Year 5: Blog items

KS2 - Blackpool Schools Football Tournament

Date: 9th Jan 2023 @ 2:08pm

This morning our KS2 boys football team took part in the Blackpool Schools Football Tournament, which they qualified for before Christmas. The rescheduled event saw all schools from Blackpool take part in a couple of fixtures to determine who would go on to represent Blackpool at the finals on Friday.

As always, our Boundary boys put on a great show of character, determination and although they didn't qualify for the final, they came away smiling after a spirited performance. 

Well done to all KS2 boys involved in today's event, you've done your school proud!

Year 5 Festive French

Date: 14th Dec 2022 @ 7:55am

Today in French we developed our dictionary skills by looking up the items of clothing that Father Christmas wears. We worked in pairs to find the vocabulary and labelled Pere Noel! 

Year 5 French learning As tu un animal?

Date: 8th Dec 2022 @ 1:16pm

This half term we have been learning in French how to talk about animals. We have improved our pronunciation of the animals, asked questions, introduced the characters and said if our animals have a name. We have also learned the negative 'Je ne pas' and started to use the connective but 'mais' to explain different examples. We did some excellent listening tasks too! 

Reading into Writing so far this half-term...

Date: 8th Dec 2022 @ 12:14pm

Reading into Writing so far this half-term...
 
In Year 1 we read the story 'The Jolly Christmas Postman.' We began by sequencing the key events, discussing the characters and the meaning of key words. We then moved onto reading letters from different characters, matching the correct letter to the correct address and piecing together a mixed up letter. On 1st December our class elves arrived and brought a letter with them for us to read, but some bits were missing! We then used what we had learnt about letters to fill in the missing features. We will be writing our own letters this week.
 
In Year 2, we are in the process of writing our own Christmas story inspired by the 2019 John Lewis advert featuring Edgar the dragon. Throughout the journey, we have read a range of Christmas stories and watched a selection of different Christmas adverts to explore how they tell a story through videos. We have now planned out our story and are looking forward to writing them up.
 
In Year Three we have been exploring shape poems surrounding the theme of Christmas. We have focused on using alliteration, similes and metaphors to create an imaginative description.
 
In Year 4, we have been working on our play script journey. To begin with, we read a variety of play scripts to identify their features. We then went on to do some drama and act out some of the scenes that we read. We are going to be basing our final pieces on the Boudicca Revolt which is what we learnt about last half term.
 
In Year 5 we have been learning about stories from other cultures. We read and analysed stories from the Aboriginal Dreamtime, and then created a list of features particular to that type of story. 'The Dreamtime' is the Aboriginal people's creation stories, they usually explain how the world came to be, and how animals were created. We planned, drafted and edited our own Dreamtime story, before publishing our final piece of writing. After writing our final version, we peer-assessed our texts by discussing what we had written with a partner.
 
In Year 6 we have spent time exploring, planning and writing crime stories. We looked at several full stories at the start of the journey and began pulling out features of crime stories. Then we worked together to generate as much vocabulary as possible relating to the genre so that we would have a bank of high quality words to choose from when we wrote our own stories. We had fun writing our stories and typing them up at the end as a finished piece.

Year 5 Peer Assessment

Date: 6th Dec 2022 @ 12:34pm

As the final part of our 'Reading into Writing' journey, we have peer assessed our writing. We have been learning about stories from other cultures and this week pupils wrote their own Aborigional Dreamtime story. Today, pupils worked together to assess whether they had been successful in including all of the features from this text type. 

Year 5 - Aspirational Scientists

Date: 5th Dec 2022 @ 4:21pm

As part of our learning journey in science, we have learned about Sally Ride, who became the first American woman in Space when she was part of the Challenger Shuttle crew in 1983. Pupils found out about her life, before using their literacy skills to write a biography about this amazing person. As a child, Sally Ride was a star pupil and outstanding tennis player. She has degrees in physics and English, and helped design the Challenger Shuttle's 'arm' which was used in space. After working for NASA, Sally was a professor at the University of California, wrote children's books about science, and started a school program to encourage children, especially girls, to become scientists. After her death in 2012, Sally's sister revelled that she had been in a same-sex relationship with a fellow scientist, and had sadly felt that she needed to keep it a secret for 27 years to protect her career. 

