Today we held a special attendance assembly. Any child who had 100% attendance in the Autumn Term received a bronze certificate and a bronze wristband. congratulations to all!

Year 5 have thoroughly enjoyed their DT project for this term! We were tasked with making an electronic greetings card and thought it would tie in perfectly with Christmas.

The children have spent time exploring circuits with a difference – learning how graphite and copper are electrical conductors and understanding the electrical components needed to make a complete circuit.

The children had to design a greetings card which included at least one lit-up element and needed to carefully place their LED bulb into their circuit.

We are thrilled with the results!

As part of our Book Fayre we sold books and also held a competition where pupils were given a range of front covers and they had to write their own blurb for one of them.  One winner was chosen per class, here are our winners.

As part of multi-cultural week, Year 5 are studying Australia. We have looked closely at the history of Aboriginal Australia. The first people of Australia were known as Aborigines. Aborigines have a unique way of telling their history, they use songs, dance and stories that are passed from generation to generation. We enjoyed telling stories through aboriginal dance, listening closely to traditional Australian instruments being used, like the didgeridoo.

In art this week, Year 5 have enjoyed using clay to sculpt Viking Warriors. We used various sculpting skills and researched typical Viking facial features. Did you know that most Vikings grew beards as long hair was a symbol of strength? We are really pleased with our results!

On Monday 30^th September, all of Year 5 descended on York to find out more about the Vikings!

We went to the Jorvik Viking Centre where we took a trip back in time and travelled around a Viking village.  We saw combs being made from antlers, children playing, food stalls, shoe shops and rats running around – we even experienced what it would’ve smelled like which was not very pleasant!  Although the Viking times were over 1000 years ago, we realized that there were many similarities in the way that they lived and the way that we live today – Viking children even had an equivalent of a fidget spinner made from the knuckle bone of a pig!

We were also lucky enough to attend two workshops where we found out about Viking battle tactics and Viking sagas.  Our guide showed us several Viking weapons and how and why they’d have been used in battle and we found out that a female Viking warrior was called a ‘shield maiden’.  During our Viking Sagas workshop, we were told an ancient Norse story and some of us got to act it out which was great fun.  We look forward to writing our own Viking sagas in our English lessons in the next few weeks.