Year 5

CRC Article 28 – All children have the right to the best education. 

What a super start to the new academic year for 5T! All of the adults have been extremely impressed with how the pupils have settled into their new class. We have completed lots of activities linked to rights and we have created a Class Charter to ensure we are all the best we can be! Below are just some of the activities that we have completed: 

• Created a new class charter 

• Recapped the important policies in school 

• Shared some of our likes and dislikes to help our new adults get to know us 

• Elected new school council members 

• Created personalised bookmarks for our reading books 

We have been extremely busy already and we have a fantastic year ahead! 

CRC Article 13: All children have the right to information. 

During this week in English, we focused on Cinquain poetry. We made a link to our French learning and discovered that we are familiar with the word ‘cinq’ meaning five in French and soon learned that this type of poem has five lines. We looked at a range of examples and familiarised ourselves with the structure of a Cinquain poem. We looked at ways we could improve existing poems by improving vocabulary choices using a Thesaurus. Finally, we had a go at writing our own Cinquain poems based on an animal of our choice. We enjoyed reading each other’s poems in a poetry show case and tried to guess each other’s chosen animal. A fantastic first week of English in 5T! 

CRC Article 24: All children have the right to the best possible health. 

CRC Article 29: All children have the right to be the best that they can be.  

CRC Article 31: All children have the right to rest and play.  

Year 5 are thoroughly enjoying PE lessons led by football coach – Joe. After some fun warm-ups, we have been learning how to dribble, receive and pass the ball. Activities are planned so that all children have the opportunity to learn and have fun. Towards the end of the lesson, we were given the opportunity to put our skills into practice by playing friendly – but competitive – games! Even the weather has been kind to us. A great start to our PE this term Year 5 – well done everyone! 

CRC Article 13: All children have the right to information. 

CRC Article 29: All children have the right to be the best they can be. 

This week our fantastic Year 5 children spent time in our amazing school library. Children were given the opportunity to choose a book of their choice to read alongside their school reading book. We are passionate about continuing to foster our love of reading for pleasure. Whilst visiting the library, the children showed fantastic rights respecting behaviour. All children modelled library etiquette and enjoyed reading their books quietly and returned books to their correct places when they had finished looking at them.

CRC Article 13: All children have the right to information and to share what they think with others by talking, drawing and writing or in any other way unless it harms or affects others. 

CRC Article 29: All children have the right to be the best that they can be.  

In Art and Design lessons this term, Year 5 have been focusing on improving their drawing skills. As part of our learning, we have considered the importance of drawing to support other media and reflected on why art is important to us and the people of the community and wider world. We have increased our cultural capital by looking at a diverse range of paintings from Van Gogh’s Starry Night, to Dali’s Christ of St. John on the Cross (which was exhibited at The Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland recently) to local graffiti artwork.  

This week we discussed the use of objects to convey meanings in still life paintings and arranged our own still life for the class to draw. We used our observational drawing skills to reproduce what we could see from our perspective and had some great results. Super work, Year 5! 

CRC Article 28: All children have the right to a good quality education. 

CRC Article 29: All children have the right to be the best that they can be. 

During our Music lessons this half-term, we have been learning to sing the song ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’ by Bon Jovi. This genre of this music is a classic rock and each week we have discussed and identified the features of rock music. Some of the features include: fast tempo, heavy amplified guitar, energetic delivery of vocals and more. This week our wonderful Year 5 children also enjoyed using musical notation to learn to play the song using glockenspiels and xylophones. During this session, we mainly used the notes A, G and B. 

CRC Article 29: All children have the right to be the best that they can be.  

Year 5 enjoy have been enjoying working in pairs in their Maths lessons this week. The children volunteered to come to the board to help self-assess our Flashback questions, before leading their own learning on negative numbers. Each pair were given a selection of questions to investigate before feeding their learning back to the teacher and the rest of the class. The children were extremely enthusiastic, engaged and conscientious – great job Year 5! 

