Year 5 Blog 2025/26

 Year 5 revised the different genres of music and the names of different musical instruments. They identified jouer as a verb and practised saying the different verb endings with the matching personal pronouns, by pointing an each other where appropriate. They then completed some sheets filling in the correct ending of the verb. 

 Today, the children experienced something new: Monotype printing and they thoroughly enjoyed it. Using water based ink and a roller, the children spread the ink so it covered the page and was a consistent thickness. Then, they placed a clean sheet of paper on the top. Using a pencil, they drew autumnal shapes and applied different pressure to see how the shapes were visible.  A great lesson and thank you for cleaning up the mess! 

We were visited today by Christopher Stevens, who came to speak to us about his book, 'The Lost Uncle and the Elixir of Life'. It was really interesting to hear about Christopher's life and his inspiration for writing.

 The children enjoyed playing a game where they had to steal cones from a person in the middle and take then take them back to their coloured hoops to score a point. The person in the middle had to try and take off one of their tag belts, if this happened the child had to put the cone back. The children were really enjoying this warm up before they played a game of tag rugby. 

Our first RE lesson this year was all  about understanding what belonging means to them and what they belong to. Here are some of the things the children belong to. Then the children looked at why belonging is significant and it what situation. Finally, they linked the idea of belonging and how Muslims show they belong and the importance of this.  The children watched a young girl named Medina who is a practicing Muslim to see how she shows she belongs when she visits the mosque. 

   Year 5 found out about the European Day of Languages,which is celebrated each year on the 26th September. They created a visual fact file about Spain , which included colouring in the Spanish  flag, identifying where Spain  is on the map, counting to 10 in Spanish and finding out about Spanish  foods and greetings.