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Year 5
Welcome to Year 5
We work hard and always try our best. We are building our self belief and resilience.
Our Year 5 Team: Miss Hart-Davies, Mr Donagy, Mr Ma, Miss Jones, Miss McLoughlin and Mrs Venables
Information for Parents
Click here for the Termly Overview for Autumn Term 2023
Timetables
Click here for Y5EHD Timetable
PE
PE kit consists of navy blue shorts or leggings, a sky blue polo shirt and trainers or pumps.
Miss Alt’s class have PE every Tuesday.
Miss Hart-Davies’s class has PE every Tuesday
Reading
Please try and read with your child every night. Really focus on asking questions about their book as this will help them with their reading comprehension.
Keep up to date with our latest news by following us on X (formerly Twitter) @SmithdownPrimY5
Year 5 Chatter
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5EHD Geography statistics work
This week year 5 have compared Liverpool to the city of Manaus in Brazil and plotted data and different style graphs.
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Fantastic Family Picnic
A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.
An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.
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Y5 Y6 Boys Rugby
Here are some of our boys out for their session of rugby today, this time at St Margaret’s.
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Y5&6 Girls Rugby
How great was our rugby taster session yesterday at Calderstones !!!!!
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5EHD Martin Mere trip
Year 5 had a fantastic time learning about Anglo Saxon and Viking daily life in Martin Mere. We learned how to weave, fight in battle, make a thatched roof and forage for medicine and food in the woods
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5EHD DT
We have been working hard on our rail engineering project. Over the past couple of weeks, we have created our own locomotives, complete with a frame, wheels, axels and an electrical circuit.
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Year 5 Computing
Year 5 continued to look at how we can use variables in our programming. Children created a multiplication quiz on Scratch including variables for scores and a timer.
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Year 5 Micro:Bit
This afternoon children have looked at how we can use a Micro:bit to create a multiplication game. Children needed to create number variables and then use multiplication to be able to get the numbers to multiply and together and display on the Micro:bit.
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Santa Dash 2023 ??????♀️????♂️
This Friday, 8th December 2023, we will be having our very own Santa Dash! A chance to squeeze in an extra fitness session whilst having some festive fun ??♀️????♂️?????
Watch this space! ?
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Year 5 Micro:bit
This afternoon Year 5 have continued to explore how we can code a Micro:bit. Today we looked at how to set and change the brightness of the LED lights on the Micro:bit when a button was pressed. Children then created code for it to display a sequence of different images.
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Young Scientist Centre
5NA went to a solar system workshop at UCLAN. We did lots of investigations all about the solar system!
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Year 5 Coding
This afternoon Year 5 completed a coding activity on Hour of Code. Children used blocked coding to create images and animations. Children focused on the positioning of their shapes as well as inserting different blocks to make their code more efficient. Children then had to debug their code to makesure it works.
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What was operation Pied Piper?
We have been looking at evacuation and it’s impact on children during the war – we examined some sources and discussed what they were and their intentions!
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Year 5 Computing Micro:bit
Wednesday afternoon Year 5 have continued to explore Mico:bits. Children used variables, If statements and Inputs to get a Micro:bit to play Rock, Paper & Scissors.
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5EHD PE
Congratulations to this boy in 5EHD who was chosen by our Everton coach, Connor, to receive this signed picture of Jordan Pickford for outstanding efforts in PE today!
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Remembrance Day
We have created some beautiful poems after reading Flanders Fields and used watercolours/charcoal/pencils to create some poppy artwork to mark Remembrance Day.
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How and Why did WW2 Start?
We have started our WW2 topic by exploring who was involved, how it began and why. We made a double page spread to answer our enquiry!
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After learning about life cycles with Years 2 & 5
After learning about life cycles, @SmithdownPrimY5 kindly invited us to watch their butterfly release this afternoon. 4 classes of pure excitement ? #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY2
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We then focused on how animals mature by looking at some life cycles…
We then focused on how animals mature by looking at some life cycles. Mr. Ma let the Y5 caterpillars visit KS1 and just look at their faces. We identified some at pupa stage for some science in action #smithdownsci @baronbedford @Edu_Meadows
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Our fantastic stars of the week in 5NA⭐️
Our fantastic stars of the week in 5NA – well done ? ⭐️
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We’ve been developing our teamwork skills in PE ?
We’ve been developing our teamwork skills in PE with @EITC ?
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This afternoon 5EHD have been looking at different watercolour techniques…
This afternoon 5EHD have been looking at different watercolour techniques ahead of using them as part of a mixed media piece. #smithdownart ?
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Y5 are working on teamwork this half term with @EITC Today…
Y5 are working on teamwork this half term with @EITC Today we had to order ourselves in silence ???♀️????♂️??♀️and we played stuck in the mud. @misshartdavies @Miss_Jones11 @MrsKellyx #SmithdownPE
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We are looking at life cycles in science…
We are looking at life cycles in science, so now have 40 caterpillars that we are going to watch transform into butterflies. We have given them food, and are going to monitor them turn into chrysalises. #smithdownsci @MrsKellyx @MissGuy_
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We’ve made such a lovely start to our new mixed media landscapes art topic!
We’ve made such a lovely start to our new mixed media landscapes art topic! #smithdownart
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