Year 5's Blog

We are learning about fruit again… But this time it’s not connected to our ‘keeping healthy’ science topic. If you have walked past the year 5 classroom over the last few days you may have heard some fantastic performances of the poem ‘fruits’ by Valerie Bloom. After having some fun performing the poem as a group, we delved deeper into the features of the poem. We learnt that Valerie Bloom uses rhyming couplets and discovered that some words are spelt phonetically. Our task for this week is create our own poems which use the same features as ‘fruits’!

Our favourite verse is:

“One guinep up in the tree
Hanging down there tempting me
It don’ mek no sense to pick it,
One guinep can’t feed a cricket.”

What do you think it means?

This morning year 5 and the rest of WCPS were treated to a very special performance of a play about how we could change our lifestyle to help improve our health. Luckily year 5 are learning about this in science this term, so we used this opportunity to demonstrate our expertise by writing a review of the play. Watch this space to see our reviews…

Today year 5 were measuring how much their pulse rate changed before, during and after exercise. We learnt what is meant by the term ‘resting heart rate’ and ‘recovery period’. After some initial trouble locating some of our pulses (don’t worry… We found them eventually), we noticed a pattern in our results. Thanks to some accurate measurements and lots of scientific discussion, we learnt that our heart has to work harder during exercise to pump blood round our body.

As it was St George’s day, year 5 continued our literacy work on ‘Myths and Legends’ by learning about the legend of St George. We went outside to soak up the atmosphere of a typically ‘fresh’ English morning and stretched our imagination learning muscle to visualise what Barnsley might have looked like thousands of years ago!

We just had time to read the legend of St George and the dragon before it started raining. Back in the warm and dry classroom we stretched our second learning muscle of the morning, collaborating in pairs to identify all the key features of a legend including the author’s use of ‘heroic language’.

Year 5 have got off to a fantastic start to the summer term this week showing a great attitude to learning and a mature approach to their work.

We have been learning all about ‘fables’ this week in literacy, using our noticing learning muscle to find out what makes them unique and interesting. Watch this space to find out how year 5 got on at using our newly acquired knowledge of fables to construct our very own…

Today, we had our first Science lesson of the term and learnt about the nutritional value of different foods. We looked at the left over wrappers from dinner time and decided what types of food make ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ meals by designing our own plates of food!

Year 5 definitely used their collaboration learning muscles this afternoon when they decided on a massive class project – the creation of the ‘Cushion’ Stand. Absolutely brilliant!!!

Year 5 are hard at work designing machines to create their product.

Year 5 have worked incredibly hard this week, making cushions for Enterprise Week. An amazing effort Year 5!

Who was it that said boys couldn’t sew……

Year 5 would like to thank all the parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters who attended the Art Challenge this afternoon.

Here are some of the finished designs:

Wow! Look at these from the new younger members of Year 5.

Year 5 have been early busy this afternoon preparing their assembly on the different types of renewable energy. After a shaky start they became very creative. These pictures show the children using their collaboration learning muscle. Pictures of the assembly to follow…