Year 5

Linked to our new topic this Summer Term, Blywddyn 5's outdoor task was a special planetary space mission! They had to be a space explorer who discovered and designed a brand-new planet using natural materials. Year 5 had to think about what makes each planet in our solar system special. Then when outside, find and use materials to represent features of their own planet. We had jungle planet, winter planet, fairy planet and busy planet.

Our designs and prints as William Morris have turned out really well! A lovely way to finish our Victorian topic.

WB 07.04.25

Our final week of the spring term has been very exciting! We have written our final drafts of our newspaper reports reporting on Nancy’s death from our novel Oliver Twist. We have loved the Victorians and as our topic comes to an end we have reflected on what we have enjoyed the most. We have had a look at Easter around the world comparing to how we celebrate locally and around Wales. Year 5 have been trying so very hard to go green on TT Rockstars and are doing amazing we are very proud! We hope everyone has a lovely Easter break ready tor return for our final term in Year 5!

WB 31.03.25

This week in LLC we have been reporters and we have started planning our newspaper reports which we will type up and complete next week. In Maths and Numeracy we have been learning about analogue and digital clocks and converting time. Please encourage your child at home to practise reading and telling the time. In topic we have completed our Battle of the Beaks investigation and we have explored how to present this data digitally. We have looked at Victorian maps of Britain and explored our compass skills. Through expressive arts we have finished our work based on William Morris by creating our own mono prints in his style. Da iawn pawb!

Week Beginning 24.3.25

This week in LLC we have stained our paper and created final drafts of our Oliver Twist diary entries. We have now started looking at the features of newspaper articles. In M&N we have been learning about the eight point compass and we have thought about position and direction. In topic we completed a Science investigation “Battle of the Beaks” where we thought about the most effective beak and survival of the fittest. We have been looking at Florence Nightingale as our significant Victorian and found out lots of interesting facts and chose how to present out work. Our key writing skill this week in SPAG has been speech marks for direct speech and we had fun working with speech from Oliver Twist making sure we follow the SCAPS rules for using speech in report writing.

Week beginning 17.03.25 - We have had a great week! We’ve looked closely at Darwin and his theories of evolution ready for our science investigation coming up. We have been applying our data skills through our topic missions. For Health and Wellbeing we have continued with our Empathy lessons; looking at how we can understand others and how they feel in different situations. We’ve been really focused on our diary writing as a character for Oliver Twist and what makes a good diary piece of writing. William Morris is our artist this half term and we have been really enjoying looking at his work and technique. Our focus this week has been light and dark and we have had a lesson on hatching and crosshatching with our sketching pencils.

Week beginning 10.3.25

This week has been British Science Week and we have celebrated by taking part in a live lesson with Tim Peake. We have been focussing on adaptation and looking specifically at how axolotl’s have adapted to suit their environment. In our LLC work we have looked at how Charles Dickens developed characterisation through Oliver Twist, ready to create a diary entry next week. In M&N we have been continuing our work on fractions. Da iawn pawb.

03.03.25 - It’ the start of our Spring 2 half term and we have been full of beans with world book day activities, a live science lesson and learning all about our new artist William Morris. We have been working on our digital skills to look at making videos on adobe and up-levelling our Animation skills. For our World book day we spent time with our Reception children in school and shared our favourite books, characters and took the time to read to the younger children together. Then we were able to take part in a live lesson and got a class shout out which was very fun. We designed new front covers for our class novels Oliver Twist and Fairs Fair and we even took part in the national Footy and Booky quiz! Our live science lesson brought us to space with the title “ to the moon and back!” To end our week we have focused on our Welsh language pattern “Roedd” and looked at Dr Barnardo and his work using our Welsh Victorian vocabulary. In our Health and Wellbeing we started our 6 weeks block on Empathy; today we focused on understanding empathy, how empathetic we are as individuals in our class and what we could work on whilst we discover more over the next few weeks. The weather is changing and spring is coming enjoy!

Week beginning 17.02.25. Our final week of the first half of spring term has been very busy! We were lucky enough to go to our local high school to watch their theatre performance of the school of rock. We even saw some past pupils! We have been practising for our school eisteddfod and we learnt the story of Devi Sang using actions to help us tell the story in our eisteddfod assembly. We also learnt a dance as a school and performed together. We spent some time learning about St David’s day and producing work either digitally or using cellophane to represent St David as stained glass windows. We are all ready for a nice half term break and hope everyone has a lovely rest.

Week Beginning 10.02.25

This week we have had Safety Awareness Week at Penarlag and Year 5 have had a few live lessons. On Monday we had a STEM live lesson thinking about designing a factory for the future to achieve Net Zero. On Tuesday we had a BBC live lesson where we became aware of internet scammers as part of Safer Internet Day. On Wednesday we had CPR and defibrillator training with Sam from St John’s Ambulance. We have also had Spectrum workshops where we have thought about healthy relationships. Friday has been our Victorian show and tell session where we have enjoyed preparing gruel for our adults and sharing our knowledge and work about the topic. We hope you enjoyed it too!

03.02.25 This week has been very exciting! We have been looking at instructions and getting our next big writing ready by preparing Gruel!! We had a taste and it didn’t go down very well. We took a trip to our local library which was amazing because we got to learn all about our famous local Victorian William Gladstone. For children’s mental health week we focused on our own personalities making our own personality islands and thought about the questions “What makes me, me? And what makes you, you?” We ended the week by looking at the differences between the rich and poor children from the Victorian times. We think we know which Victorian child’s life we would prefer!

Week Beginning 27.01.25

This week in our learning we have performed scenes from Oliver Twist to each other. We have further explored characterisation for key characters in our class novel. In our Mathematics and Numeracy we have begun looking at division. We have now completed our mission tasks and next week will be exploring Victorian inventions and how they have impacted our lives today!

