This term for our DT project, we have been studying the importance of healthy food choices and how processed food and fast food have many negative impacts on our bodies and the world. We particularly focused on Las Vegas and it’s economy. We found out that Las Vegas is estimated to waste approximately five billion pounds of food each year. This waste primarily ends up in landfills, contributing significantly to the overall waste generated by the city. A lot of this food is fast food chains that use meat.

We as a class decided we wanted to show people healthy “fast food” alternatives to hopefully inspire them to order a meat free option. The children then wanted to make Veggie burgers and their own bread buns. They tasted a variety and designed their own product based on what they enjoyed.

Mrs Moore and some helpful volunteers took the children over to Oaklands and used the kitchen facilities. Here the pupils measured, knead, proved and cooked their bread. hey also chopped, grated, sliced, mashed and cooked their veggie burgers,.

The results were amazing as they show cased their creations in their designed burger boxes.

Keep an eye out for the photos – coming soon!

Today as part of our whole school EARA project, the children from each class got to share about their cultures and heritage.

In 5JNS we learned about Nigeria from Jess and Jayden, Ghana from Aurelia, Poland from Adam and Lithuania from Laura and Maria.

The children showed us pictures of these countries, shared facts and things that they find interesting about their cultures. During the presentations, we learned that Jollof rice is popular in Nigeria and Ghana. Ghana found independence after WW2 and its name was changed from the Gold Coast to Ghana. We learned that Adam is fluent in Polish and his name is Adash in Polish. And we also learned that Lithuania celebrated their independence every year from the Soviet Union.

It was really interesting learning more about the diversity in our class and we hope to find out more again soon!

Last week Year 5 were visited by Southsea Coastal Scheme to discuss the effects of erosion on our coastline and what is being done in Southsea to combat this. The children were excited to hear all about the different methods of sea defence which are being installed along our beaches and had the opportunity to discuss what made these effective. This lead into our ‘coasts’ topic in Geography and gave children the opportunity to ask a variety of questions to an expert. Children discussed what would happen if sea defences weren’t build and the potential risk of flooding to people who live in Southsea.

Today we had a very special visit from Amelia, the Mickey Mouse group leader from Dreamflight. She told Cassowary class all about the life changing experience for children with life affecting illnesses. She explained that for one child only to experience this holiday of a lifetime costs £4000!! As a class, we are now feeling more driven and determined than ever to ensure that we raise as much money as we can for our sponsored swim stewardship project so that we can help to contribute to this amazing opportunity!

This week in science, we made predictions on what time in the day that our shadow will be at its longest and when will it be shortest. We then created a prediction graph to show how long we thought our shadow would be at different points in the day. Throughout the day, we then went onto the playground and measured our shadows to find out if our predictions were correct.

Ask your child: What time was their shadow the longest and what time was their shadow the shortest and why?

Scan the QR code to check out our space learning in 5JNS!

We will be adding more to this soon – so keep your eyes peeled!

Well done Year 5 on all of your fantastic creative home learning all about Space!

This week, in RE, we learnt about Sikhism and Hinduism. We learnt about their steps to worship. We recognised the similarities and differences to our steps to worship. We also got to explore their different objects that they use when worshipping. It was very fascinating!

This morning, Year 5 were invited to watch a dress rehearsal of Oakland’s act 1 performance of Joseph and the technicolour dreamcoat! Wow! What a performance- well done to Oaklands! We were so inspired by their performance that we used the remainder of the day as a music deep learning day. We discussed and shared informed opinions about what we heard, commenting on the context / purpose and impact of the music. We responded to, identify, compare and contrast music with an awareness of the music’s context and purpose and understood and identified why and how the composer has used key features / devices. We then responded to the music through art. Finally, we researched all about the fantastic composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber.

There is still time to book tickets for the performances at Oaklands and tickets will be available at the door.

Break a leg, team Joseph at Oaklands!