Welcome to our class web page where you can find out about our amazing learning journey. You will find

information about our activities, examples of our work and comments from us! Please visit often to see our learning journey develop.

Key information:

5BW have outdoor PE on a Tuesday and indoor PE on a Thursday.

5BW's entrance and exit point is the main gate next to the car park.

Please wait on the playground area to collect your children.

Term 1

Year 5 have a busy term ahead with multiple questions to explore and answer. We begin by 'being scientists' and exploring the lives of humans and animals, considering how they change over time. 

The term has started by 'being artists', building on previous drawing the skills, the children have been drawing their self-portraits considering techniques to add detail to their work before evaluating their pieces.

Alongside this, the children will be busy learning new knowledge and skills in other subjects including RE, PE and Music. All of Year 5 will continue to learn a new language in French lessons with our specialist teacher, Mrs Hayes.

National Poetry Day 2025

All of St. Stephens celebrated National Poetry Day by taking part in activities and tasks that engaged their creative thinking about words and poetry. The theme was 'play'.

In Year 5, the children focused on a poem by Lucinda Jacob, titled, 'Rules for a good walk'.

This was a really interesting poem to read. It provoked some interesting conversations about our use of technology and how it can often get in the way of important time together. Once the poem had been read aloud, the children wrote their own versions, considering the key thoughts and ideas of playing outside.

Innovation

In the innovation phase of their learning, the children are encouraged to practise a skill that they are going to use in their ambition and receive feedback on what they did well before considering how they could improve this skill. In Year 5, the focus on is on presenting. Each group received a different animal to present information to other groups in the class. We first explored what makes a good presentation before attempting to share this with others. It will be great to see what wonderful presenters we have in the class. 

Engage and Explore

Starting our enquiry, the children explored pictures of key individuals from yester year and guessed who they were. The the children were given two well-known celebrities to try and identify - amazingly it was difficult to work out that these were Taylor Swift and David Attenborough. This highlighted the amazing changes that we experience throughout our lives.

The children then started exploring how we compare to other mammals when being born. Using google classroom, there was paired research to find out how long other animals were pregnant. This provoked some really interesting conversations about the size of animals compared to length of pregnancy and also life expectancy.

We then moved on and the children considered how age can be a factor in growth and also in key activities such as running, jumping and throwing. Firstly, the children ordered themselves in age order and then compared height. The children then discussed how it is not a linear range, as some children are younger but taller. Classes had some excellent discussions about why this might be such as genetics and factors through chiildhood e.g. injury.

Following this the children worked in groups to record how far, quick and long two children could throw, run and jump. Two children in each group, the youngest and the oldest, completed before the others in the group recorded the results. Discussions then followed about who and why the results before recording conclusions in their books. Some fantastic conversations as Scientists.