The Highwayman Freeze Frames
This week in English, we have been looking at the poem, The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. We have looked at vocabulary within the poem but to help us understand it more we have acted out scenes from the poem!
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English
Last week pupils spent time researching a famous person. They created a poster about the person and included many details about their lives and successes. Pupils then shared the information with a partner or in a small group. It was great to see pupils using their speaking and listening skills so…
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Gymnastics
Fantastic efforts from Year 5 in gymnastics this week. Pupils were asked to work with a partner to create a balance on a piece of apparatus. Excellent work from everyone!
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Testing Materials
In Science this week, Year 5 have been investigating materials that dissolve in water and those that don’t dissolve. Pupils made excellent observations and developed their knowledge of solutions.
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Fantastic photography
In Art, we are looking at photographs. We have been learning how some images can be created through composition whereas others are created through editing. This week took photographs to look like we were holding and drinking from a giant water bottle.
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Grouping Properties of Materials 5S
We’ve had such a fun couple of weeks in 5 Sacrament getting to know each other and settling back into school life!
In Science, we are learning about the properties of materials.
Last week we were grouping materials based on their properties. We did this by investigating which materials were…
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Photo Booth fun
As part of our work on digital manipulation, pupils in year 5 had a fantastic time setting up a photo booth and using various props in their photographs. Lots of laughs and learning!
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5B Tortilla Making
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This term in DT, 5 Blessed have been exploring tortillas and making decisions about what they would and wouldn’t like inside a tortilla of their making. We have researched tortillas, practised key skills such as cutting and spreading, designed their own tortilla, made them safely and finally…
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5B - Teamwork and Problem Solving in PE
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This term, children in 5B will be developing their teamwork and problem solving skills during PE lessons. This weeks game was to guide each other to an end point whilst blindfolded. This game developed the children’s listening and communication skills, understanding that sometimes they have to let…
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A visit to Ribbleton Library
To celebrate World Book Day, year 5 walked to the local library to listen to a story and spend time looking at some of the books.
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5 Blessed Pastoral
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5 Blessed History
5B had a fabulous afternoon with a carousel of activities linked to our History learning this term about The Mayan’s. We were introduced to their chronology, used sticks and stones for Maths, attempted our own glyphs (an early form of writing) and used our locational knowledge to identify Mayan…
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