Year 5: Blog items
Date: 7th May 2024 @ 4:44pm
Today, the pupils in year 5 were given some excellent guidence about writing poems, and becoming a writer after their school days have ended. Blackpool poet, Nathan Parker visited us and shared his knowledge and experience. He guided the children to write a collaborative poem, which we also performed as a class. All of the pupils were engaged with the activity and contributed their ideas to the final poem.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 9:49am
As part of our journey into 'properties of shapes', children in year 5 have been exploring 2-D and 3-D shapes. We used practical objects to support learners finding the number of faces, edges and vertices, and used an online tool to make a variety of 2-D shapes on a virtual pinboard.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 9:39am
This morning the whole school was involved in a whole school assembly that centred around the religion of Hinduism. Our visitor - Krishna - gave us lots of background information about the religion, including the story of Rama and Sita and why oil lamps are lit. We also learned about each of the gods and the role they play. It was a very interesting and informative assembly.
Year 5 - Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Date: 29th Apr 2024 @ 4:03pm
We are please to share with you some of the official performance photos from the RSC Playmaking Festival. Year 5 pupils from Boundary worked with a director from the RSC to perform part of Hamlet, which was combined with performaces from other schools to tell the whole story. The performances were fantastic and we were pleased to be able to offer this amazing experience to our pupils.
Date: 29th Apr 2024 @ 8:02am
Over the last two lessons we have looked at the K-Pop genre. Using our listening and appraising skills, we heard a track called Into the Night. This track brought out the K-Pop fans in the classroom and started a discussion about foreign language music and its impact on the world - we talked about how useful it could be to learn a new language and learn about other cultures.
We also started learning the song Into the Night (our favourite of the year so far!) and some of us even choreographed some dance moves for our final performance!
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 11:26am
This week in Forest School, we were very busy completing parts of our Wild Passport. Pupils were challenged to make a whistle from a carrot, cook welshcakes on the fire and build a den. It was much warmer and sunnier than last week!
Year 5 - Matching and Mirroring
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 10:57am
In PE this term, we have been building on our previous learning in gymnastics. Pupils are creating a routine with a partner, using balances and movements from earlier in the year. The routine they are making must include a range of matched or mirrored balances.
Year 5 - Fun in forest school (Part 2)
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 4:17pm
Here are more pictures from our fun in Forest School yesterday. The children had fun finding tadpoles, looking for frogs and also making their own hotels.
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 3:57pm
The pupils in year 5 all had a great time in our Forest School lesson this week. We made dens, dug out some plants, made clay pots and much more. It was very wet but all the children stuck it out and persevered.
Year 5 - Feelings and Emotions
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 3:54pm
Over the last couple of lessons, we have been talking about feelings and self-regulation. Pupils have discussed different feelings and talked about various senarios and how they might react in certain situations. In today's lesson, pupils played a board game where they had to discuss certain emotions with a partner.
Date: 12th Apr 2024 @ 12:50pm
This half-term our science unit is about 'All living things and their Habitats'. Our journey started with exploring the lifecycle and reproductive process of flowering plants. In this lesson, pupils dissected a daffodil to find the different parts of the flower, such as the sepal, style and anther.
Year 5 - Shakespeare Aspiring Actors
Date: 26th Mar 2024 @ 4:41pm
This term several of the year 5 pupils have been rehearsing for their performance of William Shakespeare's, Hamlet. Pupils had to learn their parts so they would be 'off script' for the performance, and develop their own take on the characters and dialogue. The attached photos are from our final dress rehearsal, where they were directed and encouraged by Emma Manton from the Royal Shakespeare Company. The pupils delivered an amazing performance on the night, and we are all excited to share the professional photos from the performance when they arrive.
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 3:39pm
Today we held out second Speling Bee of the year and it was another fantastic occasion. 4 children from each year group represented their house and were given three spellings each to spell out loud from a bank of words they have been learning since September. The competition was extremely close, with Rodwell and Elston finishing joint first as the children from these houses spelled all of their words correctly.
