Year 5 Chatter
5M – Important Reminder!
We’ve temporarily moved classrooms for the week!
New Location: KS2 intervention room
Date: 24/01/25
Thank you for your understanding and flexibility!
Miss Martin
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Investigating materials
5M were exploring properties of different materials this afternoon, examining how their features make them suitable for various uses.
Retrieval
5M loved starting the day with a big Friday retrieval quiz to get everyone energised and excited!
Musical talent in 5M!
This afternoon, we were able to read and play music to go with the song that we learnt last week.
5H Heat insulation experiment
We enjoyed experimenting with different materials to see which was the best insulator. Tin foil and felt where great insulators!
Cross-curricular learning!
Today, 5M used an atlas to locate the place that the Muslim faith was founded.
Sharing knowledge in RE!
One of our pupils gave a fantastic first-hand insight into the Muslim faith during a Q & A session today.
Such a valuable way for children to learn from each other and celebrate diversity!
Life savers big question 3!
What can we use our money for?
We discussed how often we consider our life saver values when we make a financial decision and shared ideas of how to be generous, thankful and wise with money.
Many of our children said that they believe they should save for the things they want but only after spending on the things they need. Some said that they would like to give more to charity too.
Poetry performances
Today we performed poems that we have explored this week in our Ready Steady Comprehension sessions. We tried to use a range of expressive strategies to enhance our performance.
Cross curricular writing!
This week, 5M have been developing their writing skills in French.
Dogs Trust
KS2 had a lovely visit from Angela at the Dogs Trust this morning. We discussed how to be safe and kind to dogs out and about.
Year 5 – Concrete resources
5M used concrete resources in Maths today to help us add mixed numbers.
Year 5 – Computing
5M are making their own interactive pets this morning in Computing. Mr Moffat is very impressed with their coding skills!
Year 5 – Global partnership
5M are creating newsletters for children in Year 5 at United School International in Doha. They are sharing information about life at Stockton Wood and life in Liverpool. We can’t wait to find out about life in Qatar.
5H Ready Steady Comprehension
5H enjoyed finding and discussing the writers knowledge in our example text. We are writing a report based on the Hound of the Baskervilles.
Fun with Kapla in 5H
5H have enjoyed building and designing creations using KAPLA blocks. There were some wonderful structures!
CO (Carbon Monoxide) safety assembly!
We learnt an important message today about Carbon Monoxide (otherwise known as CO) safety.
You can’t see it, hear it, smell it, taste it or touch it!
Homework task:
- Check if you have a CO alarm in your home!
- Make a note of the signs and symptoms to look out for and also the number to call if you suspect any CO in your home.
5H Designing Buzzer Game
5H have designed their hand steady buzzer game, which they will be making tomorrow.
Practising our French in 5H
“Dans mon trousse j’ai…” Practising saying what he have in our pencil cases in French.
Analysing the text!
This morning, 5M discussed the writers knowledge, the structure and the language features of our example text in English.
Year 5 CPA Maths!
5M consolidated their learning in Maths today, when they replaced the concrete resources with pictorial representations. This helped them to understand the mathematical concept further.
Hard work pays off!
Out-of-school success for a proud member of 5M.
If you believe, you can achieve!
Collaboration and communication in action!
5M helped each other to improve their writing by sharing ideas and giving feedback. Some used a dictionary to check difficult spellings.
Design and Technology
Beginning to put our designs together.
Can you guess what we are making?
5M Design and Technology
We had great fun designing these steady hand games and are looking forward to trying out each other’s to help evaluate them.
We love that we got to create an electrical circuit to test them out!
Investigating thermal insulation!
5M have used independent, dependent and controlled variables to investigate thermal insulation.
Firstly, we needed to learn how to read a thermometer correctly.
School Council meeting
Our school council were busy this morning, thinking of ideas for special rewards for reading at home and also for charities to donate to as part of our Social Impact Schools Award.
Year 5 Stay and Learn
Wonderful stay and learn today. Solving maths problems in teams to win prizes! Well done everyone, we have some great mathematicians.
Safer internet Day!
Year 5 discussed online safety and how to be careful to avoid scams and fake news online. Some of our lucky children went to Anfield to represent our school in further discussions.
Year 5 Parent Stay and Learn session
5M thoroughly enjoyed a bit of competition when solving two step word problems in our parent stay and learn session. Everyone was successful and seemed to have lots of fun. It is also evident that we have some great Mathematicians in our class!
Welcome back Year 5!
We hope you have had a fabulous half term and are feeling refocused and ready to learn!
Please remember to bring your reading books and your signed reading record with you to school!
See you in school, Miss Martin and Mrs Holland
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Everton in the Community
Laura came to remind us about the football sessions that they offer at Austin Rawlinson on Mondays, free of charge.
5pm – 6 pm mixed gender.
6pm -7pm girls only.
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Year 5 P.E
Year 5 will now have P.E on Tuesday afternoons. Please bring your kits tomorrow. We will no longer have swimming on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
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Lean on Me 5H
5H have been enjoying learning Lean on Me by Bill Withers during our singing lessons.
