Year 5 gymnastics

This half term in Indoor PE, Year 5 have been working  on their gymnastics skills. 

Can I create symmetrical shapes and balances?

Can I perform actions that show difference in levels? 

Can I create a routine of movements including travelling and bending?

They developed routines using bending, rolls, jumps, leaps, stretching and twists.

Year One Library Trip

A group of children from year one visited the library today. The librarian read the children a story before they had the chance to choose their own books and bring their favourites back to school to share with their class. 

 

Science- Hawthorn

This half term in Science, Year 5 have been investigating the properties of materials.

We have conducted many experiments, including:

• Mixing cornflour and water
• Comparing and grouping together everyday materials based on their properties (hardness, solubility, transparency, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity and their response to magnets).
• Investigating what changes are reversible? - melting chocolate - freezing water - creating salt solution
• Showing that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes.
• Understanding what are filtering, sieving and evaporation - rice and water in a sieve - coffee and filter paper - evaporating salt solution
• Investigating what changes are irreversible?  - cutting open an apple (oxidation) - bicarbonate of soda and vinegar (creates CO2)  - coke and mentos (creates CO2) - turning cream in to butter

They have been recording their experiments in their books with

- hypotheses and predictions

- results tables

- conclusions

They have also converted the results of one test into graphs on laptops in a Computing lesson.

Below are just a few photos from Hawthorn class' experiments.