Welcome to Year 5's Class Page! We hope you enjoy looking at all the interesting activities that we have been getting up to this year.

Autumn Term

Introducing the Year 5 Junior PCSO's who are completing this year's programme. Local PCSO's from the Dudley area are coming in to help train some of our children into the different roles that they would complete on a day-to-day basis. Some of the activities include: road safety, citizenship and litter picking.

In Science this half 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 visited the planetarium to have a virtual tour of the night sky.

Year 5 completed a special 'Road to RIAT' mission as part of a STEM workshop. On this day, we followed a live video which gave information about space and the way that rockets are engineered. We designed, created and launched our own rockets and evaluated how effective they were. In the afternoon, we looked at how we can create aircrafts that are sustainable by using resources such as solar and wind power rather than fossil fuels.

As part of our Remembrance day at Milking Bank, we created poppies by recycling plastic bottles. These have been displayed by our front entrance to create a wonderful memorial space. In addition to this, we visited the memorial in Gornal 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 of a soldier to find on the memorial. Before we left, we researched the soldiers to learn a little more about their story.

In this Maths lesson, we explored square and cube numbers. We used multi-link cubes to physically make different square and cube numbers and look at their shape once created. We then applied this knowledge to help us solve questions and problems related to these facts.

Milking Bank enjoyed completing the ‘Healthy Me’ marathon. On this day, all children in years Reception to Year 6, collectively worked together to cover the same distance as a marathon through a carousel of activities. These included running the fun active mile, jumping through an inflatable assault course, line dancing and cycling on a smoothie bike. Well done to all those who took part and a big thank you to all those who donated money.

Moving on from our science lesson last week, we conducted further experiments in class to see the effects of air resistance. This time, we raced 3 separate parachutes at the same time to see which parachute had the greatest impact.

In Science this week, we looked at how moving objects are slowed down by parachutes due to wind resistance. We tested a small, medium and large parachute to see which had the greatest effect. A big thank you to Mrs. Sangha who dropped the parachutes for us!