Year 5 and 6 Gallery 2025 - 2026

Year 5 ENGLISH

Year 5 have been developing their speaking and listening skills this week, taking on the role of some fierce Anglo Saxons and Vikings. We drafted questions that we'd like to ask Harold Godwinson, Harold Hadrada and William of Normandy in 1066. Today we used hot seating to bring this to life which allowed us to create more empathy towards these characters and deepen our understanding of the story, 'Anglo Saxon Boy'. 
 
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Yaer 5 ART

Last week we created textured printing plates using a range of resources (pasta, rice, bubble wrap and more). This week we were able to paint over the top of the materials and print them into our sketchbook to create our backgrounds for our art work. 
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Beowulf Battle Cry 

Year 6 performed their motivational speeches as though they were Beowulf speaking to his warriors before entering a cave to face a dragon. Those who performed had the rest of the class ready to face the dragon.  

Year 5 Computing 

The children loved sharing their Scratch quizzes with each other. They planned, designed and created a quiz on a topic of their choice. 

Yaer 5 Science

In Science, we used playdoh to represent the planets of our solar system and worked hard to measure their distance from the sun. 
 
 

Y5 and y6 tURTLES 

 
Year 5 and 6 really enjoyed last weeks Curling session- especially the tournament at the end! 

 

Year 6 Art

This week in art, Year 6 have been learning to understand and explore decision making in creative processes. The children were able to discuss the choices an artist makes and then used a range of media to create a drawing. 

Year 6 Lego

Year 6 have enjoyed a morning of Lego computing. The children warmed up their Lego fingers and built a Lego buggy.  Once their buggy was complete, in their pairs they coded the buggy using the Lego software on an iPad. They were able to instruct the buggy to move forwards and backwards. After this they coded their buggies to make sounds, react and respond to colours and also added a light cube and made different patterns. Such an enjoyable session for Year 6. 
 

Beowulf on trial

In year 6 we have put Beowulf on trial this week after the brutal battles with Grendel and his mother. Is he a hero or a bloodthirsty murderer?
The prosecution ans defence pit forwarded their cases debating back and forth, with it being very evenly split. Witnesses were called by both the prosecution and defence including King Hrothgar, Handscio's uncle, Grendel's aunt and a disgruntled villager. 
After much deliberation, the judge ruled in favour of the prosecution sending Beowulf to jail.

writing technique

Today turtles class took the 'Show, Don't tell' writing technique to the next level by acting out the emotions that Beowulf and his men would be feeling. Children embodied feelings such as anger, relief, joy and sadness through movement and expression, helping them to understand how to convey emotions more vividly. 

Year 5 Maths

Year 5 are enjoying their problem-solving Fridays. They have been working in their teams to solve the tricky problems which involve a variety of math topics and skills. Resilience, determination and patience have been shown by all pupils. Well done! 

Friction investigation 

Llamas investigated which materials create the most friction using a shoe and a Newton meter. The children pulled their shoe across each material seeing how many Newtons it took for the shoe to move. The higher the number of Newtons the more friction there was.  

Anglo Saxon dress 

The children in year 6, dressed in traditional Anglo Saxon dress to imagine what it must have been like back then. The children were able to compare and contrast their clothes to that of the Anglo-Saxons.  

The Gift Of The Nile

Year 5 had a great time developing their skills in Music. We used the Glockenspiels to play the song 'The Gift Of The Nile', working hard to follow the music and notes. Some of our own musicians had a go at playing the tune on their own instrument too. Well done, Year 5! 

walking with giants

This week year 6 took part in an online workshop celebrating world space week, called Walking with Giants. The workshop was led by Caroline Sloan, a terranaut for Steller Solutions Aerospace. She spoke to use  about her career journey to working in space, which the children found really interesting  and then shared some amazing facts about space. The children then took part in a questions and answer session with Caroline and created a poster of facts. 

lLAMAS COOKING

Llamas turn to make spaghetti bolognese. The children prepared the ingredients, cooked safely and enjoyed their bolognese.

tURTLES MUSIC

Turtles class have throughly enjoyed their music lessons this half term. This week we explored note notelength using percussion instruments, helping us to understand how sounds can be long or short. After practising, the children came together to perform  'The  Gift of the Nile' with the class split into three groups (instrumentalists, vocals and a dancers). Together they created a fantastic performance.

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Water resistance investigation

Year 6 investigated the effects of water resistance on different shaped objects. The children dropped different shaped pieces of Play Doh and dropped them into water, timing how long they took to hit the bottom.

Y6  European Day of language 

Year 6 enjoyed learning all about Norway as part of our celebration of European Day of Languages. The children were able to find Norway on the map, greeted each other in Norweigan and cracked codes written in runes. Dorothy even shared some real life images from Norway. 

TURTLES 

Turtles have begun creating their quizzes in scratch. The children have designed their background and sprite and are now writing their code to create a quiz. Some children have chosen to complete a timed table quiz, others a forces and some even linked to Beowulf our class text.

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Year 6 Science

Our year 6 scientists have been busy exploring water resistance. They tested different shapes to see how they move through the water and discovered how design can affect speed.
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Year 5 Music

 
This half term, our music lessons are inspired by the Egyptians! On Friday, we explored the use of hieroglyphs and how they can represent music. We then used our bodies and voices to represent hieroglyphs- we had great fun doing this! 
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Year 6 DT

DT - This week year 6 have been exploring the nutritional values of different foods and discussing simple ways we can make everyday meals more healthier and balanced.

Jaguars Cooking

Jaguars had a fantastic time this week preparing, cooking and eating spaghetti bolognese! Sensibly, we chopped the vegetables whilst the mince and spaghetti cooked on the hob. Each group added different ingredients to change the taste and appearance of their desired dish. Our favourite part was (of course) eating it! 

computing

Year 6 have started this terms computing with our online safety topic focused on password privacy. The children enjoyed making tumblers which helped them create super safe passwords

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dt

As part of our DT project year 6 enjoyed researching bolognaise recipes and tasting different sauces. We are looking forward to creating our own spaghetti bolognaise. 

SCIENCE

 
In Science, we have been learning about forces. This week, we learnt about Isaac Newton and the theory of gravity. Using newton metres, we experimented with different classroom objects to determine whether there was a link between mass (g/kg) and newtons (N). We concluded that that there is a link between the two. 
 

MATHS

In maths, we played a game to support our understanding of numbers to 1 million. Working against a partner, we rolled the dice 6 times and had to create the biggest/ smallest 6 digit number. We had to be tactful about where we placed our digits on the place value chart. 
 
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Computing

Year 5 have had a fantastic week! In Computing, we recapped how to stay safe online and created our own Password Tumblers to generate unique passwords. In D.T, we tasted some different bolognese sauces and discussed their texture, taste and packaging. This will help us decide which sauce we want when we make our own spaghetti bolognese later in the half term. 'Find your match' was a game we played in French this week to help us recap conversational phrases. We went around the room to ask 'Comment tu t'appelles?' to find our matching character. Once we found them, we had a small conversation to practise our turn-taking. It's been a busy but fun-filled first full week of Year 5!

Mass and weight

Y6 conducted an experiment using Newton meters and scales to see whether there was a relationship between the mass of an object and its weight. They found that the heavier the object the stronger the gravitational force that acts upon it.