Class 5
Friday 4th April 2025
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We have managed to pack a lot into our final week of the term!
West Yorkshire Fire Service visited us at the start of the week to talk about fire safety in the home. They gave us lots of top-tips to be prepared in case of an emergency, including making a plan in case of a fire, knowing where your keys are at night time and making sure our bedroom doors are closed when we go to bed.
We had a practical Science lesson, trying to recreate what it feels like to enter old-age. We investigated what it would feel like to have impaired vision and hearing; reduced joint movement and less control of our fingers. Luckily, class 5 have a very long way to go before they need to start worrying about feeling like this (Mrs Kendal, not so much!).
In English, we read The Lorax and noted the similarities between a children's book and what is happening in the real world. We had fun taking part in a conscience alley!
To finish our topic work on The Ancient Mayan civilisation, we made a Mayan inspired dish and sampled our creations - receiving mixed reviews!
To finish the week, we took part in a lovely Easter egg hunt in our beautiful school grounds, with the sun shining on us. Thank you to Dr Bamfield and the school government for such a lovely afternoon.
It was lovely to see so many of you at this week's family sharing event. Thank you for coming - it was wonderful to see the children so proud of their work!
Have a wonderful Easter break!
Love from Mrs Kendal x
Friday 21st March 2025
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It has been so nice to take some of our learning outside this week: Long may the beautiful weather last!
As we have been learning about reflection, translation and nets this week, we consolidated our learning during our orienteering lesson.
We were also fortunate enough to have our second PE lesson outside. We played team games using our throwing, catching and defending skills.
In English, we read The Great Kapok Tree and used the story as inspiration for our own writing. Instead of English books, we used huge, blank pieces of paper to plan and write our stories.
To end the week we had lots of Comic Relief fun - crosswords, games and quizzes! We even had a good giggle at some of the past Comic Relief songs (I wonder if anyone else can remember Bananarama's version of Help featuring French and Saunders?).
Well done Class 5 for another great week!
Love from Mrs Kendal xx
Friday 14th March 2025
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British Science Week has been the focus of our week. This year's theme is 'Change and Adapt' and all of the children have been taking part in lots of fun science investigations.
We spent two mornings moving around the classes and getting to spend time with children from different year groups as well as different teachers.
The activity in Class 5, was making origami hovercraft after finding out about Christopher Cockerell who engineered the first one. We tested our creations, then adapted our designs to test smaller and bigger models to see which went further. Lots of fun had by all!
We have had some fantastic posters for the Science Week competition - the closing date is Monday, I would love to see some more!
In Maths, we have been reflecting and translating shapes. To demonstrate this, we used geoboards and elastic bands.
Our brass playing is getting better and better every week!
Well done to Jude for being identified as showing good listening, concentration and effort in music - he will get to look after our class panda for the week!
Well done everyone. Have a lovely weekend.
The Class 5 Team xx
Celebrating World Book Day - Thursday 6th March
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We had a great time on World Book Day sharing our favourite books, reading with our buddies in Year 2 and enjoying a book-themed bun!
Thank you so much for helping your child make and decorate the buns - it was really nice to see the decorations and hear about the books that had inspired them.
As it was such lovely weather, we also had a chance to relax on the field and enjoy reading in the fresh air with our friends.
Here are some of the fabulous pictures from the day, starting with our time reading on the school field:
Class 5 took time to share a book with their buddies in Class 2:
The children really loved eating their buns!
Finally, Class 5 with some of their favourite books!
Friday 28th February 2025
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Wow - just wow!!!
There are lots of reasons to be proud of our amazing Class 5 children but this week I am beyond proud with their achievements.
On Wednesday night, lots of fears were conquered when we got up on the Lawrence Batley stage in front of hundreds of people to perform a dance that we had only rehearsed a handful of times.
The children were amazing from start to finish and the buzz when they came off stage was simply electric. Listening to comments like 'I can't believe we have just performed at The Lawrence Batley', 'Can we do it again?' and 'That was over too quickly', was definitely one of the highlights for me!
Here are some of the pictures I managed to take whilst hovering, out of sight, behind the curtain:
We have also been busy in school.
In RE, we have been looking at values and codes for living and the similarities and differences between religions. As a contrast, we invited Hannah McKerchar, a humanist celebrant to come and speak with our class. She shared her beliefs and what that means for the way she lives her life.
The children were completely engaged and she was extremely impressed with the thoughtful and respectful questions that were asked.
Hannah shared what made her happy and she asked the children to share through actions what made them happy. I wonder if you can guess what is being acted out here?
Well done Class 5, a great start to a new half-term!