Dear Year 5,

Thank you for a great year! I hope you all have a lovely summer and wherever you go next, enjoy it and good luck. 

Mr Henderson

During our ´Art week´ we looked at the differences between street art and graffiti. We looked at how Banksy uses stencils and templates to create images in public places. 

We have made some of our own art based around four themes:.

1. Making a statement based on current issues
2. Education themed art
3. Hobbies pupils like to do
4. Replicating Bansky

Here is the display we made using the artwork

This week, we have painted a mural near the entrance of the school using Banksy as our inspiration. We planned out what we wanted to do, cut out a stencil and used spray paints to paint the wall. 

Today we began our Art week! Our class has chosen to study street art and focus on the street artist 'Banksy'. We looked at his work and how he creates his pieces. 

Click on the button below to practise creating some of your own street art.

To prepare for Year 6, we are recapping all of the genres in Literacy. Today, we recapped the features of a recount and wrote our own recount about our holiday.

Today we began making our stop animation videos. We designed our sets and are moving figurines and taking lots of pictures to make them look like they are moving.  

Before making our stop animations, we need to plan and write our stories. We worked in groups to write down all our ideas and then picked the best idea. Afterwards, we begun planning the 5 parts of our story

Today, we have begin planning our stop animation projects set in a fantasy setting. We also learned how to create a simple stop animation video.

This week, we recorded our radio adverts to advertise our class comic! click the picture below to listen to all of the videos on YouTube. 

Year 5 have spent the day in the trees acting like monkeys all day today! 

The whole of Year 5 went to ´Aventura Sevilla´ (A high ropes course in the woods) and took part in some swinging and climbing fun. They worked as a team and helped each other get around the course and had to responsibly make their way around the different sections safely. We all had a great time!

Year 5H along with the rest of KS1, KS2 and KS3 enjoyed some shows performed in English by the company ´Face2Face´ who are based in Madrid. Adam and Ellen did a great job and pupils really enjoyed the show! 

Literacy/Topic - I want you to find an advert either from the internet, magazine, newspaper etc... and I want you to change the advert to make it more and less persuasive. I have added the information you used in class to help. Due in Monday 11th May

Maths - Complete the questions below using the work we have practised this week and then click on the ´YouTube´ buttons to see if you got them right!

Have a look at our class comic about Santa´s visit to capital cities around the world.

Today, we got into small groups and had to balance on different numbers of points. We used our knowledge of balanced forces to stay in control.

You can now create and print your own comic online. Just click on the button below. Once you have finished, make sure you bring it to school to show Mr Henderson and the class!

This week, we learnt how green screens work. We stood in the booth and spoke about the weather using a blank green screen, however, the screen automatically made it look like there was a map behind us!

To kick off our new topic, we have been making characters from Education City to put on our board. We then made speech bubbles of different things we need to remember in literacy. 

To celebrate the end of our ´World War Two´ topic, we had a VE Day party. We made bunting, hats and flags and ate jam sandwiches and played various games from the 1940´s.

If you would like to learn the songs at home, please download this file

This week we have been turning a book into a playscript. We worked in small groups and practised using playscript features to turn ´The Tunnel´ into a playscript.

We were given a crate of oranges from Mrs Sabanowski and had to estimate how big the orange tree was, how heavy the wheelbarrow was and how much orange juice we could make from the oranges. We then juiced the oranges to work out how much we made.

From one crate, we made 3.65 liters of orange juice.