Welcome to the Year 5 Class Page!

Important Information

Our Year 5 Team is Mrs Tooth (Mon and Tues), Miss Rowe (Wed, Thurs, Fri) and Mrs Cresswell (All week). 

Contact information - year5@st-marymagdalene.sandwell.sch.uk 

Our P.E. days are Tuesday and Wednesday so could your child please come into school in their PE kit that day; having removed any jewellery.

Music lessons - All children in Year 5 will be learning Ukulele. If your child is learning a brass instrument can you please ensure they bring it in on the day of their lesson which is Thursday.  Thanks.

Homework:

Seesaw - Each week your child will be set a task on Seesaw for them to complete.

Online Learning - Each week your child is expected to complete an Abacus task, Bug Club comprehension (both on Active Learn) and a spelling task on Ed Shed. It is also important that they keep on practising their times tables on Times Tables Rock Star!

Reading - Reading books should be read regularly and brought into school every day.

Our Topics:

Our historical topics this year include:

* Autumn - The Anglo Saxons

* Spring - World War Two

* Summer - The Ancient Greeks

Special Events

On Wednesday we had a brilliant trip to Walsall Art gallery.  We spent some time exploring the different forms of art and used this as inspiration for our own art work.  We also had a couple of talks describing the different mediums used to create the art works around us.  After this, we took part in a workshop with an artist who showed us techniques we could use in our sculptures; we then made some portraits out of clay.

On Thursday and Friday, we used some of the ideas we had seen and techniques we had been taught to design, plan and make a relief tile featuring an Anglo-Saxon god / goddess of our choice.  Here are some of our final pieces...

As a school we celebrated Kindness week by carrying out various Acts of Kindness.  In year 5, we selected 5 acts of kindness we were going to do try to more of at school and at home.  For homework, a number of us then designed posters to promote being kind...

After the whole school assembly, year 5 were able to take part in a very interesting workshop.  The class was split into groups, which each represented a family.  Their task was to measure out the water their family used, to discover which family were water wasters and which ones were savers.  Once we identified this, we discussed what actions different families took to save water.  We had a lot of fun, but at the same time learnt some important lessons on how to save water.

In year 5, we had a great time celebrating Diwali.  Firstly, we learnt from those who celebrate Diwali - how and why they do.  We then completed different craft activities, such as: designing Rangoli patterns; Mehndi  and making diva lamps. We also dressed in colourful party clothes and traditional dress to celebrate together.

We had great fun designing and making our drawstring bags.  First of all, we had to learn how to use different stitches.  We then designed our bags, including any extra details we wanted to add.  Once we had planned how to make our bag, we were able to make them.  With a lot of concentration and team work we made some very successful bags, some of us even added some extra designs.  We were very pleased with what we had made,..

We had a lot of fun finding out about Chinese New Year and how it is celebrated.  We completed some craft activities and created our own Chinese Lion Dances, once we had learnt the different stages

We had the opportunity to learn some first aid skills last week.  As well as having a lot of fun, we learnt some essential first aid and life saving skills - please ask us what we would do in an emergency!

Congratulations to Sapphire for winning the Guide Dog Puppy in year 5!  Thank you for all those who took part and helped raise money for Guide dogs UK.

We really enjoyed Art week in year 5 - we were focusing on art produced by impressionist artists, such as Claude Monet.  First of all we took inspiration from various works by Monet, we then explored different brush techniques, that we could use in our final piece. Our main focus was on creating a broken colour effect like impressionist artists.

We were pleased with our final creations...

We had a lot of fun last week, celebrating World Book Day!  We came dressed in a variety of characters and brought some of our favourite books to share with our friends.  We also completed a variety of tasks to celebrate our love of reading: designing book covers; making bookmarks and completing word searches.

We had an amazing trip, visiting Carding Mill Valley.  In the morning we carried out a river study, which involved carrying out various tasks. Firstly, we collected different creatures from the stream, we then drew and identified what they were using a key.  Next, we moved further down the river to measure the depth, width and flow of the river.  Finally, we studied the rocks to see how far they had been carried down the river, we could tell this by their shape!  After a much needed lunch, we enjoyed a walk up and around the hill - the scenery was fantastic!  We all had a great day learning and seeing new things!

During DT week, we had a great time designing and making our own vegetable pies.

Firstly, we tasted and evaluated various pies and vegetables. We also identified which vegetables were seasonal; this influenced what we chose to use. Then we practiced the skills we would need to make the pies: chopping vegetables; rolling pastry and creating a pastry design for the crust.  After that we used our chosen vegetables and pie crust design to make our pies.  Even though the school oven is unpredictable, we were very proud of our achievements...