Welcome to our Year 5 Class Page! Please have a look through at the amazing things we have been up to in Year 5 this year!

Spring Term

Year 5 walked to Himley Road Methodist Church to participate in an Easter Journey. We were taken on a journey to Isreal to witness the that unfolded in Jesus’ life over the Easter period around 2000 years ago. We were able to ask questions to deepen our understanding, received a gift bag containing some items and even had time to enjoy a biscuit too!

Year 5 have thoroughly enjoyed taking part in Greek day this week. Our day consisted of: learning all about the relationship between the Titans of the Gods, trying to complete Archimedes puzzle, learning an ancient Greek game called 'Petteia' and competing in our own Milking Bank mini Olympics. We have had a wonderful day and it has been brilliant to see our children apply their learning from the classroom in various different contexts.

Milking Bank were incredibly lucky to be able to welcome M&M's theatrical productions company to our school who delivered their rendition of a 'Treasure Island' play. After we watched their performance, Year 5 were then asked to stay behind to complete a workshop which went behind the scenes of how the performance was created. We even had a chance to perform a small section of the play.

A big well done to our Year 5 children (and thank you to our families for supporting) on the creation of their amazing space projects. We had such a range of brilliant projects; from solar systems to fact files and everything inbetween. Here is a small sample of the projects that were handed in. Well done all!

We have been practising our bike riding skills in Year 5 this week. We practised our basic riding skills on the playground before heading out to perform safe riding manouevres on the nearby roads. Even though the rain tried to stop us, we enjoyed improving our riding skills over the 2-day course.

We have been enjoying our Space topic in Year 5 this term. One of our objectives is to look at the scale of our solar system and study how far the planets are from the Sun. We researched the distances and then created a (roughly to scale) version of our Solar System on the playground.

In Science this term, we are learning all about Space. We enjoyed a trip to the National Space Centre in Leicester to learn about all the interesting artefacts they have in their museum. We spent the day learning about different rockets and aircrafts that have been sent into space, we saw information about the different planets in our solar system and we watched a short film in the planetarium which gave a useful insight into the life of an astronaught.

Our new Spring topic is all about 'Greece'. We are trying to learn about the culture of Greece to familiarise ourselves with their country. We tasted some of the popular foods that they eat in their country and listened to traditional Greek music as we did this. It's safe to say there was some mixed reactions about the food ... particularly the olives!

Autumn Term

As part of the 'Great Milking Bank Sewing Bee', Year 5 created felt penguins. We had to carefully cut our materials using fabric scissors, attach beads using needles and thread, sew the materials together and finally add stuffing to create our finished product. 

As part of our computing curriculum, we invited PCSOs from Brierly Hill to talk to our children about how to conduct ourselves safely online. We discussed the positives and negatives of social media, the general rules to follow to stay safe online and asked questions to deepen our understanding of this area. The children were a credit to the school and made the most of this useful opportunity. 

Year 5 completed activities linked to Children in Need in our class today. We designed our own Children in Need Pudsey t-shirt, watched the Gladiators compete in sporting activities and learnt about the importance of Children in Need. "Children in Need is important because there are people with disabilities who need help. People can also raise money to help those who need it."

We visited the memorial in Gornal as part of our Remembrance day at Milking Bank to remember those soldiers who have sacrificed their lives during wars. We made a wreath to lay at the memorial and we also each had an individual name to find on the memorial. Before we left, we researched the soldiers to learn a little more about their story.

Year 5 were extremely fortunate to welcome Loudmouth to our school today. They performed their Bully4U workshop which looked at how to deal with situations surrounding bullying both in and out school. Myah (5P) said "I thought Loudmouth were helpful because they showed us the Childline number, how to deal with different situations and different types of bullying."

In our Science lesson, we explored the effects that friction has on moving objects. We tested a rolling car on different surfaces to see the impact it had on movement. There were definitely some interesting results!