Year 5 & 6 Class News

World Book Day!

Posted on Thursday 03 March 2022 by Mrs Hogarth

What an interesting day! I don’t think I have ever taught Spider-Man or Gangsta Granny before. The children in 5/6 B didn’t disappoint with their fabulous costumes for World Book Day – they all looked great. During the reading lesson today, the children explored different texts and talked about their favourite authors. They created new book covers for their favourite books and rewrote blurbs, including some quotes. Some children created some excellent character profiles. We also enjoyed listening to an audio book.

 

Reading Journals

Posted on Saturday 19 February 2022 by Mr Lindsay

Children have been showing their love of reading by completing their weekly homework reading challenge. This is a great opportunity to share stories and recommend good books. At home, continue to share stories and discuss the themes.

Living and Learning: Safety Week

Posted on Thursday 17 February 2022 by Mr Freeman

Last week, all pupils took part in our themed ‘staying safe’ week. From online safety workshops to visitors from Dogs Trust, years 5 and 6 had great opportunities to learn, interact with and ask for advice about many aspects of safety. Here’s a quick run through of what our safety week looked like:

Staying Safe Online Workshop

With constant developments in technology and the growth of social media platforms, this workshop was a real favourite for our pupils. We learnt all about the risks to look out for whilst using websites, social media platforms and mobile apps to ensure we are staying safe online. The workshop was fantastic and the pupils’ learning really thrived, with their opportunity to ask questions and raise any concerns being met with useful and accurate responses.

Road Safety Workshop

Although our pupils felt pretty confident on how to stay safe on the roads, there were a few shocks and surprises to us all! As our Year 6 pupils are close to starting their high school journeys, it was super important to learn about the risks of walking to school/catching the bus in the morning. We all need to make sure that when we are crossing any roads, we should: ensure our mobile phones are put away; make sure we don’t have two headphones in; and make sure we are looking both ways, more than once, before making a decision to cross.

We also took part in other safety areas across the week, such as fire safety, Dogs Trust and our online safety day.

This was a fantastic and productive week for all involved – thanks to all the visitors that came in and gave us their time to help us learn.

 

 

Living and Learning: Safer Internet Day

Posted on Wednesday 09 February 2022 by Mr Lindsay

Children spent the day thinking about topics such as consent, digital footprints, secure passwords, phishing and age restrictions.

Children were shocked to discover that Whatsapp now has an age restriction of 16 years old. At home, talk about why this has changed from 13 and why most social media apps and websites have an age restriction of 13 years old.

Children took a quiz to find out how big their digital footprint was. From incognito to big foot, year 5/6 had it all. Whether it’s posting online or sending messages to friends, this all counts as part of your digital footprint.

Living and learning: I make safe choices, including online.

Posted on Tuesday 08 February 2022 by Mrs Hogarth

We were visited today by Harriet from Leeds City Council Road Safety Team. She talked to us about how the council are working hard to improve the safety of our roads in Leeds in order to reduce the number of accidents. We began by discussing how to make ourselves more visible to vehicles and finding safe places to cross roads. The children then worked in teams to plot their route to school and other local places, on a map of the area. They had to consider which areas on their route would benefit from traffic calming measures to improve safety. The children were given the costings of different measures such as double yellow lines and crossings, and they had to choose which ones would be best suited and which ones were within their £100,000 budget. They had to achieve the best value for money. Some children were excellent at budgeting, whilst others found this a little more challenging. It was an engaging and informative session that we all enjoyed.

Year 5 maths

Posted on Thursday 03 February 2022 by Mrs Hogarth

Year 5 have been learning about area and scale this week. They began the week by distinguishing the difference between area and perimeter and why knowing these would be useful in everyday life. The children are able to calculate the area of shapes by counting squares and recording this using centimetre squares. The children worked in pairs to draw shapes with different areas. Their partner had to guess which shape had the largest area and then calculate it to see if they were correct. Some children drew some really challenging shapes to try to confuse their partners!

Gymnastics in 5/6B

Posted on Thursday 27 January 2022 by Mrs Hogarth

We were all very excited this week to get out the large apparatus in the hall. Parents, you might remember this as the best PE lesson when you were young! We had the climbing apparatus out, the ropes, the ladders and much more. The children had to practise their gymnastic skills such as balancing, jumping and landing safely. The children discovered different ways to move across the apparatus. Children took safe risks and climbed higher than they thought they would. There was a lot of peer encouragement and praise.

Rugby – taster session

Posted on Saturday 22 January 2022 by Mrs Latham

Want to get involved in rugby? A local rugby team are recruiting girls and boys in Year 5. Go along to the taster session if you’re interested!

Living and Learning: Identity Week

Posted on Friday 21 January 2022 by Mr Freeman

This week’s living and learning statement is…

‘I respect myself and others.’

Year 5 and 6 have been discussing what identity can mean and the similarities and differences we all have to one another. We have been working really hard to show off our identity and uniqueness by producing identity maps. The aim of an identity map is to record as much about yourself as possible, such as your likes, hobbies, appearance, favourite foods and so on. We have also made sure that we present our maps in a unique, individual way, as this also adds to our own identity. Here are some fantastic examples of the identity maps we have created. What can you find out about their identity by looking at their maps?

 

5/6B Dance

Posted on Thursday 20 January 2022 by Mrs Hogarth

The children have been learning about dance this half term. They have been learning a very tricky routine that involves different moves to the beat of a song. The song was very fast and it was hard to keep up, however they have blown me away with how fabulous they are. They were then given ‘creative lead’ and began to put together their own routing, bringing together moves they had learnt and their own ideas. Some children were brave enough to allow me to post their dance on here! Well done everyone.

Group 1

Group 2