In PSHE, we discussed our goals and aspirations for year 5. On the red card we wrote down our learning goals and on the green card we wrote our own personal goals. ...
This term in Art, we created our own self-portraits in the style of the Artist Frida Kahlo....
In Computing, Year 5 we were learning about creating images from vectors on Google draw....
In Music Year 5 learnt about “foley” - sounds effects for film and TV made from everyday objects. We saw some examples of foley artists at work, and then had a go at making our own effects from different musical instruments...
Year 5 have started a new writing cycle focusing on setting description. On Monday we took an immersive 'trip' to the desert and rainforest. We used ambitious vocabulary to describe what we could hear, see, smell and feel, ready for our big write next week....
Year 5 enjoyed a visit to Hackney Museum. We built on our learning about the Windrush generation by looking at primary and secondary sources from Hackney during this period. We had fun using drama to re-enact people’s experiences and imagine how they felt....
Year 5 have been learning all about Pointillism, an artistic technique which uses small dots of colour to make a picture. We practised our Pointillism skills and then used them to create amazing self portraits. Check out these photos of us in action!...
On Thursday 25th May, some of our Year 5/6 children represented our school at a Regional NFL Flag tournament. Amazingly, the children have learnt all of the rules ( there are many!) for this game in a really short time period and worked tremendously hard...
For our final week of writing we wrote poems inspired by John Agard’s Windrush Child. We used illustrations from the book to inspire our own artwork that reflected the meaning and themes of the stanzas....
In Music, Year 5 have been learning about different musical genres. This week we learnt about the characteristics of Soul music, and had fun using our iPads to make our own Soul-inspired tracks on GarageBand....