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11 11, 2021

Class 5’s trip to Lincoln Cathedral

By |2021-11-11T16:09:56+00:00November 11th, 2021|Class 5|Comments Off on Class 5’s trip to Lincoln Cathedral

Class 5 had a long-awaited trip to visit and learn about the stunning Lincoln Cathedral. Mrs Ballard was also keen to take advantage of this opportunity to steep ourselves in British history.  We went to see one of the first sites William the Conqueror deemed important to build a Norman Cathedral. Our guide for [...]

14 10, 2021

Design and Technology – Getting busy with their prototypes!

By |2021-10-14T20:17:44+01:00October 14th, 2021|Class 5|Comments Off on 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. [...]

12 10, 2021

Looking at the science of melting chocolate

By |2021-10-22T21:05:45+01:00October 12th, 2021|Class 5|Comments Off on 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! [...]

4 10, 2021

Design and Technology – getting serious with our designs.

By |2021-10-06T09:46:00+01:00October 4th, 2021|Class 5|Comments Off on 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 [...]

3 10, 2021

Design and Technology – getting stuck in, literally!

By |2021-10-05T11:08:25+01:00October 3rd, 2021|Class 5|Comments Off on 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 [...]

1 10, 2021

Class 5s Super Science Skills: predict, experiment, conclude!

By |2021-10-05T10:55:33+01:00October 1st, 2021|Class 5|Comments Off on 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.  [...]

30 09, 2021

The stories Class 5 are enjoying this term…..

By |2021-09-30T22:07:14+01:00September 30th, 2021|Class 5, Year 5 Books|Comments Off on 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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