Week Beginning 20/01/25 - We have been very busy this week across our curriculum! We completed our Oliver Twist playscripts and we are ready to perform them to one another. We have been trying really had with our maths unit on multiplication looking at different methods and every day use of times tables. Even on LIVE TV there was a reluctance to answer 8 x 9 even from a member of our Parliament! HAPPY Santes Dwynwen, we have used adobe to create a flyer and give facts about St Dwynwen; also have enjoyed creating our own comic strip for the story. For our Victorians this week we have been able to enjoy the traditional game of snakes and ladders and create our own modern version using our numeracy skills we have been learning. Looking at our local area in the Victorian times we have been able to research and digitally create fact files about William Gladstone which we have turned into our own class book. For our mission tasks this week we have used microscopes to examine flower parts and explain the function of these. As well as this we have focused on some of our enquiry questions about the Victorians and answered them.

Year 5 class booklet for Spring term 2025:

This booklet contains information about what your child will be learning this term and how you can support their learning at home.

Year 5 class booklet Spring term 2025.pdf

Week Beginning 13.01.25

This week we have been turning a narrative into a play script in our LLC work, using our class novel ‘Oliver Twist.’ In our Maths work we have been working in a slightly different way this week, solving a problem or an anchor task each morning. We have then been working on multiplication. Please keep practicing your times tables at home to help with this work. In our topic work we have been looking at the parts of a flowering plant. Next week we will be moving onto plant reproduction. We have enjoyed planting daffodil bulbs outside in our raised beds and we’re looking forward to seeing them bloom in spring!

Week Beginning 06.01.2025

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda pawb! We have had an interesting first week back with an extra chill in the air. We have got straight back into our work as we have a very exciting term ahead! We have started our new topic; Victorians and with this we have started to read Oliver Twist and look at our new genre of playscript writing. We have looked at the Welsh words we are going to be incorporating into our work this term that link with the Victorians "Byw yn Oes Fictoria!" Art is a big favourite in Year 5! So this week we have started to develop our sketching skills by sketching a portrait of Queen Victoria. We also had a lovely afternoon this week taking time to focus on our 5 ways to wellbeing

Be active - mario's run!
Give - each other a high 5, hand shake or hug
Connect - How we feel about things / scenarios (making us similar)
Take Notice - Ice outside!
Keep Learning - Horrible Histories got us thinking about our new topic and questions we had.

Week Beginning 16.12.24

What a fantastic week it has been. The children have worked hard to create Christmas wreaths and cards to sell at the stalls this week. Keep a look out for how much money we raised. We have also enjoyed celebrating party day with a festive breakfast and lots of party games.
We would like to wish you all a Happy Christmas and all the best for 2025.
We will see you in the new year.

Mrs Davies and Mrs Hamilton.

Week beginning 09.12.2024 This week has been full of Christmas cheer. What a week with 3 amazing pantomime performances!!! We have started our Christmas cards and calendars ready to finish for half term next week! We have made sure our Charles Dickens biographies were completed and we have enjoyed starting to learn about him and his involvement in Christmas and Christmas traditions. We have continued to read The Butterfly Lion as hopefully get a chance to finish this before Christmas holidays. A busy week to come next week and we have plenty of exciting things ahead.

Week beginning 2.12.24

What a busy week we’ve had! The children were wonderful singing at the church on Tuesday. We also enjoyed a trip to the pantomime on Thursday to see ‘Snow White’. Today we had a full dress rehearsal ready for our pantomime ‘Cinderella’ next week. The children were fantastic and we can’t wait to show you all! A special well done to Adam for winning the Christmas card competition at Penarlag.

Week Beginning 25.11.24

This week the children have thought about all of the skills that they have learnt about biography writing and they have put them into practice, creating a first draft of a biography for Charles Dickens. In our Mathematics and Numeracy we have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10. We are in full swing for our pantomime practise and we have been singing in preparation for our carol service in church. The children have been ethical citizens of the world by researching how different countries celebrate Christmas. Next week we will be creating Victorian Christmas cards and Christmas wreaths ready to sell at Hawarden’s Victorian market on December 7th.

Week 18.11.24

This week our performance for our Christmas pantomime has been in full swing! It’s coming together and we are having a lot of fun focusing on our Expressive Arts area of the Curriculum. As well as this we’ve made a start on looking at our new topic Victorians; as we have started with biographies as our main focus we are learning all about Charles Dickens! We have been researching about him and looking at the features of biography writing to help us create our piece of writing. We’ve even started to learn some Victorian Christmas Carols ready to perform! Our Snow Day brought us a lot of excitement and stories of snow ball fights, snow building and even a cosy day in for some of us! We look forward to continuing building on our seasonal performance!

WB 11.11.24

Today the children have enjoyed wearing their own clothes and pjs to school to raise money for Children in Need. It’s been another busy week in Blwyddyn 5. In LLC we have been creating persuasive adverts to encourage tourists to visit Africa. In M&N we have been learning about place value, looking at five digit numbers. Through our topic work the children have enjoyed creating their own African masks and finding out about animals and habitats within South Africa. Today the children will be bringing home their scripts for our pantomime Cinderella which we’re all very excited about!! Please encourage your child to practise their lines in a loud and clear voice. Next Week we will be collecting resources for our T4U shoebox. The class have decided to collect for a boy aged 6-11 this could include items like toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, face cloth, stationary, paper gloves, hat, socks, games and puzzles. Any items which you could donate would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks!

