Class 5 Learning Page 2024-25

Story Train This morning, Class 5 and 6 welcomed the ‘Story Train’ project into school to do a workshop celebrating the 200th anniversary of the passenger steam train.  They listened to the impact of having railways and discussed their own experiences of trains.  The...

VE Day! We enjoyed a lovely afternoon for VE Day.  We sang Vera Lynn’s song ‘We’ll meet again’, had a picnic as a whole school and then spent the afternoon listening to the stories of those who were around during the World War to keep their stories alive.  Some of us...

Outdoor Adventures at Hamsterley Forest Today, Class 5 went to Hamsterley Forest as part of an outdoor adventure festival. The class enjoyed a range of activities such as den building, team building and survival skills.  Luckily, our class have shown that they could...

To start our new Design and Technology unit, we tested different beam strengths.  In our groups, we picked different designs of beams such as circular and triangular structures.  We then made them and tested their strength by loading 10g weights on top.  We found the...

Centre for Life Visit On Monday, Class 5 visited the Centre for Life as part of a science project linked to renewable energy that they have been working on this half term. The class enjoyed looking around all the exhibition zones in the museum, learning lots to do...

The Last Supper This week, Class 5 have been learning about the events of the Last Supper.  Francine told the story of the journey of Jesus to Jerusalem for Passover and what happened at the meal.  We then did a report about what happened on Maundy Thursday.  Next...

Testing for Carbon Dioxide As part of our Materials unit in Science, we have been learning about the states of solid, liquid and gas.  This week, we did an experiment on gas.  We each were given a can of fizzy pop to weigh.  We then left the can to go flat.  We did...

Investigating Perimeter To help us understand perimeter and to start our Measures unit in Maths, we did an investigation measuring different perimeters around the yard.  We had to choose the correct equipment to measure shapes from the bricks in the wall, to the...

Kensuke’s Kingdom Across this week, we have been working on ‘Show not Tell’ strategies for writing.  On Monday, we discussed what the characters of Michael’s mum and dad would be feeling but then tried to show this through their actions and dialogue in their books...

‘Washing of the Feet’ This week, Class 5 learnt about the story of the ‘Washing of the Feet’ as part of their Easter unit.  The class were asked to bring in their own pair of socks to symbolise the feet that were washed by Jesus.  We laid these in a cross shape on the...

Powering The Future Project As part of a ‘Powering up the Future’’ project that we are doing with the Centre for Life, we investigated gears and turbines.  We discussed what renewable energy is and why we need to move towards it.  We then talked about how a wind...

Baking This week, we finished our cookery unit by baking pizza pinwheels! The class worked well in their groups and produced some delicious pizza pinwheels at the end of it! We discussed how we could alter this in the future to reflect different cultures and how we...

Finding Percentages To help us understand percentages and know that they mean ‘parts out of 100’, the class used clear hundred square grids and placed them around the school building.  They then calculated the percentage that that object took up within the grid e.g.,...

Making Our Own Switches This half term, in Science, we have been working on creating our own series circuits.  This week, the class were given two split pins, a paper clip and a piece of card.  They were tasked with trying to create their own sliding switch and push...

Sewing Our first session learning how to create a running stitch was a success. We’ll be continuing to practice our sewing skills before creating our own fabric advent calendars.

Binchester Roman Fort Class 5 walked in the footsteps of Roman soldiers through the remains of a commanding officer’s house and learnt about the importance of Roman bathhouses. Inside they managed to see one of the most intact hypocaust, or underfloor, heating systems...

Poetry Writing This week, Class 5 have been working on tankas and kennings.  They produced some lovely poems. Here is an example of one of our tanka poems that were written this week.

Class 5 Assembly Class 5 have been very busy in class learning about being safe online.  We recapped the SMART acronym to remind us how to be safe online and who to talk to if there was an issue.  We also explored scams as it was the theme of this year’s Internet...