Class 5 Learning Page 2025-26

Class 5 have been learning about invertebrates and classifying them. Today, we did a habitat survey of our local area. We explored three different habitats in the area: the climbing frame, the flowerbeds and the wildlife garden. We used magnifying jars to identify...

To help us remember the properties of shape, we did a ‘Who am I?’ challenge. The class had to find the clue sheets and guess what 2D or 3D shape was being described.

Class 5 enjoyed a wonderful morning outdoors at Hamsterley Forest. They took part in team-building activities, developing their communication skills and making sure everyone was included before moving on to some survival challenges. The children worked together to...

Over the last few years, we have been participating in a program led by Durham University into soils.  Today’s session was all about careers linked to soils.  The children had the chance to explore how different people work with soils in a range of careers including,...

This term, Class 5 will be exploring the exciting world of the Vikings! In our first lesson, children did some research into the background of the Vikings so that they could see how similar or different they are to the Anglo-Saxons. We will be delving into the history...

In English, Class 5 have been studying the narrative poem ‘The Highwayman’.  We have looked at the features, done reading comprehensions based on it and next week we will be aiming to rewrite the ending.  To help us learn the poem, we performed it in pairs, coming up...

Today in science, we were investigating how to separate different mixtures of solids and liquids. We saw if we could separate salt and water, pasta and salt, rice and paper clips and sand and water. To do the pasta and salt, you just needed to have a bowl with a sieve...

This half term, Class 5 have been doing some Art with Mrs Parsons using Ch’ng Kiah Kiean as inspiration.  They took some photographs around Wolsingham to base their drawings on and then used ink and watercolour to produce the finished product.  The final pieces will...

Class 5 had a fantastic time decorating their eggs and coming up with some brilliant designs! Fingers crossed to them all as winners will earn team points!

This week, we did another experiment to understand what thermal insulators are.  We used hot water in a beaker and surrounded it with different materials such as bubble wrap, foil and a scarf.  We discussed why each one would make a good insulator. We measured them...

This term, in Science, Class 5 are exploring the properties of materials.  This week we did an experiment to understand the meaning of solubility.  We had five different substances including sugar, salt, sand and hot chocolate.  We used our understanding of the...

This half term, we are learning about the events of Lent in our RE unit. To help us understand them, Francine has been coming into our lessons to share what Christians do and the reasons behind it.  This week, Francine told us the story of Jesus’ 40 days and 40 nights...

This week, Class 5 have started their unit on Percentages. To help us understand what a percentage is, we used grids with a hundred squares on them to identify percentages around us.  We learnt that percent means ‘out of 100’ and how we can write this as a fraction...

We would like to wish all the Mother’s and special women who are part of our children’s lives a Happy Mother’s Day this weekend.  Our children have been busy making some beautiful cards in class and writing reasons as to why you are all amazing!

We came to the end of our Anglo-Saxon topic this week.  We explored artefacts from the time, as if we’d found them in the Sutton Hoo burial mound.  We used our understanding of history and own investigative skills to decide how the items were used, who by and where...

To celebrate World Book Day, we combined our English and Mathematical skills together to try and ‘escape from the library’! The class worked in teams to try and crack the code to set themselves free! They worked really well together and showed great skills of...

This term, Class 5 are studying ‘Sound’.  This week we led an investigation into how the length of string affects how far sound can travel.  We found it remarkable that we could hear each other so clearly through the string because the sound waves are travelling alone...

This term, in Design and Technology, Class 5 have been learning about pedometers.  We deconstructed one to see how one works and how they originally worked before thinking about how we could make a modern one with programming.  Finally, we used the Micro:Bits to...

In our Science lesson, we have been working on forces and gravitational pull.  We learnt about the difference between ‘mass’ and ‘weight’.  After weighing the mass of objects and then how many newtons that are exerted on the same object, we found a relationship...

We enjoyed the virtual Roman lessons a lot and doing the worksheets was great fun because we learnt our age in Roman numerals. It was very fun to learn about how they wrote and, even though we use other numbers these days, Roman numerals are still known and taught at...

This week with our coach, Jess, the class achieved some fantastic group balances as part of our gymnastics lessons.  They worked well in their groups to create a sequence that included the balance as part of it. 

This term our DT unit was based on baking.  We decided to make and decorate biscuits appropriate for the Halloween Disco.  On the morning, we had fun scaling a recipe and weighing out the ingredients before making the biscuits.  On the afternoon, we got creative and...

A huge thank you to the children and parents for putting lots of thought into Halloween costumes! The children all looked fantastic!

This half term, Class 5 are reading the story ‘Cosmic’ to inspire our writing.  The story is about an extraordinary twelve-year-old boy who is exceptionally tall for his age and, as a result, gets himself into all sorts of trouble.  So far we have focused on how the...

This week, we learnt the names of the planets in our solar system.  We explored the different facts about the planets including their size in diameter, average temperature and the lengths of their days and years.  We found some astonishing facts out. Did you know that...

In Science this week, we investigated the way the planets moved.  We followed the scientific journey of how scientists and ancient civilisations believed Earth and the planets moved in space by doing our own mini-assembly in the classroom.  It was astonishing to...

This week we worked on our team work.  We had to work together to transport a ball across the court using different body parts.  We also had to navigate obstacle courses in pairs with one of the pair blind folded.  We saw some great teamwork including encouraging each...

Class 5 have had the fantastic opportunity to work with Jess this term.  We started the unit by doing team games, working in small groups to cross a stretch of land using spots.  They had to try out different strategies to get across in different conditions such as...

To help get back into the swing of things, for Maths we did an Escape Room.  We had to use our Lower Key Stage 2 understanding of Maths to find the correct code to escape.  It included questions based on fractions, addition, subtraction, multiplication and statistics!

To get us started with our History topic this term, we played the Empire Game.  We nominated an Emperor to make decisions about which country to invade or trade with depending on their resources.  Town Councils were able to suggest whether they thought we should...