Children in year 5 have been working very hard all term in learning advanced grammar skills and applying the third singular grammatical person in their work. Last week's lesson had a cultural focus in which the children followed along to a video which showcased traditional music and costumes from all the twenty-one countries where Spanish is the official language.
For Spring term, year 5 have been investigating the properties of materials. This week we have been separating materials by using sieving, filtering and evaporation.
We witnessed salt water evaporating and leaving salt:
As part of our History topic, World War Two, we looked at how our local area changed during and after this period in time. We looked into a list of bombs dropped in our local area during the war and tried to locate on the map where those bombs might have fallen. We then went on a walk around our local area identifying key places where bombs were dropped during WWII, making notes of the changes that we saw.
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On Thursday, we went to the Maritime Museum in Greenwich. We looked at lots of amazing exhibitions including Pacific Encounters, Polar World and Sea Things.
This linked to our learning in humanities about explorers!
We had a great and memorable day which has brought out learning to our real life experiences to make our learning more tangible.
Here are some pictures from our Spy Immersion Day in Year 5.
We took part in lots of different activities such as making ciphers, writing secret messages using invisible ink, taking part in a debate about whether being a spy was good or bad and then completing a spy obstacle course. We had lots of fun pretending to be spies for the day!