Fun at Hockey with year 5
5H have enjoyed hockey in P.E today. We’ve got some great defenders and attacker coming up. Remember P.E kits every Tuesday.
Reading Cafe
Year 5 and 6 had a wonderful time at our reading cafe yesterday, as part of the National Literacy event. We enjoyed finding new books, having a biscuit and a drink and even being able to take that book home!
5H Geography
5H enjoyed starting our topic on North America this week. We used the atlas’ to find major countries and cities and ipads to research facts.
Celebrations in 5M this week!
We love cheering each other on at Stockton Wood!
Our school community will RISE together!
Maths teamwork 5H
5H have been working hard this week to master long multiplication. Today we worked together on our reasoning and problem solving question.
5M PE!
This week we practised our hockey skills with Mr Moran. We have some talented athletes.
Next week we will begin our gymnastics unit of learning.
Boccia
These week we had a group of Key Stage 2 children take part in a Boccia competition.
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Year 5 World Book Day -Reading Buddies
We have loved sharing stories with the younger children this afternoon. Some of the stories were really funny too!
Year One & Year Five Reading Buddy Time
We have thoroughly enjoyed sharing and reading a range of books to celebrate World Book Day.
British Science Week 2025 – Change and adapt!
A great start to our science week in year 5 today!
Assembly got us hyped up for a fun week of investigations, followed by a fabulous chat with members of the Knowsley Safari Park team about how to be a Planet Protector!
Later on we investigated camouflage by adapting our moth to blend into its environment for survival.
Parents Get Involved in Neurodiversity Week.
Below is a list of workshops available to parents during Neurodiversity Celebration Week. Simply click on the workshop your would like to attend to register. You will be able to access the workshops via your mobile phone, tablet or computer. If you need help speak to Mrs Kent (SENCo)
https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/_files/ugd/46eb70_e3ce426f85ca411ebf75ef1d9ce61b10.pdf
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Sharing news
We love celebrating positive news. Look at all these horse riding trophies! Well done!
science Week in year 5
5H has had fun this week during Science Week. We have explored different scientists, attempted to make bouncy eggs (unfortunately they were still very raw) and even designed our own inventions! What fun!
5M LifeSavers Big Question 4: How does our money help others?
We had some really interesting conversations about how your money can go a long way and can help a lot of people, when we choose to spend or donate it!
Year 5 Art week – Sculpture
We started our Art week with a drawing from memory warm up and then drawing with shade and detail.
Neurodiversity Celebration Week
A huge thank you to Mr Boyd for hanging our neurodiversity umbrellas! Neurodiversity is an umbrella term used to refer to all of the different ways of thinking. This week the children are learning about Autism, Dyslexia, ADHD and Dyspraxia. Ask your child if they know any famous people who are neurodivergant!
Art Week 5H
This week we have been making Totem Poles in Art, linked to our North America topic in Geography.
5M ‘Wear your PJs to school’ day!
Today we raised money for Alder Hey children’s hospital and also celebrated our Attendance achievement with a pizza party and a movie, all whilst wearing our pyjamas!
5M are leading the way…
1st class to celebrate great attendance!
Art week – clay sculptures
5M have made cross-curricular links between Art and Geography this week – learning about Totem Poles and then designing and sculpting our own.
We haven’t quite finished our sculptures yet, so watch this space for the end results.
Neurodiversity week!
5M have really enjoyed learning about different types of neurodiversity during this week. It has helped us to understand and appreciate how everyone’s brain works in unique and amazing ways.
Look out for our wonderful umbrellas displayed around the school, celebrating and showing that we embrace Neurodiversity.
5M Reading for pleasure
We took a little time this morning to refocus our minds with some quiet reading time in our fabulous school library.
Year 5 Maths CPA
Even when not in our classroom, we will always find time to use concrete, pictorial and abstract resources to support our maths learning.
Year 5 Art
5M are working hard to use primary colours to paint the totem poles we made last week. We’re really happy with the finished product.
Rights and Duties 5H
5H have been discussing rights and duties to their school, home and environment, during PSHE. Many of the children highlighted our school values of Respect, Inclusion, Succeed and Encourage.
Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day on Sunday to all our lovely Mums, Aunties, Grandmas and Carers. Thank you for all you do!
Hockey Tournament
Year 5 enjoyed putting their new hockey skills to the test with a mini tournament in PE.
Year 5 Parent stay and learn – Science 🤩
We had a great morning confusing our brain with the ‘Stroop Effect’ test.
Some were difficult and some were easy. It made us laugh out loud and we’d like to thank our parents for joining us!
Have a fun Easter Break!
5M had a lovely afternoon after working so hard all morning 🥳🤩
Year 5 – Exploring and responding to clues from the text
We began our new narrative in English today by immersing ourselves into the narrative, identifying what the clues told us and forming links between the objects and images. Then we made a prediction.
