Today we prepared and presented our Fairtrade presentations based on the point of views suggested in the Fairtrade post below.

It was very interesting to see how we worked together to produce our final presentation. Each group has a presentation creator, a researcher, a blogger and a motivator all with different roles to help achieve the end result. I was very impressed with how some groups used each role to support another and produce some high quality research. We ended up with:

3 power points, 2 iMovies and 2 piccollages. Some presentations were supported with additional posters as well.

It was an excellent way for us to share what we had found and to help us understand the concept of Fairtrade.

Well done everyone!

Here is a short video showing our afternoon's efforts:

Thanks to the School Council, we were able to see and touch some interesting creatures. As you can see from our faces, we had an interesting (and sometimes scary) time.

A superb effort from Year 5 last week! Every single one of us achieved our weekly certificate from Mathletics including 7 silver!

Brilliant

Last week saw a fantasitc performance from the whole of Year 5. 31 of us achievled our Mathletics Bronze award for the week, and we also had one Silver award as well (for achieving 5 Bronze certificates)

Our combined score was 101,173 points which means we answered around 10,000 questions correctly last week, which is amazing! Our score saw us place 2nd in the UK and 10th in the whole world which we are all very proud of.

As part of this, Drew also featured in the daily charts for top pupil performances, finishing 2nd in the UK and 25th in the World!

I wonder how many certificates we can achieve this week. (I know some of you already have earned it in just one day! Wow!)

Today we have had some visitors in school from Spain, France, Sweden and Turkey. They have been teaching us about their country.

In year 5 we made a traditional Turkish dip called cacik.

First we chopped some cucumber, added some mint sauce and garlic paste. Then we mixed this together with natural yoghurt. It was delicious!

You could make this at home.

We have been learning how to read grid references in our topic work recently. This week, we decided to put our skills to the test by taking a walk around the local area. Equipped with an OS Map and a handful of 6-figure grid references we set off on our quest to find out exactly what was at our referenced points. Working in small groups, we were successful and, as you can see from some of the photographs, had a great time in the process.
Do you think our map skills could help us in numeracy? And if so, how?

Use this fantastic song, performed by Year 5, to help you remember what mean, mode, median and range are.

Thankyou to Mrs Ovington for the suggestion.

X-Factor here we come!

This week we were writing an extra diary entry for Laura based on our knowledge of the events in 'The Wreck of the Zanzibar'.

Check out these 'super sentences' from this week's Big Writing!.

Can you spot why I like them so much?

As part of literacy this week, we have been preparing storm poems based on 'The Wreck of the Zanzibar'. There have been a lot of fantastic ideas in our writing including similes, metaphors and alliteration. Below is an example poem using only the ideas from Year 5's work!

Can you use openers, punctuation and connectives to create a sentence as excellent as the one Anais used in science this week?
Remember capital letters and full stops are still needed online.