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Chinese New Year
Class 5 celebrated Chinese New Year on Friday 23rd January, where we completed lots of exciting activities. We began the day with sketching and painting our names in Chinese. As well as painting the year we were born in and what animal represented that particular year. The children experimented…
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All about Ancient Greek
This week, we launched our topic of Ancient Greeks by inviting John into school. We were very lucky to have this opportunity as he brought loads of artefacts with him and showed us all about the daily life of the Greeks. Some of the children tried the unique Ancient Greek…
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Experiment fun in Science.
In Science this half term, class 5 have started their new topic of materials and the different properties. As a class we have made predictions about whether materials are soluble or insoluble in water. We have all had a go at completing an experiment where we tried to separate objects from each…
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Debating!
Class 5 have come to the end of two fantastic debating topics. The children have thoroughly enjoyed it and produced some fantastic arguments to why the rainforest should be saved. The have promoted their arguments with determination and confidence in front of the whole class! They have worked…
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Debating!
Last Friday afternoon, Mr Waddington from Harehills Primary School came to class 5 and launched our debate topic of Mayan farmers can protect themselves better than Mayan Nobles, which also links with our ‘Keeping Safe’ theme. The children had so much fun and were so enthusiastic as we started…
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Maths
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This week we started our topic of multiplication and division in Maths. Class 5 started the lesson by using the multi-link to create squared and cubed numbers. The children got to explore with the resources and use deeper thinking to figure out what numbers are square and cubed numbers.
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African Voices Day
On Thursday 18th November 2017, Class 5 participated in African Voices day. The children got to learn about the different perceptions of Africa and what Africa is like. As a class we got to learn lots of aspects that were really surprising to us all and allowed the children to have opportunity…
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Music
Class 5 have been working in groups to create their own compositions using percussion instruments and parts of their bodies. It was great to see their creative side come out by working as a group to create music.
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Harlow Carr Trip
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To continue with our topic of Life Cycles in Science, Class 5 went on a trip to Harlow Carr. We completed the workshop on Seed Dispersal. The children thoroughly enjoyed looking at the different seeds and how they dispersed. None of us could believe how big some of the seeds actually were…
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Art
In Art this term we have been looking at the artist Alfred Wallis. Wallis used to draw and paint pictures from memory so the children had a go at doing this by letting their partner describe a picture for them to draw. This was a real test and the children had to really concentrate on following…
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Reading Corner
All the children have enjoyed using the reading corner which has an underwater theme and allows the children to ‘dive into a good book!’ Everyday children are so enthusiastic with wanting to use the book corner which is great to see.
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Welcome to Class 5
Hello, Class 5 has been busy settling in and getting used to all the new routines of class 5. We have all set our individual targets which we are all aiming for this academic year. Our theme for the half term is ‘Where do I fit in the world?’ We have completed a lot of discussion about this in…
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