Aspirations – Lifesavers!

5M are proud to share the news that these children have worked extremely hard in the application process of becoming our future ‘school banking’ team. During the interview stage, they were successful in securing a role.
Well done children!

Quidditch day!

Year 5 had so much fun with Quidditch. From the start, where the hat decided our team name according to our qualities, to the celebrations after the games. Well done Ravenclaw!

Aspirations week – Biomedical scientist

We ended our aspirations week with a chat from a lovely Biomedical scientist!
She told us all about the interesting journey of a blood sample and once again, many of us asked some great questions about blood.

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Aspirations week – Lawyer

Year 5 had a wonderful session this morning with a lawyer named Collette.
Some fantastic questions were asked and answered, resulting in many of our children now liking the idea of becoming a lawyer.

Aspirations Week

Big thank you to Harry for coming in and telling us all about his life as a fire fighter and at the prison service. We learnt so much about these fantastic jobs and his life.

Enjoying P.E in the sun

5H have had a lovely afternoon enjoying P.E in the sunshine, starting athletics with Mr H.

Aspirations Week – A Life in Football

Years 3, 4 and 5 really enjoyed hearing Mr Jones talking about a range of different careers there are in Football. It was really interesting to hear about how hard he worked to be a professional footballer!

Aspirations week – Travel agent!

Year 5 would really like to thank our lovely visitor for coming in to talk to us about his chosen career.
We learnt that as a travel agent, as well as enjoying travelling, you need to be good at listening, researching and managing money. You will also need to be good at interacting with other people, building trust and problem solving.

O said it was a very interesting presentation!

R said she would like to become a travel agent when she is older because he inspired her!

A fabulous effort in 5M this week!

A great effort with our end of year assessments this week. Positive vibes seem to be creating positive results 👏 Well done 5M!

Refugee week

Our assembly today was about raising awareness of what it means to be a refugee – Community is a superpower!

Many countries have many people that are forced to flee for their safety.

One of our children ended assembly with her own thoughts on being a community – “People are getting used to being around different types of people and the world is a colourful place!”

When I grow up, I want to be…

More talent in 5M!

One of our talented musicians treated us to a few tunes on her guitar this afternoon 👏🤩

Aspirations Week!

In assembly, we discussed what it means to have aspirations.

We had the chance to dress up in the role that we aspire to be when we are older.

Cricket Day!

5M had an excellent session of cricket this morning! There was an opportunity for us to practice our resilience skills too!

Watch out for information on how to join free cricket sessions at Austin Rawlinson.
Tuesday – girls and boys after school and Sunday – girls only!

Wraparound After School Club

Aspirations in year 5!

Today we got to try out a new role as a firefighter. This was great fun and encouraged some of us to consider this as a future job!

Tricky Maths in Year 5

This week we challenged ourselves to use a protractor to measure and draw angles. Those of us that were confident helped others.

Meeting an author!

Some of us met the author Luke Temple and got our book signed.
We were also excited to find his stories in our library for us to choose for reading for pleasure.

Magic at Stockton Wood

We have our very own magician at Stockton Wood! He’s been showing off all of his tricks and blowing our socks off here in 5H!

KS2 Author visit – Luke Temple

Luke shared his fantastic adventure stories with us this morning. The main character is called Felix Dashwood and Luke helped us to bring the characters to life and explore the problems that they come across.

We had a chance to ask Luke some great questions and see how the illustrator brings his characters to life too!

Signed books about Felix’s adventures and the characters she meets on her way, will be on sale in school tomorrow!

Fire champions

Our Year 5 children are continuing to work hard with the fire service and last week they had a chance to explore the equipment!

End of year trip!

Year 5 had the best day out at Gulliver’s World!
So many smiles and fun had by all!

Summer 1 fun!

5H have had so much fun learning this half term! There’s been DT week, well-being and sports day! We also celebrated the Science week engineering projects, who won certificates. Well done for all your hard work! Have a lovely half term. See you on the 3rd June for the final half term of the year!!

Year 5 – Sports day

The rain didn’t dampen our spirits in year 5 and we enjoyed our ‘Parent stay and learn’ session yesterday. Sports day was great fun!
Thank you to those that came to support us and a huge well done to the parents that took part in our basketball shoot off!

If you were an engineer, what would you do – competition!

These children have celebrated their engineering success, having received a certificate from Primary Engineer for their amazing invention entries.

