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Key Information:

5KD have outdoor PE on a Monday and indoor PE on a Wednesday.

5KD's entrance and exit point is the top gate by the basket ball court. Please wait outside the gate on Crown Road.

Times table of the week: 6 times table

Term 5

Term 4

Being a Writer! Article 15: Setting Up or Joining Groups 

In Week 6, we had an exciting delivery from a school in Switzerland. We read through the letters and learnt about some amazing individuals who attend a school in a Reichenbach, a small village in Switzerland. Then, we were being fantastic writers and wrote letters to send back to our penpals. We are looking forward to hearing from them soon. 

Term 4 Shining Star!

Click the link to watch the Shining Star video for Term 4:https://youtu.be/6esc5yyh5fk

Easter in a Box! Article 14: Freedom of Thought and Religion

In Week 6, we were very fortunate to have Rev. Lisa come in to see us. We explored the Easter story through different scenes and built a visual representation of the story through asking questions, decorating eggboxes, keyrings and bunting. We really enjoyed having Rev. Lisa come in and furthering our understanding of Easter. 

Being Artists - Article 31: Rest, play, culture and arts

In Week 6, we have been completing some art work based on a picture from the book 'Here We Are'. We have practised our shading skills by focusing on using dark and light effectively in our sketching. We have also put our collage skills into practise and our coming together as a year group to create a collaged ocean scene. Check out some of our amazing art work below!

Being Writers - Article 13: Sharing Thoughts Freely 

In Week 5, we have been amazing writers! We have written fantastic story openings and showcased our understanding of direct speech and expanded noun phrases. Firstly, we wrote a story opening about an illustration from the book, ‘Here We Are’. Then, we discussed the message of the story which is that we only have one planet earth so we must take care of it. This inspired our work and we linked the problems that occur in real-life and the Global Goals into our story openings. These included plastic in the ocean, deforestation and melting ice caps. Check out our work below! 

Mini Documentaries - Article 17: Access to Information 

In Week 5, we have been amazing Technologists. Firstly, we watched a couple of documentaries and established the steps to success for creating a documentary. These steps included video footage/pictures, facts and figures, key vocabulary and loud and clear narration. Based on the underwater illustration from 'Here We Are', we have researched underwater animals, plants and zones and prepared our own mini documentaries using a green screen! Find out about Great White Sharks and The Abyssal Zone below!

Red Nose Day! - Article 4: Making Rights Real

In Week 4, we have celebrated Red Nose Day and have donated to Comic Relief. We all dressed funny for money in outfits that made us and other people smile and laugh. We also participated in a joke telling competition. Check out our outfits and our favourite joke below! 

Collaborative Outdoor Learning-  Article 31 Right to rest, play, culture and arts 

In Week 3, we have thought about what collaborative learning is and what it might look, sound and feel like. We have put our collaborative learning skills to the test by completing some team building activities. We have even been lucky enough to get outside to do this and we had a great time completing our scavenger hunts!

Article 13 - Sharing thoughts freely

In Week 3, we have been re-immersing ourselves in our purple learning approach. So far we have thought about learning behaviours that help to move our learning on (movers), polite disagreement and what helpful talk sounds like. We have linked this to our oracy guidelines and have practised using helpful talk through discussing statements such as 'the internet is better than school for teaching you things' and improving our listening skills by having a go at being a 'silent summariser'. Have a watch of some of our discussions below and see if you can spot how we have used helpful talk and displayed our super listening skills!

Lockdown 

The first two weeks of Term 4 were our final two weeks of online learning. During the first week, we developed a fantastic understanding of possibility adverbs when 'Being an Author' as well as consolidating our knowledge of conjunctions. Whilst 'Being a Mathematician', we persevered with our learning of equivalent and improper fractions and mixed numbers. We also have secured a deeper understanding of inference whilst 'Being a Reader' too. We have been fantastic athletes by completing bootcamp and yoga sessions in addition to being superb historians and researching Fairtrade. Throughout our second week, we celebrated World Book Day and explored alternative versions of Fairytales. We have created superb comic strips, wanted posters and have even engaged in a class debate in which we built on our oracy skills! Also, we designed and created sustainable houses for the big bad wolf from the Three Little Pigs to live in. We are so proud of the work that 5KD have produced and cannot wait to see them back in the classroom. Take a look below at our wonderful work.

Lockdown 2021

This term, we have become superb and resilient technologists by completing our school work online. Since being told to stay at home and stay safe, 5KD have continued to explore and apply new learning and challenge themselves in everything that they do. Whilst ‘Being an Author’, we have developed a wonderful understanding of reported speech, metaphors and possibility adverbs. In ‘Being a Mathematician’, we have consolidated our understanding of multiplication, division, factors and squared and cubed numbers. We have also persevered with inference skills whilst ‘Being a Reader’. We have enjoyed activities based on Safer Internet Day and Mental Health Week as well as weekly virtual meets where we can see our friends and play fun games including bingo and scavenger hunts. Here is  just a small sample of what 5KD have been getting up to over Term 3. Keep up the fantastic work Year 5, you are all superstars!

Term 2

In Term 2, we continued with our enquiry of 'How are lives saved?' through making healthy salads, writing non-chronological reports on the Eatwell Plate and creating TED Talks which addressed and answered our enquiry title. 

