Year 5/6 - Doves: Blog items

Passengers of the Titanic

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 2:03pm

Today, we became the passengers on board the RMS Titanic. We each received a boarding pass with the name of a real life passenger and their class. We watched video clips showing us the the difference between an evening in 1st class compared to 3rd class whilst learning about their use of facilities and their living conditions.

Through the use of drama and role play we experienced the different attitudes between classes, learning that the needs of the 1st class were always catered for.

School Council Elections

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 2:02pm

Well done to those who prepared and confidently delivered a speech on why they should represent the children at The Gates at school councillor. The teachers were super impressed with the hard work that went into all the speeches.

Features of the Titanic

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 2:01pm

This afternoon, we looked at the features of the Titanic. We discussed the building of the Titanic, where we learnt that The Titanic was the largest man made object to enter the sea and 15,000 people worked to build the Titanic!

We then delved deeper into the different types of rooms, looking at the differences between 1st, 2nd and 3rd class passengers. Based on our knowledge of this, we created rooms in a shoe box to demonstrate what it might have looked like.

William Morris Artwork

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 2:00pm

Today, we designed a piece of wallpaper in the style of William Morris. We analysed a range of his artwork, before discussing and creating a success criteria. As a class we agreed that our drawings must include: a nature theme, symmetrical or repeated pattern and contrasting colours.

Bench Ball

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 1:59pm

In P.E, we were learning to develop a range of skills through a competitive game of Bench Ball. We applied our existing knowledge of skills such as throwing and catching, whilst continuing to develop other skills such as agility, tactics, communication and teamwork.

The day the crayons came home :)

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 1:58pm

On Friday, we finished our letters to the crayons to try and persuade them to come back. We read our letters to Puffins class and also listened to theirs. Both classes produced amazing pieces of writing, surely the crayons have to come back now!

Big Question – How do we do things at the Gates?

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 1:57pm

This morning in class, we discussed the value and ethos of our School: Growth, Achievement, Teamwork, Enjoyment and Success. We discussed our thoughts, experiences and memories of how The Gates has helped to promote each of those aspects. We compiled a long, long list of amazing things we do for each area! Have a look 😊

The Loose Crayons

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 1:56pm

To further understand how our Crayons were feeling and their reasons behind resigning from their job, we held a chat show called ‘Loose Crayons’. This gave us the opportunity to understand the thoughts and feelings of the crayons, by stepping into their shoes, but also gave us an insight of what Duncan needed to do to earn their trust back! We had a great time using drama and role play.

The day the crayons quit!

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 1:55pm

As part of our whole school writing focus, we have been reading ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ by Drew Daywalt. Doves class got together with Puffins class to read the story, we even had some brilliant volunteers who read the book and did an amazing job!

Welcome to our blog

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 1:54pm

Our new blog will be updated regularly with information about school events, examples of children’s learning and also additional work and support for children at home.
Our class blogs provide our children with a real audience and purpose for writing.

Please feel free to comment and give us feedback on any of our posts.
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Topic Homework

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 11:59am

Kingfisher class have already produced some stunning pieces of topic homework for this term. As the school target this week is based on taking pride in your own work and the work of others, we spent the first part of our morning hearing all about the work that has already been undertaken. All the children who have brought homework in already spoke confidently to the rest of the class about their projects whilst their peers listened attentively and with good grace. Everyone was proud of the work they had undertaken and were wholeheartedly congratulated by their peers. I am sure the children that spoke this morning have inspired their classmates to produce some equally brilliant work over the remaining 4.5 weeks of term.

Poppy Making

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 11:58am

Kingfisher class spent the first 15 minutes of our day making poppies, which we will place in the Chinese Garden on Remembrance Day. We have discussed the significance of this special day in class and are looking forward to paying our own respects at our special Remembrance Day assembly on Monday. The class listened and contributed sensitively and sensibly during our discussion and this is an absolute credit to them.

Science experiment – soluble or insoluble?

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 11:57am

Kingfishers spent yesterday afternoon trying to identify whether a range of materials were soluble (they dissolve in liquid) or insoluble (they don’t dissolve in liquid). The children were really sensible as always and we managed to avoid any major spillages! The children were great at predicting which materials would be soluble or insoluble, but they were surprised to discover that all of our experiments yesterday afternoon produced changes that were reversible. Next week we will discuss this concept further as we talk about filtering and evaporation as a means of separating (reversing) our materials.

