It was so interesting to see all of the internal parts of the flower, and understand how they reproduce! A super lesson! Go Y5!

Year 5 working extremely hard in writing this week to publish their information texts about Whitby! Watch this space for the finished pieces... 

We started to learn about the Trimurti in RE this afternoon, which is 3 'superhero' like Gods, Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu. We learned about the different aspects of them and then brought them to life through freeze frame! Go Y5!

Some AMAZING poems written by our wonderfully talented Year 5 today! Taking inspiration from Silver by Walter de la Mare, they really produced some fantastic poems... take a look... 

We are having the BEST day creating our bottle rockets as part of our recycling topic. A huge thank you to everyone for donating your water bottles! We have designed, constructed, decorated and it is almost time for blast off... watch this space!

We had such fun in drama this week creating short scenes of natural disasters using our bodies! Very creative ideas from Y5! 

Lot's of proud faces in Year 5 this week - full mark arithmetic scores for our superstar mathematicians and yet ANOTHER pen license handed out! Go Year 5!!!!

In Science, Year 5 explored friction. They experimented whether it would be easier to pick up a jelly cube that had been dipped in oil or not. They found that oil reduces friction, so it made the jelly cube much more slippy and therefore harder to pick up! Lots of giggles, lots of jelly and lots of fun learning!

A great end to the week in Year 5! We celebrated Children in Need, enjoyed a movie and popcorn as a treat for our amazing times table rockstars efforts and congratulated one very happy student on his super presentation! A pen lisense well deserved! 

Fact finding in English, amazing arithmetic scores and our wonderful PSHE work celebrating #AntiBullyingWeek! A great week so far! 

What a busy week so far... just look at those proud smiles! Year 5 produced some amazingly creative shape poems inspired by Bonfire Night! Also, with it being water safety week, Year 5 enjoyed doing their swimming lesson (in their pyjamas) to learn vital safety skills, on top of the meaning of all the different flags they may see at the beach! Go Year 5!

Thank you to the local fire service who came to speak to us today about how to stay safe on bonfire night! A very informative talk with lots of positive questions from Year 5 (and we even got to have a peek inside the fire engine).

A great start to the day!

Welcome back everyone! I hope you all had a restful and happy half term break. Please see below the newsletter for our exciting term in Year 5. For a special project (details to follow) Year 5 will need to collect plastic water bottles (and the lids). Therefore, if you have any at home, please can I urge you to send them into school with your child! The more the better!

As always continue to check the class page for regular updates of some amazing work!!! 

Year 5 have worked so hard on their final writing journey this term. They became journalists and planned, drafted, edited and finally published an amazing newspaper report about the massacres in Heorot! Read to find out more... 

Some amazing art work in Y5! Future artists I am certain!

The very excited faces of Y5 this afternoon! We have been learning all about the properties of materials. Last week, we looked at reversible changes, and this week it was irreversible. This is where materials cannot be separated back to their original state. We experimented this with vinegar and bicarbonate of soda which interestingly make a new product... C02! Some future scientists in Y5! A great afternoon!

We had a fabulous day in Year 5 today - Year 6 came to share their amazing stories with us, we celebrated some AMAZING presentation AND we enjoyed maths on the iPads! 

Smiling our way through Leeds City Museum! A fab day! 

A few snaps from our awesome trip to Leeds City Museum! More to follow... 

Year 5 'pointing' their toes into the world of ballet! A super exciting and new skill! Thank you Northern Ballet!

Year 5 LOVED getting messy in our art lesson! We used charcoal to create some amazing pieces of art work in the italian style of chiaroscuro! Go Year 5!

What is a relative clause? Year 5 can tell you!

We began learning about relative clauses today - a key aspect of the Year 5 writing curriculum, the children worked and listened super hard and produced some amazing sentences with perfectly constructed relative clauses! Take a look... (also wonderful presentation can be seen as we are really focusing on improving our handwriting !) Go Y5! 

We LOVED celebrating National Poetry Day in Year 5 today! We analysed a poem called 'Timothy Winters' and made some fantastic inferences from it! We then drew what we think Timothy looked like based on the poem - a fantastic guided reading lesson! Well done Year 5!

We started to celebrate National Poetry Day a little early in Year 5 by writing and publishing some AMAZING Anglo-Saxon poems in the 'Kenning' style! Go Year 5! 

We love reading in Year 5! Especially when we can chill out in the reading corner!

We have been exploring the properties of materials in Science, and this week, our focus was dissolving! We investigated which materials dissolve in water! Take a look... 

Year 5 have worked SO hard with their maths journey on rounding! A tricky concept but they have secured it - superstars! A well-deserved rounding dice game to 'round off' our learning! 

School council manifestos, Where's Wally retrieval practice, drama, publishing our writing, and eco-warriors! A busy but fun couple of weeks in Year 5! 

We LOVED our first music lesson today! Oh when the saints... go marching in... 

A fun-filled afternoon in Year 5, we did some amazing Mayan art work and even finished the day with a chocolate biscuit for our hard work! A great start to the week! 

We have had a fantastic week in Year 5! And to top it off, these superstars couldn't stop smiling after getting full marks on their first arithmetic test in Year 5! What a way to end the week - well done! :)

Year 5 loved their first history lesson today about our new topic - the Anglo-Saxons! They mastered the understanding of BCE/CE, BC/AD and even managed to create a human timeline from important points throughout history - well done Year 5! 

A huge, warm welcome to Year 5!

A huge, warm welcome to our Year 5 class page! Our teacher is Miss Robinson, and we will also be supported by the lovely Mrs Shaw.

We are 'Morpurgo Class' named after the very famous author Michael Morpurgo. Did you know he used to be a teacher too and has written over 100 books? We have a very exciting year ahead and I am very much looking forward to our journey through Year 5 together.

Please do keep an eye on this class page to see all the amazing and wonderful things we get up to in Year 5! If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to come and find us.  

Key Information:

PE

 PE will be on a Wednesday. Please bring your PE kit to school and appropriate trainers. All long hair will need to be tied up and jewellery removed. 

Swimming

 Swimming will be on a Thursday afternoon. Please bring your swimming costume and a towel. All long hair will need to be tied up and jewellery removed. 

Homework

 Spellings will be handed out on a Friday to be practiced at home and need to be brought back to school on the following Friday ready for a spelling test.

 Children will have two reading books which need to be read at home daily if possible for 10 minutes and then brought back to school. Books will be changed weekly.

 Children will be given their log in for 'Times Table Rock Stars' (TTRS) and need to access this at home as often as possible. 

https://ttrockstars.com/