Week 04.11.24
We have had an exciting first week back after half term and very busy with only 4 days!! We have started our new class novel The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo and we have started to think about what the story may be about and how it links to our Africa topic. We have finished our work on area and perimeter and have looked at how we can use this in the real world and what jobs would need to use these specific maths skills. We got to design our own sustainable tractor of the future and how it would use AI to its advantage. We looked at the benefits and key features that our tractors would have. For Health and Wellbeing we have focused on African Dance and had a go at the Waka Waka dance. In Literacy we have started our next genre of persuasive writing. We have looked closely at the features of this text type and what we need to include when we start our own digital persuasive writing next week! Our Christmas performance is in full swing so get ready for lots of practise and hearing all about it on our page!

Week of 21.10.2024

This week has been another busy week full of visitors for our work awareness week. We had talks from 5 different jobs; Mrs Blackwell who is a a neuropsychologist, PC woodworth, Mr Reagan from Coleg Cambria, Darren a previous bank manager and Mr Baker from cyber security. It has been very interesting to learn about their job roles, what they have to do on a day to day basis and how we can use what we use in school to get those jobs ourselves. We have now finished our class novel Journey to Jo’Burg and complete a book review. In topic we have focused on sustainable farming and how farming in Wales compares to South African farming. We are bringing the half term to a close producing some spreadsheet pixel area images to link our Numeracy to our digital skills. We hope you have a brilliant half term, da iawn for an amazing first half term in Blwyddyn 5!

Wear it pink day 2024!!

Week beginning 14/10/24

This week the children have been exploring performance poetry linked the the class novel ‘Journey to Jo’burg’ and freedom as part of our LLC work. In M&N we have been learning about area and perimeter. Through our topic work we have been looking at farming in Wales compared to farming in South Africa. Next week we have work awareness week and the class will be learning about different types of jobs. In Expressive arts we have started looking at blending colours and have begun sketching our African sunset silhouettes. We took part in an adobe live lesson to create our own infographic Kenny cloth design that used repeated patterns and showed African culture. We also created our own acrostic poems about FREEDOM in guided reading. In Maths we are focusing on area and have written our name and calculated the area in cm squared.

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Week beginning 7.10.24

It has been lovely seeing you all at parents evening this week and discussing how well the children have settled into Year 5. It’s been another busy week. In LLC the children have been writing their own poems about freedom. In M&N we have been continuing to work on angles. We have been comparing the climate in Hawarden to Johannesburg through our topic. On Thursday we celebrated World Mental Health Day where we completed a live lesson focussing on nurturing our minds. Have a lovely weekend!

Week beginning 30th September

We’ve had another busy week in Blwyddyn 5. We have been polishing our letter writing skills to create a final draft. In Maths and Numeracy we have started working on angles. We completed our first Scientific investigation looking at super absorbent polymers in nappies following our work about Kiara Nirghin. As a class we discovered that although Pampers were the most expensive, they were best at absorbing! It was national poetry day on Thursday and we looked at a fun Welsh poem and a poem called ONE. The theme was counting and we looked at what made us “the one and only us” being unique!

Week commencing 23/09/24 - This week we have been focusing on our new writing genre. We have been recounting events through an informal letter as a character from our class novel. We are ready to edit and improve before our final drafts next week! We have no completed our time unit for maths but we think it is really important that we keep practising (especially at home) as this is such an important life skill! Our class aim is for everyone in Year 5 to tell the time before 2025! Our Health and Wellbeing this week has focused on hockey and we played a few different drill games; including hockey space invaders! For our first few sessions in our Africa Topic we have started to look at our key scientist Kiara Nirghin and created some lovely biographies all about her!We hope you have a lovely weekend.

Year 5 Class Booklet for Autumn Term 2024:

This shows you what your child will be learning this term and how you can help at home.

Year 5 Class Booklet Autumn Term 2024.pdf

Week Beginning 16.09.23

This week we have had a very busy week!! We started to look into our story for LLC Journey to Jo’Burg and we’ve focused on the main characters in the text. We are working so hard in Maths to tell the time and we are starting to look at time in duration. Keep practising at home everyone telling the time is a very important skill! Our Topic work has been researching our school and where our school badge logo came from; it was very interesting and we fed back to our other PS3 classes. Other areas we have worked on have included coding for coding week and (although it’s easily) our Christmas card designs have been finished ready to be sent off! Well done everyone for an excellent week.

Week beginning 9/9/24

The children have settled in really well to Blwyddyn 5 and this week we have worked in the routine of our usual lessons. The children have completed Guided Reading sessions, LLC (Language, Literacy and Communication) and M&N (Mathematics and Numeracy) every morning. We have started reading our class novel 'Journey to Jo'burg' which the children are enjoying. We have been focusing on time and this is a skill we are encouraging the children to continue practising at home. We started our topic 'Penarlag and Beyond' where the class were interested to discover that the school was built where an old farm called 'Carlines Farm' once stood. We've also been finding out about the Penarlag houses, which we will continue with next week. Well done everyone for super work this week! 🌟

02.09.24 Our First Week in Year 5 has been a blast! We really enjoyed starting our maths unit on time and seeing what ICT skills we have remembered since summer. We really enjoyed working as a progression step to complete some gardening and shot put activities outside. We have all created a 5 ways to well-being hand and can’t wait to complete some of our activities together. Finally we have been able to get all our year 5 books and other stationary ready!

Last week of the year!!! Well we can’t quite believe we’re here, the summer holidays is starting and we couldn’t be prouder to have taught such a wonderful class! We will miss you all so much and know how ready you are for year 6! This week we’ve had fun taking Miss McGill’s sheep’s wool to felt our own images. We cleaned, dried and dyed it for our final piece this year. Enjoy you summer everyone we will see you in September! Mrs Davies and Mrs Hamilton :)

Congratulations to the two children in our class who had Spain and England in our Euro class competition. They each received their prizes this morning!

