Year 5 - Lionfish

Year 5 Memorable Experience

On Tuesday the 9^th January Year 5 Coral and Lionfish went on a school visit to the Museum of Science and Industry in central Manchester. This trip was to be the “Memorable Experience” that kick starts our new topic this term “Fantastic Britons and where to find…

Battle of the Bands

Times Tables Rock Stars was launched across the school a couple of weeks ago. Since the launch, Year 5 have thoroughly enjoyed the competitiveness and have been rocking away to the tunes in class.

On the 6^th November a Battle of the Bands was set up so that Year 5…

Greetings from the father of the Gods!!!

Year 5, earlier on this year, trembled in fear with a visit from the mighiest of all Greek Gods: Zeus. The mighty father of the Gods challenged Year 5 to create a champion worthy of attempting one of his deadliest challenges. Zeus was brought to life in…

Year 5 had a great afternoon visiting the local allotment. They explored the different plots and discussed the many fruits and vegetables growing in green houses, polytunnels and different structures. The children had prepared questions for the owner of the allotment and they showed great interest…

This half term, Year 5 are taking part in an exciting project titled 'Young Leaders Award'. The aim of the Archbishop of York Young Leaders Awards is to equip young people to ‘be the change they want to see’ in their local communities. 

The project's mascot, Archie B (see image above)…

Separating Mixtures

Year 5 looked at ways to separate different mixtures. We began by discussing what we know about separating different materials and discussed equipment that we might use at home. The children were familiar with a sieve but could not specify another method of…

Exploring Multiples, Factors and Primes

Year 5 used coloured stacking counters to identify multiples of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Children recorded their colour choices for each multiple. After completing each multiple we discussed the height of the towers and decided why the towers…

Times Tables Challenge

On Friday, five children from Year 5 and Year 6 took part in a times tables challenge at Elm Wood Primary School.

Following the success of the tables challenge hosted at Boarshaw in the summer term, we were invited to Elm Wood for round two.

The then…

Testing the Properties of Potions (materials)

Since our visit from the alchemist, Year 5 have been testing the potions he kindly left behind. Mrs Thackway demonstrated a couple of potion recipes advised by the alchemist. She made a strange concoction which changed from liquid to solid within a…

Global Goals

As part of ‘The World’s Largest Lesson’, Year 5 took part in a language treasure hunt. To begin, we discussed how difficult it would be to go and live in a country where they did not speak English. The children practised communicating using only actions. This was not as simple as…

Year 5 have had a great start to the new school year! We are now in full swing with our new topic, Alchemy Island since the alchemist made a surprise appearance last week.  He left the children with a package full of clues to where the entranced to alchemy island might be. They had to unpick the…