They received a grading of Pass, Merit or Distinction and those that received Distinction Shortlisted, were in the final to become an overall winner!

Well done Children!

Athletics

In preparation for next week’s sports day, we enjoyed stretching our legs.

Remember that Year 5’s next ‘Parent stay and learn’ session is on Thursday 22nd May at 9am.

We hope that both you and the sunshine can make it!

Maths games

One of 5M’s favourite maths games is the ‘Place value’ game!

We particularly like it when we try to beat the teacher 🤩

Year 5 D&T week

This week in D&T, Year 5 designed and made a kite!

Testing them was great fun!

Year 5 star readers

We loved our recent National literacy book event and sadly forgot to post about it…

We also have some star readers of our own in 5M!

Froggy Fever

Year 5 have been learning about life cycles of amphibians, insects and birds this afternoon. One of our pupils had a book all about frogs, from our reading cafe last term. We had time at the end of our day to find out some more interesting facts!

Fire Champions Fun at Anfield

Year 5 learnt so much about staying safe in our community through fun activities, with the emergency services at Anfield! How exciting!
We are now officially Fire Champions ambassadors!

Fire Champions at LFC

Yesterday year 5 had a wonderful time at LFC taking part in the fire champions programme. We learned a lot of valuable skills on how to stay state in our and community and at home.

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.

Have a fun Easter Break!

5M had a lovely afternoon after working so hard all morning 🥳🤩

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!

Hockey Tournament

Year 5 enjoyed putting their new hockey skills to the test with a mini tournament in PE.

Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day on Sunday to all our lovely Mums, Aunties, Grandmas and Carers. Thank you for all you do!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 5H

This week we have been making Totem Poles in Art, linked to our North America topic in Geography.

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!

Year 5 Art week – Sculpture

We started our Art week with a drawing from memory warm up and then drawing with shade and detail.

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 British Science Week 2025

Was great fun!

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!

Sharing news

We love celebrating positive news. Look at all these horse riding trophies! Well done!

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

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.

Year One & Year Five Reading Buddy Time

We have thoroughly enjoyed sharing and reading a range of books to celebrate World Book Day.

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!

3D Design 5H

5H have been using Sketch up to design objects in 3D during computing.

Boccia

These week we had a group of Key Stage 2 children take part in a Boccia competition.

Star reader in 5M!

Well done. You have read the most in our class this week!

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.

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.

Celebrations in 5M this week!

We love cheering each other on at Stockton Wood!

Our school community will RISE together!

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.

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!

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.

Lean on Me 5H

5H have been enjoying learning Lean on Me by Bill Withers during our singing lessons.

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.

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.

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

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!

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 Stay and Learn

Wonderful stay and learn today. Solving maths problems in teams to win prizes! Well done everyone, we have some great mathematicians.

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.

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.

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!

Design and Technology

Beginning to put our designs together.

Can you guess what we are making?

Children’s Mental Health day!

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.

Hard work pays off!

Out-of-school success for a proud member of 5M.
If you believe, you can achieve!

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.

Analysing the text!

This morning, 5M discussed the writers knowledge, the structure and the language features of our example text in English.

Practising our French in 5H

“Dans mon trousse j’ai…” Practising saying what he have in our pencil cases in French.

5H Designing Buzzer Game

5H have designed their hand steady buzzer game, which they will be making tomorrow.

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.

Fun with Kapla in 5H

5H have enjoyed building and designing creations using KAPLA blocks. There were some wonderful structures!

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.

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.

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 – Concrete resources

5M used concrete resources in Maths today to help us add mixed numbers.

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.

Cross curricular writing!

This week, 5M have been developing their writing skills in French.

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.

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.

Big quiz fun!

5M enjoyed a big quiz in our newly painted room this morning.

Hitting the right note!

5M gave it their all in today’s singing practice.

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!

Cross-curricular learning!

Today, 5M used an atlas to locate the place that the Muslim faith was founded.

5H Heat insulation experiment

We enjoyed experimenting with different materials to see which was the best insulator. Tin foil and felt where great insulators!

Musical talent in 5M!

This afternoon, we were able to read and play music to go with the song that we learnt last week.

Retrieval

5M loved starting the day with a big Friday retrieval quiz to get everyone energised and excited!

Investigating materials

5M were exploring properties of different materials this afternoon, examining how their features make them suitable for various uses.

5H Big Friday Quiz!

5H enjoyed the BFQ today, with over 30 dojos to win! Well done!

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