WB: 08/07/24 .... this week has been a very mixed week. It started with international week in our own class completing tasks all about France and creating a French conversation. We looked at current issues and linked in the EUROs and upcoming Bastille Day! On Wednesday we had a wonderful time at Xplore for our final class trip. We learnt all about coding with robots and then aquaponics to allow for sustainable farming in the future! We’ve then moved around a few other classes to finish International Week where we completed tasks about Germany and Nepal! We realised it’s our final Friday before we go to year 6 and it made us reflect on the year we’ve had and the memories we have made together.

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It was wonderful watching Year 5 during our show and tell yesterday afternoon. We were so proud of them!

It's been another busy week, we've completed our Welsh Government Tests and we've been busy getting ready for the Summer fair. Today the children brought home their school reports, we are proud of each and every one of them and the progress they have made this year. They are definitely ready for Year 6! Have a lovely weekend, next week we have our final school trip on Wednesday!

21.06.24 - This week has been such a lovely week! We have had some visitors from China in our class to watch us complete a session on our amazing Science Project with Mrs Davies!! We had lots of fun experimenting polymers with nappies, using microscopes and microbits and testing wind speed! They gave us some beautiful gifts before they left. In Health and WellBeing we played the ABC fitness challenge where each letter of the alphabet represented a different exercise. We had to spell out our name and our partners name. In LLC we have been looking at retelling an African folktale in an interesting way using comic strips, it has been fun letting our imagination turn an old folktale into a new style modern twist. For our artwork we have started our silhouette African savannah paintings using blending techniques we have been looking at. We have also started our scripts for our show and tell which is next Thursday at 1.30pm!! We can't wait to see parents and other family members and friends there to show you all our amazing work!

17/06/24 - An exciting week this week! It was sports day and we all had such a great day watching the infants then taking part in our junior races! It’s been an application of skills kind of week; creating books about compost columns with instructions and then creating our own African jewellery ! We even got chance to have some time with the younger children at school and helped them create some too!

WB 10/6/24

This week we have worked really hard on our new topic 'Africa'. We have researched the famous Scientist Kiara Nirghin and used her ideas during our Science experiment, where we made 'compost columns.' Hopefully the classroom doesn't become too smelly over the next few weeks! We have been busy reading our class novel 'Journey to Jo' burg.' The children have compared and contrasted Wales to countries within Africa.

In M&N we have been working on decimals, focusing on tenths and hundredths.

We've also managed to fit in some sports day practise, fingers crossed it says dry next Tuesday!

For a bit of fun, the children have each drawn a country who will be participating in the UEFA European Football competition starting today. They will follow the country drawn and find out about it, ready for international week at the end of Year 5. There will be a prize for whoever has the winning country. Good luck everyone! ⚽

Have a lovely weekend! ☺️

Week Beginning 03/05/24

Welcome back you your final half term in Year 5! We've had a busy first week back. On Monday the weather dried up enough so that we were still able to go outside and complete 'The Flight of the Quail Egg Challenge.' A huge well done to all teams, especially team R.A.F for winning with their plane travelling over 9 metres. The quail egg remained within the plane and did not break on landing. Well done!

We have now started our new topic about Africa. This week in L.L.C We have started learning about Africa folk tales. In M&N we have started a new unit learning about decimals.

Mrs Davies & Mrs Hamilton ☺️

Friday 24th May 2024

It has been a very busy 7 weeks in Year 5! Well Done to all of our children who have worked incredibly hard to complete so many amazing pieces of work and challenging themselves everyday! Our planes are built and ready to test for our Flight of the Quail Egg Challenge after half term so keep your eyes peeled for the final results. Happy Half Term.

23.05.24 - Abstract Art. Within our space topic we have been focusing on Peter Thorpe and his use of abstract art. We discussed how we could recreate our own versions of his work and adpat to use technology of today alongside collage techniques. First we designed our digital background and then focused on the collage using card as our material of choice.

22.05.24. We had our "don't touch, tell" workshop where we learnt all about medicines and other medical items; such as needles that we may find out in the public. We learnt how dangerous these can be and to always make sure to never touch and always tell!!

13.05.24 Our week has been very much focused on finalising our Space topic! We have created our debate speeches ready to perform and record next week (stay tuned!) and we have made our decisions for what we believe! In Maths we’ve been finishing out fraction unit; we’ve realised how important knowing our times tables are to apply across our maths curriculum and that we need to know them for more areas in our learning. We’ve been carrying on with our planes and hopefully next week we will finish ready to test! We started to look at creating our abstract art collages and linking to our digital skills and space topic ideas. We had a big focus on children’s mental health this week and we took part in a live lesson. From this we created posters for children at Penarlag to Move and Improve Your Mood. We learnt how important physical health is and contributed to our mental health in more ways than we realised!

Week Beginning 6th May 2024

Even though this week has been a short one, it's been a busy one! In LLC we have started our debate genre, which the class really enjoyed. In M&N the class have been continuing their work on fractions focusing on converting mixed numbers to improper fractions. Next week we will be moving on to looking at adding and subtracting factions. We started our flight of the quail egg challenge. The children began building their planes in groups, which they will test next week and continue to adapt ready for the challenge. In Welsh the class have been producing futuristic space diaries. On Thursday, a small group went over to Hawarden High School to complete a formula one workshop. Please see below for photos and videos. Have a great weekend everyone!

Mrs Davies and Mrs Hamilton

Thursday 9th May

This morning, a group of five Year 5 pupils went over to Hawarden High School to participate in a STEM Formula One Workshop. They designed, built and raced their vehicles, which went extremely fast!! Check out the videos below. Da iawn everybody!

