School Blog: Year 5

Year 5 spent the afternoon thinking about the question ‘What would make the world a better place?’   The children made some very thoughtful suggestions (including…

In Art this term, Year 5 have been focusing on creating food in different forms! Our first task was to sketch a fruit bowl, using…

    Recently, in science, we have been looking at changes in materials. During one of our investigations, we looked at separating materials. To…

Year 5 were very excited to start their violin lessons last week (look out for future blogs on how we are getting on with learning…

  This week, Year 5 visited Blashford Lakes, a wildlife park in Ringwood. Whilst we were there, the children conducted a river survey, they…

This half term, in Year 5, we have been learning about life cycles in Science. We have studied the life cycle of plants, comparing…

In school we have been celebrating Internet Safety week. For their part in internet safety week, Year 5 wrote a song to raise awareness about…

Year 5 have been learning about volcanoes and earthquakes.  We were lucky enough to have a volcanoes workshop from an expert with a PhD in…

Year 5 all had their hankies out as they watched the short film “The Piano” at the start of this half term. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9NZeIAKmgM The…

Throughout the term we have selected over 40 children from year 4-6 to attend various cross-country events including fun runs, 1 mile runs and finishing…

Last term we have given our Year 5 &  6 the opportunity to become young sports leaders. We gave them challenges such as creating their…

This term in French we have been learning about the weather. We have learnt how to ask what the weather is like and have come…