Triangulation – Design Technology

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 11:56am

As part of our Design Technology unit on bridges, today we investigated the power of triangles! First we tried to create our own mini-bridges in class and discovered that when we concertinaed (I had to check the spelling on that one!) A4 paper it made it much stronger. Then we created some 2d triangles, squares and rectangles to to try and discover which were strongest. When we held our triangles flat we noticed they kept their shape and were firm and strong. The rectangles and squares were flimsy and floppy by comparison. We discovered that such is the strength of triangles, they have become common in the design of many structures, including lots of bridges, such are their load-bearing properties. This is called ‘triangulation’, which is the use of triangles to strengthen and solidify structures. Really interesting stuff for pupils and grown-ups alike!

Time Conjunctions

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 11:55am

I wanted to share some pictures of the class working brilliantly together in our English learning this morning. The children were asked to work to identify missing time conjunctions in sentences that had been given to them. As the pictures demonstrate, the children did this wonderfully and there was lots of amazing teamwork on display.

Titanic Museum

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 11:52am

The class had a fabulous trip to the Titanic Museum in Liverpool on Tuesday. They had a great time looking at all the displays and absolutely loved the workshop that the museum ran for us. The children behaved themselves brilliantly as always and represented the school fabulously. Well done Kingfishers!

More Titanic Homework

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 11:52am

Ahead of our trip to the Maritime museum in Liverpool tomorrow, it was great to be able to showcase some more great Titanic homework from members of our class. The children really are putting in a great effort with their topic homework, and it’s super to see them all so proud of their efforts.

Year 5 Harvest Assembly

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 11:51am

A huge well done to everyone in Year 5 for contributing so brilliantly in our Harvest assembly today. The children sang brilliantly and everyone spoke their lines clearly and confidently in front of the whole school. Thank you also to all the parents who attended and for all the generous donations we received. All the items will be passed on to Urban Outreach who will distribute them to those in need in our local communities.

Negative numbers- tug of war game

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 11:50am

We played tug of war in maths on Wednesday to help us with our understanding of negative numbers. Starting at 0, the children took it in turn to roll a dice to generate a number. One person was subtracting and trying to get to -15, one person was adding and trying to get to +15. The children played the game brilliantly as they always do in activities like this one.

Topic homework

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 11:49am

Well done to all the children who have completed some Titanic based topic homework so far this term. It was great to be able to showcase their work this morning.

Lioteracy Detectives

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 11:48am

As part of our unit on news broadcasts, Kingfishers spent part of this morning trying to identify the 5Ws (who, what, where, when, why) in written and verbal news reports. The children were that good that they also added a H (for how) to our list of information to include in our own broadcasts. They worked absolutely brilliantly in their pairs and did themselves and their teacher proud.

Home Acheivements 2

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 11:47am

Well done to all the children who spoke about their home achievements in the second of our class discussions today. We heard all about what our avid readers, gymnasts, dancers and sports stars get up to outside school. The children listened politely and respectfully to their classmates which was great to see. Good work Kingfishers!

Home Acheivements

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 11:43am

Well done to everyone who spoke in front of the class about their home achievements on Tuesday. It was great to hear what the children get up to outside of school. Who knew we had such brilliant farmers, performing artists, Thai martial artists, water skiers, and enthusiastic home readers in our class?!

Titanic – the preoccupied wireless operator

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 11:37am

Well done to all the children who managed to fit the word ‘preoccupied’ into a sentence today. We took the chance to do a quick sentence activity after we found out that Titanic’s wireless operator was so preoccupied sending messages on behalf of Titanic’s passengers that he missed six ice warnings on the day it collided with an iceberg.

Passengers of the Titanic

Date: 11th Mar 2020 @ 11:33am

Today, we became the passengers on board the RMS Titanic. We each received a boarding pass with the name of a real life passenger and their class. We watched video clips showing us the the difference between an evening in 1st class compared to 3rd class whilst learning about their use of facilities and their living conditions.

Through the use of drama and role play we experienced the different attitudes between classes, learning that the needs of the 1st class were always catered for.

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