Blog Author: F Lowe

During World Book Day, we have been exploring our favourite books. Some of us redesigned the covers of our favourite books, while others of us created new characters that could be used in a sequel.

Year 5 have been creating homework projects since January. We had the choice of space, planet  Earth or famous scientists/inventors. We all put a lot of time and effort into our projects. Mr Hodder came to see them and was very impressed. They are going to go on display in the Library and some of…

Six girls in Year 5 have produced an amazing display about TV producer Amy Hargreaves’s ready to share at the International Women’s Day convention at the University of Cumbria on Monday.

We had our first ukulele lesson today. We learned how to strum, pluck and fret chords, and it was only our first lesson!

Six girls in Year Five have been chosen to represent the school at the International Women’s Day convention at the University of Cumbria. As part of this, they have been teamed up with an inspirational female role model. On Thursday the girls were able to interview Amy Hargreaves’s who is a…

Today, an author called Sean Perkins visited school. He did a workshop with us called Pencil case Personification. We created characters and stories by giving personalities to classroom equipment. We had great fun and made up some really imaginative stories.

On Wednesday we led the whole school in our Celebration of the Word. We were reflecting on The Our Father and the seven petitions it contains. We enjoyed leading this time of prayer and reflection and we were very pleased that so many of our parents and carers came to join us.

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!