Year 5 Class News

Half term basketball camps

As a partner school of City of Leeds Basketball Club and one of our after-school club providers, we’re pleased to share details of their half term camps held locally at Allerton High School.

Living and Learning: Me and my money themed week

Each class will have a collecting jar and children are encouraged to bring in 1ps and 2ps throughout the week. A trail will be created using all the money brought in at the end of the week.

Hotshots sponsorship event

On Friday 7 November, we will be holding a Hotshots sponsorship event, led by PE Partner. This involves each child having three chances to score a goal and their fastest speed recorded. All children will receive a certificate with their fastest shot speed and medals will be awarded for the fastest boy and girl in each class. Your child will be bringing home a sponsorship form for this event and money raised should be added to School Gateway by Friday 14 November.

Thank you for your support with these events.

 

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

On Tuesday, Year 5 and 6 went on a trip to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park to support our Art learning for next half term. We loved seeing all the amazing sculptures.

In the morning, we had a self-guided tour of the park and saw both abstract and figurative sculptures. We spent time discussing and sketching what we saw.

In the afternoon, we took part in a workshop with a real artist! We investigated patterns, textures and shape.  The children did some artwork without looking at the page; they had to put their sketchbook on their heads. They also created artwork without taking their pencil off the page, which was a bit tricky! We spoke in depth about Barbara Hepworth’s Family of Man and had some brilliant ideas as to what each sculpture could represent. Finally, we made our own clay sculptures overlooking some of Henry Moore’s work. 

It was a brilliant day!

Help at home: Ask your child about the trip. What was their favourite part of the day? Which was their favourite sculpture and why? Or, take a look at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park website – can you find out more about the pieces of art we saw in real life?

National Poetry Day

Yesterday was National Poetry Day and we celebrated at school by having a special poetry assembly. We’ve been practising our Wordsworth poem all week and the children delivered it beautifully. They had superb voice projection and excellent prosody. I have been really impressed with the children’s dedication to learning the poem off by heart too.

Well done Year 5!

Help at home by exploring more poems. The children’s poetry archive is a great website to explore.

Science: forces

This half term in Science we have been learning all about forces. This week, we investigated air resistance using bin bags. First, we ran across the Green as fast as we could and recorded our time. Then, we did the same run but this time we held a bin bag above our heads. We found that we ran slower whilst holding the bin bag. We deduced that this must be because when we were holding the binbag it increased the air resistance and therefore slowed us down.

Help at home by discussing the vocabulary (below) that we are using in Science for our forces topic.

Leeds Rhinos play offs

PLAY OFF ACTION RETURNS TO AMT HEADINGLEY

Following the conclusion of the regular season Leeds Rhinos will take on St Helens in a mouth-watering elimination play off at AMT Headingley Stadium on Saturday 27 September 2025, kicking off at 8pm.

Tickets are on sale now at Leeds Rhinos – Online ticket sales

We hope that you will join us for what promises to be a fantastic occasion as we aim to get within 80 minutes of the Grand Final at Old Trafford.

Further info can be found here Play Off Eliminator tickets on sale now

Latin

This week in Latin, we learnt about how the Romans loved to play games. We looked at some of the artefacts that had been found that showed us what kind of games the Romans played. Then, we had a go at playing one ourselves.

Help at home by asking your children if they can make the game to play at home.

Writing: diary entries

This week we have been writing diary entries inspired by stories we have read in our class novel ‘Survivors’ by David Long. We imagined we had been involved in a disaster and we were fighting to survive. I was really impressed by how the children were able to embody their character and really put themselves into a survival situation.

Help at home by asking your child what happened in their diary entry.

Autumn term after-school clubs – places available

As we start week two of our new after-school club schedule, there are some clubs with spaces available and it is not too late for your child to join a club.

Monday

• Y3/4 Table tennis 1 space
• Y3-6 Chess spaces
• Y4-6 Dodgeball 1 space

Tuesday

• Y1-3 Foot-tech football 1 space
• Y1-3 City of Leeds Basketball spaces
• Y5-6 now open to Year 4 Table tennis  spaces

Wednesday

• Y1-3 Fun and games  spaces
• Y4-6 City of Leeds Basketball  spaces

Thursday

• Y5/6 Coding  2 spaces
• Y5-6 now open to Year 4 Netball spaces

Living and Learning: 8Rs

In Living and Learning this week we have been focussing on the 8Rs for learning  and thinking about ways we can show the 8Rs in all our lessons.

I’ve seen the whole class using their 8Rs in different lessons this week. In PE, we’ve been working on our teamwork by playing different games. We had to have strong communication and listening skills. Everybody showed resilience  and were very responsive.

Today, we started reading with the Reception children. This is a Year 5 tradition. The children were very excited and showed great kindness and maturity when they were reading. The children showed great responsibility.

Throughout all the lessons this week Year 5 have shown they are ready and that they can take safe risks by answering questions even if they are not sure.

Help at home by discussing when the children can use the 8Rs at home.