As part of our topic of Electricity, we had a practical session with four carousel activities where we investigated how to make lights brighter, dimmer and we also found out how motors faster or slower. We all had a great fun and learned a lot!
As part of multicultural week, we had a visitor who taught us some Greek dancing. It was great fun!
We visited the Fire Station for the RAP in order to learn about how to Reduce Accidents at Play. It was really interesting to find out about the RNLI, drugs, road/metro safety and electrical pylons and substations.
As part of multi-cultural week, Year 5 are studying Australia. We have looked closely at the history of Aboriginal Australia. The first people of Australia were known as Aborigines. Aborigines have a unique way of telling their history, they use songs, dance and stories that are passed from generation to generation. We enjoyed telling stories through aboriginal dance, listening closely to traditional Australian instruments being used, like the didgeridoo.
As part of multicultural week Y4 enjoyed learning an African dance. We needed to listen really carefully to the rhythms in the music.
Thank you for the kind contributions for our Harvest Festival. They were delivered to the bungalows around the school.
In art this week, Year 5 have enjoyed using clay to sculpt Viking Warriors. We used various sculpting skills and researched typical Viking facial features. Did you know that most Vikings grew beards as long hair was a symbol of strength? We are really pleased with our results!
Yesterday, the girl’s football team played in their first tournament of the season at Boldon School.
We played three matches: the first match was against St Aloysius where we drew 1-1; we played Hedworth Lane in our second match and lost 1-0 and in our final match against Fellgate, we won 4-0.
We saw some spectacular goals from Hannah and Ellie but the whole team played extremely well. It has been a good start to the tournament, our skills continue to improve and we’re excited for our next match.
On Monday 30th September, all of Year 5 descended on York to find out more about the Vikings!
We went to the Jorvik Viking Centre where we took a trip back in time and travelled around a Viking village. We saw combs being made from antlers, children playing, food stalls, shoe shops and rats running around – we even experienced what it would’ve smelled like which was not very pleasant! Although the Viking times were over 1000 years ago, we realized that there were many similarities in the way that they lived and the way that we live today – Viking children even had an equivalent of a fidget spinner made from the knuckle bone of a pig!
We were also lucky enough to attend two workshops where we found out about Viking battle tactics and Viking sagas. Our guide showed us several Viking weapons and how and why they’d have been used in battle and we found out that a female Viking warrior was called a ‘shield maiden’. During our Viking Sagas workshop, we were told an ancient Norse story and some of us got to act it out which was great fun. We look forward to writing our own Viking sagas in our English lessons in the next few weeks.
Year 5 are lucky enough to be working alongside a rugby coach from All Stars Rugby in order to prepare us for our upcoming Tag Rugby tournament. Our lessons this week were moved indoors due to the weather but we still managed to impress with our excellent passing and tagging skills.
