Blog Author: Mrs Dowson

We have chosen 3 objects from home to create a still life picture to reflect us as individuals.

In RE we have been investigating why Christians see Easter as a victory. This week we have looked at some artwork which represents victory in the Easter story and then we made our own pieces of art. We also listened to some Easter hymns and songs and added some of their lyrics to our art. Can you…

Today in science we have carefully dissected a tulip to identify the main parts of a flower for reproduction. We have learned and used a lot of new vocabulary, including stigma, style, ovary, anther, filament, sepal and ovule. 

Our Year 5 bake off is complete. Mrs Walsh has been to judge and we have some winners.

Bread that was the most creative was won by Lucy. 
Bread that was the most aesthetically pleasing was won by Bella S.

Bread that was most like their plan was won by Sundiya and Kirsty. 
Well done to…

Today we have used our plans to create our very own bread masterpieces. Each person had there own unique design. 

Tomorrow we will be decorating and finishing off our bread before Mrs Walsh comes to be our own Paul Hollywood. 

Today in Computing we have been sending messages using Morse code. We wrote messages to a friend before using light from a torch to send messages. At the end of the lesson we tried using Morse Code Keyer online. It was really tricky.

We have been investigating seeds dispersed by the wind. We made helicopters using paper and added a paper clip seed. We changed either the length or width of the propeller blades but made sure that everything else stayed the same. We made sure we repeated each test 3 times and then found the mean…

Look at our finished bread rolls. Hopefully they will taste as good as they look and smell. Well done to all our budding bakers. 

Today we have been making bread rolls using a basic recipe. Now that we know the ingredients we need and how to combine them, we can use this to help us design our own bread next lesson. 
 

In computing we are learning to encode, send and decode messages in our Cryptography unit. Using flags is difficult and it was like learning a whole new language.

We have been comparing the seeds in different fruits this week in Science. We looked at size, shape, colour and number. Next lesson we will be looking at how seeds are dispersed.

We have been using Base 10 and place value counters to help us multiply 2 digit numbers. Using this apparatus meant we could see when exchanges needed to be made.