Then, we moved onto our new enquiry, 'What does ethics have to do with clothes?'.

5KD Shining Star Term 2

Check out the link below to see 5KD's Shining Star!

https://youtu.be/Ppn6Jy2IrOg

Christmas in a Box! - Article 14: Freedom of Thought and Religion

In Week 7, we were very lucky to have Rev. Lisa visit us. We explored and learnt about Mary, Joseph, the shepards and the three wise men and their involvement in the birth of Jesus and the Christmas story. 

WOW Day! - Article 17: Access to Information 

In Week 6, we had our enquiry WOW day all about the Victorian era! We kickstarted our day by choosing a Victorian name for ourselves and comparing Victorian and modern classrooms. We were particularly shocked at the punishments Victorian children faced if they were rude or didn't follow instructions. We watched clips about child slavery in coal mines and textile mills and discussed whether their rights were met, linking to the Rights of a Child. We have practised Victorian handwriting and found out about Victorian workhouses. In the afternoon, we explored what games Victorian children played and made our very own thaumatropes. 

Chronology - Article 28 Access to Education

In Week 1, we have been working on our chronology skills. We have been putting these new skills into practice by ordering some of our own life events and some key events from the Victorian period on timelines.

Article 29 - Aims of Education

In Week 6, we have been working on our purple learning skills. We have talked about what it means to have a growth mindset and how we can learn from our mistakes and have a positive attitude towards our learning. We have created some beautiful posters that we will display in our classroom to motivate us when we are finding our learning tricky. We know that we can achieve anything we want to if we just keep practising!

Article 13 - Sharing thoughts freely

In Week 5, we have had no pens day! During this day, we have used our oracy skills to solve maths problems, immerse ourselves in the our new enquiry book and practise our debating skills. We even got to learn some sign language. Here are some photos and videos of what we got up to! 

Article 31 - Rest, play, culture and arts

In Week 4, we have been looking at the work of Picasso. We have practised our colour matching techniques and tried to use his artistic style to complete some of his famous paintings. We are really proud of how they have turned out!

Article 24 - Health, Water, Food and Environment

In Week 3, we have prepared, practised and performed TED talks to showcase our new knowledge from our enquiry into how lives are saved. In these talks, we aimed to give people information about how they can make healthier life choices by considering the Eatwell Food Plate, healthy cooking methods and the negative effects of sugar. We hope you enjoy and can learn something from our TED talks! 

Article 31 Rest, play, culture and arts

In week 2, 5KD have been rewarded for their amazing efforts at raising money in the St Stephen's Smartie Challenge. We raised a total of £160.77 for the PTA and we want to say a massive thank you to them for rewarding us with a class party - we had a fabulous Friday afternoon!

Creating and Eating Nutritious Salads - Article 24: Health, Water and Environment

In Week 1, we were able to pick lots of vegetables from our amazing allotment including spring onions, beetroot, lettuce and carrots. We then put into practice our learning from Term 1 about safe and healthy methods of food preparation by washing, chopping, peeling, dicing, grating, roasting and boiling our ingredients. We put them all together to make delicious salads that we all enjoyed eating!

Pumpkin Carving - Article 31: Rest, Play, Culture and Arts

In Week 1, we had a whole school pumpkin carving competition which showcased the children's thought, care and skill. Well done to all those in 5KD who entered! Check out our superb entries below! 

Article 31 - The Right to Rest, Play, Culture and Arts

In Week 8 we have had our final singing assembly with Nigel. We have been working on projecting our voices this term and we are really proud of our singing! 

Article 24 - The Right to Health 

In Term 1, we have been persevering in mastering our street dance skills. We have been following a street dance master class and in Week 8 we have put together all of the new moves we have learnt. Well done 5KD! 

Week 7 - Article 17 Access to Information 

In week 7 we have been reflecting on the inspirational people that our school houses are named after. We have been lucky enough to watch some of David Attenborough's ‘A Life on Our Planet’ documentary and from this we have reflected on what small changes we can make to have a big impact on saving our planet. 

Marshmallow Madness- Article 28 The Right to Education

Today, we were set the challenge to make towers using only marshmallow and spaghetti! We got very sticky but it helped us reflect on what made great team work!

Seasons and Crops - Article 17: Access to Information

In Week 5, we have been learning about the different seasons and which crops can be sown and harvested in each season. We have been lucky enough to sow some lettuce, coriander and basil from the allotment which we will look after until they are ready to be harvested!

Sporting Chance - Article 31: Right to Play 

In Week 4, we have had the most wonderful opportunity of developing our jumping skills with Sporting Chance. This week we focused on our standing long jump and can’t wait for our next session!

Places of Worship - Article 14: Freedom of Thought and Religion

In Week 3, we have been learning about different places of worship. We started off by discussing how to show respect in a place of worship and came up with some fantastic ideas, as shown below! We are looking forward to learning more about Sikhism and their place of worship - a Gurdwara. 

WOW-Class Party Article 24 Right to health 

Today we kickstarted our new enquiry with a class party. After the party, we thought about the kinds of food that we had and what would happen to our health and bodies if we ate this food all of the time. We realised that we would become unhealthy and even unwell if we had unbalanced diets all of the time so we want to lean about healthy diets so we can keep ourselves in good shape as well as saving lives of others!