Year 5: Blog items
Date: 30th Sep 2019 @ 7:00pm
Despite the mud and soggy grass, we had a great time in our Forest School area. We split into teams and were set the challenge of building a tower from anything natural that we could find. The team with the tallest would be crowned the winner!
Date: 30th Sep 2019 @ 6:28pm
As part of our science 'Materials' topic, we have been investigating thermal conductors and insulators. We designed a fair test to investigate which material would be the best to keep a teacher's cup of coffee hot. We discussed the variables that could be changed and what we would measure. After making our predictions, we filled four containers (plastic, cardboard, glass and metal) with hot water and measured the temperature every two minutes. Analysis of the results showed that plastic would be the best material, as it kept the water hotter for longer.
Date: 23rd Sep 2019 @ 8:06pm
Year 5 have been making full use of Boundary's new Forest School area during our outdoor lessons. As well as problem solving skills, we have learned how to safely light fires, hunted for bugs, toasted marshmallows and sang songs around the camp fire. We can't wait for our next Forest School lesson, this Thursday!
Date: 5th Sep 2019 @ 1:32pm
To introduce our new topic – Walk like an Egyptian – we had a fun day, full of all things Egyptian. We started the day with a treasure hunt, which involved finding out facts about the geography, history and culture of Ancient Egypt. We wrote our names in hieroglyphics and even got to meet Cleopatra and ask her questions about life in Ancient Egypt.
Date: 4th Sep 2019 @ 8:12am
Autumn 1 Topic Newsletter 2019/20
Date: 4th Sep 2019 @ 7:58am
Autumn 1 Topic Overview 2019/20
Date: 4th Sep 2019 @ 7:56am
Date: 4th Jul 2019 @ 5:43pm
What's the weather like? In French this week, we have been learning phrases that describe the weather. We learned how to answer the question Quel temp fait-il? and wrote our own weather forecasts, which we presented to the rest of the class.
Date: 3rd Jul 2019 @ 8:24am
Year 5 have been learning about Judaism during this half-term. At the beginning of the topic they explored the reasons why we have rules and ranked the Boundary Promises in order of importance. Through drama, the children imagined what school would be like without any rules. Moving back to Judaism, they researched the religion and produced a fact file showing some of the features. The main focus of the unit was the Torah. In pairs, the children have produced PowerPoint slides and presented their information all about the Torah. The children have been able to their new learning to other religions and their own lives.
Date: 27th Jun 2019 @ 1:04pm
On Tuesday afternoon, a brisk walk in the summer sunshine took us to Aspire Academy. We were excited about the prospect of being able to work in a secondary school science lab. We were given instructions by one of Aspire's science teachers about how to conduct an experiment. We we tested how quickly amounts of salt would dissolve in water. Predictions were made and hypotheses tested. We all enjoyed our afternoon and hope to return soon.
Date: 19th Jun 2019 @ 3:45pm
We have been lucky to have DJ Cash visit our school this week, who is a Sikh lady. She brought lots of artefacts for us to look at and discuss and we took part in a dance workshop celebrating the culture and beginning to understand about Sikhism. We all enjoyed the dancing after our mock wedding ceremony. We listened and learnt about the 10 Sikh Gurus, learnt about the holy book and we talked about how Sikhs are peaceful, tolerant and forgiving people, with three core values: Pray to God, you have to work and share with those less fortunate.
Money, Money, Money - and Taxes!
Date: 19th Jun 2019 @ 3:47pm
On Tuesday we had an interesting visit from HMRC and learnt about who pays taxes, what the taxes pay for in the country and some weird facts about taxes! We learnt that people who earn over £12,500 pay 20% of their wages as tax, which the Chancellor of the Exchequer decides how to spend. We learnt that most of the money is spent on health, education, the armed forces with some being spent on cultural developments and protecting the environment.
Weird Facts - In the olden days there used to be taxes on windows so people bricked them up and in Russia they had a beard tax! McVities also took HMRC to the High Court to prove that Jaffa Cakes were a cake because they went stale instead of soft like a biscuit.
We then thought about our own values and spending and how we are influenced to spend or save money. After discussing our choices, we thought about the impact of our spending on other people in the world and the environment, e.g. single use plastics and cheap clothes!
Date: 12th Jun 2019 @ 8:04am
We had a Geography day and learnt all about Rivers. We talked about different rivers in the UK and the world and used atlases to find them. We discussed the impact of flooding and drought on people, the environment and businesses and created our own fact files on the Chromebooks. Having been outside to make our own Boundary River, we identified key vocabulary about rivers and how they are formed. We now know what a meander is and an oxbow Lake.
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Date: 8th Feb 2021 @ 3:56pm
We've had a great day here in Blue Bubble without our devices. We have spent the day playing games, constructing shapes/towers with art straws and baking. We have made pizzas and peppermint creams and had lots of fun in the process. We are looking forward to having another day like this!!
Rainbow Laces Day; Celebrating Diversity
Date: 16th Dec 2020 @ 2:16pm
This week we have been taking part in ‘Rainbow Laces Day’ which is a chance to celebrate diversity and learn about the importance of respecting other people’s differences. We learned about a variety of sports people who are all LGBT, including Tom Daley and Colin Jackson. We discussed that all people are worthy of respect and it is wrong to disrespect people because they are LGBT.
We loved performing in the Blackpool Digital Dance Festival!
Date: 16th Dec 2020 @ 2:15pm
Dance teams from both Year Three and Year Five have submitted dance routines into the first ever Blackpool Digital Dance Festival. Here are Year Five performing. The children helped to choreograph their dance as well as perform it! The children from both year groups said that they loved participating and working together.
Annie Musical Theatre Workshops.
Date: 16th Dec 2020 @ 2:11pm
Children from Year Five and Year Six really enjoyed their first musical theatre workshops with Georgia from Italia Conti. They are looking forward to their second set of workshops this Friday and cannot wait to be filmed performing numbers from the show early next year!
We had a fantastic time participating in the Royal Ballet Nutcracker Workshop!
Date: 16th Dec 2020 @ 2:10pm
The children had an amazing opportunity today and took part in a zoom Royal Ballet School ‘Nutcracker’ workshop. The character that was particularly popular was the Mouse King and everyone loved acting as him through dance. They also learnt about the story behind the Nutcracker Ballet.
In January, Year Three will be receiving weekly ballet lessons from the Royal Ballet and four older pupils are already part of the Royal Ballet Scheme after school.
Date: 16th Dec 2020 @ 10:43am
This week we have been doing lots of activities around Anti-bullying day. We thought about how we can be kind and support each other, how we can make sure everyone has a friend and who and where we can go if we feel upset or need to share something with someone. We also all wore odd socks to celebrate our differences and anti-bullying day. it is our differences that we need to celebrate and these differences which make us special. Take a look at some of odd sock picture below.