Year 5 Musical Learning

Date: 2nd Dec 2022 @ 1:33pm

During Music in Year 5 we have been learning lots about the musical vocabulary and how to use it to describe the pieces of music we listen to. We have been composing on Charanga as well as on the musical score using crotchets, minims and quavers. We did a Menti quiz to see what we had learned and began to practise playing Deck the Halls for Christmas on the Glockenspiels. 

Year 5 - Living Graphs

Date: 1st Dec 2022 @ 3:01pm

We worked in small groups to create a ‘living graph’ relating to the fighting between Anglo-Saxon kings and the invading Vikings. We placed events on the graph in chronological order, and then, in discussion with our group, moved them up or down on the Y-axis based on the level of threat to the Anglo-Saxons. We then used this to draw the shape of the graph on our own axis and picked 3 key events during the period.

KS2 Indoor Athletics

Date: 29th Nov 2022 @ 8:47am

On Monday morning we travelled to Blackpool Sports Centre to take part in this year's Sportshall Athletics competition. The competition saw students compete in various field and track events, such as Standing Long Jump and the 4x1 Relay.

Unfortunately we fell short of qualifying for the North schools section but, as always, our pupils represented the school with great pride and attitude, with the team scoring highly in plenty of their events. 

Year 5 - Coding Capers

Date: 24th Nov 2022 @ 8:24pm

In our computing lessons this term, we are learning how to code a quiz game. We have found out how to use the 'selection' coding block to select a 'condition' and choose 'outcomes' that occur if the condition is true or if it is false. Pupils have experimented with different outcomes, and will now begin to plan and code their own quiz. 

Key Stage 2 Boys Football

Date: 21st Nov 2022 @ 3:39pm

This morning our KS2 boys football team travelled to Stanley Park to take part in the Utilita Cup, organised by Blackpool FC Community Trust. The tournament saw our boys placed into a group facing various schools from across the Fylde Coast.

The team battled well, representing Boundary well and putting their all into their performances. Falling short in the group stages meant we missed out on the semi-finals but the boys showed real determination, some fantastic skills and positive play against tough opponents.

Year 5 - History Mysteries

Date: 20th Nov 2022 @ 8:08pm

As our journey into Anglo-Saxon Britain continued, we found out how the Anglo-Saxon kings were converted to Christianity by St. Augustine, who was sent to England by Pope Gregory I in 596AD. After learning the facts, pupils were challenged to use their history skills to uncover sources of evidence and decide 'how we know' what we know about the Anglo-Saxons. 

Year 5 - Gender Stereotypes

Date: 16th Nov 2022 @ 7:44am

Today we watched a video from Primary Futures, about gender stereotypes. The video began by explaining that we were going to be introduced to 4 people whose jobs were:

  • Tree surgeon
  • Engineer 
  • Forest school leader 
  • Nurse 

Before we actually saw the people, we had a good discussion as a class about what gender we thought the person who did each job would be. We realised that some of us went straight to a specific gender due to our preconceptions about the roles of men and women in society. We then agreed that we can't make assumptions on people based solely on their gender.

Year 5 - Solar System Model

Date: 15th Nov 2022 @ 9:11pm

In our science lesson this week, created a scale replica of our solar system. We found the distances of the planets from the sun in Astronomical unit (AU), and converted this to meters. 1 AU is the distance from Earth to the Sun, so on our model Earth was 1 meter from the Sun. As you can see the rocky planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are relatively close together, whereas the gas giants are further apart.

Year 5 - Finding factors and making multiples

Date: 9th Nov 2022 @ 8:19pm

In maths we have been using our knowledge of multiplication facts to find multiples and factors of numbers. In this lesson, we played a 2-player game, where pupils took turns choosing numbers that must be either a multiple of, or factor of the previous number. The player who is unable to find a correct number loses! This helped the children to understand what multiples and factors are, as well as show their knowledge and develop tactics to win.

