Working With Clay

Working With Clay

Our new topic is the Ancient Greeks- we are learning the skills to create a Greek coil pot as our final piece. Today, we used a range of sculpting techniques to shape and manipulate clay- these included: pinching, rolling and scoring.  
Measurement

Measurement

We have worked practically today, choosing appropriate equipment to measure different lengths and heights around school. We thought about which equipment would give us the most accurate measurements.
Stargazing

Stargazing

We enjoyed looking at the constellations on the ceiling to celebrate the start of our new book ‘Look Up!’. We explored different planets and then we found the plough and Orion belt.
Introduction to Video

Introduction to Video

In Computing, Year 5 have began their new topic: ‘Video Editing’. This half term, we will be creating our own videos and learning how to manipulate and change them in order to suit our initial plans. Today, we looked at how videos are simply, moving...
Winter Poetry

Winter Poetry

We have enjoyed reading the poem ‘Some One’ by Walter De La Mare and identified lots of features that the poet used such as rhyme, repetition, adjectives and senses. We decided to write our own poem about winter. We used the school grounds as our inspiration and wrote...
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