Year 5 & 6 Class News

Living and Learning: Reading Champions

Posted on Sunday 15 May 2022 by Mr Lindsay

Year 5/6 C have taken part in a demorcratic decision to nominate one person from our  class to be a Reading Champion.

After a lengthy discussion about what makes a suitable Reading Champion, we agreed that it was someone who was passionate about reading. We were looking for someone to be a leader – a role model, and inspiration.

After two very close rounds of voting, we decided that Lenny was our clear winner.

Lenny’s enthusiastic nature and pure joy when discussing all books is a joy to see.

Walk to School Week 16-20 May 2022

Posted on Friday 13 May 2022 by Mrs Latham

Next week is Walk to School Week (or scoot or ride).

We hope you’ll all try to take part in this, even if you can’t walk from home. The Buffers Pub and St Phillip’s Church have agreed for us to use their car parks so everyone has the opportunity to walk part of the way.

Remember to bring your raffle tickets each day you walk to put in your class boxes to be in with a chance of winning a prize!

Let’s get active!

 

Can fruit produce electricity?

Posted on Tuesday 03 May 2022 by Mrs Hogarth

We are continuing with our electricity unit in science and have been investigating whether fruit can produce electricity. How would this show how a battery works?

Lemons can be used in a circuit to power an LED. The juicy part of the lemon contains electrolytes that conduct electricity – approximately 0.7 – 0.9 volts. Four lemons are needed to power an LED. The children turned the lemons into batteries by using zinc nails and copper coins. The copper acts as the positive terminal of a battery and the zinc nail becomes the negative terminal. They then added the LED, wires and a switch. The LED lit up – hooray!

What other fruits or vegetables can be used in a circuit?

Living and learning: I take part in democratic decisions.

Posted on Monday 25 April 2022 by Mrs Hogarth

The School Library Service is holding a competition to celebrate reading for key stage 2 children in Leeds.  The children have the opportunity to be shortlisted and go to an awards ceremony and be crowned Leeds School Librarian 2022.

As a class, we discussed which children are good role models when it comes to reading. Some children never have their heads out of a book, whilst others always complete their reading journals and tasks at home. We came up with a shortlist of seven candidates and as a class we took a democratic vote. This nominated person’s name will be passed to the Junior Leadership Team and their job will be to select an overall candidate to represent our school. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that we have a winner among us!

 

Science

Posted on Wednesday 20 April 2022 by Mrs Hogarth

Our new unit of learning for this half term is Electricity. The children had to recall their previous learning, including remembering the scientific symbols for the components of an electrical circuit. They were then asked to make a working circuit – some chose to use bulbs, whilst others used buzzers or motors. The children were then given images of different circuits using different components. They had to make predictions as to whether the circuit would work or not, and give reasons for their predictions. The children then constructed each circuit to test their predictions.

Computing topic

Posted on Thursday 24 March 2022 by Mrs Hogarth

This week, 5/6B have continued to work on Scratch. They have developed their computing skills further by creating multiplication games, a bit like Times Table Rockstars. They needed to select the correct algorithms that would make the program ask random times tables and allow the player to see if they had the answer correct or incorrect. Quite a few children had to debug their algorithms as there were some issues once the game was in play. The children were able to add different variables such as sound and a score. Next time,  the children are going to attempt to add different levels to their games.

Computing topic

Posted on Thursday 17 March 2022 by Mrs Hogarth

We have been busy enjoying our computing topic so far this term. The children are currently working hard to create their own chat bot game. This is a game in which players can answer questions and score points. The children have recalled their knowledge of Scratch really well and remembered how to select a sprite (a character) and a background – some could remember how to build some algorithms. They began by creating an algorithm that allowed them to input a question and someone to input an answer. They used selection to choose the best algorithm. Some managed to add multiple questions, a score and sounds to their game. Ask your child how their game is going

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Living and learning: I recognise the importance of personal hygiene including hand washing

Posted on Tuesday 08 March 2022 by Mrs Hogarth

This week in living and learning, we discussed the importance of keeping our hands clean – this has been particularly important over the last couple of years. We talked about what being healthy means and how to we keep ourselves as healthy as possible. Who is responsible for us being healthy? Ourselves? Parents? Doctors?

How do we know when we are ill? The class contributed to a Jamboard and listed ways in which we can tell if we are ill. We noticed that the symptoms we suffered, were out of the ordinary.

We continued the lesson by learning about allergies and vaccinations and how these can make us feel unwell and also fight against illness.

A huge thank you!

Posted on Sunday 06 March 2022 by Mrs Hogarth

Last half term, we set the children a maths challenge in which they had to learn some number facts or some multiplication tables. We asked the children to collect sponsors and see how much money we could raise for our school charity (Leeds Autism Services) and our school. You have absolutely gone above and beyond what we anticipated. The total so far that we’ve raised is £2318.15! This is just amazing and we can’t thank you enough – you are a very generous school community. This huge total will be split between the charity and school. Keep an eye out for more fundraising this half term, but again, thank you so much.

Super swimmers

Posted on Friday 04 March 2022 by Mrs Latham

We have two super swimmers in school, competing at city and regional level. They recently won gold medals in the 200m Freestyle and 200m Individual Medley at the Yorkshire Swimming Championships. Keep a look out for them in the future. A massive well done from everyone at school!