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Year 5 have been reading “Gangsta Granny” by David Walliams for Character and setting focus week. We have really enjoyed the story as it is a comedy book with lots of hilarious events. We did some hot seating and used conscience alleys to get into the role of different characters. We wrote our own “gansta raps” and performed them in class. We designed fun dancing costumes and created fun cabbage menus. Some of us even dressed up as the characters from the book for Dress Up day! 

One of the simplest, quickest and most satisfying science experiments is simply adding a little food colouring, washing up liquid and bicarbonate of soda to a citrus fruit will make it bubble and fizz like a tiny, colourful volcano!

The acid in the fruit reacts with the bicarbonate of soda, releasing gas that bubbles through the water, food colouring and detergent. 

This is what Year 5 did on World Science Day. It was amazing to see how the fruit would react to a variety of different substances. Why don’t you try it at home with an adult?!

We also have been investigating how to separate different mixtures using different tools and seeing how/ if they separate.

Year 5 and Year 1 swapped classrooms and did some peer reading together. The children took it in turn to listen to each other reading. Year 5’s read to the Year 1’s and the Year 1’s also read to their Year 5 partner. 

In November, year 6 took part in a remembrance themed poetry workshop. The children enjoyed acting out the different poems in the role of the soldiers. They looked at examples of propaganda and how it was used during the war. The children also had time to reflect on the sacrifices made by so many individuals during both world wars. 

In Geography this term we have been learning about Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Mountains.

We had a Now Press Play experience as if we were on a school trip to Pompeii, falling down a well and going back in time to 79AD. Ash is falling from the sky and the people don’t realise Mount Vesuvius is about to erupt. We also learnt how the earth’s crust is broken up into tectonic plates which move and how communities prepare for and are affected by natural disasters.