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Year 5 |
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Kentwell Capers. June 2011 |
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Year 5 had a scorching and highly memorable day at Kentwell Hall in Suffolk . The journey proved rather warm, though well worth it and it estimated the Tudor dressed staff and children encountered around 50 Tudor actors complete with authentic historical costume, language and detail over the course of the tour. The children had the opportunity to discover a huge amount about the period and ask questions and even try out the way in which people of the time spoke. As an educational experience the day was amazing!
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Aylmerton Field and Study Centre Visit March 2011 |
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Year 5 returned on Monday after last weekend's action packed educational residential field study visit to Aylmerton. The children were genuinely an absolute delight to take away and their behaviour and respect to each other and all members of staff encountered was a credit to them. The children will be following up the River Glaven and Blakeney Point field work visits on our new ICT provision and using Google Earth. This should prove slightly less tiring as they traverse the 6½ mile coastal walk and make annotations about their discoveries and learning. The staff have now largely recovered and hope the children slept as well as they have this week. A good number of parents have reported how much their children enjoyed the trip and thanked the staff personally. We even had a thank you cake. This is much appreciated. |
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Water colour observational container drawings Sept 2010
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This week Year 5 could hardly 'contain' themselves with their water colour observational container drawings. They studied a range of different storage vessels in preparation for creating their own container over the next few weeks. They had to carefully consider the effect light had upon each material.
Glass, wood, plastic, steel and rubber all featured. Well done to all selected to show the rest of the school. |
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Spherical Shenanigans Sept 2010 |
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New topics are underway and Year 5 had a memorable time on Tuesday finding out what they did and did not know about the Sun, Earth and moon, along with what they would like to find out. They used a load of balls of different sizes to determine the relative size and distance between of each of these bodies. Here are Holly, Toby and Dan doing their best Atlas impressions. |
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Tudor Triumph - Year 5 go back in time June 2010 |
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On Thursday, the whole of Year 5 dressed up as Tudor peasants and went back in time on a trip to Ingatestone Hall. The class had been split into six different groups: the Chaplains, the Stewards, the Ladies' Maids, the housekeepers, the Gardeners and the Musicians. Ingatestone Hall is a huge manor house and all the groups were split up across it, occasionally catching glimpses of each other and all doing different activities. But there was unexpected trouble afoot with a suspicious anonymous love letter and a mysterious stranger appearing out of nowhere! Lunch was scarce unless you were a rich chaplain, dining with Lady Anne and receiving entertainment from the musicians. Even more trouble when the gardeners somehow ended up in Master Kine's lodges. Luckily, all was revealed when the Lord of the household returned from London . The mystery was solved and Richard Gardner was sent to the stocks. It was the end of the day and everyone presented something to the Lord. The ladies' maids presented him with bunches of flowers, the housekeepers offered around homemade marzipan, the chaplains performed the Lord's Prayer in Latin and the musicians performed a masque called "Monsters in the dark" with a finale of our favourite Tudor song, "Hey hoh". As a final surprise of the day, we each received a groat (4 tudor pence) for our brilliant crime solving and then it was back on the coach to the 21 st century! Some pictures of our day feature on the back page.
By Eleanor Mackay |
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Tudor Portraits May 2010 |
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The week before half term, Year 5 showed off their historical artistic skills, through their Tudor portraits. The children showed great skill and the results were very impressive. They also received a historical presentation from Mrs Clare Gittings, one of our Governors and education officer at the National Portrait Gallery. The children enjoyed this and learnt a great deal. |
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Bug-Tastic Time June 2010 |
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Year 5 had a great time with the 'bug man' that James and Luke in Year Six won as a result of their 'Crazy Creature' D and T work. Here are some of Year 5 boldly holding various animals. |
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Year 5's trip to the Radlett and Bushey Reformed Synagogue May 2010 |
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On Wednesday the 26th of May 2010 Year 5 went on a trip to the Radlett and Bushey Synagogue. We had lots of fun learning how to write our names in Hebrew and dressing up in Kippahs and Talliths. We arrived at 10:15 and were greeted by one of the members of the choir, when it was time to depart to school we were allowed to try some Matzah and Challah bread. It was delicious! We then boarded the coach and headed back to school.
Written by Nathan Monaghan. |
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Maths Challenge May 2010 |
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On Tuesday Year 5 competed in the area preliminary round of the National Maths Challenge. The competition is for a team of four to solve and answer maths problems. The team of Rees, Eleanor, Fiona and Sarah all performed well and came fifth out of the fifteen schools competing. The competition was very close and the team scored 40 points, and had they managed only another 4 marks, would have been overall winners! |
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2010 Year 5 Work Plans |
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