Curriculum Intent

We want our Year 5 children to be open minded, independent, respectful, resilient, active, creative and forward thinking.

WOW! Rahaf -this is amazing!

SPELLING AND TIMES TABLES CHAMPIONS

INTERNET SAFETY DAY

Year 5 took part in Safer Internet Day Live lesson with the BBC.

We looked at all the great things that we use the internet for and thought carefully about the types of information we might share on line.

YEAR 5 SPELLING BEE AND TIMES TABLES CHAMPION FOR AUTUMN TERM 2

A warm welcome to our new year 5 cohort.  We had a tremendous year 5 last year and we are hoping that this year will be even better!

This page will showcase the wonderful things that we do in year 5 so keep checking in to see for yourself😁👍🏻👍🏽

Autumn/Spring/Summer 1: Year 5 on Y3/4 Yard and Year 6 on 5/6 Yard

Autumn/Spring/Summer: Year 5 on 5/6 Yard and Year 6 on 3/4 Yard

Teachers from the year groups that are on 3 and 4 Yard take their children down first.

Teacher on duty sends the year group that is on 5 and 6 Yard back to class first.

Sanitiser will be available before and after break time.

Daily Structure

Y5/6 Quarter

8.45 entrance through car park gate, met by SMT/LSO, guided to stairs by LSO, hand gel applied, keep to left up stairs on way to class.

10.45 playtime:

Y5 on far yard first with either Y5 teacher or Y5 LSO

Y6 on near yard with either Y6 teacher or Y6 LSO

Y5 back first followed by Y6
 

Children hand gelled on way out and back

If possible, children keep to left on way back to class unless detrmined otherwise by supervising teacher

Same routine at lunchtime

Children get half hour out and half hour in having lunch

Y5 leave at 3.10

Y6 leave at 3.20

Children stay with adult until SMT let them leave unless they go home on their own.

CLARE WEZE

Clare Weze was raised in London and Yorkshire and has British and Nigerian heritage. Her background is in science research, which she loves to weave into her novels. Her debut middle-grade adventure, THE LIGHTNING CATCHER, was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.

CLARE WEZE: https://www.clareweze.com/

Clare visited our Year 5 classes and talked about the story 'Once' which we have previously read in class. She gave us some great tips on how to improve our writing and storytelling and answered all the questions that we had prepared for her visit. At the end she signed all the children's copies of her book.

Well done to our final spelling Champions of the Year! Well done girls. We are so proud of you.

Performance Poetry
 

In year five we are studying the poems of  Charles Causley and Michael Rosen.

The children are learning how to write and perform their own free verse poem. 
In the video below two children are presenting 'I'm the youngest in our house' by Michael Rosen. 
Hopefully, in a week or so, they will be able to present their poem without reading from the script. 

COGNITIVE SKILLS and PROBLEM SOLVING in Year 5

What does cognitive mean?

•  relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) 

ASYLUM LINK MERSEYSIDE

Year 5 were  visited by Ian from ASYLUM LINK MERSEYSIDE. We read a story called 'The Journey'

This beautifully illustrated book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war. 

We discussed the issues around immigration, people seeking asylum and refugees and challenged some stereotypes. We linked our discussion to our previous learning in Science and English  and compared 'The Journey' with Ayesha's life in'Oranges in No Man's land'.

During Mental Health Awareness week, Year 5 had an opportunity to reconnect with nature and the environment.

We planted some seeds and drew some amazing tulips.

Some of our Recovery Curriculum writing:

Celebrating Black history with Merseyside Police

Social Action and Community Awareness with Liverpool Football Club. TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

# Youth Voice

# I Will

Year 5 Timetable

If you are working from home, please use Google Classroom to access the resources and work that your teachers have set for you.

If you need a password reminder, you can ring the school 0151 733 2556 and ask Mr. Keenan for it.

Year 5 have been learning all about democracy during British Values lessons. We are writing and performing our own assembly too.

Mrs Miah came in to talk about her job and how important being able to read and write is to her.

She is a driving instructor and she took our class out to look at her car and use the dual controls. THANK YOU! We really enjoyed your visit.

Year 5 have worked together with our parents and carers to inform and persuade our families and friends to recycle correctly. We designed posters and  sent them to the council. The winners will be reporoduced and posted in our locality.

PURPOSE: TO INFORM

PURPOSE: TO PERSUADE

#LWQM

We are also repeating last years Plastics recycling  campaign and our Year 5 children will take our collection to the local recycling centre next half term. 

A BIG THANK YOU to everybody for your help and contributions!

Year 5 enjoyed an afternoon at the Tate Liverpool.  

First we visited the optical illusions .  We were able to enjoy the Jim Lambie floor  of many colours. 

We also found a Damien Hurst painting called dots.

After that, we visited the exhibition of Vivienne Sutler.  She uses very large canvases and lives on the edge of a rain forest.  To add texture and depth she leaves the canvas outside on the edge of her land to the weather using the elements.

