Year 5: Blog items
Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 9:36am
In this art lesson, pupils began to design and create their 3D map. The children used the island map from Kensuke's Kingdom as a starting point and added their own features and used pencil lines to create textures. Next lesson, the pupils will add 3D elements to make their map come to life.
Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 9:32am
As part of our Reading into Writing journey, we have worked collboratively to write a paragraph for a biography about Billie Eilish. Our paragraphs had to include a fronted adverbial and a range of pronouns and possessive pronouns.
Date: 1st Oct 2024 @ 11:48am
Today we were improvising and composing!
We started by using the glockenspiels and to improvise using a these note options:
C, D, E
C, D, E, F, G
We improvised using these 5 notes by making up a pattern of rhythm and melody of our choice – after some experimental time.
We then wrote down our preferred ostinato accurately on stave paper using the notes above, crotchets, minims, quavers. Finally we practiced playing this section for ourselves, then those who choose to, performed their improvised piece for the class.
Year 5 Exercising their Democratic Rights
Date: 26th Sep 2024 @ 10:49am
Today, Year 5 joined children across school in voting for their new School Councillor. Democracy Week started with a visit from local Member of Parliament, Chris Webb who shared his experiences of being Blackpool's Labour MP.
In PSHE, children then ahd the opportunity to look more closely at the word Democracy and what this means for adults and then for themselves in school. Finally, those children who wanted to put their name forward for nomination, wrote their manifestos and read them out in front of the class. The results of the election will be announced soon. Well done and Good Luck to all those who took part!
Year 5 - Wellbeing and Mental Health
Date: 26th Sep 2024 @ 10:19am
In this lesson we looked at the words Mental Health and Wellbeing and we defined them in our own words.
In small groups we discussed and recorded what these words mean to us; we took part in a quiz to help us understand that our emotions, thoughts and feelings (and the choices we make) can affect our Mental Health and Wellbeing.
We watched a video that suggested some great ideas about the type of things we can do to improve our own Mental Health and Wellbeing and finally, we came up with our own top tips for ourselves and others!
Date: 25th Sep 2024 @ 7:28am
This week in PE, pupils in year 5 have been working on their passing and teamwork skills. In this lesson we talked about the skills and techniques needed for good, accurate passin in basketball. After a few practice drills, the pupils used their passing to work as a team in a game situation.
Date: 23rd Sep 2024 @ 4:41pm
Today we celebrated the European Day of Languages by holding a special assembly. We talked about why it is important to know about other languages and cultures and how this might help us when we grow up. We discussed the characteristics that you need to learn a language including enthusiasm, curiosity, perseverance and self motivation. We ended with a languages quiz and learned a greeting song in French.
Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 9:33am
The children in year 5 have been learning to sing the song, 'Ghost Parade'. They have sang together and created their own musical melodies to accompany the song. Pupils experimented with different notes, timings and volume during the performances.
Year 5 - Masters of the Universe
Date: 17th Sep 2024 @ 4:36pm
In science today, we 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.
Date: 11th Sep 2024 @ 4:46pm
Today, pupils in year 5 started thier new art journey. We have been exploring typography, with pupils creating their own letter shapes. In future lessons they will be creating a map and adding thier own typography to make it look more interesting.
Date: 9th Sep 2024 @ 4:11pm
This week pupils have begun their PE unit of invasion games. Invasion games includes a wide range of sports, such as: football, hockey, basketball and rugby, where a team tries to score in the other team's goal whilst preventing the other team from scoring. This unit is being led by an external coach, so there are extra adults to support and guide the pupils. In this lesson, pupils worked together to score by stealing treasure from pirates (defenders).
Date: 6th Sep 2024 @ 3:39pm
As we return to school from a long holiday, pupils in year 5 have been reflecting on the Boundary promises and what they mean. In small groups, pupils discussed how they can show the correct behaviours and be an 'Always' pupil .
The Boundary promises are:
- Act with Honesty and Respect
- Always try your best
- Work well together
- Always use Safe and Friendly Words and Behaviours
- Be in the Right Place, at the Right Time with the Right Things
Date: 6th Sep 2024 @ 10:53am
This week year 5 pupils have been back at forest school. We picked loads of fruit from the trees and found plenty of young frogs in the forest area. Pupils made ridge-line shelters, chopped wood and played a variety of games.
