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, 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…
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…
In Science this term, Year 5 have been exploring different forces. Last week, we looked at air resistance. Air resistance is a type of friction between air and another material. For example, when an airplane flies through the air, air particles hit the airplane making it more difficult for it to Read more…
Today, Year 3 visited Brockholes nature reserve in Preston and what a day they had going back in time to the Stone Age – even the weather didn’t spoil our day. Here are some pictures from across the day. First was shelter building, after all, to survive you need a Read more…
This morning, year 5 have been playing maths games to finish off the successful term that we have had. After playing the different games with their partners, they then went onto design their own maths game. Children included multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, prime numbers, squared, cubed, fractions and decimals. Take Read more…