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!
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!
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!