Y5 VIRTUAL LIBRARY
At Longman’s Hill, we are passionate about children reading and enjoying books. We have created a virtual library and added some of our favourite Y5 books to the shelves for you to enjoy. Just click on the book cover to access it.
Year 5 2023-2024
Paintings of Santorini
Using water colours, we painted a coastal landscape of Santorini.
Spring Stay and Create
We created floral sculptures using coloured paper – they look great in frames!
Poetry Workshop
We went to Selby Library and met with Peter from Poetry Business. He helped us to build on the work that we had done in class in order to write more poems. We even shared some in assembly with the whole school!
Firth House
We went to Firth House Care Home and sang Christmas songs for the residents. We also took part in a Christmas card competition and the residents chose one of our designs to use as their official card! In literacy we had been writing poems with imagery and so we left a book of our work for the residents to enjoy.
Forest School
We have been very resourceful and we have combined our outdoor initiative and our geography knowledge to begin to make maps of our school. We were also set a STEM challenge to make the tallest stick towers that we could.
Shibden Hall
We have been studying the Tudor period and had the opportunity to visit a real Tudor house! Shibden Hall was built in 1420. We really enjoyed our hands on learning experience.
Hans Holbein
We have been studying the artist Hans Holbein. He is best know for his “photo- real” portraits of Sir Thomas More and Henry VIII. We explored the use of close observation of our faces; the way fabric can reflect light and how we can use different mediums to create self portraits. the below portraits were created using acrylic paint (some are still works in progress…)
Robin Wood
Many members of our class went to Robinwood in Todmorden, where they got to stay two nights in a castle; try new skills and activities; and concentrate on their skills in: resilience, team work, communication, encouragement, cooperation and peer support. They had an amazing time!
Maths
So far this year, we have had some very practical maths lessons! We took part in the Inspiration Maths and learnt the importance of just having a go. We also explored how we can use practical resources to help us.
We even had a Maths Drop In Morning where parents could join us to take part in a maths lesson linked to Roald Dahl’s BFG!
Welcome!
Welcome to Year 5! Please see below, our Autumn term letter and our spidergram showing the optional homework activities which children could do to complement their school learning.
Year 5 2022-2023
Selby Library
We had the opportunity to go to the library and find out about how to become a member and how to take books out. We all chose a book which interested us.
Forest School – Final session in Year 5
We applied all of our knowledge about shelters and knots and work as teams to build dens. As it was our last session (and we had filled our marble/teamwork jar) we had ice-creams!
Science
As part of our unit “Living Things and Their Habitats”, we explored what kind of animals we could find in the school grounds. We considered what we knew about their lifecycles and what this could tell us about whether they are a mammal, insect or amphibian.
Self portraits
We have been mastering pencil and observation skills to create portraits using a realism style.
Makkah Masjid Mosque Visit
We visited the Makkah Masjid Mosque in Leeds and were amazed by the bright space and the stunning dome. We found out a lot more about how Muslims worship and it has prepared us for our next RE topic about what it is like to be a Muslim in the UK today.
World Book Day
As part of our World Book Day celebrations, Year 5 went to Selby High School where we were greeted by some fabulous characters. We learnt about 5 good ways to choose a book, we were all given a brand new WBD book which we then read in groups with some of the SHS reading buddies and we received wrapped books to give as gifts to other children! On World Book Day itself, many of us came to school dressed as characters from books and we began to write our own novels. We used the information that we had got from our trip to Selby High School to think about 5 things to help someone choose a book and we used them to get started. We thought about title, author, front cover, the blurb and the first page.
Computing: Music and Sound
Music and sound can change the mood and feel of a film. We have watched some films from Literacy Shed but with the sound turned off. We then decided what mood we felt went with the piece and what loops and instruments we could use to convey that. Working in pairs, we have used Garage Band to compose new scores. Some of them have been very effective!
Maths Fun Morning
We used our measuring skills to solve Harry Potter related problems. We created an invisibility potion using inky slime and troll bogies, we cast enlargement charms to supersize some sweets and we carefully weighed out ingredients to make the hallows.
