Welcome to 5JW's class page.

Welcome 5JW!

Welcome to our class web page where you can find out about our 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:

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

Drop off and collection is at the front of the school by Reception. 
 

Children are encouraged to read for pleasure at least 3 times a week and complete TT Rock stars frequently. Maths homework is set on a Friday on google classroom but hard copies are always available if you have technical issues. 

Being an athlete - 5JW learning the Haka!

In PE this term, we have been learning all about the haka. We have discussed where it originated, why this ceremonial dance is performed at rugby games by Australia and New Zealand and the different dance moves / techniques that are involved in the routines. 

So far we have choreographed a short piece of the haka together as a class, combining the different dance moves that we have learned. We are now working towards a final performance by collaborating with others and creating our own haka routines in small groups to eventually bring together to make one big performance!

12/11/24 - Inter Faith day. 

Today in 5JW, we discussed and learned all about world Inter-Faith week.

This is an occasion during the second week of November, that is dedicated to celebrating religious diversity and how is it prominent in our society. We discussed the different religions that are in our community and how these different religions are able to exist and operate in cohesion with each other. 

We started our learning by reading a story called 'Little Glow'. This book had an overarching theme of togetherness and unity from an inclusive community, who celebrates all religious festivals, throughout the year. In our class, we discussed the different festivals that we spotted (e.g. Christmas, Diwali, Chinese New Year and Hanukkah) and had an in-depth conversation about why it is important for all societies to learn about them and accept them. 

We then took a deeper dive into the Hindu religion and the religious festival of Diwali - the Hindu festival of light. As a class, we learned about why they celebrate this and why bright colours and bright lights are used. We then looked at different 'rangolis' (the art of Diwali) and discussed how we could have a go at making these ourselves with the rangoli patterns and the bright colours. 

You can see some of the art we were making below! 

Year 5 Gurdwara Trip - Friday 8th November.

During our RE lessons, we have been learning all about different places of worship. We explored in detail the Sikh place of worship, a Gurdwara, and compared their similarities and differences to a church. Today (8.11.24) we visited the Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha in St George.

We had an excellent time linking our prior learning of the topic and seeing this in person at the Gurdwara. We sat in the Langar hall where we learned all about the different foods that they serve, free of charge, at the Gurdwara. The speaker from the Gurdwara provided us with in-depth knowledge and information about the 10 Gurus (very similar to Jesus’ disciples), who were the first founders of Sikhism in India, and we looked at photographs and paintings of lots of different Gurdwara’s all over the world.

As a year group, we went upstairs into the prayer room. This was incredible to be able to see and experience what these are like as we had only learned about them in school through pictures and videos. Our guide taught us all about the 5 K’s of Sikhism – which are the markers of a Sikh identity. We asked our guide lots of questions that we had during our visit and even added more information to our RE books when we returned to school.

Viking Enquiry Immersion - Making Viking shields

This week in 5JW, we have started a new enquiry "How did the Anglo Saxons and Vikings change Britain". 

To start this, we spent our first lesson learning all about Viking shields - what their purpose was and why they used them. 

Then we created our own shields! Using recycled plastics and cardboard, we cut the cardboard into the correct shape, carefully drew the lines and the circle in the middle and then painted them in lots of different colours and patterns. 

Term 2 Enquiry - How did the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings change Britain?

In Term 2, we will continue to be historians in our study of Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings to explore how they changed Britain. 

So far, we have enjoyed learning about the different kingdoms that were once in Britain - especially discovering that the South West used to be known as Wessex! 

Along with developing our research skills, we will be looking at lots of different evidence and artifacts to support our learning.

Our First Enquiry Ambition:

During this week in our enquiry lessons, we have been learning about speeches and presentations. We have discussed the steps to success of a speech (e.g. clear voice, confidence, facts, images and prompts) and used these to create our own presentations. Our presentations were based around the focus of 'The development of humans from babies to old age' and through this we linked our learning so far in this term. In our speeches we also compared and contrasted the life cycle of humans to other mammals and frogs! 

We worked collaboratively in groups to create our final pieces. Some of us wrote speeches, while others created posters and planned activities.

Today (11.10) we invited the Y2s over from the Infants School so we could perform our speeches and share all of our knowledge about our science enquiry.

National Poetry Day 2024

Today is National Poetry Day (3.10.24) and during the day today we have explored lots of different activities. Our afternoon activity was to recite a poem by a famous author. The poem that was assigned to Year 5 was 'Words are Ours' by Michael Rosen.

We looked at some videos of techniques that we could use in order to perform our poems. We decided that we would use of school value of 'humilty' and work in teams for each section of the poem. 

During our reading lessons we have been exploring the 'Viking Boy' story. During our reading lesson we discussed the feelings of the different characters in the story during a very crucial change in the plot. 

We loved acting out the 'warriors'!

Being a scientist - How do some plants reproduce? 

Today we have been learning all about plant reproduction. To support our learning, we observed the different plants in the allotment to explore their key features. After this, we returned to our classroom and discussed the key features and their functions. We dissected lillies to see up close the different parts of the plant, e.g. the stigma, the anther, and presented our findings to the class.