Y5

This week, we started our new DT unit: Mechanisms. We have researched how pulleys work, looking in detail at flag poles and construction cranes, and have worked in small teams to create our own simple pulley system. At the end of the term, we will design, make and evaluate ski lifts which include a pulley system.

Last Thursday, we enjoyed a Viking workshop. We took part in a Viking invasion, which really helped us to see how the Vikings were so successful in battle. We were also archaeologists and ‘dug up’ some artefacts from the past. We thought about what each item was using clues we gained from our careful observations, discovering many belt buckles, pottery and buttons. In the afternoon, we all attended a ‘Thing’ which was a gathering of freemen. It was both a parliament and a court. Both trivial matters and those of a more serious nature were decided here. Any decisions we made had to keep the three main classes of society happy – this was not always easy! Finally, we played some Viking games – 9 Men’s Morris and Tafl. Both were games of strategy and forward thinking. We all really enjoyed playing them.

The theme for Science Week this year was “Curiosity… what’s your question?” The children made rocket launchers and investigated the effect of air resistance on different sized paper and on different materials. They demonstrated brilliant teamwork and worked collaboratively to design and make their launchers.

Our recent writing genre was poetry where we wrote Haikus. These were 3 line poems that had syllable patterns of 5, 7, 5. We put our finished poems into a book which we are keeping in our class library.

Overall 94.5%

A big well done to Class 103 for winning the attendance trophy and to Class R02, Class 308 and Class 511 all got over 96%.

Let’s keep this up and aim for even more children getting 100% this term.

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