We had the opportunity this morning to see, touch and learn about a variety of animals from rainforests. The students enjoyed asking questions about the different animals and learning whereabouts in the world they came from.
Sam’s Safari Visit
Category : Year 5 News
👻🎃Haunting Halloween 🎃👻
Today, we spend or Flexible Friday crew session having Halloween fun. Check out our spooky mummies and awesome Jack O’Lanterns. After half term, Mr Carr will decide which Jack O’Lantern design is worthy of being carved on the gigantic pumpkin which was donated to school by a child in Y3!!
Market Research- Visit to NIS (Y2)
This week we have begun designing our rainforest animal soft toys. The students have been gathering their ideas together and have also been speaking to the experts (Year 2). They wrote their own questions and walked over to the infants to gather their market research.
Market Research
This afternoon, 5HJ needed some help with their upcoming DT project to find out which soft toys are popular. We visited Y2 armed with a host of different questions and carried out market research. We will use our findings to help plan and design our rainforest sort toys!
Year 5/6 Football
NJS’ first tournament of the year and on this occasion, the year 5/6 boys headed to Campsmount to take part in the Leger Sport football competition. With many schools now part of the Leger model, the team faced stiff competition but played well as a collective and enjoyed the chance to compete against other schools. Also, a shout-out to Mr Hayward and Mrs Gill for accompanying the team. Well done all!
Consequences of deforestation
An important part of our learning for our current expedition is deforestation and the effects it has on wildlife as well as humans. This afternoon, 5HJ created mind maps thinking about the consequences of cutting down the trees in the Amazon rainforest. It was a thought provoking exercise for all.
Human Settlements
This week, 5HJ have been learning about human settlements. The children were given a range of different physical features and human features such as mountains, rivers, town and created their own settlement. Each group was able to explain why the key features were placed in their location, justifying their reasoning.
Rainforest Survival Guides
This week, we have been busy working on our rainforest survival guides. We drafted our different sections, critiqued our work and our friends, and used our rubric to assess our writing before finally typing them up on Google Docs. You can see a few examples of the different sections on this week’s beautiful work slides!
Maths in 5JC
Some of the students were exploring powers of 10 in maths this week and had to follow the loop around the quad area!
Dribbling Skills ⚽️
This week Yr 5 we’re practising dribbling skills in PE. The children used different parts of their foot to control the ball and enjoyed playing a range of games to develop these skills.