Year 5: Blog items
Blackpool Children and Families Art Competition
Date: 19th Jul 2023 @ 12:06pm
Blackpool Children and Families Art Competition
One of our year 5 pupils, Sophie W, has been chosen as a winner of the Blackpool Children and Families Art Competition. Her fantastic pencil drawing of Blackpool Tower will be used to make their new Children and Families Plan look and feel more exciting. Well done, Sophie!
Date: 14th Jul 2023 @ 12:04pm
This week the pupils in year 5 have been busy creating a steady hand game. Pupils had to make a circuit by connecting wires, a 9v battery and a buzzer, then add this to a wire maze and wand. All of the groups successfully made a working game. We then evalutated and discussed how we could improve our products if we made them again.
Date: 11th Jul 2023 @ 5:35pm
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Date: 7th Jul 2023 @ 3:46pm
Today we were visited by children's author, James Harris. James entertained the whole school with a fantastic assembly and told us about himself and the books he has written. This afternoon, children in year 5 spend time with James and found out more about how he became a published author. We also used some of his methods to create interesting monsters, which we then made up stories about.
Date: 4th Jul 2023 @ 10:40am
For Boundary’s Heritage Day 2023, we were asked to answer the question, 'Why did Boundary become a popular tourist resort?' We discovered lots of interesting facts about our town's history, including that in the 1930s the town had over 10 million visitors per year! We presented our finding on a google slideshow and shared these with the rest of the school in an assembly.
Date: 30th Jun 2023 @ 4:58pm
Year 5 have had an exciting end to Health Week. This afternoon, pupils were given the opportunity to experience wheelchair rugby. Coaches from Wigan Warriors came to explain the rules and give us some tips. Moving the wheelchairs was hard at first but week soon got the hang of it. The sport is very fast, frantic and most of all fun!
Date: 30th Jun 2023 @ 10:06am
Today, pupils in year 5 were visited by the school nurse. We learned about healthy eating and what different food groups provide for our bodies to use. Pupils then carried out an activity to investigate how much sugar was in some of their favourite snacks. 4g of sugar is equivalent to 1 tea spoon - the amount of sugar in some of the snacks was shocking. Pupils were surprised to find out how much sugar was in fruit juices and milkshakes... and even in flavoured water!
Date: 30th Jun 2023 @ 9:59am
Year 5 had a great morning at Aspire Academy for their sports day. They took part in a range of events from sprinting to javelin. All of the children displayed great teamworking and sportsmanship skills and had a great time. A huge 'thank you' to Mrs Webster and Mr Perkins for organising the event, to the pupils from Aspire who helped to run each activity and to all the parents who came to support the pupils.
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 11:57am
What a great morning! Today was Year 5's Takeover Day. In Year 4, our teachers, Miss Shepherd, Miss Lewis and Miss Morrison, taught us lines of symmetry in Maths, how to back up our answers with evidence using the text in Guided Reading and figurative language in Reading into Writing. The teachers were helped out throughout the morning by Miss Roberts and Mr Butterfield. Well done Year 5! You did a great job and showed so many characteristics such as confidence and enthusiasm.
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 11:48am
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 10:50am
The children in Year 5 had the opportunity to talk about a variety of careers such as Tysons, Eric Wright, different roles throughout the NHS at Blackpool Teaching Hospital, a captain of a ship, Blackpool Business Project Manager and discussing sustainability with Inspired. Kirsty and Ida, from Inspired, kindly donated 100 flower bombs for Boundary to plant too. The children thoroughly enjoyed their morning learning about these different occupations and it has given them an insight into a future that they would like to have for themselves. Another huge thank you to everyone who was involved!
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 10:46am
To celebrate World Music Day 2023, Year 5 learned about music from mainland Europe. We located Spain, Italy and Ukraine on a world map and talked about their history and influences. We listened to and appraised music from these countries, and children discussed what they liked and disliked. Pupils then created a page in their art sketchbooks to show what they had learned and how they felt when they listened to the music.
Year 5 - Now Press Play: Pompeii
Date: 23rd May 2023 @ 4:23pm
To support the learning in our geography unit : Volcanoes and Earthquakes, the pupils in year 5 completed an immersive experience using the Now Press Play resource. The children were dropped into a story set in Roman times, where they witnessed the deverstating eruption of the volcano which burried the city of Pompeii in 79AD. This also linked to learning about the Roman Empire, which children completed in year 4.
Date: 23rd May 2023 @ 4:17pm
This afternoon we practised our observational drawing skills. We made careful observations of real life objects and used pencils to sketch items that were found on the beach.
Date: 23rd May 2023 @ 4:10pm
Today are children were treated to a visit from Fishers Farm. The children met a variety of farm animals and learned lots about each one. We all had great fun spending time with the animals and stroking them. A lucky few managed to groom some of them too!!
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 3:43pm
This week year 5 have begun their poetry journey by looking at didactic cinquain poems. After reading several examples, pupils identified the features, layout and language of cinquain poems and discussed what they liked and disliked about them. In this lesson, pupils worked together to create a cinquain poem about a thunderstorm before working with a partner to create a beach-themed poem.
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 2:59pm
Building on our learning so far this term, pupils composed a tune to play over the top of a 'K pop' backing track, called 'Look into the Night'. The track has a 4:4 time signature and pupils were asked to use a 5 note scale in C. We had a great time creating and listening to our own 'K pop' songs!
Date: 15th May 2023 @ 4:53pm
What an amazing day at Blackpool Zoo! The pupils all had a fantastic time, their behaviour was a credit to the school and their families, and they walked there and back again without a moan. We saw many of the wonderful animals, including: ring-tailed lemurs, monkeys, giraffes and a close-up with the red panda, and we also had talks from the zoo's education team about sea lions, elephants and penguins. Khari the lion has been returned to Blackpool zoo into his new enclosure, and has been out exploring for the first time this week. It was great to see him back again!
Date: 10th May 2023 @ 4:26pm
This half term in French, we have been learning about 'les vetements' or 'the clothes'. In this lesson, pupils developed their recall of the vocabulary we have learned in previous lessons to match images of clothing items to the French nouns. They had to work together and discuss the names of the items and then use their memory (or books) to match the image to the correct vocabulary.
Date: 25th Apr 2023 @ 4:22pm
In Year 5 last week, we began our journey learning about volcanoes and earthquakes. We have learned about the structure of the Earth, and how the movement of the tectonic plates can cause various natural disasters. Pupils used their skills from Reading into Writing lessons to match the new subject vocabulary to its correct meaning, so that they can confidently use the correct vocabulary in future lessons. This week, we have labelled a diagram of a volcano and used our map reading and investigation skills to locate 6 of the world's most famous volcanoes and find facts about them.
Date: 19th Apr 2023 @ 8:49pm
This half term we are learning about the life cycles of plants and animals. This lesson was about flowering plants and how they reproduce. Pupils learned the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction in plants, and the positves and negatives accociated with each method. Next, we found out about pollination and the importance of insects in this process. Pupils found the names of the different parts of a flower and labelled a diagram, then dissected a daffoldil flower to find the different parts and see what they look like in real life.
Date: 30th Mar 2023 @ 2:51pm
This week, pupils in Year 5 have been getting to know William Shakespeare's Macbeth, and preparing to write their own script for part of the story. In this lesson, pupils improved part of a script, adding stage directions and their own dialogue. In pairs, they children acted out their scripts before making more improvements. This experience will help the children when they plan, draft and publish their own scripts next week.
