Another creative week for year 5.

To provide a stimulus for our Egyptian topic, Year 5 enjoyed a virtual reality Egyptian workshop in school and explored different aspects of Ancient Egypt from the geography to the Gods to daily life. The children were so excited to take part and they really enjoyed the experience.

On Tuesday, 5SC went to Oaklands to complete their cookery DT project to make plant-based burgers and burger buns to reduce the use of meat and the impact on food waste and the environment. This also linked with their English and Geography topics. The children used scaling to work out ingredients for 2 burger buns and followed their recipe design to create their burgers. They developed numerous cookery skills and enjoyed being at Oaklands in the Food Tech department. Once cooked they assembled their burgers into their made burger boxes and tasted the finish product so they could evaluated it. They had a wonderful time creating and there were a lot of delicious burgers reviews after the tasting.

Reminders for next week:

Homework is set, please engage in TT Rockstars daily and complete the SumDog maths task online.

New class transition dates – Y5 children to meet their new year 6 teachers on Monday 3rd July in the morning and all day on Friday 7th July.

Have a lovely weekend in the sun.

The Year 5 Team

What a busy week had by Year 5!

Did you know that 50 billion burgers are eaten a year in Las Vegas? This fact kicked off year 5’s inspiration to design and make plant-based burgers in our DT learning this half term. This week, the children have taste tested a variety of vegetables to help design their plant-based burgers. Next week, the children are heading over to Oaklands’ catering department to cook their plant-based burgers and buns.

On Tuesday, the children gave it their all for Sports Day. They all participated as champions, individually and as teams. Well done Year 5!

Wednesday, we enjoyed a beautiful day at Chichester Harbour. The children’s day began by looking for sea defences on our walk down to Dell Quay. Next up, we enjoyed a creature hunt along the shoreline where we found many crabs, clams, periwinkles and sea lettuce. After lunch, it was time to step on board the Solar boat on the marina. The children participated in an ‘I’ spy activity by trying to find all of the items on their list. Sadly, no seals were spotted this time! For our final activity of the day, we created a memory card by sticking any memorabilia from the coast onto a card to help us to remember the great time we had on our trip.

The children outshone themselves, demonstrating all of our school values and received very high quality feedback from the teaching team at Chichester Harbour Conservancy. Well done Year 5, this was a very hot day with lots of walking, we are very proud of you!

Reminders for next week:

• Please return your food allergy reply slip by Monday 26th June
• VR Egyptian experience rescheduled for Monday 26th June
• 5SC will be heading over to Oaklands for their cooking on Tuesday 27th June
• 5D will be heading over to Oaklands for their cooking on Friday 30th June
• Homework is set, please engage in TT Rockstars daily, complete SumDog maths task on regular polygons and irregular polygons
• Book reviews due Thursday 29th June

Enjoy another beautiful sunny weekend!

Year 5 team

This week we have been sharing our Ancient Egyptian home learning projects. Grace, Jazmin and Ruby impressed us with an amazingly interesting project that was interactive with the class with a very interesting activity. We also had other lovely pieces: an information poster from Riya and a 3D model from Maddie. We will look forward to other projects coming in over this half term.

Reminders for next week:

Homework has been set online for Maths and English work is in the home learning book. We are asking the children to keep a plastic use diary for this week (orange sheet). This homework is due Thursday 22nd June.

RE homework is due on Thursday 22nd June too.

Tuesday 20th June –  KS2 Sports Morning – Children to wear coloured t-shirt to match their house colours. If hot, please provide hat, water bottle and suncream.

Wednesday 21st June –  Chichester Harbour Trip – Children can wear their own clothes, suitable shoes, hat, suncream, water bottle and packed lunch.

Enjoy your weekend.

The Year 5 team

This week we enjoyed some time in the sunshine talking to Father Jeremy about Sacraments in preparation for the upcoming topic in RE. We discussed the sacraments of communion – Matrimony and Holy Orders. Father Jeremy was kind enough to share his journey through the priesthood and his role in conducting marriage services. The children then asked questions they had prepared about the sacraments in the Catholic faith.  It’s always lovely to see Father Jeremy and the children enjoyed their time with him.