Year 5 - Final Fashion Designs
Date: 18th Jul 2024 @ 11:31am
Today, pupils in year 5 turned their outift designs into a minature prototype (or toile). They made their outfit on a mannequin before evaulating their final piece and the process of making it.
Date: 11th Jul 2024 @ 2:31pm
All of the year 5 pupils had a brilliant time at the zoo. We saw lots of fantastic animals including lions, tigers and penguins. We also had a lesson from the zoo staff about 'Animal Classification', which linked to our science topic.
Date: 11th Jul 2024 @ 2:26pm
Today we were lucky enough to be visited by Fishers Farm! We enjoyed seeing and learning about all the different animals and talking to the people who look after them. We asked lots of questions to help our understanding.
Boundary Choral Speaking competition
Date: 9th Jul 2024 @ 2:46pm
This week we held our annual Choral Speaking competition. From Reception to Year 6, year groups learned poems by heart and performed them to the rest of the school. Once again, the standard was extremely high and we are proud of all the children for taking part. This year's winners are Year 3, who will represent Boundary at the Blackpool Choral Speaking competition on Friday.
Year 5 - Blackpool Presentations
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 10:48am
The Year 5 children who are not at PGL were busy yesterday putting all of their learning from our Heritage Day and Geography Day to the test to create a PowerPoint presentation all about Blackpool. The children had to talk about Blackpool and what it has to offer to try and persuade people to come to our lovely seaside town. Some children came to the front to present their powerpoint and they all did a fantastic job.
This was followed by PE in the afternoon where the children enjoyed a BenchBall tournament. An enjoyable day for all involved.
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 10:22am
For this year's Heritage Day, year 5 were asked the question, 'Why did Blackpool become a popular tourist resort?'
The pupils looked at a range of old photos to see how the town has changed over the past 150 years. Together we found out how the Blackpool Tower, Pleasure Beach, Winter Gardens and piers came about. Pupils used this information to support their writing of a newspaper to comemorate the visit of Princess Louise in 1912 - which was the beginning of the famous Blackpool Illuminations.
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 10:15am
Our key question was 'What has changed in our local area?'
We looked at maps and information online to find out about the £20,000,000 redevelopment of Grange Park. Using our geography skills, we collected information about the types of houses (131 new homes have been built) that have been built around the school, collated the data and presented our findings in a bar graph. We also did a Kahoot! quiz, with help from some parents, about the Grange Park redevelopment.
Date: 28th Jun 2024 @ 7:43am
Today we were visited by the coastguards who gave us a talk on water safety and how to stay safe when we are at the beach. Advice included what to do if we find ourselves in trouble in the water and what to do if someone we are with finds themselves in trouble.
Date: 27th Jun 2024 @ 2:53pm
This week the children in year 5 were visited by the School Nurse. She spoke to the children about the importance of exercise, sleeping and having a healthy diet. SHe also gave us some advise on how to brush our teeth and look after them properly.
Date: 27th Jun 2024 @ 2:46pm
Year 5 have had a great afternoon of sport. The sun was shining and everyone had a super time. Events included archery, obstacle races, hockey dribbling and speed bounce. The event was well attended by parents and carers. Thank you to Mrs. Webster for organising sunch a great event.
Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 1:53pm
Today was our annual Year 5 Takeover Morning and Year 2 were lucky to spend the morning being taught by Mr Fleming, Mr Bell, Mr Hudson, Mr Zaleski and Mr Rhodes. We started off with Maths where we recapped our 2x, 5x and 10x multiplication facts. We played Hit The Button and then we completed independent tasks where we had to apply our 2x, 5x and 10x table knowledge.
After break we looked at word classes in Reading into Writing. We revisited nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. We identified them in sentences and discussed what their uses were. We then worked in groups to complete a sorting game.
We thoroughly enjoyed our morning with our Takeover teachers, we all worked hard and tried our very best for them and we hope that we have given them an idea of what it is like to work in a school.
Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 11:58am
What a great morning! We had Mr Cooper (teacher) and Miss Ogden (TA) in Maple teaching us about capital letter and full stops, then about lines of symmetry. After break, they even helped to teach use about reading skills. Thank you Year 5! You did a great job.
