YEAR 5/6 (ORANGE)
Mrs J ReadshawWelcome to our Year 5/6 class blog.
Our class teacher is Mrs. Readshaw.
On this page, you’ll find lots of useful information and posts about what’s going on in Year 5/6 over the course of the year.
Check in regularly for photographs of our fantastic learning and achievements.
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Getting to Grips with Handball
We have been learning to play handball in PE. It's a fast sport! We have been learning to catch and throw accurately and with correct technique. It's a real skill to move into spaces, to create opportunities for our team mates to catch the ball and score a goal.
How does sound travel?
We all know that sound travels through the air (a gas), but does it travel through liquids and solids? We investigated how sounds differ depending on the medium (solid, liquid or gas) through which it travels. We then looked at diagrams to explore how the structure of...
What are directions?
Year 1 have been working on programming instructions on the Bee-Bot's to tell them which direction they need to move in. The class created mazes out of resources from around the room and programmed the Bee-Bot's to move, forwards, backwards, left and right....
Giving instructions
In Computing we have been programming the Bee-Bot to change directions depending in the instructions we inputted into it. We were challenged by being given obstacles to negotiate.
Separating mixtures (using sieving, filtering, evaporating and magnets)
World War Two Carrot Cake
In D.T, we have been making our very own carrot cake- WW2 style! We followed a WW2 recipe which was used during rationing. We used our measuring skills in order to follow a recipe accurately. Even although ingredients were rationed, we still loved the taste of the...
Net Monsters
Today we have been working with the nets of 3D shapes. We found it tricky at first- but these 'net monsters' really helped. We have been using our skills to create nets of our own and also using our reasoning skills to explain what mistakes we could spot in some of...
Making our Crumble-mobiles move!
We've been working hard to get our Crumble vehicles - our Crumble-mobiles! - to move in the directions we want them to. This hasn't been easy - we've had wheels that needed to go in different directions because the motors were different ways up (!) and also had to...
Crumble Computing
Today we have been learning to programme a turning sequence on our crumbles. We managed to make the crumbles move forward and back. However, crumbles do not have a right and left function so we had to problem solve in order to achieve this. We discovered that in order...
May The Force Be With You!
During this half term, Year 6 have been learning about a variety of forces, including gravitational pull and how it affects us. They have looked at the difference between mass and weight and the units of measure for both. They now know that if they lived on the...
Rhyme time – Adventures of Isabel poetry
I was so impressed with our poetry today, I just had to share. The children have been reading a funny poem called 'Adventures of Isabel' and they have written in the same style. They are rhyming legends!
Excavating the Egyptian Tomb.
What do artefacts tell us about Ancient Egypt? Today the children became Egyptologists and archaeologists. They had to work in teams to record what they could find in our very own Egyptian tomb. They showed great teamwork, cooperation, and a cool head under pressure,...
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