Year 5 Photo Gallery

We were privileged to have Rosie Philpott join us today to talk about her art work and to view some of our work.
She talked to year 5 about her career in art, her inspiration and even gave us a preview of her latest work. She explained her process of working and we compared it to our watercolour work in art.

Art

In Art this week, some of us have been drawing pictures of buildings in Droitwich taking on, local artist, Rosie Philpott's style.

Guided Reading

In Guided Reading, we have talked about reading/performing poetry and have then performed, "A windy day on Crocker's Hill" in small groups to the rest of the class.

Music

This term in music, we have started by doing some research about instruments of the orchestra and now we are learning about how Ravi Shankar and his wonderful sitar playing fitted into this.

Year 5 computing- digital art

This week, year 5 have been experimenting with art work in the style of David Hockney- in computing! Using the iPads, we took photographs of an area of school and are now manipulating images into PowerPoint to mimic his collage style.

Year 5 Brine baths project

This week, Mrs Letts arranged a group of interviews for us to take part in. All the interviewees had visited the Brine baths in Droitwich and recalled their visits. Children had time to plan their questions, considering open and closed answers and then took part in a ZOOM call for the Brine Memories collection.

Year 5 Brine Baths project

We are working with Brine Memories in Droitwich to promote awareness of the brine baths and related history of our town. Last week, year 5 walked around town to see the many sights and sites of Droitwich. Mrs Letts and the team of SOBBS volunteers explained the impact and importance of each site. The children then spent some time recreating those buildings in their art books.

David Hockney

This week in Art we have been creating our own water-based art work inspired by David Hockney.

Brine Baths Treasure Hunt

This week, year 5 had a visit from two more members of the SOBBS group. Mr John Corbett himself arrived at Westacre to tell the children all about his impact on the town! (thanks to Norbury Theatre) along with Mrs Asplen who introduced us to a range of primary resources from the Heritage Centre.

The children had great fun deducing what items were used for, how they were used, finding areas on the map and labelling items.

Brine Baths Project

We have been privileged today to meet with Mrs Letts, part of the Brine Baths Memories group. She introduced the children to a history of Droitwich and the baths.

Yoga

We are delighted to welcome Miss Starkey, our yoga expert, back into school. This week she is working with year 5 students to start our Yoga education. We have learnt the Sun Salutation this week.

In maths, we are starting to look at fractions and made ourselves a fraction wall to help us look at equivalent fractions.

In Maths, some of us have been practising division sharing counters.

This week in our extra PE slot, we have been practising our throwing and catching skills to help with our team work and coordination!

Welcome back Year 5!

In Maths, we have been building nets to create sculptures inspired by Antony Gormley.

In English, we looked at the Dragonology book we are basing our work on, then felt inspired to create our own dragons!

As we move towards Easter, we have used the idea of new beginnings and new starts to reflect on what our New Beginnings will be. Children have decorated Easter eggs and written on what they will be working on- new friendships, efforts with handwriting, practising their timestables- and have hung them in their rooms to look back on at the end of this term.

In CC, some of us have been creating Anglo Saxon villages for the houses that we created when we were learning from home. We decided whether the house would be for a blacksmith, farmer, weaver and so on.

Year 5 Antarctica Homework

This morning we have been looking at some of the wonderful homework our children have done for our Antarctica/Shackleton topic. Well done to the children and thank you to the parents for all of their efforts too!

Year 5 Art

Year 5 are completing their studies where we have explored colour and tone. We are using the work of Georgia O'Keefe to sort art work into cool and warm colours.

In English, some of Year 5 have been looking at the Kevin the Carrot advert and creating their own story board to match.

Later in the week we will be retelling the story.

We have been Maths Explorers this week, having a go at a teacups challenge. We have been using lots of resources from our classrooms to help us solve this challenge!

This week in Year 5, some children have started writing their own introduction paragraph in small groups. This is for their instruction writing on how to make an Explorer Energy Bar.

Although our clubs can't currently take place, Charlotte in 5MK has had a go at baking at home instead and has shared some pictures with our class today.

In CC we have been learning all about the Race to the Pole!

This week we have been creating diary entries as if we are a character off on an expedition with Ernest Shackleton.

In Year 5 WE ARE UNITED AGAINST BULLYING.

We found out about the different roles people play in a bullying situation. After our discussions, we decided we wanted to be a DEFENDER. (Someone who tells an adult or steps in to help the TARGET)

We all signed Class Pledges to show we are united against bullying.

Designing Jigsaw Pieces To Unite Against Bullying

In Maths today we have been looking at square and cube numbers, using our Maths boxes to help us.

We marked the start of Anti-Bullying Week in Year 5 by wearing ODD SOCKS to show that we are all unique but still we are all united.

Year 5 'shelfies' of our chosen books for Reading Week

WE LOVE TO READ!!!

November 11th Poppy Run in Year 5

Music

In Year 5, some of the children have been creating salsa inspired music using the percussion instruments we have. The children created some really exciting and unique compositions, even though they all had the same brief. Some children even included some actions!

CC homework showcase

The first delivery of CC homework arrived in school with great excitement on Monday 19th October. The children were so proud of their work, so we spent a lesson conducting a "tour" of our classrooms to appreciate everyone's work. The variety and creativity of work was fantastic to see. Well done, year 5!

Year 5 Explorer's Day

Year 5 spent Friday 16th October being explorers! They completed a variety of tasks and challenges, from team building to calculating the costs of an expedition.

They completed research about the places they had chosen to dress for, and learnt about new places and the people living there, as well as writing advertisements ready to recruit fellow adventurers! A great day was had by all, with an added appreciation for the wider world and its opportunities.

Well Done CC Homework for 19th October Returned Already!

In Year 5 we have been tasting some of the foods that the Maya would have eaten. We considered the vocabulary we would use to describe the taste, texture, smell and appearance of the foods that we would try.

There were mixed responses to the avocado. The sweetcorn and tortillas were well received. Cocoa nibs were the biggest surprise. Despite an enticing aroma of chocolate, they left quite a bitter taste in our mouths.

Food Tasting in Year 5

Today, year 5 have been sorting information from a text into paragraphs and headings. This will help them with their own writing next week about Orang-Utans. They worked together to justify their decisions and collaborate with their partners.

This week, Year 5 have been using and mixing watercolours to create their own colour wheel in the art block.

Some of year 5 have been investigating the Maya calendar, a complex system of rings signifying days, months and seasons. They have created their own calendar to show the importance of the sun to the Maya people.

Year 5 have launched their new Creative Curriculum topic with an investigation outside. They were challenged to find out as much information as they could about the group of people we shall study- THE MAYA.