Don’t forget that it is the Year 5 class assembly on Friday 23rd June at 10.15am.  Everyone is welcome and a crèche will be provided for pre-school children and babies.  We look forward to seeing you then.

This half term, we have begun to learn about Ancient Egypt.  We carried out a drama about Howard Carter finding the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.  We learnt that it was actually a waterboy who found the steps to the tomb as he was walking across the sand, although Howard Carter was given the credit for the find.  We are now writing diary entries about the find form the point of view of either Howard Carter or the waterboy.

Last week, we had our second class trip of the year when we visited Toyota at Burnaston.  We all had a fantastic time and enjoyed learning about what happened in the factory and how the cars were made.  We also learnt about time management and how this could help us with our homework.

We began by making our own cars out of Lego.  All of them were made from the same pieces but were all different designs:

We then had our own production line where we had to make lots of the same model car:

This was an example of our times when we worked together as a team to create a model car.  We all had difficult targets to meet, which we all achieved:

Many thanks to everyone at Toyota for organising and leading such a fantastic trip.  One of the best class trips ever!

In our topic work, we have been learning about mountains.  We learnt about the different parts of a mountain and have made our own mountain landscapes out of modroc.  We had a fantastic time making these.  We hope that you like them!

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Here is the first of our Epic Citadel Videos – Well done AS and EW!

Over the past few weeks, we have been using an app called Epic Citadel within Literacy.  We explored the city on ipads and tablets and then created word clouds with the descriptive words based on our views of the city.

We wrote our own stories about the city and then produced and directed our own videos about the reason why there were no people in the city.  These will be uploaded over the next few days.

We hope that you like the stories and videos.

Welcome To Year 5!

We have now moved into Year 5 and we are now with our new teacher, Mr R.  We will use the blog to keep everyone up to date with what we are doing in class and the links to the websites which we use in school too.  Happy blogging!