Congratulations to our very worthy winners of the Christmas 2019 Spellings and Times Tables competitions.

Well done children 😁🎄

Year 5 had a wonderful morning at the Story Barn. 
Thank you for organising this Christmas treat for us, Miss Hillier 😁👍🏻👍🏽🎄

Year 5 measuring (using our force / Newton meters) the amount of force needed to pull a training shoe across different surfaces. 

Year 5 have been looking at Frida Kahlo in art and, as you can see from the pictures, they have produced some amazing artworks. 

The children have also been making some Anglo-Saxon coins, as part of their history topic, and drawing and painting artefacts that were found at the archeological dig at Sutton Hoo. 

Year 5 enjoyed a brilliant day at Formby Point.  We visited the squirrel reserve and then went on to the beach and had lots of fun playing games.  

Some of the children walked along the beach and collected plastic that had been washed up by the tide.  This was part of our geography topic, 'Are We Damaging Our Planet?' and the science and literacy project that we are involved in with Metal Liverpool / Picton Poets / Shrinking Space.

Overall, a fantastic day.

What a fantastic performance from these hard working children. 

Times Table and spelling champions for summer A.  And for one child a ‘Treble Double’ an unprecedented achievement. 

I think it will be very tough for anyone to emulate her record 🏆🥇

Joint winners from 5B and 5M. 40 really difficult spellings and 10 randomly selected tough spellings and we still couldn’t get an overall winner; so the fairest way was to crown them both ‘Spelling Champion’ for autumn A. 

Well done! 

Congratulations to our autumn A ‘Times Table Champion’.  Well done!

Year 5 made 'Pirate Pineapple Creole' as part of their Junior Chefs Academy.

Mmmmmmmm...

British Values

Year 5 participated in a local art project to celebrate 100 years since women got the vote.

Jenny, Cristina and Naomi -artists from an arts organisation based at Edge Hill Station -visited our classes and we looked at issues such as gender inequality, universal suffrage, gender stereotypes and democracy.

The UK government is a representative democracy and usually has a general election every five years. The main two political parties in the UK are Conservative and Labour.

 What is Democracy?

Living in a democracy means that the people in a country get to take part in the decisions made by their government - they are able to have a say in how their country is governed.

In the past it used to be the case that only men, or even just rich men, could take part in the decisions of a government.

Nowadays, we accept that everyone should have a say in democracy and usually the only condition is that you have to be above a certain age (18).

What is Equality?

People in the world are not all treated the same. A truly equal society in one where everyone is treated and valued the same despite their race, culture, sex, age, wealth or religion.

It can be difficult to fully describe what equality means. However, there are three main areas where equality is usually seen as most important. They are:

Rights - these .are things that everyone should be allowed to do if they want to. They include things like being able to vote, speak freely and own property.

Opportunities - these are the chances that people have to do certain things, such as getting an education and getting a job.

Status - this concerns how people are viewed in society. Everyone in a society should be considered to be equal to everyone else - no person should be better or worse than another person simply because of their race, sex, religion, age or wealth.

Year 5 ART,

DESIGN TECHNOLOGY AND MATHEMATICS: ALL IN ONE LESSON!

5M investigated how changing the size of the rotors on a ‘spinner’ might affect the speed at which it floats to the ground. They discovered that the ‘spinner’ with the larger rotors was slower to hit the ground than the one with the smaller rotors. We talked about how the larger rotors had a bigger surface area for air resistance to act upon, therefore it floated more slowly to the ground. Gravity pulled both spinners equally but the spinner with the smaller rotors had less air resistance and hit the ground first 

Sir Isaac Newton and Galileo would be proud of you, 5M 😁

Congratulations to our first ‘Times Table Challenge’ winners of this academic year. Well done!  😁 🎓 🏆

Year 5 had a fantastic day on the final day before Autumn half term at Crosby Hall Educational Trust.

The children took part in activities connected to our art and history topic, Ancient Greece. They made Ancient Greek pottery; searched for Greek Gods in the woods and made Greek photograms in CHET’s photo development laboratory.  Awesome! 😄

2016 - 2017

The parents came in to see one of our lessons today.  We were learning about gears, pulleys and levers in our science topic (forces).  The parents helped us to make working models to show how gears and pulleys work.  We then had a round of 'Time Tables Challenge' and 'Hit the Button' to round the afternoon off nicely.

Thanks to everyone who came in on Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. 

Look at the standard of work in 

year 5!

Well done for this amazing work!

In science we have been looking at forces. We made boats and tested their buoyancy. 

As part of our History topic 'What can we learn about the past from studying the life of .....John Lennon?'

we examined the period 1940-1980.

When we reached the 1960's we dressed up as Flower Power Hippies and celebrated with a live Beatles concert.

It was Groovy Man!

Remember that our spelling competition will take place the first week back after half term. You will be tested on the forty words we have looked at this half term. In the case of a tie-break we will use random words from the dictionary.

Who will be our Year 5 Spelling Master?