Y5 Summer 2

KS2 were also treated by watching another performance on Tuesday afternoon - Who wants to be an Olympian? This was a very interactive show teaching everyone about the Olympics through history! It was great fun! Many children had the opportunity to be part of the big show!

Our week started by a visit to Eastlea Community School where we had a taster day of what it could be like in Secondary School. We did a range of lessons throughout the day. These included: Science, PE and Textiles. It was a great day!

Science was all about making rockets. Thinking about the shape of the nose and the size and shape of the fins. They were launched from the field - some went really far!

Our voices were echoing throughout the velodrome. It was an exciting day! ~ Samiul

The band was really amazing! It was so loud it drowned out my voice! ~Hashim

It was a lovely experience watching all the schools coming together and singing along. ~Laiba

It was a breath-taking experience with everyone singing together beautifully. ~Ayeesha

Everyone was kind and it was lots of fun. It was also very loud! ~Kavahn

It was also Sports Day this week. Even though we go interrupted by the rain, we still had loads of fun taking part in the different activities.

On Monday morning the Year 6's held their Enterprise Event where they sold items that they made in class for their businesses. The children were selling slime, two different types of bookmarks, lemonade and pencils with toppers.

On Wednesday we had Windrush Day. We looked at who the people are known as the Windrush Generation. At the end of the day we got to share what we have done with the Year 2's.

We learned more about how carnival came about and looked at Claudia Jones and the Notting Hill Carnival. From this, we started creating our own carnival headdresses.

In Maths we have now started on our new chapter - Decimals. We are applying all our previous knowledge of fractions and other work around number to help us understand decimal numbers.

In Science this week we looked at the different gestation periods of mammals (including humans). We plotted the information on a graph and then interpreted the graph by looking at the information it is showing us in order to help us draw general conclusions regarding the size/mass of mammals and their gestation periods.

The last half-term of the year is here. Can you believe it? It will probably be one of the busiest half-terms of the year, filled with learning and amazing learning opportunities.

On Wednesday we had visitors from BCLP and Young Enterprise. Children in Year 5 and 6 completed different activities around businesses.

The first activity was to work in teams to run their own business. We learned that a business is an organisation where people work together using different skills to make and or sell products or services. Other people (sometimes other businesses) buy the products and services. The word business comes from the word busy, and means doing things!

We looked at global trade and that businesses exist around the world. Sometimes they sell products to customers (people or businesses) in other countries. We rely heavily on global trade for many elements of our life. The children worked in groups to find examples of imported items in the classroom.

With our new business knowledge, each group were given a country. USA, Mexico and France were the countries we got. Each team had a business in that country, making shapes to sell to the UK. Each country had resources to make the shapes, but some countries had more resources than others. Only goods of a high quality could be sold to the UK. Each country started with an amount of money to buy extra resources. Ones goods were sold it was important to bank the money as any extra money on the table, once the game was finished, was not added to the total savings in the bank.