Well done to all of the children who took part today.
Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 3:48pm
Wow, what an amazing day we had for our Science day today which was all about dinosaurs! We started off the day with an introduction to dinosaurs and the history behind them before learning about the different dinosaurs during some guess who games. We then had a fantastic assembly from the team at TeachRex and met the dinosaur, Jam. We learnt all about Jam and how he hunts for food. After break, we started to plan and sketch our own dinosaurs ready for the afternoon where we made a real life model out of clay. The day was finished off with another great assembly where the children learnt how to make their own videos using a green screen and some children got chased by Jam! The children all thoroughly enjoyed the day and were fantastic.
Year 5 - Music in our Community
Date: 18th Mar 2024 @ 9:27am
This half-term, Year 5 have been working to answer the question 'How Does Music Teach Us About Our Community?'. We have discussed heroes in our community; from our parents and carers to people who volunteer to help the homeless - we agreed that they were all heroes in their own right.
In what was one of our favourite lessons we listened to and appraised the Star Wars theme composed by John Williams - and with our keen musical ears we suggested, researched and discovered that he had composed some of the scores for our favourite films including Home Alone and Indiana Jones!
Discussions have raised how much music can affect our emotions and attitudes and how much a piece of music can be used to help us think of a particular place, person or event within our community. Our challenge now is to think about a piece of music that could describe Boundary or even Grange Park!
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:50pm
As part of our reading into writing journey, we have worked collaboratively to edit and improve our writing. Working with a partner encourages children to find errors and also to discuss ideas to improve their writing.
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 4:47pm
What a day we had for World Book Day in Rowan! We took part in a live quiz, we spoke about the outfits we had chosen and some children even swapped books with eachother. A great effort by all on some fantastic outfits.
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 8:42am
This week pupils investigated the causes and effects of friction. We carried out an investigation by measuring the force needed to move a mass of 1kg on different surfaces. We discovered that smooth surfaces created less friction and rough surfaces created more friction. A higher mass will also increase the amount of friction.
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 8:29am
This week our PE journey into 'Net and Wall Games' continued, with Jordan, our PE coach. Pupils practised the 'ready position' and then learned the techniques required to play forehand and backhand ground strokes. Pupils tested their reactions in small games, which meant using the skills they had learned in the lesson.
Year 5 - Holi vanilla biscuits
Date: 23rd Feb 2024 @ 3:49pm
Today has been a busy day in year 5. We have learned about food hygiene, evaluated existing biscuits, designed, made and decorated biscuits to celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi. Now all we need to do is eat them!
Date: 23rd Feb 2024 @ 3:45pm
Today, 10 pupils in year 5 completed their level 1 and 2 Bikeability training. This meant learning how to look after their bike and how to cycle safely on the road. A huge 'thank you' to Active Blackpool and Mrs McIntyre for all of their effort over the past two days.
Year 5 - Relationships and sex education
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 3:03pm
In year 5, we built on our learning in science to look more closely at the changes that take place in human bodies during puberty. In groups, we looked at the physical and emotional changes that happen in boys and girls and discussed the changes that are different between girls bodies and boys bodies. We discussed the importance of personal hygiene, and explored different products that are available to keep us clean and healthy.
Year 5 - Aspire-ing Carpenters
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 11:58am
This week pupils visited Aspire Academy to begin contruction of their frame structures. We were able to use the workshop and have expert teaching. Pupils learned the names of the equipment and had a go at measuring, sawing and sanding the wood.
Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 2:33pm
To help engage and excite pupils in reading, we have been chatting about the books that we have checked-out of the new school library (The Attic). Each week, pupils will be given time to share their book with their peers and the whole class, explaining what they liked or disliked about the book. Together we will explore common themes and make links between different genres and different authors.
Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 2:03pm
Rowan class visited Aspire Academy yesterday as part of our Design and Technology unit. We have been working on frame structures this half term and the children were able to use the workshop at Aspire to start to build their frame structures, using all of the appropriate equipment. The children worked really hard and produced some great work using measuring and cutting skills.
