A big well done to all members of Year 5 for rehearsals, learning lines and singing songs to fill us with love!

Thanks also go out to the great turn out of parents we had! Thank you as well for all your help with costuming and being willing audiences for practices at home.

On return to the classroom after lunch, Year 5 were presented with a very murky beaker of water. Their challenge: to separate the mixture into each of its original materials.

Year 5 rose to the occasion and used their knowledge of materials and states of matter to sort the mixture to the best of their ability.

Currently we are waiting on the final separation – waiting for the water to evaporate and leave the salt from its solution behind. So far we’ve waited two days and will check in again after the weekend!

Congratulations to Alannah, Frank, Ayda and Finley who managed to score 100% of their questions correct in their first Kahoot quiz!
The competition is fierce in Year 5 as several other teams have now managed to up their scores for times table quizzes and first place changes hands between each game.

Please keep challenging children to work on their times tables at home – those who have been regularly practising are continuing to improve their scores and the time they achieve them in.

Last week Year 5 took the opportunity to visit our local Earlsdon library.

Children thoroughly enjoyed the chance to select their own book from their interests out of a great selection. Thank you to all parents and carers who enabled their children to sign up for a library card. We hope to continue our visits throughout the school year so that each child can find books perfect for them.

Faced with this challenge question, Year 5 raced against time (and temperature) to prevent their icecube snowmen from melting away.

Children used a range of materials to test out which coat would be the best thermal insulator to prevent heat from reaching the icy interior.

After weighing the ice some children were shocked to see a sliver of ice remaining whereas others maintained their initial weight the whole way through the experiment. We now know a tinfoil coat would not trap much heat at all, whereas a few layers of plastic bags can be surprisingly effective.

Ms Quinn was so shocked that some children in Year 5 had never had a chance to create a potato stamp that we had to include it as part of our series of Art lessons on printing.

The children are continuing to develop their sense of pattern as we explore the works of William Morris.

Today Year 5 enjoyed discussing and sorting a range of materials.

Many different sorting systems were employed; from heaviest to lightest, to grouping by production method. Each person made a good argument for why their sorting system was best before trying out sorting by hardness, transparency and solubility. By learning more about these properties, we can decide suitable materials to use for everyday problems.

Through P.E. sessions this term, Year 5 have honed their boxing skills week by week. At first we set ourselves small goals of working with a good form and keeping in time to the rhythm. In the final few weeks of the term we have advanced to a range of punches (straights, hooks and uppercuts) as well as setting up our own boxing routines with a partner on the pads.

Over the past two weeks Year 5 have taken the next steps towards our eventual 3D sculptures.

Initially our first material was tinfoil. Children laid out their pattern to create a stick figure and worked to create a life-like pose.

In this week we focused on bends, twists and loops using wire as the base of our mini-sculptures.

The children were extremely creative after completing their first designs and many showed great persistence using small, fiddly pieces of wire.