Forest Schools
Mrs. Bustard taught some of us how to do a clove hitch knot. We then used our communication skills to teach someone else. We enjoyed using them when we built our dens.
Sports Hall Athletics
We took part in the Sports Hall Athletics competition and we really enjoyed the events that we took part in.
Science
We have been investigating the effects of friction on the speed of a zip wire. We created Lego gondolas, tested them and then we were allowed to change one thing in our design to see if we could reduce the friction further and make our Lego Mrs. Bustard figure travel faster.
Forest School
The Autumn leaves inspired us to create colourful ephemeral artwork in Forest School.
Design Technology
We went to Selby High School and learnt how to use cams to turn a rotary motion into a linear motion. We used our knowledge and new skills to make fairground toys.
First Aid
Our bandaging skills are improving!
Robin Wood Residential
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Ukuleles
Mr Lanzillotti came from Selby High and gave us the opportunity to learn some songs on the ukulele.
Maths trails
We explored the outdoor area and used measuring and estimating to solve clues and find a secret phrase.
Year 5 2021-2022
Experience Day at Selby High School
We had a great day at SHS and got to try a few different lessons: PE, Spanish, DT, English and Science. It was great fun and we all learnt something new.
Judo Taster Day
Judo was great! We learnt about how disciplined you have to be to excel in martial arts. You really have to use your whole body and work on your balance.
Skipping Workshop
We all had the opportunity to try different skipping skills. Some of us even had the chance to take part in a skipping competition in front of the whole school!
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
We visited the park on a very hot day so found shade whenever we could. We explored on our own to begin with and stopped to admire and draw Octopus (Polipo) by Marialuisa Tadei. After lunch we worked with our guide, Natalie, and she explained a number of other sculptures to us and showed us different mediums that we could use to recreate some of the works; at one point we even used mud!
Click on the first picture to view the gallery.
French
We have been learning about what is traditionally eaten for breakfast in France. We then had to go to the “boulangerie” to ask for the item that we wanted. We all had a go and none of us went hungry. Je voudrais un pain au chocolat et du jus de pomme s’il vous plait!
Pond Dipping
We are so fortunate to have a pond at school that we can use. To support our work on classifying living things and identifying the stages of different lifecycles, we spent our science lesson looking for different animals and then using an identification chart to understand what we had caught. We were very fortunate to catch a male and female newt, two different types of snails, some blood worms and a nymph of some kind (we were unable to identify this one). We very carefully released everything back into the water.
Literacy
We have written poems which include elements of imagery. This have been bound together and shared with a local care home where residents can enjoy reading them.
Maths Workshop
As part of our maths workshop, we heard about Katherine Johnson and the amazing work that she did for NASA. This inspired us to use our STEM skills and make our own moon landers.
World Book Day
This year Year 5 got dressed up as their favourite book characters and took part in a live World Book Day Lesson online to help them to create new storylines for exciting pieces of fiction. They also created book marks for many of the Emerald books and tested their literary knowledge with a mega book quiz.
Science
We have begun to investigate different materials and their properties. We started by recapping what we already know and by thinking about key vocabulary that we might use like: solid, liquid, gas, melt, dissolve, evaporate, reversible change, opaque, translucent, brittle, hard and soft.
Tudor portraits in the style of Hans Holbein
We created ephemeral artwork in Forest School.
 Remembrance Day
Hello Yellow! Mental Health Day.
Year 5 have been considering what Mental Health means to them and decided on two descriptions.
“Mental health is about feelings and emotions; knowing how to take care of ourselves to help us to cope when things happen to us.”
and
“Mental health is a bit like a continuum (sliding scale) – people can move along it and feel better or worse at different times, just like with physical health.”
Scarlett thought about what Hello Yellow is about and made this poster at home:
Inspired by a video that we watched from the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, we created some cartoon strips about our worries and how we might be able to manage them. Some of us used colour to represent emotions.