Blog by Mr Griffiths

Year 5 students embarked on a captivating journey through time last term, uncovering the changing lives of children from the Tudor period to the modern day.

The exploration began with the Tudor era, delving into the stark differences in education and daily life. Transitioning to the Victorian…

Year 5 students recently explored the classic reaction between baking soda and vinegar, aiming for the anticipated fizzy eruption. However, a small hole in the bag used to contain the reaction led to an unexpected twist. The carbon dioxide gas escaped, preventing the bag from expanding and…

Year 5 completed their Reindeer Run this afternoon. Sporting their fabulous handmade reindeer face paints and hats, they all looked fabulous as they were dashing around the playground!  Thanks for raising money for school funds!

Well done Year 5!

This morning, Year 5 spent their literacy lesson creating a timeline of key events from the book we've been reading this term, The Lost Happy Endings. 

The Lost Happy Endings is a fantastic and magical tale about what happens when, one night, a wicked witch steals the happy endings to bedtime…

In our computing session this afternoon, Year 5 delved into the world of coding.

We reacquainted ourselves with coding simple commands to our sprites. We also looked ar debugging our work to fix any errors in the code.

Well done year 5!

In Year 5 this afternoon, we looked at how we should cite websites in our work.

We learned about plagiarism, sources, and bibliographies.  We learned why it's important to cite where we have got our information from and when.

Well done Year 5!

This morning, Year 5 had Martin from URENCO visit us. Martin gave the class a separating materials workshop.

Pupils took part in various activities. Pupils were comparing different substances and seeing how they themselves could separate materials using centrifugal force.

The class…

In art today, Year 5 explored everyday objects to create an installation. They considered how ordinary spaces can be transformed and tried alternative solutions as they constructed their artwork.

Fantastic Year 5!

Year 5 has been producing excellent pieces of work in our latest batch of literacy sessions!
Over the course of the week, we've looked at how we can bring our writing to life by using similes, metaphors, and personification.

Finally, we looked at how using speech in our writing can bring it to…

This week, Year 5 has been delving into multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, and 1000.
We looked at the patterns of which way a number moves across the place value system depending on if we were multiplying or dividing. 

For example. if we are multiplying by 100, each digit will move 2…

In science, Year 5 has learned how the doors we have in classes are leavers.

A machine is an object with moving parts that make it easier for us to do something. So we need less force (effort) to move a mass (load).

The machine has a pivot point (where it turns) called the fulcrum.

The…

This afternoon, Year 5 looked at the impact of bullying on those who have to deal with it. We discussed the various types of bullying and what to do if someone sees it.

We all know that we should treat others how we want to be treated