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Week beginning: 29.04.24. WOW what a busy week! This week we’ve worked really hard to make sure we can apply our skills across the curriculum. In our LLC we’ve been writing to persuade and we’ve done two types of letters; a formal one and an informal one! Our formal letter was written completely in Welsh and the children have loved having an opportunity to apply all their topic Welsh knowledge and language patterns. In maths we’ve been applying our line graph skills to look at, plot and interpret data by looking at the temperature on Mars! Today is Space Day and we had an amazing opportunity to create infographics showing the size of the planets in our solar system! For Health and Wellbeing we’ve started our Rounders games and put our skills of batting and fielding to the test!

Week Beginning 21.04.24

This week has been Outdoor Learning Week and Blwyddyn 5 have completed lots of lessons outdoors. On Wednesday the weather was lovely and we managed to complete gardening activities to tidy up the Junior outdoor area. In LLC the children have been working on their final drafts of their letters in Welsh. In M&N they have been looking at continuous data, line graphs. The children have also enjoyed working with Blwyddyn 4 this week using Microbits. Have a lovely weekend and we will see you on Monday!

Mrs Davies & Mrs Hamilton 😊

Week beginning 15/04/24

This week in our LLC we have been writing a response to a letter in Welsh and in our M & N work we have started looking at data handling including graphs and tables. Next week we will be moving on to using line graphs.
The children have really enjoyed learning how to use microbits this week and they completed the badge project and the step counter. We found out that the person in the class with the longest legs didn't do the fewest steps around the football field as we had predicted. On Wednesday Mewn Cymeriad came into school to perform Hanes Yr Iaith to Blwyddyn 5 and 6, where they learnt all about the history of the Welsh language. They then worked together to complete a digital task, showing what they had learnt. We have been busy designing our planes for the 'flight of the quail egg challenge,' the balsa wood has been ordered and as soon as the resources all arrive, we will start building our planes! Enjoy the weekend and let's hope for some sunshine! 😎

Year 5 class booklet for Summer term 2024:

This booklet details what children will be learning this term and how parents can support their children's learning at home:

Year 5 Class Booklet Summer Term 2024.pdf

WB 08.04.24 A lovely first week back after Easter and into our final term of Year 5! We have had a very busy week including; a Moon Lander Airbus workshop where the children had a challenge to create a spacecraft to contain 2 astronauts to have a safe landing. We looked at how we format cells on a spreadsheet by following instructions and algorithms. Our Artist of the half term is Peter Thorpe and we started to look at him and his work on abstract space art. In Maths, we’ve been looking at using long and short division and how our times tables are important in lots of our maths skills. We had our first rounders sessions ready to build up our key skills for a class rounders match!!

WB 18.03.24- This week has been busy busy! In Science and Technology we used Tinkercad to start designing the planes we will be building after Easter as part of our Science project. In Literacy we started to use elaborated points to add to our persuasive writing techniques. We have learnt how to format and formulate a spreadsheet to create a pixel image and we finished off of History or Flight PowerPoints! For our Cymraeg we’re using Talk 4 Writing to start our astronaut descriptions. We’ve used first person to begin with and recorded ourselves on flip! We hope you have a wonderful Easter and can’t wait to see you back for the final term!

WB 11.03.24

This week Blwyddyn 5 have been continuing their work on persuasive writing in LLC and rounding, factors and multiples in M&N. They have been busy continuing their work on the Science Project. This week they discussed what forces are and explored the different forces which act on an aeroplane. They conducted their own investigations to determine which was the best paper aeroplane. They decided that the best plane would be the one which travelled the furthest. Each group changed 1 variable, some groups chose to change the type of paper, other groups chose the size of the aeroplane, while others chose to change the design. They produced repeat readings and calculated the average. Da iawn everybody!

WB 4.3.24

Its been another busy week in school, full of exciting activities and experiences. In Language, Literacy and Communication the children have started learning about persuasive writing. In Mathematics and Numeracy the children have been estimating and working with multiples and factors. We have used Scratch as part of our Topic to design and plan our games in groups, which we will then use coding skills to build our games for others to play.

Events this week - On Tuesday we went over to the high school and participated in a Humanities workshop with two other local schools. We then participated in a Mars STEM live lesson when we returned to school. Airbus came into school and we had our third session, which was all about Coding.
Thursday - celebration of world book day! 📚📚📚
Next week we will be busy working on our Science project linked to Airbus and flight.

Enjoy the weekend,

Mrs Davies and Mrs Hamilton 😃

01.03.24 -This week has been a week full of exciting activities! We started the week with an exciting maths day at Hawarden High, the children really enjoyed the challenge and it was a chance to see the high school! Then we have spent the week practising acting out the story of Dewi Sant for our Eisteddfod performance, we also created stained glass images of Saint David! Finally we finished our week with a very interesting live lesson using AI to tell a story of Dewi Sant on Adobe! We created flags with images and facts. What a week!!

21.2.24 - St John’s Ambulance came in today as part of our safety awareness week! We learnt all about AVPU, DR ABC, the recovery position and CPR! We knew who to call in an emergency and our trainer showed us how the app “what 3 words” us used by emergency services to find exact locations end we don’t know where we are! A fantastic afternoon and very informative!!

