Today, we were learning to use cubic cm in our maths lesson. This was a brand-new concept and we all did fantastic. To finish our lesson, we completed a reasoning question. We used the cubes to make different cuboids from 12 cubes to help us with this.
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Today, we had a special visitor in our class who delivered a workshop on the life and faith of James Hudson Taylor (or JHT for short). JHT was inspired by many people to do great things, and in turn he inspired more people to do courageous things. His Christian faith gave him strength and guidance throughout his entire life. We learnt that his life was truly remarkable and inspiring.
As a class, we discussed the question - Do you want to live an inspiring life? We had lots of important and meaningful discussions about how we can lead an inspiring life that can have a positive impact on the world. We then discussed who inspired us, making links to the religion Judaism, as well as what we aspire to be when we grow up. In our computing lesson this week, we had our first lesson with the Crumbles! This was some new learning for us all and we had great fun programming the Crumbles to make the LED lights flash different colours.
We had a fantastic afternoon den building! The children were in mixed teams across different year groups and worked together to create their most water proof dens before they were tested!
Great fun was had by all! In RE this term, we are looking at recognising the qualities of inspirational leadership and to contemplate some unanswerable questions.
Today we focused on Abraham, who was the founder of Judaism and was the first to make a convenant to God. We learnt that Abraham was the first person to teach the idea that there was only one God; before then, people believed in many gods. Abraham is a significant character in other religions - not only Christianity but Islam too. Muslims know Abraham as Ibrahim, and regard his as an important prophet of their faith. We watched a short video clip of God's promise to Abraham, God's Promise for Abraham | Stories of the Bible (youtube.com) then completed a comic strip of our own interpretation of the story! In Science this week, we have been learning about how the sun, moon and earth move. We were fascinated by how we only ever see one side of the moon, even through it rotates on its own axis.
We spent some of our lesson in the playground recreating how the moon rotates and orbits the earth, at the same time as the earth rotates and orbits the sun! This week, Year 5 have been involved in level 2 bikeability training.
This has involved learning the correct way to turn right and left, U turns, correctly reading traffic and understanding the rules of the road. All the children involved have had an amazing few days! Today was Enterprise Day! We had to use our imaginations to design a safe space for all children aged 2 and above. In our teams, we had to choose items from a sensory shack using 100 care coins then create a poster and a mascot to show off our design. No idea was too crazy or adventurous! We all worked so well together across Year 5 and Year 6 and came up with some amazing ideas. Each team then presented their ideas to our 3 judges, Mrs Richardson, Mrs Kane and Mr Rudkin. We couldn’t only pick two (because they were all so amazing) but chose three winners to take through to the final event in June at the Metrodome. We can’t wait for June for the 3 winning team to present their ideas to the judges!
See the Enterprise Twitter page for more photos and videos @Primary_ent Today we had a special visit by a Premier League football referee called Darren England. Just like a top-level match official we took part in a task to create equipment to make a referees life easier. In order to do this we had to use many skills such as:
We have had a fantastic day in year 5 for World Book Day today!
It has been lovely to see some amazing costumes, you really did bring a smile to our faces! We have spent the day creating our own version of 'The Day the Crayons Quit'. We have discussed and shared lots of ideas before creating our own version of the story. |
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