Blog by Tag: year5
Original songs and covers
Last week we explored and explained our feelings when listening to songs. We used colour and musical elements to do this.
Research at home some more songs. Have a look to see if anyone has covered them.
Which version do you prefer? Explain your reasons for why.
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Walk the lights
On Wednesday evening, KS2 went on a family trip to walk the lights.
Year 5 and year 6 were launching their new topic for after half term.
Please email Miss Howarth photographs of you at the illuminations for our display.
What do you like most about Blackpool illuminations? Who did…
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hawks science Blackpool illuminations KS2 year5 year6 light
Synonyms and Antonyms in OAA
In OAA today, Hawks had to work as a team to unscramble letters to find a key 'survival' word. They then had to find the matching synonyms and the corresponding antonym.
Which synonyms did you find for survival, discovered, abandoned, wondered, alarmed, sturdy, mysterious and…
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hawks KS2 PE English OAA year5 year6 SPaG synonyms and antonyms
How is Romeo going to adapt to school life?
Today, year 5 and 6 had a talk with Mrs McGrath about Romeo our school dog.
Romeo is going to be our school therapy dog. He will help us with our learning. Romeo will help us read and turn our pages in our books.
Romeo will help anxious children this may include helping them in exams.
On…
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Eagles hawks science year5 year6 falcons Romeo adaptation therapy dog
PALs session week 3
PALs worked really hard last night to look at setting up games and playing them ready to teach the younger children.
What did you enjoy about last night? What games did you set up and why? How do you think you will adapt it when teaching the younger children?
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Solving Eagles' Riddles in OAA
Hawks had a fantastic session in OAA trying to solve the riddles set by Eagles to find out their word given by clues.
How did find solving the problems? Where did your clues take you? What did you enjoy most about the OAA session?
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hawks KS2 PE problem solving OAA year5 year 6 riddles
PALs
We have now started our PALs training. Our PALs team is made up of 10 year 5s and Archie who is a year 6 Senior Prefect, as our Head PAL.
Tonight was our second session. So far we have looked at the qualities of being a PAL and what different games and activities there are for us to lead at…
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active lifestyles year5 year6 sport PALs playground games prefects roles and responsibilities
Hawks Hot-Seat
In Hawks this morning, the children got the opportunity to hot-seat characters from their English book, Kensuke's Kingdom.
What did you ask Mum, Dad, Michael and Stella? How did they feel? What did they think? What were their motives and actions?
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hawks reading English Speaking and Listening year5 year6 kensuke's kingdom hotseating
Hawks OAA
In OAA last week, Hawks focused on working as part of a team, communication and riddle solving.
What did you enjoy most about OAA last week? What worked well in your teams? What does your team need to think about next week? What riddles can you think of?
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hawks KS2 PE problem solving OAA year5 year6 communication riddles
Hawks Class Assembly
Last Tuesday, Hawks performed their class assembly to the whole school and to their parents and carers. They show cased what they have been learning in Hawks which included their science topic survival, art and PE.
What did you enjoy the most? What did you parent/carer think of the…
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hawks newclass class assembly year5 year6
Democracy in English
In English we are currently reading Kensuke's Kingdom. In our English lesson, we voted if we were for or against sailing around the world with our family for 6 months.
I would love to sail around the world with my family. I love to go travelling and have been to many places around the…
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hawks democracy English year5 year 6 kensuke's kingdom
Welcome Back Hawks!
Hello Hawks!
Firstly, I hope you are all enjoying the extra couple of days of the Summer holiday as we have been very busy getting school and our classroom ready following the delay of our construction work.
Mrs Crooks, Mrs Macdonald and I can’t wait to see you all and hear about…
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