WB 5.2.24

The children have had another busy week before finishing for half term. In LLC we have been building up to write a character profile about Liam from our class novel ‘Cosmic’. In M & N we have been working on parallel lines and angles. As part of our Science & Technology we made fruit solar systems. In expressive arts we have interpreted music about the planets. The children have enjoyed researching the Space Race. Have a lovely half term and we’ll see you on Tuesday 20th February. Mrs Davies & Mrs Hamilton

Home learning for 8th February 2024:

01.02.2024 Training to be astronauts with Mission X! We are well on our way now with our mission x to train like an astronaut! So far we’ve enjoyed yoga sessions to learn how to Be calm and mindful in space and today we completed a circuit of activities to strengthen, climb and stretch our bodies all to do with gravity. We were all very hot and sweaty by the end of it. A great work out!! This week we also enjoyed visiting Dangerpoint and learning all about different ways to be safe in the world, keep on the lookout for some Welsh reviews about our trip!

25.1.24 Our class show and tell all about the Victorians! We have had such a wonderful afternoon thank you all for coming and supporting year 5 and seeing our wonderful work and tasting our gruel! It’s been lovely reading all your amazing feedback too!

Week Beginning 15/1/24

This week Blwyddyn 5 began our new class novel ‘Cosmic’ and explored Space poetry, identifying features. We completed our Mathematical work on Area and Perimeter and we began a new unit of work learning about Angles. We began exploring our topic by identifying and building star constellations using marshmallows and tooth picks! On Thursday we were one of 1200 schools across the UK participating in a STEM live lesson called Spaceship Earth. The children found out about satellites and what we can learn from them. Da iawn pawb!

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Class booklet for Spring Term 2024:

Year 5 Class Booklet Spring Term 2024.pdf

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda pawb! The children have settled back into school after Christmas and have enjoyed starting our new topic ‘Out of the World’ focussing on Space. In Language, Literacy and Communication we have been writing descriptive paragraphs about landing on an imaginary planet. In Maths and Numeracy we have been completing tasks about Area and Perimeter. The class enjoyed participating in the STEM Junior Airbus project on Wednesday where they completed session 2 and learnt about Aeroplane design and the principles of flight. Da iawn everybody!

Week beginning 18.12.23

Blwyddyn 5 have had a wonderfully festive last week in school! We have enjoyed a Christmas party, pantomime, games day and watching the movie Oliver Twist to complete our Victorian topic. We have followed an online tutorial to make our Christmas cards and the children expressed their own creative flair with their calendars. We hope you like them!!

We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year! We look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday 9th January 2024 when we’ll be starting our new topic ‘Out of this World!’

Week beginning 11.12.23

This week has been a very festive one! The children sang beautifully at the Church on Monday. You wouldn’t have known we’d only had a few practises! Then we have been busy getting ready for the Christmas stalls. The children chose what to sell through pupil voice and have been busy this week making and promoting their products. Have a look at their adverts on Google classroom! I wonder how much money we will make from our class stall? Da iawn pawb!

Week beginning 4.12.23

It's been another busy week in school this week. Blwyddyn 5 began looking at features of newspaper articles. We have now finished reading our class novel Oliver Twist. The children acted out key scenes from the book in the hall, then decided which to plan and write a newspaper article about. In our Mathematics and Numeracy we have started working on a new unit: Area and Perimeter. In Science and Technology we talked about Darwin's theories of adaptation and survival of the fittest. We then conducted an experiment 'Battle of the Beaks' which the children thoroughly enjoyed. We are coming towards the end of our Victorian topic and the children have been finding out about a Victorian Christmas. We have been busy practising for our Christmas Carol Concert too. Next week we look forward to performing on Monday afternoon and planning and making items to sell at the Christmas stalls next Friday. Have a lovely weekend everybody!

Week beginning 27th November

We can’t believe December is upon us! The months seem to be flying by since September. Today Mrs Davies brought in a real Christmas tree for Blwyddyn 5 because the Victorians brought in real trees to decorate at Christmas. Everyone enjoyed helping! This week we have completed our work on diaries from Oliver Twist. The class enjoyed making the paper before writing their final draft. In Maths and Numeracy this week we have completed our work on Time.

Week beginning 20.11.23

This week in Blwyddyn 5 we have been completing lots of different assessments to track our learning. The class completed pupil voice and decided to record their next steps in learning in a grid at the back of their books. Please ask your child what their next steps are. They should be able to tell you!
This week in LLC we have continued reading Oliver Twist where we have explored characterisation ready to write our own diary entries next week. In M and N we have been adding and subtracting time. Through topic we have continued to develop our Victorian dances, applied our skills by designing our own gruel and we wrote instructions to make it. We have also researched about the Mold riots during Victorian times. Da iawn everybody!!

Week Beginning 13/11/2023

This week has been another busy week in Blwyddyn 5. In Language, Literacy and Communication we have been busy writing instructions to make gruel. In Maths and Numeracy we have been learning about time. On Wednesday Mrs Wright came to visit us and completed some activities based on her Welsh Course, it was lovely to see her! Also on Wednesday we completed Session 1 of our Airbus STEM project. The children learnt about Airbus and its role in aviation, also basic aviation concepts and history. Da iawn pawb!!

09.11.2023 Today was a very exciting day!! We got to create our very own gruel. As part of our Victorian topic and Oliver Twist we have been focusing on how we can produce gruel with a modern day twist. We will be looking at writing our own instructions for this over the half term and would love to serve to our families! Today was all about how we can be safe in the kitchen, developing our cutting and chopping skills and thinking of how we can make the gruel for a bigger audience. Thank you so much to our school cook for helping us be creative and develop our DT skills of cookery.

Welsh Play script

Week beginning 23.10.23

This week in Guided Reading, we finished the text we have been reading called ‘Fair’s Fair.’ The children created descriptions of the characters in Welsh.

In Language, Literacy and Communication, the children created their own stories for the BBC 500 words competition. After half term we will be continuing our work on Oliver Twist.

In Maths and Numeracy the children have been comparing and ordering fractions.

