Last blog of Year 5!!!!!
Ellianna- This week we had a Zoom call with Chumpi and Jenny from Oddizzi. Chumpi lives in the rainforest!
Kian- We got a message from Chumpi because Mrs Carr emailed them! You can see our photos on Instragram.
Marmaduke- In DT, we made our CAM toys!
Marianne- We have a pringles party today!
Hebe- We have finished our Maths topic of time, angles and statistics.
Millie- We've been doing gardening, and for the new Year 5 it will be good for them because Mrs Carr and Mrs Daly say it is looking the best it has ever looked!
Ellianna- today we had the Year 6 leavers assembly and we said goodbye to the year 6.
Emilia- we had leavers Mass yesterday
Fin- In our pringles party, we have 11 flavours to blind taste test AND a pringles photobooth!
Our favourite memories:
Tom- I really loved the History of Dursley trip!
Sol- I was really scared about Year 5 but having Mrs Carr again made it better.
Marmaduke- I loved district sports
Ellianna- I love the stories of Didi! I loved having Mrs Carr as our teacher.
Millie- I loved making up the "Millie method" in Maths! I also loved when we went swimming and we were shouting for help!
Hebe- When my knee got better and I could do things again. The whole class was so supportive.
Ed- Knowing that the class are so supportive and we can be friends really easily.
Harry- I loved the REACH treats; especially when we spent an hour digging in the garden!
Fin- having all my friends all year.
Hebe- I'll miss doing the garden and we'll miss Mrs Carr!
I will miss you all too Year 5! It has been a pleasure teaching you for the last year and a half. I want to leave this blog with examples of your amazing writing; we wrote poems (with dialect) about our school. They were absolutely incredible!
Thank you for the memories, Year 5. Go shine in Year 6!
Week beginning 7th July
Health week blog!
Health week is where we have a whole week concentrating on healthy minds and bodies!
On Monday, we started off with football skills on the field. After that we had Zumba and the tooth fairy visited!
On Tuesday, we had sports day! We had our house activities in the morning, and then we did our running races in the afternoon.
On Wednesday, we had some running club activities; we did some bleep tests and then we had a Read with Me sponsored ran.
On Thursday, we had cricket skills; flash mob and Pilates.
Today, we have had some kinesiology with Mrs Shipton and have made sure we kept really cool as the temperatures have SOARED!
All week we have shown so much confidence, resilience and aspirations; its been wonderful to try new things and discover what we are good at! We can't believe next week is our last week of Year 5!
Week beginning 30th June
Year 5 Blog
We have had a quiet week!
In Maths, we have been looking at time. We learned that there are 60 seconds in one minute, there are 60 minutes in one hour, there are 7 days in a week and 24 hours in one day. We had great fun converting between the measures!
On Monday, we had people from St Peters High school come in to do various science activities. We made chromatography troll hair, learned about our heart rate and used friction to move bubbles! It was a really fun experience and helped us understand the 3 strands of science (biology, chemistry and physics).
We also got to watch the dress rehearsal of the Year 6 play. There is nothing really else we can say- it was BRILLIANT!
Next week is Health week, and we will have SO much more to tell you!
Week beginning 23rd June
Year 5 blog
In history, we have been learning about Benin. We have been looking at the famous bronzes and we had to make guesses about what they were showing. This was helping us learn how to be a historian!
On Thursday, we were able to have a sneaky peak of the Year 6 play. We can't spoil it for you but is WELL worth a watch! Tickets are on sale so please do go- we highly recommend it!
In Maths, we have been working out angles. We have been learning about angles on a straight line, angles around a point and angles in rectangles. On Thursday, we combined ALL our learning with reflex angles, perimeter and angles on a straight line. We have shown loads of confidence with this, and we are ready to move into our next topic!
In Science, we did an experiment on which things will dissolve. We now have got the challenge of separating the solution we have made next Science lesson!
