YEAR 5/6 (ORANGE)

Mrs J Readshaw

Welcome 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.

Dream, Believe, Achieve!

 

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Art

Art

In year 6, we have just finished our Art unit, making Maya masks! We were very knowledgeable of the Maya's as we have been learning about them in geography! In this unit, we learnt why they wore such masks and for what occasions.  We then designed our very own mask...

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Shadows

Shadows

We enjoyed learning about how shadows are created and how they change throughout the day. We went outside and drew our shadows at 9am and then compared them to lunchtime and later afternoon to see how and why the length and direction of them had changed.

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Forest school

Forest school

We had a brilliant time at Forest school this week, lighting fires, whittling sticks, playing games and exploring nature. We enjoyed building dens and investigating the ice that had frozen around Forest school.

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Sequence sounds in Scratch programming

Sequence sounds in Scratch programming

Check out the children's scratch projects to sequence sounds. The children have programmed their instruments to play twinkle twinkle little star. You may need to press the instrument or the space bar to get them started enjoy.

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The Arctic Circle

The Arctic Circle

We used atlases and globes to find out where the Arctic Circle is in the world and then identified the countries that it covers. We know that the Arctic Circle only covers parts of these countries and we showed this on our maps.

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Mystery Readers

Mystery Readers

We have loved welcoming more parents into our class to share stories with us. We have enjoyed lots of different texts including ‘Cops and Robbers’ and ‘The Giant Jam Sandwich’.

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Food Chains

Food Chains

We have been learning about food chains in Science. We know that producers are usually plants that make their own food and are found at the start of a food chain. We discussed  which animals were prey and which were predators. We then worked as a group to organise the...

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World book week

World book week

This year in EYFS we chose the story ‘The Perfect fit’ to support our mathematical knowledge and PSED development. We took part in a shape hunt, a shape train game/dancing, making shape aliens and enjoyed hearing all about everyone’s favourite tests as just like the...

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Technology from the past

Technology from the past

Year 1 had lots of fun exploring different items of technology from the past including old phones, a gramophone, a cassette player, cassettes and records. We worked out what they were for and compared them to objects from the present day. We even had a little dance to...

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Safer Internet Day 3M

Safer Internet Day 3M

On Safer Internet Day, we asked the question  'What do you do online?' and 'How do keep safe online?' The children made animations to show what they do online and they asked each other questions to make soundbites about how they keep safe online or what they...

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World Book Day

World Book Day

This year in EYFS we chose the story ‘The Perfect fit’ to support our mathematical knowledge and PSED development. We took part in a shape hunt, created pictures using 2D shapes, explored 3D shapes and created some amazing towers!  We talked about how the triangle in...

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World Book Day

World Book Day

Year 1 and 2 had lots of fun on World Book Day exploring the text ‘The Kindest Red’. We explored the importance of being kind and made pledges of kindness to others and to our world. We made origami hearts with key words on too. We followed Faizah’s lead from the...

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