Author: Miss Alexandra
Peter Thorpe inspired space art!
Year 5 studied abstract artist Peter Thorpe today. They looked at his style of abstract art for the background while having a detailed space object in the foreground. The children found it very interesting and unusual creating abstract art as it involves being very messy, creative and free! After…
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 11 September 2020
Category: Class of 2015
Welcome to Class 5!
Class 5 have had a fantastic start back! They have loved seeing their friends and playing on our wonderful adventure playground! Click 'read more' to see more photos...
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 9 September 2020
Category: Class of 2015
Georgia O'Keeffe Inspired
This half term, the children have been learning a range of shading techniques. To conclude our life cycle of plants science topic, we studied Georgia O'Keeffe's artwork of enlarged flowers. What they produced was fantastic - they're all budding artists!
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 26 March 2020
Category: Class of 2014
World Book Day
Year 5 have loved World Book Day! We did poetry slams, illustrations of poems and showcased brilliant book in a boxes.
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 5 March 2020
Category: Class of 2014
Cooking
Class five have been cooking sandwich meringues. They will be taking home recipes if you would like to make more!
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 5 March 2020
Category: Class of 2014
Greek Sandals - topic launch!
As our SITE project for last half term on properties of materials, the children planned and made Greek sandals for our launch of the Ancient Greeks! They all looked brilliant, and could have been worn home if it wasn't snowing today - our designs were for Greece's…
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 24 February 2020
Category: Class of 2014
Parts of a plant - SITE launch!
The children had great fun being scientists, whilst dissecting a lily, to learn about the different parts of flowers. We learnt about the male part of the flower called the stamen, which is made up of the anther and the filament, and we learnt about the female part of the flower called the carpel,…
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 24 February 2020
Category: Class of 2014
Favela Art
In art we have been learning the skills of shading in a range of mediums. This week in topic we learnt about the South American Favelas. In art we unpicked artists who have created the favelas through discussion of their techniques and hidden meanings. A lot of the children liked how the artists…
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 14 February 2020
Category: Class of 2014
Deforestation Debate
I am so proud of Year 5 in their class debate today! They all had brilliant arguments and showed a huge amount of expression, emphasis and body language. Very persuasive Year 5; I loved your enthusiasm!
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 6 February 2020
Category: Class of 2014
A chemical reaction: reversible or irreversible?
This week in SITE, we looked at reversible and irreversible changes. For our experiment we mixed bicarbonate of soda and vinegar. Mixing these materials together caused a chemical reaction and created a gas - mixing is irreversible!
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 28 January 2020
Category: Class of 2014
Chinese New Year
Year 5 have immersed themselves in the Chinese New Year this week. They've created a brilliant range of Chinese inspired artwork; practised using chopsticks; dressed up in traditional Chinese clothing and learnt about Chinese New Year legends.
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 24 January 2020
Category: Class of 2014
How do you separate materials?
In SITE today, the children learnt about many different ways to separate materials such as: filtration, evaporation, distillation and many more. Year 5 were then given 'Alien Soup' consisting of water, sand, rice and paperclips. The children had to separate the materials to their original states…
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 21 January 2020
Category: Class of 2014