As part of our Science and Topic work the children have created Welsh play scripts, where they have interviewed William Gladstone. We have also been investigating if plants can reproduce without pollination. Da iawn pawb, it’s been a very busy half term but everyone has worked very hard. Enjoy the half term break! Mrs Davies and Mrs Hamilton

19.10.23 Today we went to Gladstones library as part of our Topic on the Victorians! It was a fantastic morning with lots of learning, exploring history and asking key questions linked to our learning.

Thursday 5th October

After choosing a new 5 ways to well-being hand (Willow’s) we chose to learn something new this afternoon! 5 children taught the rest of us, including Mrs Hamilton, how to make oragami fortune tellers. We made them and decorated them to link with our learning! Mrs Hamilton made a fitness one for PE next week, we have maths ones and Victorian themed quiz ones! A lovely rainy afternoon taking some time to look after our well-being, connect together and learn something new from friends!

Tuesday 3rd October

Today Blwyddyn 5 completed a Cybersafe workshop with PC Woodworth. They learnt about Cyberbullying and were interested in his career with the police. Da iawn pawb, everyone listened so well, produced great answers and asked some excellent questions!

Cybersafe Workshop

Week beginning 25th September

This week in LLC we have been self and peer assessing the scene which we wrote last week from Oliver Twist. The children have produced final drafts on Google Classroom, which we will act out next week. We have also completed hot seating activities, where we pretended to be different characters from the novel.

In Maths and Numeracy this week we have been converting between standard units in measure, weight, length and volume.

Through our topic we are continuing to learn about the Victorians and in Science and Technology we have started to plan our own investigations about plant reproduction. It has been a very busy week! Da iawn Blwyddyn 5!

22.9.23 this week we have been investigating within maths and measuring as well as keeping ourselves active with our learning of spag! We have learnt more about our science topic and the life cycle of plants

Class booklet for the Autumn Term 2023:

This booklet contains information about what your child/ren will be learning and how you can help at home.

Year 5 Class Booklet Autumn term 2023.pdf

Week beginning 11.09.23

This week Blwyddyn 5 have had a busy week settling into our new routine and timetable. We started our Guided Reading morning tasks and in Language, Literacy and Communication we have begun reading our class novel Oliver Twist. In Mathematics and Numeracy we have been solving money problems. As part of our topic 'The Victorians' we have started our focus locally, researching William Gladstone. Everyone has worked really hard! Da iawn pawb!!

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Davies & Mrs Hamilton

Week beginning 4.9.23 This week we have enjoyed settling back in and starting our new topics and talking about the year ahead.

Week Beginning: 10/07/2023

This week Blwyddyn Pump (Year 5) have met Miss Cudworth who will be there new teacher in Year 6. The have completed a variety of expressive arts tasks about space. They have developed their DCF skills by deciding how they want to present information about the Moon. We have brought in items to share with the class.

Week Beginning: 07/05/2023

This week Blwyddyn Pump (Year 5) have been becoming familiar with a new time table math’s scheme called TT Rock Stars. They have enjoyed making their rock star and have been challenging each other. We have been developing our English skills by using the Natural Curriculum website. We have enjoyed learning about how thrust is important in launching rockets. We have designed our own rocket balloons and next week we are going to evaluate our rockets, making suggestions on how to make it better and see if we can make the rockets go further.

Week Beginning 26/06/23

This week Blwyddyn Pump (Year 5) have been writing their conclusion for their ‘Changing Shadows’ investigation. In LLC we have started to type up our Non-Chronological report developing our ICT skills. In mathematics and numeracy, we have been linking how to write time in words and then converting this to 24-hour clock, 12-hour clock and analogue. We have been fortunate to receive some table tennis equipment from Table Tennis Wales and enjoyed playing the game during this week.

Week Beginning: 19/06/2023

This has been an extremely active week for Blwyddyn Pump (Year 5), especially as it is ‘National Sports Week.’ We have been getting prepared to run and organise the Infants Sports Day. We had a great day helping the infants with their activities. We really enjoyed taking part in our own Junior Sports day in the afternoon. We are also looking forward to taking part in the Junior Race for Life on Friday. In class we have developed our Welsh Vocabulary by trying a new Welsh apps ‘Cosmpau Cosmig 2’. Specifically, we have started to develop our understanding of time in Welsh, as this relates to our Mathematics and Numeracy unit. We have also developed our DCF skills when producing a graph using google sheets, to show the results of our shadows experiment last week.

Week Beginning: 16/06/2023

This week Blwyddyn Pump (Yr5) have been writing about their alien insect habitat, threats and diet for their non-chronological report. In mathematics and numeracy we have been learning how to tell the time using a 12 hour clock and a 24 hour clock. In Welsh we learnt how to write sentences about the weather on different planets. We have used phrases such as mae’r tywydd ar Sadurn yn oer and mae Y Ddaear nesa at Mawrth. Using our DCF skills we have learnt about stained glass windows found in Welsh churches. We have looked at the meaning of the picture, the artist and which church in Wales it can be found. Blwyddyn Pump have also had their first practice at running the infants sports day, ready for next Tuesday.

Bendigedig Blwyddyn Pump!

Week Beginning: 05/06/2023

This week Blwyddyn Pump (Yr5) have been focusing on their science investigation. Our investigation looked at the Earth’s rotation, how we could use shadows to explain day and night, and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky. They have used their Language, Literacy and Communication skills, to work in small groups, and begin to write up their investigation. They have used their numeracy skills to measure the shadows, and their compass skills to identify the direction of the shadow, and the position of the sun. Each group took measurements and observed what happened every hour throughout the school day. The Year 5 class have also been preparing for the summer fair, which they are all looking forward to.

