Class of 2014
MAYAN DRAMA
Year 5 had a GREAT time visiting our Shadwell Year 5's! They all made such good friends and had huge smiles from start to finish! One Day Creative came to work with the children where they learnt a tremendous amount of facts about the Mayans. The children's development of speaking and listening…
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 29 November 2018
Category: Class of 2014
Understanding Upthrust
This week the children found out why objects weigh less in water than they do outside of water. This helped consolidate last lessons learning on the difference between weight and mass - the mass of the toy car did not change BUT the weight changed in water when the force upthrust began to act…
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 23 November 2018
Category: Class of 2014
Children in Need!
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 16 November 2018
Category: Class of 2014
Mass or Weight?
Year 5 have been exploring mass and weight. We used newton metres to find the difference between the mass and weight of objects around our classroom.
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 13 November 2018
Category: Class of 2014
Squared and Cubed Numbers
Year 5 loved using resources in maths to explore squared and cubed numbers Unfortunately, we ran out of cubes when we got to 6 cubed!
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 12 November 2018
Category: Class of 2014
Who has the strongest force?
First day back after half term means one thing: LAUNCH DAY! Today we began our SITE topic on forces and the children loved it! We learnt about balanced and unbalanced forces by experimenting with Maltesers and straws.
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 5 November 2018
Category: Class of 2014
Computing!
Year 5 have been busy researching Australia in our last topic lesson on 'Our World'. Our favourite fact was that half of Australia is in the tropics!
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 23 October 2018
Category: Class of 2014
Space SITE Project
This week we made our space buggies using all the information we have learnt about the planets in our solar system. The children chose a planet to design a space buggy for and created a design which had a practical specification. For example some children's space buggies designed for Mars included…
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 19 October 2018
Category: Class of 2014
Map Reading in Topic
The children have found their topic on Our World very interesting. They used the atlases today to identify key cities in the United Kingdom.
Year 5, do you know what lines of longitude and latitude are?
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 9 October 2018
Category: Class of 2014
Excellent Expanded Noun Phrases
Class 5 have applied their learning on both expanded noun phrases and the story 'Journey to the River Sea' by Eva Ibbotson to create excellent expanded noun phrases about the characters and setting.
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 5 October 2018
Category: Class of 2014
Silly Expanded Noun Phrases!
To begin our learning on expanded noun phrases, Year 5 created some very silly ones. Who has the silliest expanded noun phrase?
Year 5, what is an expanded noun phrase made up of?
Posted by Miss Alexandra on 2 October 2018
Category: Class of 2014
Human Planets!
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In the past few weeks Year 5 have learnt all about different planets in our solar system. Today we went outside to help visualise the distance between each planet. We had to take 152 steps for Neptune!
Year 5, what did we notice about the distance for the first 4 planets?
Category: Class of 2014