Blog by Helen Mackie

We made paper planes and investigated which would fly the furthest

We are learning about Anglo Saxon Crime and Punishment.

If an Anglo Saxon injured another Anglo Saxon the had to pay Wergild depending which body part was injured or cut off. 

We made Dancing Spiders using tin foil, white board pens and water.

Year 5 took part in a Leadership Dodgeball Course today. We are now ready to teach others how to play.

We had a great time pond dipping this afternoon. We found hundreds of tadpoles!

We are having a fantastic day at Brentwood House.

The value of the month is Cooperation.

We read the story of The Two Greedy brothers and then tried to cooperate with each other to untangle ourselves.

We had great fun on the playground this afternoon...throwing paint around!

Using Kitchen utensils, brushes and even a dog treat ball we created amazing Jackson Pollock inpired art work.

We had a fantastic day at Dowdales...descriptive writing in English, fireworks in Science, dance, PE and poetry wiring in French. 

Well done Year 5..... you were amazing!

We had some lessons in voice projection while waiting for our film to start.

We read Sticman then created our own Stickman animations.