When entering the classroom this week, the pupils found a mysterious note. In brown marker it read ‘Now you have got what you deserve! ha ha ha’ The pupils put on their detective hats to find out who was the culprit! The children had to think of a way to fairly test the different brown markers in the classroom and who they belonged to. That way we could find the person who wrote the suspicious note.

They came up with an enquiry which used their discplinary skills and recalling their year 5 learning on mixtures and substances. They decided to use chromotography paper to seperate the soluble. They added a solvent onto the paper and watched the ink seperate. We could see which pigments where more attracted to the solvent as they followed up with the water unlike the reddish pigment that was more attracted to the paper.

The young detectives could then see the patterns, similarities and differences between the brown markers. They recorded their observations, hypothesised over their results and came up with a conclusion. Using their built evidence they presented their information to a judge who convicted the criminal.

Fantastic work guys!

A few polite reminders for next week –

• Year 5 will be taking part in Mass at the Sacred Heart Church in Waterlooville on Tuesday 30th April. If you would like to join mass and/or walk to the church with us, please drop the school office an email.
• Homework is due on Tuesday 30th April. Also keep up with the reading passports!
• PE is on Wednesday. Please ensure pupils are wearing the correct pe kits.

Have a fantastic rest of your week!

Year 5 Team

Well done year 5 on your creative space home learning over the half term! You were all able to discover some fantastic facts about the eight planets in our solar system. You have all learned so much! 5D thoroughly enjoyed watching some children’s PowerPoints. See photos below.

We were lucky enough to be visited by Gary who gave us a chance to visit space through a VR headset. It was wonderful experience as we got to explore Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and then got a quick summary of Neptune, Uranus and the 5 dwarf planets. An AI came with us on our journey through Space teaching us everything a scientist knows, we also learnt how many moons each individual planet has. It was a spectacular adventure and we are so grateful that we got to do it.

By Amelia and Molly

Carl and Gemma the PCSO’s visited us on the 5^th February and talked about how on the 29^th February we will be doing a speed operation. They taught us different road signs and what they all mean to drivers, they then asked us a series of questions like “who’s parents drives them to school. They showed us a roleplay which helped us to understand it a bit more. We will be using a speed gun to examine driver’s speeds and if they go over 30mph they shall be pulled over and asked a survey of questions. We then got to ask the PCSO’s any questions we had to reassure ourselves.

Take care of your speed!

By Amelia and Molly

On Thursday we went to Horndean Technology College for a schools’ golf tournament.

We played lots of fun activities involving golf.

There were 8 teams involved so we could play against them and still have fun as well. We also learnt teamwork and to respect the other teams. Overall we came 2^nd place.

On Friday we had our INTER HOUSE SPORTS COMPETION where the House Teams can play against

each other in lots of different sport events like athletics, football, tennis and netball. At the end, the points are counted to see who has won. We watched the year 3s to be an audience  and encourage them to do it and we were very sensible and I think we did a good job ourselves. At the end everyone who participated got a certificate.

By Phoebe and Tate

We are having our music lessons with a teacher from Oaklands. Today in music, we made a rhythm looking at timbre, dynamics and texture.

We learned the words:

Timbre – type of sound

Dynamics – volume

Texture – layers of sound

Duration – length

We also created an out of space sound scape with different instruments. We were playing at different times and we made a pattern of sound fading in and out of the music.

By Matthew and Mason

THIS WEEK WE HAVE BEEN LEARNING ABOUT SPACE. WE HAVE BEEN USING FRUITS TO REPRESENT THE 8 PLANETS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM. EXAMPLE; PEPPERCORN , CHERRY TOMATO, WATERMELON, GRAPEFRUIT, APPLE, ORANGE, BLUEBERRY. WE WENT OUTSIDE ON THE NORTH PLAYGROUND AND STOOD DISTANCES FROM EACHOTHER  OF A EXAMPLE OF WHAT THEY ARE LIKE IN SPACE. WE HAD TOP TRUMP CARDS TO OUT MORE ABOUT THE 8 PLANETS. FOR OUR SCIENCE LEARNING WE DREW THE PLANETS AND WROTE FACTS ABOUT THEM.

BY AVA AND ROSIE

Happy New Year, Year 5!

We have enjoyed a great and busy and rather wet (swimming and the torrential rain) week back with you! This week in English, we began our new and rather gory Macbeth writing unit. The children loved acting out the characters of Macbeth (particularly acting the part of the three witches)! (See images below)

Reminders for next week:

Tuesday- RE home learning due

Wednesday- 5D swimming

Have a lovely weekend,

The Year 5 team

Well done Year 5 on your fantastic efforts today on the Santa Dash! You were all FANTASTIC!

Next week is the last week of term before we break up for Christmas holidays. Reminders for the week…..Home learning due on Tuesday, DT evacuation satchel making all day on Wednesday with a Christmas dinner at lunch time. Friday is the last day of term. Ho Ho Ho! Year 5 team

This week, Year 5 were kindly invited to participate in a worship at Oaklands Chapel, led by Mrs Semple. We had a wonderful time altogether, reflecting on ourselves as brothers and sisters to one another. Collaboratively, we created a memory of this by each sealing our commitment as a year group by printing our finger prints altogether on a decorative canvas which now hangs proud in our Year 5 area.