Year 5 - Yoga stars

Date: 9th Nov 2022 @ 8:12pm

As part of our PE curriculum we have begun a spiritual journey in Yoga. Pupils are learning some of the most common yoga poses and movements, as well as developing the ability to control their bodies, breathing and thoughts. Yoga involves balancing and stretching all parts of the body, moving in a controlled way and being peaceful and  mindful. 

Girls' Football!

Date: 8th Nov 2022 @ 4:08pm

Well done to the girls who played their first match against Devonshire this yesterday. They didn't win but they worked hard and showed great resilience ??

Year 5/6 Girls' Football: Boundary vs Devonshire

Date: 7th Nov 2022 @ 7:29pm

Today, girls from Year 5 and 6 participated in their first ever football match. They did so well and kept going - they never gave up and showed so much determination and resilience. We're looking forward to more matches over the coming months and watching the girls become more confident. Go team Boundary!!

Year 5 Musical Improvisations

Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 2:03pm

Today we have listened again to the Ghost Parade track and kept time to the beat by moving our bodies. We then used the percussion and xylophones to play a short melody before we began improvising our own patterns using CGE. We also began to learn some of the vocabulary for musical transcription, including sharpes, flats, stave, treble clef and time signature. Next week we will continue to develop our compositions!

Year 5 Royal Shakespeare Drama Workshop

Date: 19th Oct 2022 @ 12:32pm

As an introduction to William Shakespeare and The Tempest, Year 5 had a drama workshop with Hal from the Royal Shakespeare Company. We did some warm ups for our brain, body and voice before moving onto making 3 freeze frames representing the sailors arriving in Blackpool. We all had lots of fun and created some interesting stories for our characters. 

Year 5 Blackpool Zoo Orienteering

Date: 19th Oct 2022 @ 9:20am

Active Blackpool run a number of physical activity programmes aiming to improve the physical wellbeing of all children across Blackpool. We were invited to take part in two fun festivals within Blackpool Zoo where each school will be given a map of the park to help them to solve the clues to find the right animals. The intention for the event is to get the children out walking in the fresh air whilst having a look at the animals along the way.

The children, chosen from Year 5, had a great morning with Mrs. Millar and Mr. Parsons supported by Leaders from Blackpool Sixth Form. Efficient map reading and a keen sense of time meant that we returned to the finish before the other schools – having even had time to visit some of the animals not on our list (and the dinosaurs too!).

 

Year 5 Now Press Play

Date: 13th Oct 2022 @ 12:37pm

Today we had our Now Press Play Experience which was lots of active listening and learning fun! We went on an adventure with Squidge from an alien planet, who was learning all about Solids, Liquids and Gases. We begame particles and moved through different states including water to water vapour, liquid to solid chocolate. It has helped to consolidate our science learning from this term, whilst also getting us up and moving with a little bit of acting!

Year 5 The Naughtyometer

Date: 12th Oct 2022 @ 7:38pm

As part of our RE topic on Christianity, today we began to reflect on where we search for guidance in how to live our lives. Christians use the Bible, the ten commandments and the Lord's Prayer. We talked about our own sources of guidance including other Gods and religious books, teachers, family and friends.

We then began to develop our debating skills by having respectful conversations about what we thought was the 'WORST' thing to do and ordered some scenarios to the 'LEAST WORST'. This proved to be a challenge with lots of conflicting opinions about what was the most 'Naughty!' We used all of our speaking and listening skills to debate and give reasons about what we thought. 

Year 5 - Peaky Finders

Date: 12th Oct 2022 @ 10:13am

To support our learning about mountains, pupils have been researching one of the 7 Summits (the 7 tallest mountains on each of the 7 continents). We have found out which continent and country they are in, and this morning we have indicated their position on the whole school world map.

Year 5 Spelling Bee

Date: 11th Oct 2022 @ 7:28pm

What a great afternoon we had taking part in the Spelling Bee. Four children from Year 5 represented their house in the spelling competition. Each person showed courage, determination and confidence in attempting their words and did really well, adding to the overall total for their houses. Well Done Chepstow, who were the winners!

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