Reminders for next week:

Homework has been set as usual, including Maths online. The next book review is due Thursday 16th June.

RE homework has been set this week. The children will have 2 weeks to complete. Due date is Thursday 22nd June.

Friday 16th June – Non-uniform day for any bottle contribution for St Peter’s Fest.

Enjoy the sun over the weekend.

The Year 5 Team

The children have worked hard this half term and as we go into a warm half term, our final assembly, recognising the amazing effort that Y5 put in to our swimming lessons and sponsored swim with a presentation of the money collected in 5SC. A representative from the charity ‘Smile for Wessex’ came into school for the presentation. A huge congratulations to all of year 5 for an amazing sense of stewardship in helping others.

We also finished writing and publishing our instructional text based on The Errand book. The children have been so inspired by this very creative gothic style picture book.

We asked them to evaluate their favourite part of their writing to publish in the style of the book.  This are some of the results:

Reminders

No formal homework has been set for the holidays although we have encouraged the children to read daily and practise times tables, if needed.  We have given out the creative home learning for our Ancient Egypt topic, which we will begin next half term, in case the children wish to start during the half term.

We look forward to seeing the children on Monday 5th June.

Enjoy the half term

The Year 5 Team

This week in PE, year 5 has been practising their racket skills in the sunny playground. Next session we will be focusing on our forehand and backhand.

Reminders for next week:

 – Homework is set and due in on Thursday 25th May with book reviews

• Reports will be given out to children on Wednesday 24th May

Have a lovely weekend! Enjoy the sunshine!

Year 5 team.

In year 5 we have venerated and praise the Holy Mother, Mary as we continue through the month of May.

We created a Mary altar with with flowers and our colourful praises to Mary.

Reminders

Class photos will be on Wednesday 17th May – please send your child in with a cardigan or jumper for the photo.

Online maths homework has been set and English and Maths homework is in the home learning book. No book review is set for next week.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 5 Team.

This week our science learning has involved more investigations into making new substances using different scientific processes. We have been investigating saturation point of salt and sugar and how to separate individual materials from a mixture.

Big Congratulations to Chloe this week for her football team who came first out of fifteen teams in a tournament at the weekend.

Reminders for next week:

Homework set for this week – Book review due Thursday 11th May. Online maths has been set and English and Maths homework is in the homework book.

Bank Holiday – Monday 8th May – School closed.

Have a lovely coronation weekend.

The Year 5 Team

Hello everyone,

We hope you had a wonderful Easter break and that the children are ready for the last full term of year 5! We can’t believe how quickly it is going!

This week we have been looking at different states of matter and whether materials are soluble. Each table had a range of materials such as salt, wax, oil and chocolate and carried out an experiment to see which dissolved, which didn’t and the different variables added such as force and temperature. We also carried out the skittle test to see what would happen! Here are some pictures of our results!

Quick reminders –

• Firstly we would like to say a big welcome to Mrs Daley who joined the Year 5 team in Cassowary class as the new class teacher. We wish Mrs Jackson-Nash the very best as she starts her maternity leave on Friday 28th April.
• Homework is due next Thursday. This includes Spelling, Vocabulary, maths paper task and Sumdog online.

Have a lovely week,

The Year 5 team

5SC sponsorship update – our final total was £756!!!! Absolutely amazing!!!!

A huge thank you for all your support – both emotional and financial. We will be inviting a member of the Wessex Neurological Centre in to school next term for a presentation of the money. More photos to follow then.

For our final week of Lent at school, KS2 attended a collective worship in the hall to walk the final journey of Christ and reflect on His love and sacrifice for mankind.  We then completed a personal Lenten reflection.

Reminders for first week back

• PE kits required for Thursdays each week.
• No formal homework will be set for the Easter holidays, however there are Sumdog tasks if your child would like to do complete. Encourage them to keep reading daily and practising their times tables.

Have a happy Easter break,

The Year 5 Team