Week Beginning: 22/05/2023

This week Blwyddyn Pump (Year 5) have had a great week since returning back to the classroom. In LLC we have been writing our alien insect, body part descriptions, for our non-chronological report. In mathematics we have been learning about how to round decimals to the nearest whole, tenth and hundredth. In science/topic we have been learning about constellations using our numeracy skills to plot the plough constellation and finding interesting facts out about space. We have also looked at how day and night occurs and how this relates to the Earth’s rotation. In health and well being we have been discussing the 5 ways to well being and how we have achieved these. We also took part in a cricket activity.

Week Beginning: 08/05/2023

This week Blwyddyn Pump (Year 5) have had a great week. In LLC we have been writing an introduction paragraph for our non-chronological report about Pandora. We have also designed our own alien insect. In mathematics and numeracy, we have been learning about comparing decimals and putting decimals in order. In science and topic, we have been learning about space and Brian Cox’s statements about the sun, planets and our solar system. In topic we learnt about symbols on a map and what they mean. As a challenge we made some of our own symbols to identify features in our school. On Friday we celebrated the Eurovision Song Contest by dressing up in blue and yellow. We listened to all 37 songs and voted for our favourite song putting this into a tally chart. We took part in a Live lesson about the Eurovision Song Contest and took part in activities relating to music.

Week Beginning: 01/05/2023

This week Blwyddyn Pump (Year 5) have been improving their DCF skills by taking part in a live digital leader’s lesson. Their challenge was to make a promotional poster about a space film. In LLC we have been developing our literacy skills by writing sentences with relative clauses. In mathematics and numeracy, we have been learning about thousandths and relating this to decimals and fractions. In science we have been making an information spreadsheet about the planets in our solar system which links to our topic. On Friday we enjoyed celebrating the Kings Coronation by dressing up in blue, red and white. We also took part in a corgi obstacle course, took part in a drawing tutorial of King Charles III and completed a Kings Coronation Maths Challenge.

Week Beginning: 23/04/2023

This week Blwyddyn Pump (Yr5) has been learning about Pandora. We developed our communication skills by taking part in team activities and teaching the infants skills for their sports days. In mathematics and numeracy we learnt how to understand hundredths as a decimal. We took part in a hundredth decimal relay challenge with Mrs Hamilton. On Wednesday afternoon we used a compass (applying angles and direction skills) to find the planets in space and write facts about them. In Health and Wellbeing we took part in a table tennis taster session delivered by Table Tennis Wales, we took part in the daily mile most days and we had our first session of Tennis outside on the yard. To make connections for well being we played a whole class fun indoor game. In Expressive arts we designed our own alien/space picture using natural resources. In Humanities we learnt about Japan, finding out some interesting facts and how to make an origami box and plane. We took part in a plane throwing competition to see who’s plane went the farthest.

“I enjoyed doing the relay race.”- Bethan

Written by Jasmine and Lillith.

Year 5 class booklet for summer term 2023:

Year 5 Class Booklet Summer Term 2023.pdf

Week Beginning: 17/04/2023

This week Blwyddyn Pump (Year 5) have been drawing the solar systems and labeling the planets in Welsh. In LLC we have looked at the features for writing a non-chronological report. In mathematics and numeracy, we have been learning about tenths and relating this to decimals and fractions. On Tuesday afternoon we took part in a Technocamp workshop called ‘infinity and beyond’ which relates to our school theme ‘Tomorrows World’ and our topic space. We learnt about Newton’s third law and how thrust helps a rocket to launch into space. We also learnt about drag and which shapes are aerodynamic. Our challenge was to make our own rocket which would be launched into the air to see how high and far it could travel. In P.E. we have been teaching reception skills they need for their Infant Sports Day.

Week Beginning: 27/03/2023

This week Blwyddyn Pump (Yr5) have been doing an Easter Egg Hunt around the school grounds with questions about our AOL learning in the Spring Term. We have also been learning how to subtract fractions using our division and multiplication skills. We have started to watch Oliver Twist the Musical, as it relates to our topic the Victorian era. On Friday we are going to be doing a quiz on the movie to assess our listening skills. In Language, Literacy and Communication we have been researching about Charles Dickens and producing a fact file. We will then use this to make up an interview with Charles Dickens. This will be with our learning partners, one will be Charles Dickens and the other the interviewer. We have also had a class discussion about being safe online. We were given the choice of making a guidance poster using one of the DCF skills we have learnt this Spring Term.

“I enjoyed the scavenger hunt because I got to be in a group with my friends and got to solve questions with them.” Jasmine

Written by Sophia, Year 5.

Week Beginning: 20/03/23

This week in Blwyddyn Pump (Year 5) have been finishing their diary entries pretending they are in a workhouse. We have been listening to the Oliver Twist story as it relates to our class book Street Child. In maths we have been learning how to add fractions using our multiplication and division skills. We have also learned about Sir John Kyffin Williams , what he was famous for and doing a sketch in his style of art.

“ I have enjoyed learning about Oliver Twist because I like history” Freddie

Written by Soraya Yr 5

Week Beginning 17/03/23

We have had a very busy week this week in Blwyddyn Pump.

The children really enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day on Monday.

In our Language, Literacy and Communication lessons this week we have been finishing our first drafts of our diary entry about being a child working in a workhouse in Victorian times.

In our mathematics lessons we have being looking at the relationship between improper fractions and mixed numbers using our division and multiplication skills.

As it was British Science week we took part in a live lesson about forces and space. We then planned an egg drop experiment designing a protective egg cover to stop the egg from breaking when it is dropped from a height. We all had different materials and predicted which material would work best.

Mrs Hughes

Online learning for 10th March 2023: