Design and Technology – Getting busy with their prototypes!
Another installment of Design and Technology in Class 5 and this time we were getting serious and technical with their prototypes. [...]
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10, 2021
14
10, 2021
Making Christmas cards… in October!
Class 5 had a lot of fun creating their Christmas cards but they also put a LOT of care into making them! They really wanted to make something they, and [...]
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10, 2021
Looking at the science of melting chocolate!
What does a boiled egg, some ice water, a candle and some chocolate all have in common? They are all part of Year 5's Science lesson on irreversible and reversible changes! Sounds like a good excuse to make some chocolate dipped biscuits to me! [...]
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10, 2021
Hands on Science in Year 5
A class of super scientists continued their investigation into the properties of materials. The groups were tasked with separating different mixtures of materials. We had already successfully [...]
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10, 2021
Design and Technology – getting serious with our designs.
I was delighted to see Class 5 took their design brief, to meticulously design a reinforced cuboid, very seriously. They want to achieve and they now realise that good planning and good [...]
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10, 2021
Design and Technology – getting stuck in, literally!
Class 5 have had to get their design 'hat' on this term! Here, we started to look at how we can reinforce a structure. An additional skill was looking at 2D 'nets' of [...]
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10, 2021
Class 5s Super Science Skills: predict, experiment, conclude!
I have been delighted to discover Class 5 is full of scientists ! We have been conducting experiment after experiment this term, to determine the properties of different materials, and they have shown themselves to make excellent predictions and conclusions. [...]
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09, 2021
The stories Class 5 are enjoying this term…..
Twitch! This is the fabulous book by MG Leonard (author of the Beetle Boy trilogy and the Adventure on a Train mystery series) that you may have seen at home! We have been ploughing our way through this mystery and we're nearly at the end.... hopefully you've been reading [...]
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05, 2021
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05, 2021
Year 5 Writing – An unexpected story…
Year 5 have been working on a short story with an unexpected end!