Another year has past ….
Mr Owen, Mrs Pearson and I would just like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all the children for a great year. We have really enjoyed teaching each and every one of them. Many thanks also for all the end of term gifts. We never expect presents but are very grateful for your generosity. Before we sign off for the summer, we would like to share our ‘Plastic Free Under the Sea‘ display with you. The artwork was added to over several weeks and we are sure you will agree, the end result is eye-catching!
We hope you all enjoy the summer holidays!
Signing off: Highlights of Year 5
Our homework this week was creative: I can show my highlights of the year. In true Y5 style, the homework was smashed out of the park.
Some decided to show their favourite subject, like Serenity’s mini art gallery to represent her creative learning…
… or Laila’s Lego rounders pitch to represent PE and our trip to Roundhay Park.
Some created amazing posters to represent lots of different highlights…
… like World Book Day, our trip to the Bradford Media Museum or our several themed weeks across the year just to name a few!
Others made a countdown to rank their highlights…
… like Will’s Top Five which included our courtroom reenactment, 5/6 production and both our class novels…
… and Maggie even created hers using PowerPoint which was incredibly funny and emotional at the same time! “Does Miss Wilson really live in the cupboard and will she have to move house to the ‘apartment’ next door over the summer? We will never know.”
For some reason, many of the class had latched onto the fact that I can’t speak properly sometimes and I mix up my words. Once, I was trying to say “Dan had” and ended up calling him “Dad” in class. Hilarity ensued.
Another classic was asking everyone if they had a “spare purple pen” that came out as “spurple pen” and with it a long-running joke was born. Here it is being demonstrated by a larger than life homework submission.
Lots, lots, lots of the class mentioned how their highlight was simply bonding and spending time with their best friends, as demonstrated by Poppy and Kirsten’s ace collage.
Well done everyone, yet again! I could have posted everyone’s homework but these were just a couple of the brilliant ones.
My personal highlight has been getting to know each and every one of you and learning so much but having a good laugh along the way. I couldn’t ask for a better class to take up to year six for your last ever year of primary school. Enjoy the summer and I’m excited to see you all in September for our best year yet!
Miss Wilson x
Author visit
This morning Hayley, came in to class to tell us about her book Emma Bright and the super food fight.
As well as being a really fun and exciting story, it has lots of positive message about a healthy lifestyle.
Later in the session, we created our own superfood heroes on paper plates.
Superfood collage
We’ve been looking at the paintings of Guiseppe Arcimboldo in art lessons this half-term. This links well with our food topic as Arcimboldo was famous for drawing different fruits and vegetables to create portraits. 
Using these paintings as inspiration, we created our own collages using actual fruit and vegetables. First we designed our portraits and then we made them. 
Finally, the children devoured their creations! 
Junior snooker summer holiday club programme
Northern Snooker Centre will be running six sessions to introduce snooker and billiards to young people aged 10-16 this summer holiday, coordinated by a WPBSA World Snooker Coach.
These fun and engaging group sessions are aimed at new players, as part of a new national programme funded by Sport England. Each session costs only £1 to attend.
The club is a member of the national club scheme, which means it meets the governing body standards of safeguarding and equality, as well as adopting a Code of Conduct to ensure the right setup for juniors, overseen
by a Club Welfare Officer.
This is a fantastic opportunity to try an inclusive sport in an exciting and dynamic environment.
Great fun bowling
Last night, Year 6 had a lovely time bowling. Thank you for dropping them off and picking them up promptly!
Enterprising times
This week, as you may have noticed, Year 6 have been out in the playground after school raising money for the school charity and to contribute towards their leavers’ hoodies.
They’ve thoroughly enjoyed coming up with stalls to run and have had a great time working with customers. Our last day is today so come along and try out a stall you haven’t had a go at yet or just treat yourself to another ice cream!
Living and Learning: Physical Health
As well as our current learning about healthy food, we have been thinking about other aspects of health including physical health.
The Government Childhood Obesity Plan has set out the ambition for all children to achieve 60 minutes of physical activity every day – 30 active minutes in school and 30 active minutes out of school.
We considered different ways to achieve these recommendations.
Outside of school
- Walk/bike/scoot/park and stride to school
- after school clubs
- other sports clubs
- parkrun
- swimming lessons
- walking a pet
- playing in a park
- playing out/in the garden
- jumping on a trampoline
- skipping
- going for a walk
At school
- being active at playtime and lunchtime
- skipping
- playing in the MUGA
- Wake up Shake up
- Super Movers, GoNoodle, imoves active breaks in class
- using the climbing wall
- using the front playground
Picnic in the park
Well done to all the children today for designing and preparing all the parts of their picnic.
We’ve used lots of food preparation skills over the last two days and it was great to enjoy our trip to the park as the finale to our food topic.
‘The food was delicious.’
‘I enjoyed the cooking but some of it was tricky. It is hard to cut pieces the same size.’
‘The cooking was great fun.’
‘We got to play on the money bars, swings and skip.’
This learning has helped the children to understand what is needed for a healthy packed lunch based on the Eat Well Guide. We also have our Packed Lunch Guidance in case some of the children move to packed lunches in Year 3.
Hopefully you might get chance to enjoy another picnic in the park over the summer holidays (and get someone to make it for you!).
Reflecting on our maths learning!
This week, part of the learning in year five has seen a triple-pronged attack!
Children used their computing skills to create a PowerPoint with a partner about their maths learning across the year. This thirdly tied in with our Living and Learning statement this week which is I can reflect and look ahead.
Their presentations and discussions that followed evaluated what was learnt but also how it went, what they liked and where they made the most progress.
“I made the most progress in rounding decimals to one decimal place,” said Sam.
Rabiya said, “I improved my knowledge of improper fractions and mixed numbers the most.”