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Beechwood Primary School

Year 5

Spring Maths

Year 5 have covered numerous areas within Maths so far this year. Recently, the children developed a key value of co-operation to complete a tarsia. This activity challenges the children and develops communication skills. There are often red-herrings within a tarsia so the children need to justify their responses.

September 2017

The academic year has gone off to a great start and pupils are settling into the routines and structure of their New Year group. In year five, our English unit which is based on the movie – UP kicked off with a fantastic hook where children immersed themselves into the story and explored the emotions of the characters. We made 3d paper houses and used helium balloons to send them off into the sky with our wishes. The children were fascinated by the display and it was a struggle to contain their excitement. Back in class wrote a small blurb describing the event.

2016-2017

January

Spelling Bee

Our Year 5 children have taken part in a whole school spelling bee. The children were given the year 5 and 6 words to learn over the Christmas holidays. In each class, there was a competition to find a class champion. Each of these class champions then competed in assembly to find an overall winner for year 5. This year 5 champion will go on to compete against the year 5 champions from other schools.

Our Year 5 Winner!
Our Year 5 champions.
It was a fast paced competition!

Anti Bullying Week

Year 5 took part in learning about and raising awareness of Antibullying week. They have produced some lovely posters explain AntiBullying.

November

Year 5 have been studying poetry this term. They have learned, practised and performed poetry in their classes.

September

A very exciting event took place in Year 5 on Thursday 8^th September. In English we were learning part of the story UP and inspired by the story, we decided to make our own model houses.

First, we cut, glued and decorated our houses, ready for take off. After that the whole of Year 5 marched to the hall, this was when we were going to attach the balloons to our houses to see if they would fly. We estimated how many balloons we thought it would take and it actually took about 6 balloons per house!

Finally, we made our way out onto the field and let our houses go. They rose high above the rooftops around the school and soon became a tiny speck in the sky. To this day, we still don’t know if they ever reached Paradise Falls.

2015-2016

Year 5 Visit to Heart Radio

As part of our Enterprise project on podcasts, 40 children from Year 5 visited the Heart Radio station in Milton Keynes. They were given a tour of the studios and some even had the chance to put on the ear phones and press the buttons.

Stuart and Katy from the Breakfast show came and met us all and answered some of our questions. A great day was had by all and the experiences helped us with the rest of our enterprise week.

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