In DT this half term, Year 5 have been designing and then making their own pizzas. To introduce the topic, the children completed a comprehension task all about the history of the pizza. This was then followed by a lesson learning about how different foods make their journey from farm Read more
Today in Science, Year 5 have been learning about the different phases of the moon. The Moon’s appearance changes over time when viewed from Earth. Sometimes, the Moon is not visible at all and at other times it can appear as a thin crescent, full circle – or somewhere in between. Read more
Today in Geography, Year 5 have been learning all about tornadoes. They have learnt about how tornadoes are formed and the effect that tornadoes can have in the areas that they occur in. In small groups, they followed a set of instructions to create their own tornado in a bottle. Read more
In English, Year 5 are going to be writing a balanced argument about the effect that screen use has on children and whether or not it makes them lazy. At the beginning of the week, the children looked at an example of a balanced argument and identified the different features. Read more
@ScienceWeekUK What are the theories of planetary movement in the solar system? In Year 5, our Science topic this term is Earth and Space. This week, we have been finding out about the theories of planetary movement and how they have changed throughout History. To begin with, 14 different pupils Read more
Today, Year 5 started their new Computing topic for Spring 2: Creating Media. For the first lesson, they created vector drawings using Google Docs. To begin with, they were each given a sheet of paper with six shapes on it and had to create a vector drawing by cutting out Read more
In Year 5 this term, the children are going to be designing and then creating their own pop-up books. In the first lesson, pupils looked at pop-up books for children and identified the mechanisms used and the target audience. Today, the objective of the lesson was to follow a set Read more
Today, we celebrated World Book Day with a range of different activities. To begin with the children had a mystery to solve! Pupils got themselves into pairs and then each pair was given a list of different items that had been left by mysterious book characters. Each pair had to Read more
Today, two of the Year 6 Digital Leaders came into Year 5 to talk about being safe on the internet, linking to Safer Internet Day. They had planned some great activities, which really made the Year 5 pupils think about what they use the internet for and how to stay Read more
In Art this term, Year 5 are studying the work of Henri Rousseau. In Tuesday’s lesson, the pupils began to create their own interpretation of Henri Rousseau’s ‘Tiger in a Tropical Storm’. To begin with each pupil was given an image of a tiger and then they began to sketch Read more
Today, Year 5 invited parents and carers into class to support them creating their final product for our stuffed toys DT unit. This term, Year 5 have been exploring the concept of creating their own stuffed toys. First of all they designed their product and then had a practice at Read more
On Wednesday, five children from Year 5 and five children from Year 6 visited Harwood Park Primary School for Science Ambassador training. The children took part in a variety of activities throughout the afternoon and thoroughly enjoyed it! They represented themselves and Heap Bridge brilliantly. Well done to you Read more
This week it was the turn of the girls to compete in the Heywood Sports Association Dodgeball Competition. Although, slightly more subdued than the boys competition last week, the standard of dodgeball continued to be of a high level. All the girls represented Heap Bridge brilliantly, doing themselves proud and Read more
This week Mrs Wallsworth took some of the Year 5/6 boys to compete in the Heywood Sports Association Dodgeball Competition. The event was held over two nights, Monday at Holy Family High School and then Thursday at Heywood Sports Village. The boys tried hard and the games were tough and Read more
In English, Year 5 have been looking at the poem ‘The Magic Box’ by Kit Wright. In the first lesson, the children read through the poem and then identified examples of things that they have experienced or would like to experience linked to the five senses. Next, they developed their Read more