Blog Author: F Lowe

This afternoon, we carried on with our Haiku activities. Mrs Lowe put all of our haikus from this morning on the front of the lapsafe, then we had to choose somebody else’s haiku to illustrate. We tried to match our illustrations to the description in the haiku. We are going to turn them into a…

Today was our Haiku challenge day. We started by going to sit with someone we don’t normally work with. We had to choose a picture, but all the pictures we face down! We made word whirls and then created haikus. We wrote our haiku on a post it note then returned the picture to the front of the…

We have been learning about non-fiction texts in English. We know there are six types of non-fiction writing. We looked at different texts to identify which type they were.

Year 5 have been learning how to write Haiku. These are a type of Japanese poetry that have seventeen syllables, five in the first line, seven in the second line and five in the final line. We wrote our poems about space as we have been learning about this in science.

Year 5 are really enjoying creating gymnastic sequences with our visiting sports coach. Some of us have achieved things we never thought we could!

Year 5 looked amazing in their Viking costumes. We had a great day learning about all things Viking.

Our classroom smelt amazing today, as we were baking bread. We learnt how to mix, kneed, prove, shape and bake bread dough. As well as being our DT topic for the half term, it also links to our science on reversible and irreversible change. Mrs Lowe said that our finished rolls looked good enough…

Y5 are going to be baking bread. We enjoyed tasting existing products.

Year 5 have been learning about properties of materials. We had to separate a mixture of sand, salt and drawing pins without putting our fingers in the mixture. We really had to think hard about how to do it and used a variety of methods. We used a magnet to remove the drawing pins, then added…

Year Five have all completed amazing projects for their Autumn term homework task. Mrs Lowe said that  the amount of effort put into these projects has been amazing! On Wednesday, Year Six and Year Five both put our projects on display in the classrooms so we could look at each others work. We…

On Wednesday we went on a geography field work trip. We were investigating land use in the city centre. We used local area maps to plot our root and record our data. We also looked at the historical features of the city centre like Horseshoe Corner, the Town hall and the Museum. We really enjoyed…

Year 5 have been learning to play netball with Mr Lofthouse. This week we played a class tournament. Mr Lofthouse was particularly pleased with our defensive work.