Take A Chance!
Prizes! Find out about our ‘Take a Chance’ initiative to celebrate and reward our pupils for their hard work and dedication.
How It Works:
- Earning ‘Take a Chance’ Slips: Throughout the week, children can earn ‘Take a Chance’ slips from their class teachers. These slips are awarded for…
Year 5 Magnetic and Non Magnetic
This afternoon, Year 5 have been hard at work at seeing which items were magnetic an non magnetic.
Well done Year 5
Y5 Science - Reversible Changes with Chocolate
This afternoon in science, Year 5 had quite the tasty experiment whilst looking at the difference in physical qualities of chocolate before and after having heat applied. We heated the chocolate up in our mouths and hands.
We also compared room temperature chocolate to frozen chocolate.
Well…
Y5 - Literacy - What kind of person was Annie Edson-Taylor?
This morning in literacy, we were looking at various words that could describe Annie Edson-Taylor the main character, from our class book this half term, Queen of the Falls.
If we were unsure on a word, we used a dictionary to find its definition.
Great work Year 5!

Y5 - Using Boolean Operators
Today in Year 5's computing session, we explored the use of Boolean Operators when using search engines, such as Google, Yahoo and Bing.
We also looked at how search results differ from Google,Yahoo and Bing.
Y5 - Exploding Bag
Today in science Year 5 explored what would happen when white vinegar and baking soda react to each other.
We noticed that when there was a chemical reaction between the two a gas, carbon dioxide, was created which filled the bag. We hoped for the bags to explode, but as the bags were too…

Year 5 - The Blues
In this afternoon's music lesson, Year 5 delved into the Blues genre of music. We learnt where it originated from and talked about the genre's themes.
We then listened to Moanin' Lisa Blues - YouTube and discussed what was being sang by Lisa Simpson.
Well done Year…
Y5 - Where are the Alps?
This afternoon, Year 5 used atlases to locate the 8 countries, the mountain range, the Alps are spread across. Great work Year 5!
Y5 - Expanding numbers
This morning, we've been working hard on expanded number forms. Well done Year 5!
Y5 - Fire Needs Oxygen
This afternoon Year 5 learnt the ingredients needed for a fire and then explored how the volume of a glass determines the length of time the flame will burn for when in a closed space.
Well done!

Year 5 Computing
In our computing sessions this week, Year 5 learnt how search engines, such as Google, work.
Search engines crawl and index the web, use algorithms to rank content, and then show you the best matches for our search query.
Well done Year 5!

Year 5 Sports Leaders
Well done to Year 5 who helped Year 1 on their circuit session in PE today.