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....
In Maths we have been investigating common denominators. We played a game, in which we had to find our related fraction family. Ask us how we know if a pair of fractions are related!...
In Science, Year 5 began our new topic ‘Earth and Space’. We used globes and torches to investigate why some parts of the Earth have night time whilst others have daylight....
In Year 5 went to celebrate coming runners up in the Wild City Gardens Project! For the last 6 weeks we have been learning about biodiversity and designing our forest garden. This week we received our £300 prize money at an experience day at the...
Year 5 have been pulling together this term’s learning about Brazil by creating videos for the ‘Brazilian Tourist Board’ on iMovie. Our goal was to persuade people to visit Brazil by showing them the country’s incredibly diverse physical and human geography. Finally, we shared our...
On Thursday, Year 5 went on an exciting trip to the British Museum. We took part in an interactive workshop where we examined different artefacts and learnt more Ancient Greek city states. We even got to dress up as Ancient Greek citizens!...