CRC Article 29: All children have the right to be the best that they can be.  

We have thoroughly enjoyed starting our new text in Year 5 English this week. We investigated some key vocabulary and made predictions about the new text, before sequencing and annotating a number of key events from the story in preparation for our imminent writing activity. We worked brilliantly in our groups and are looking forward to using the text as inspiration for our own work. Super teamwork Year 5! 

As part of our learning this half term, we explored Planetary Science which is the study of the planets and their features. As part of this, we explored the Moon and its phases. The Moon has eight phases, and we discovered that the shape of the Moon isn’t changing throughout the month, but our view of the Moon does change. Did you know? It takes 29.5 days to go from one new moon to the next new moon. To explore this practically, the children thoroughly enjoyed taking part in an experiment using Oreos to create the moon phases.

CRC Article 24: All children have the right to the best possible health.  

CRC Article 29: All children have the right to be the best that they can be.   

CRC Article 31: All children have the right to rest and play.   

Over the next half term, Year 5 will be working on their gymnastics skills in PE lessons. Our brief is to prepare a routine to include counter balances and counter tensions. This week we reminded ourselves of the importance of warming up, working safely and practised some counter balances and counter tensions with our partners. We worked really well together! Super teamwork Year 5!

CRC Article 29: All children have the right to be the best that they can be. 
 
Yesterday, we started our new topic in PE which is Gymnastics. Miss Curbeson was so impressed with all of the children; they showed great resilience when working in pairs to complete a range of activities. We focused on ‘counter balance’ and ‘counter tension’. Counter balance is when you push against your partner’s weight to aid balance and counter tension focuses on pulling against a partner’s weight to aid balance. Next week, we will begin to use the apparatus to extend our learning further. 

CRC Article 29: All children have the right to be the best that they can be.  

On the 12^th November, Year 5 were given the exciting opportunity to attend the Locomotion STEM Day. The acronym STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Throughout the day, children were expected to use their ‘engineering brains’ to complete a carousel of activities. We took part in a range of different activities – we created wind turbines, built and tested bridges using weights and created hydrogen using water, a battery and crocodile clips. All the children showed great resilience and were great ambassadors for Timothy Hackworth. Several members of the public commented on how polite and well-behaved the children were. Well done, Year 5. We are so proud of you. 

CRC Article 13: All children have the right to find out things and share what they think with others by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms or offends other people.  

CRC Article 29: All children have the right to be the best that they can be.   

This half term, Year 5 are putting their academic, creative and practical skills to the test in their Design and Technology project. 

Working with textiles, we are to design make and evaluate a simple bag or pouch to encourage further use of ‘bags for life’, in place of plastic alternatives.  

We investigated what makes a good logo, how to produce something original and then used this knowledge to create our own design.  

We are using running stitch to join two pieces of fabric together to produce a seam and are using fabric pens to add colour into the cloth. 

We are working really hard and concentrating – especially on the trickier activities. Great creativity, focus and resilience Year 5! 

Let’s Get Cooking with Year 5!

CRC Article 24: All children have the right to healthy food and water.

Year 5 have enjoyed making a Vegetarian On-The-Go lunch as part of their Design and Technology learning. The children have been challenged to design, make and evaluate a delicious savoury vegetarian product for busy working people that can be purchased and eaten quickly as lunch. The children made a savoury tart using pastry, a choice of vegetables and feta cheese to create our delicious lunch option. Our children have had the opportunity to develop lifelong skills and have respected their right to be safe whilst doing so.

Invasion coaching

CRC Article 29: All children have the right to be the best that they can be.

Year 5 children have enjoyed taking part in Invasion Coaching as part of our PE curriculum. The children explored ways of moving with the ball; they learned how to successfully pass, control, dribble and shoot with a ball. The children learned how to make quick decisions in a game situation.  This means they had to think fast, stay focused and pay attention to the game. We worked on teamwork skills as each game required us to work together and discuss tactics with team mates to find out how to win!

World Book Day!