Science - Lamps

 Year 5 have been learning about electricity in science, and yesterday they used all of their learning to work in partnership to create a working lamp! Don't they look incredible? Can you identify all the components we used to make our lamps?

Music

Our topic in music is 'Air'. We've been really enjoying using glockenspiels to create our own compositions to represent flying creatures. We listened to Flight of the Bumblebee and discussed how the pitch of the music changes. Then, we experimented with the different sounds we could make on the glockenspiels, before creating short pieces of music. Children made graphic scores of their music which they then added additional notes on tempo to after listening to Troika and discussing how the tempo of this piece changes. 

We're excited to perform our compositions after half-term!

Show Racism the Red Card

 On Friday 16th October, we all marked Wear Red Day by coming to school dressed in our favourite red clothes. Everyone who wore red donated money which will go towards funding anti-racism education. Well done, Year 5! You can learn more about Wear Red Day here!

Topic Timeline

We've been learning to put things in chronological order (time order). Year 5 worked in partnership to arrange members of the class into a human timeline!

The first record we have of Vikings arriving in Britain is in 787 CE, although they probably had visited before that date. The first date on the timeline we looked at in class was 793 CE, when the Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Monastery in Northumbria. There were lots of other interesting events on our timeline, including several arguments over who should rule over different areas of Britain!

We also practised reading dates, and learned that when a date has four digits, such as 1066 CE, we split the date into pairs, and say, "ten sixty-six," rather than, "one thousand and sixty-six." Why do you think we do that?

Viking Shields

 We've been working really hard during our Art and DT sessions to make our own shields! First, we explored the properties of different materials and discussed what we should construct our shields from. Next, we learned about how the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings created their shields. Then we thought carefully about the colours and designs we wanted to use on our shields. Finally, we created our shields. You can see the final stages of decoration here. Don't they look great! 

Nitavl (Nine Men's Morris)

As part of our topic work on the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, we've been learning about some of the things the Vikings did in their leisure time. The Vikings loved to play all sorts of games indoors and outside; they called board games 'tavl' games (meaning 'table'). One very popular game was called Nitavl, although you might know it by the name Nine Men's Morris!

Year 5 had a lot of fun figuring out the rules of the game by watching this video, learning how to play, and then writing instructions for other children to use to play the game. We really learnt how to think and play strategically! 

Play Nitavl online or read more about Nitavl here.

Welcome to Year 5!

 Good morning, Year 5!

Ms Tupman, Mrs Holian and Miss Pimenta are all looking forward to seeing you in class later today! We can't wait to hear all about what you've been doing since we last saw you. 

See you soon!