Y5 - Cedar

In English, we have been writing kenning poems about animals. We then performed them in front of the class and tried to guess which animal the poem was about. 

Links to Christian values: Respect, Koinonia

Links to Articles: 28, 29

Our football skills are improving weekly! We discuss tactics with each other before we start playing so we know which players to mark and our strategy to score goals.

Links to Christian values: Koinonia, Respect

Links to Articles: 31

This week, we planted sunflowers as part of our Science Topic, Living Things and Their Habitats. We will be monitoring their growth throughout the Summer term. 

Links to Christian values: Respect, Koinonia, Hope

Links to Articles: 31

We went on a walk around Slade Green to observe the human and physical features in our local area. We used our maps and compasses to locate main points and attractions. 

Links to Christian values: Respect, Koinonia, Friendship

Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31

Our amazing bird feeders made out of recycled materials that we made for homework!

Links to Christian Values: Respect

Links to Articles: 31

Our caterpillars arrived this week! We carefully transferred the caterpillars into their own pots with food and we are so excited to watch them grow! We have created our own 'Butterfly Diary' to track their progress. 

Links to Christian Values: Koinonia, Respect

Links to Articles: 3, 28, 29, 31

We are bloggers! This term in Computing we are writing our own blogs. After planning our ideas, this week we were able to start creating our blogs online! 

Links to Christian Values: Koinonia

Links to Articles: 3, 12, 13, 17, 28, 29, 31

We developed our football skills even further this week! We really had to work as a team and communicate effectively. 

Links to Christian Values: Respect, Koinonia, Friendship

Links to Articles: 3, 28, 29, 31

In Science, we were investigating irreversible changes! Look at some of our interesting experiments! 

Links to Christian Values: Koinonia

Links to Articles: 28, 29

This week, we are learning about the life cycles of amphibians and insects. We visited our Forest School to see what creatures we could find. We found lots of minibeasts, snails and frogs! 

Links to Christian Values: Respect, Koinonia

Links to Articles: 3, 28, 29, 31

To celebrate Earth Day, we used recycled plastics to create amazing art pieces! 

Links to Christian Values: Respect, Koinonia

Links to Articles: 3, 6, 24 and 27

We have been improving our communication and teamwork skills in Football this week! We also had a go at dribbling and passing the ball to one another. 

Links to Christian values: Respect, Koinonia

Links to Articles: 3, 28, 31

Some of our fantastic half term homework! We made fairy gardens out of our recycling! 

Links to Christian Values: Respect

Links to Articles: 3, 6 and 27

Our Spoonful of Sugar finale! We have loved learning all about the Victorians and what a great way to finish off the topic by making Victoria Sponge Cakes!

Links to Christian Values: Koinonia, Friendship

Links to Articles: 3, 28, 29, 31

This week, in Science, we explored separating mixtures. We used two methods; sieving and filtering. We worked as a team to try and get the soil and water mixture as clean as possible, we found that filtration worked best!

Links to Christian values: Trust, Koinonia

Links to Articles: 28, 29

Wow look at some of our finished masterpieces! We loved sewing this term! 

Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31

The Year 5s planted potatoes this week, ready for our potato competition! #GYOP

Links to Christian values: Koinonia, Respect

Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31

We carried out an investigative fair test this week, answering the question, 'What affects how well sugar dissolves?' We worked together as a team to explore the effect of different sugars, the temperature of the water and the amount of stirs. 

Links to Christian values: Trust, Koinonia 

Links to Articles: 28, 29

We loved our orienteering lesson this week! We were working together as a team and building on our communication skills and showing great leadership attributes! 

Links to Christian values: Trust, Respect, Koinonia, Friendship

Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31

We are learning 'The Fresh Prince of Bel Air' in Music this term. We loved dancing and singing along to this song today!

Links to Christian Values: Friendship, Koinonia

Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31

In our R.E. lesson, as part of our Salvation topic, we worked as a team to try and order the events of the 'The Big Story' in the Bible. 

Links to Christian Values: Koinonia

Links to Articles: 14, 28, 29

On Friday 19th March, we wore red to celebrate and raise money for Red Nose Day! Some of us even created our own t-shirts!

Links to Christian values: Respect and Friendship

Links to Articles: 3, 6, 27

The children have loved being back and playing with their friends again! 

Links to Christian values: Friendship, Respect

Links to Articles: 31

We have made fantastic progress on our Art project this week! We are sewing our very own phone wallets!

Links to Christian values: Koinonia

Links to Articles: 13, 28, 29, 31

Our investigation in Science this week was to further explore insulators. Our key question was, 'What effect does a coat have on a snowman and a person?'. We had to plan and carry out our own experiment. We used ice balloons to represent the snowman and warm water in a beaker to represent the person; we used various materials to represent the coat. We found that the coat actually kept the 'snowman' ice because the insulator trapped in the cold! We were were working on our thermometer reading skills and working as a team to check the reliability of our results. 

Links to Christian Values: Koinonia 

Article 28, 29

This term in Computing, Year 5 are becoming web designers! Today, we started creating our website by giving it a title, writing a short introduction and adding pictures! 

Article 17, 28, 29, 31

Today, Year 5 had a virtual visit from Ruthy, who is a firefighter.  She was teaching the children how to stay safe in the event of a fire and how to prevent fires from occurring in the first place.  The children were very well behaved and polite to Ruthy and engaged in asking sensible questions and roleplaying what they would do in the event of a fire.

Article 3 - In the best interest of the child

Article 6 - Life survival and development

Article 28 - The right to an education

This week in Science, we planned and carried out our own investigation to see which material was the best at keeping warm drinks warm! We found that the tin foil was best as it is a thermal conductor followed closely behind by the beaker wrapped in cloth with a felt lid! We have been working on reading a thermometer accurately and working as a team to check our results. This links to one of our Christian Values: Koinonia. 

Article 28, 29, 31

We loved dressing up as our favourite book characters to celebrate World Book Day! Some of us even dressed up at home! 

Article 31

Miss G Davis is the teacher for Cedar Class.