Love Music Trust spent the morning with us today. We composed a piece of music based on the book Lost Words. We learnt about dynamics, crescendo, texture, timbre and mood. We also learnt about ostinato which is when phrases are repeated.

This week Year 5 have been cooking with Mrs Barnes. First we made milopita cakes with apple and cinnamon. Mrs Pearce enjoyed a daily treat! We also baked Greek bread. We used thyme, which some of us didn’t like.

We had a brilliant trip to the Monkey Forest. We saw monkeys grooming as a sign of affection; chattering to show they were being friendly and a little bit of fighting! We watched as the monkeys were fed: fruit, vegetables and cereal. We loved all their different facial expressions.

On Thursday, Rohan, Fay, Gaby and Oliver R travelled to Eaton Bank Academy for a Fairtrade workshop session.

They went into a DT room with children from other schools and learnt about Fairtrade and talked about how farmers in other countries need to keep birds from eating their crops. They made windmill bird scarers which they decorated with images of birds of prey faces and eyes. Ollie’s artwork was even commented on by their art teacher- well done Ollie!

The group then went to a Geography class and learnt about how items are manufactured in other countries and are then traded for money and goods with other countries. They played a trading game where they had to manufacture shapes from paper which they could sell for money or trade with other teams for equipment. each team started off with different amounts of money and equipment.

On Friday we learnt all about the difference between Ancient Greek Olympic sports compared to modern day. Rohan shared his half-term homework about Olympic sports and we then each posed as an olympic sport and then some of us guessed what sport each child was posing as.

Year 5 were visited by  2 firemen from Congleton Fire Station who told us all about Fire safety and to think about our fire plans at home. Some of us even got the opportunity to try to go in a smoke tent.

This morning Year 5’s were treated to an extraordinary visit from Roberts Bakery where they learnt all about what bread is made from and the science that is involved with making bread. They even became bakers for the morning and made their own small loaves of bread. What a fab morning had by all!

We’ve had a super start to Anti Bullying Week this week. We talked about what respect means to us and then we talked about how we can show respect. Miss Sowry then talked about what is nice about each person in our class and introduced Student shoutouts to the class.

Yesterday morning, we were all treated with going to see Year 6s class assembly where they shared what they have been learning about within their World War II topic.

Year 5 have had a super day for No Pens Day Wednesday. It has been a day that has encouraged Miss Sowry to plan  lessons  that  didn’t  involve the children needing to use their  pens or pencils and to run a day of hands on and speaking and listening activities. In  English we performed our news reports in front of the the class and then we discussed what was good about each  news report and what they could improve for next time. Each child said at least one positive aspect and one aspect that each group could work on.

In Maths, we created a ‘human’ negative number line with the whole class- which was so much fun 🙂 

Then in Science, we began to make and develop our parachutes as part of our Forces topic in Science- pictures to come soon.

Overall, we had a fantastic Wednesday and enjoyed not using pens, pencils or even whiteboard pens for the day.