For World Book Day, we dressed up as characters or authors of book. We also made our own non fiction books based on the book Flanimals by Ricky Gervais, visited Foyles book shop for our books and we designed book tokens. Here are pictures from our activities.
This years STEM week was themed all around triangles. In year 5 we learnt the names and properties of the different triangles. We made different animals using tangrams and we made painting in the style of Kandinsky who used geometric patterns in his art. Here are some of the results.
As part of our theme on cycles we have been learning about the different parts of the river. As part of our learning we built a model floodplain using junk materials, a black bin liner and so the rain would show watered down white paint in recycled plastic bottles with holes in their lids. We had to predict where the water would pool and where it would be likely to flood if the rain continued.
On the 2nd February, we were visited by Students from the engineer department of Bristol University. They shared the varied opportunities that engineering can offer. Then they work with us to use Micro:bits which needed to be programmed to make a digital pet. It was tricky but we got there in the end. Thank you Bristol University DigiMakers.
On Friday 21st January we dressed in blue or green in preparation for our wow day. We made a water cycle in a bag.
We had a visitor from Bristol Water telling us about the process the water that goes down our plugholes or toilet goes through, how we need to be careful with what we put down the toilet and plastic free alternatives.
We looked at the life cycle of a butterfly and finally we made.
Finally we made terrariums, where we planted radishes in plastic bottles with soil and water so it will be self watering using the principles of the water cycle.
As part of our learning about cycles we have been learning about the parts of a flowering plant. We carefully took apart the different layers of a plant and identified their functions using magnifiers.
Year 5 have started to create vector drawings. They have learnt how to use different drawing tools to help them create images. We now recogn...
