Year 5 Learning 2017 to 2018

Welcome to Year 5

Summer Term 2 was even busier!  Look at our photographs……..

Summer Term 1 was very busy in Y5.

Have a look at the slideshow below.

Making Mayan Masks.Summer Term 1 we created Mayan Masks.  Much discussion was involved, followed by sketching and designing, then creating the finished articles.  Have a look at some of them…….

Our Summer Term trip to Durham Cathedral was a huge success.  The children enjoyed experiencing being inside the cathedral and appreciating the wonderful architecture as well as dressing up in the robes of the clergy.  Have a look at the photographs below.

Year 5 had a fantastic day learning about the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons from visitors from Durham University. We looked at the Lindisfarne Gospel and learnt all about the life of Anglo-Saxon monks by dressing up. As monks, Year 5 took a vow of silence (much to Miss Reid’s and Mrs Dempsey’s delight!) and went on a monk walk around the school. We also learnt to write our names in Latin and practiced using a quill. As part of our Viking learning, we explored different Viking artefacts which included helmets, swords and shields. Finally, we created Viking runes on wax paper!

A big ‘thank you’ to Ross and John from Durham University for providing us with an interesting, exciting day and “well done” to Year 5 for an excellent effort dressing up and making it such a brilliant day.

This term, Year 5 are learning to play the ukulele with a specialist musical teacher.  So far class 11 have explored how to hold the instrument and practised strumming along to ‘My dog has fleas’.

The photographs below demonstrate the variety of learning that has been happening in Y5.