Y5 and Y6 parent / carer workshop- Transition

 Greenwich CAMHS- Mental Health in Schools Team workshop:

 Supporting your child’s transition to secondary school

 

The Mental Health in Schools Team offers a workshop for parents of Y5 and Y6 children who will transition to secondary school within the next 1.5 year.

 

The session aims to provide a space for parents to explore the idea of ‘change’ and the accompanying feelings this triggers, as well as hopes and concerns.

 

It also provides tips and tools to promote a smooth transition to secondary school.

 

Friday 28^th February 9-10am

The Partnership Unit - the corner of Bannockburn Road and Plumstead High Street.

Year 5 experience an Art lesson at Woolwich Poly Girls

 Taster Day for Year 5 girls

On the 19th and 20th June, girls from year 5 visited Woolwich Polytechnic Girls school for a taster day. It was their first time visiting a secondary school and all the girls thouroughly enjoyed an Art lesson.

The feedback from all the girls was incredibly positive and it was an opportunity for the girls to experience a secondary school environment.

Year 5 gymnastics

This half term in Indoor PE, Year 5 have been working  on their gymnastics skills. 

Can I create symmetrical shapes and balances?

Can I perform actions that show difference in levels? 

Can I create a routine of movements including travelling and bending?

They developed routines using bending, rolls, jumps, leaps, stretching and twists.

Science- Hawthorn

This half term in Science, Year 5 have been investigating the properties of materials.

We have conducted many experiments, including:

• Mixing cornflour and water
• Comparing and grouping together everyday materials based on their properties (hardness, solubility, transparency, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity and their response to magnets).
• Investigating what changes are reversible? - melting chocolate - freezing water - creating salt solution
• Showing that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes.
• Understanding what are filtering, sieving and evaporation - rice and water in a sieve - coffee and filter paper - evaporating salt solution
• Investigating what changes are irreversible?  - cutting open an apple (oxidation) - bicarbonate of soda and vinegar (creates CO2)  - coke and mentos (creates CO2) - turning cream in to butter

They have been recording their experiments in their books with

- hypotheses and predictions

- results tables

- conclusions

They have also converted the results of one test into graphs on laptops in a Computing lesson.

Below are just a few photos from Hawthorn class' experiments.