On Thursday, we had a Zoom call with other schools and Daniel (National Geographic Explorer). Daniel showed us a video he had made called "Earth in 100 seconds". We discovered that urban areas cover 1% of the planet, deserts were 11%, forest are 11%, crops were 11% and cows were 33%! 1 second of the film = 1% of the coverage. It was really interesting and quite surprising.
See you next week!
Week beginning 16th June
Mrs Carr blog
We have had a busy week! However, towards the end of the week, we have slowed down a bit due to this really hot weather! It is really good to see all the children remembering sun hats and sun cream; so important in 30+ degrees!
The children have been working so hard with their knowledge of angles. We have learned how to use a protractor to measure angles, and we are now learning how to use a protractor to draw angles. The children's confidence is growing each day and it is wonderful to see.
In DT, we have been doing some really complicated CAMS designs. The children had to use a lot of resilience to make such complicated mechanisms. I look forward to how our CAM toys will work! It is certainly going to be an interesting design and make process!
In computing, this is where the confidence REALLY shines. We are doing Micro:bits and the ease at which the children can code and program these little computers is really inspiring! I love the empathy in the classroom too; they are always ready to help each other.
Yesterday, we had a little surprise! Gloucestershire County Council paid us a visit with their Theatre team to teach us about clean air. The key message we could apply to our school was: No car engines should be idling outside our school!
It was a really interactive performance and we really enjoyed ourselves!
See you next week for a much cooler week thankfully!
Mrs Carr
Week beginning 9th June
Year 5 blog
We have been enjoying the wonderful weather and have been spending loads of time in our garden area. We absolutely love being stewards of the Earth, and discovering bees nests, beetles, worms and other interesting invertebrates as we dig!
We have been growing: pumpkins, broad beans, onions, garlic, rhubarb, raspberries, wild flowers, carrots, climbing beans, spinach, tomatoes, salad leaves and dill! In the classroom, our cucumber plants have 3 cucumbers starting to form!
We are selling our produce for compost and seed money; parents have been really supportive of us- so a huge thank you!
In Maths we have been learning about angles. We have been using our sticky knowledge to estimate the size of angles and we are going to be learning how to use a protractor next week! We've already had a little play, but we can't wait to fully understand!
In English, we have been learning informal letters (an informal letter is a chatty letter). We have been writing about our school week and we have learned how to use semi colons and apostrophes for possession. We are showing loads of confidence with our letter writing!
Finally, on Wednesday, 4 of our class went to District Sports to represent our school. They showed amazing resilience, empathy, aspiration, confidence and high expectations all evening. It was a competitive evening and they represented us all really well! Well done!
We also had a visiting Head Teacher from SWR high school come to read us a story and invite us to visit their new football field when we are in Year 6. It was really nice to hear about what it is like going to Secondary School and has made us feel less scared!
See you next week!
Week beginning 2nd June 2025
Year 5 Blog
In Maths, we have been looking at area and perimeter. We have mainly been focusing on area and have been looking at strategies to understand how this works. We know that area is the space inside the shape, and we know that an array (dots in columns and rows) really illustrate that.
In English, we have been looking at an informal letter. An informal letter is a chatty letter! We were doing Kung Fu punctuation when we were retelling the letter because there were a lot of apostrophes! The Kung Fu punctuation helped us to remember where to put them!
In DT, we have started to plan a CAM project. We started off evaluating CAM toys and we LOVED seeing all the different designs. It really inspired us and we have some BIG aspirations now!
In History, we are looking at Benin. This is a bit of "secret" history and it isn't well covered normally. We were debating why it was important to study Benin and we decided that it was important to know about other Cultures that we have never heard of. It is also important because the Victorians destroyed their Civilisation which was really shocking to us. We linked it to our Catholic Social Teaching of Solidarity.
In computing, we have started learning about programming Micro:bits. We learned how to make them say things and play music, and light up with LED lights based on our code. We have to use a lot of resilience because the code doesn't always work first time.
Yesterday, we took delivery of new Bibles for KS2. This will really help us discover more about the Catholic Faith. Thank you to our MAT for providing these resources for us!
Today is our first transition day, where we get a taste of being in Year 6. Wish us luck!