Well done to everyone on completing your active challenges and filling your PE Passport! We all really enjoyed completing the different activities throughout Healthy Lifestyles Week.
5LR enjoyed participating in Bikeability
For Maths, Science and Technology week, In Year 5, we made pop-up books. Our brief was to create a pop-up book for a Year 1 child based on a nursery rhyme. We chose Humpty Dumpty. We designed our books and decided which type of mechanism we would use on each page (a lever, a slider or a pop-out box). We needed to use our maths skills for measuring and looking at angles for our levers. It took a long time to get everything just right and we really concentrated on making the books attractive to our audience by making them bright, colourful and interactive. We are so pleased with our end results – we think they are EGG-cellent!
Our DT project in Year 5 was to create a stuffed toy. We had to design something for a younger child and take this into account during our planning.
First, we drew our designs and annotated them with what colours and stitches we’d use as well as any additions such as ears, spots or spikes.
Next, we made our template on card. We only needed the outline of the main shape and the outline of any appendages we were going to add. These were carefully cut out.
Then, we pinned our templates to our felt. We had 2 layers of felt (one for the front of the toy and one for the back) which made it tricky to cut out.
After that came the sewing! Our first stage was to stitch any details onto the main body of one of the pieces of felt. We then used a blanket stitch to join the front and back together, making sure we left a gap for stuffing.
Next we stuffed the toy using a pencil to push it through into the toy, making sure it filled any corners.
Finally, we used blanket stitch to close the hole we used for stuffing.
We are really pleased with our end results – what do you think?
All children took part in a free Easter Egg Raffle. There were lots of happy winners!
We celebrated World Book Day on Thursday 4th March. As part of this day the children took part in many different activities linked to books. Year threes activities were mainly focused around a book called ‘Dirty Beasts’ by Roald Dahl, year fours tasks were based around a book from a series, ‘You’re a Bad Man, Mr Gum!’ by Andy Stanton’, year 5 completed tasks that linked to a book called ‘Wolf Brother’ by Michelle Paver’ and year sixes work focused on a story called ‘Malala’s Magic pencil’. We also listened to a virtual reading from an author called Stuart Reid. Many of us dressed up as book characters in school and at home.
5LR enjoyed completing a range of tasks during Children’s Mental Health Week at home as well as in school – well done everyone!
Chloe in 5BA is enjoying her PE lessons at home. She completed a ‘Super Strength’ circuit using milk bottles in place of weighted balls. Physical Activity is great for helping us look after our Mental Health. Well Done, Chloe!
Also well done to Hailie and her little sister from 5LR completing their fitness challenges at home!
For one of our Mental Health Week activities in Year 5, we designed our own fitness circuits that can
be completed in our homes! We included equipment that you would find around a house such as
teddies and tins of food. To make sure they were suitable, we tried them out ourselves! We are
going to post some of these circuits online for the children at home to complete in their PE lesson on
Thursday. Some of the stations are very tiring and are definitely going to be a challenge!
