Year 5

Welcome to our Y5 Spring term blog! 

We recently took part in the Knex challenge. Click here to go to our class gallery to see more pictures of the workshop and our creations. 

The two winning entries will now be put forward across schools from Hertfordshire, Suffolk and Bedfordshire to be judges and 3 overall winners will be announced.

The children have worked really hard on their Monsterology unit of work, combining research, writing, computing and art skills. The Y5 parents were invited in to share all the amazing work the children produced! The written presentation shows how well they have applied their new handwriting skills - there were lots of comments from parents about how impressed they were! 

Click here to see more photos in our Y5 gallery. 

Welcome to the summer term!

Welcome to the Year 5 Autumn blog!

Please click here to see our Homework grid for this term. 

Children in Centaur class explored the work of Clementine Hunter in art today and focused on how she used line and shape in her art work. We later added colour using oil pastels.

Welcome to our Spring blog. 

Art

Children in Y5 have been working hard to design their own dragon eye sculptures in our latest art topic. Children have practised their drawing skills and have had a chance to develop their skills using clay. 

Road Safety

On the 30th January, children in Y5 were treated to a visit from Reynold's Catering to learn about road safety and have the opportunity to sit inside one of Reynold's lorries. Children were very excited to get a chance to beep the horn and learn about the safety features of a lorry and what it would be like to drive one. 

Children also learned the importance of speed limits and how this can affect the stopping distance of vehicles and where are the safest places to cross the road. 

Y5 pupils look forward to completing activities for Children's Mental Health Week on Thursday 8th February. 

Children's Mental Health Week

Children enjoyed the Mental Health workshop on Thursday 8^th February. Children took part in drama activities where they acted out different emotions and then created freeze frames of how they would respond in certain situations. 

Computing

Children have learned how to program a micro controller this half term using Crumble kit software and hardware. This has given them great opportunities to investigate how programming works and develop their problem solving skills.

Art

This week, children in Year 5 completed their additive sculpture art project by creating their final dragon eye sculptures using air dry clay. The children designed their sculptures in their sketch books the previous week and used tools and toothpicks to carve patterns into the clay. 

All of the Y5 teachers are incredibly impressed and proud of the sculptures the children have created. Well done Pegasus and Centaur classes !

English - Tea Tasting 27/2/24

To being our new English topic based on the book The Cloud Tea Monkeys, Year 5 spent some time tasting tea today. Children tasted and rated:

Assam 

Earl Grey

Mint Green

Rooibos

Design Technology - 1/3/24

This afternoon, children have begun their new topic of Bridges. They spent time investigating different beams and the how the shapes of their cross sections affected their weight bearing capabilities. 

St Mary's Festival of Maths Visit

On Tuesday 12th March, Year 5 were very lucky to be invited to St Mary's High School to take part in their Festival of Maths. Pupils got to recap a number of areas of the maths curriculum by playing strategic games with their class whilst also getting a little of the secondary school experience by working in a range of classrooms with a range of teachers. We thank St Mary's for our invitation and look forward to collaborating with them more in the future, it was lovely to hear how impressed they were with the behaviour of our Year 5 pupils. 

Friday 19th April 2024

Year 5 pupils completed their Spring DT topic this week by building their prototype bridges using card, paper and art straws with glue and sellotape. Pupils were challenged to make their bridges 50cm wide and 20cm tall, to be functional and attractive. Mrs Buckle and Miss Richardson were both very impressed with efforts from pupils and the levels of team work and problem solving they showed. 

Monday 22nd and Thursday 24th April

Year 5 pupils but their science knowledge to the test by building boats they had designed to test their buoyancy in water. Pupils made their boats out of plasticine and used multi-link cubes as passengers to see which type of boat design worked the best. 

Art

Children have been developing understanding of emotion in art by studying some famous works by Picasso from his 'Blue Period' as well as other paintings such as 'The Scream'. Children have experimented with a range of media  to show emotion in their art through varying their line, shape and colour. They are now further developing their painting skills to create a variety of shades that suit the emotion they want to portray in their work. 

Science

This half term, Year 5 have finished their topic on forces and moved onto investigating Materials and their properties. The children had a go at investigating how to separate materials that had become mixed up in their 'alien soup' that they made. The children had to separate materials such as sand, paper clips, pasta and salt using a selection of items such as sieves and filter paper. 

Tuesday 21st May 2024 - Geography Local Area Walk

Year 5 pupils extended their knowledge of rivers and the story of Rags Brook by going on a local area walk this week. Pupils from Centaur and Pegasus represented the school excellently as they braved the rain in Cheshunt to look at Rags Brook and the New River. Pupils marked their route on maps and created field sketches of features such as meanders and of local nature such as geese and ducks. 

Thursday 20th June 2024 - Maths - Capacity

This week, pupils in Y5 took part in a practical maths lesson to learn about capacity and how to estimate it. Children took part in a round robin of five tasks that required them to use their knowledge of capacity to estimate the answers. 

Arts Week  - Monday 17th to Friday 21st June

This week, children in Y5 and across the school have looked to The Green Man for insporation for their artwork. Children started the week by watching Morris Men dance in assembly and then developed summer and nature themed art works. 

In Y5, windows were decorated with origami lotus flowers made from scrap paper. Children also created art work inspired by the face of the Green Man by using their painting and drawing skills to create printing tiles used in their pictures. 

Wednesday 10th July 2024 - Goffs Churchgate Science Trip

Children in Y5 were asked to bid for a place via letter to go and visit Goffs Churchgate school to take part in a science workshop in their labs. Miss Richardson and the Goffs Chruchgate staff were very impressed with the standard of letter provided which showed a lot of passion and curiosity for the subject of science.