Maple Year 5

To celebrate St Patrick’s Day, Year 5 learnt more about St Patrick, reflected on what makes them lucky and enjoyed a traditional Northern Irish bun - fifteens ☘️

We’ve just finished fractions in year 5 and have moved onto decimals #PinehurstMaths

In DT, we were looking at different items of clothing, what they are made of, what features they have and how many pieces have been used to create them #PinehurstDT

Maple Class were secret code busters in computing this afternoon as they learnt all about morse code and used torches to send their own messages 🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♂️ #PinehurstComputing

These children were incredibly proud of their information posters explaining all about Ramadan, fasting and why it is important to Muslims. #PinehurstRE

In computing, we were having fun with flags! Year 5 learnt all about semaphore and how flags can be used to send codes. The practised sending their own codes and cracking others. #PinehurstComputing

To start our Properties and Changes in Materials science unit, the children made “Dancing Raisins” and observed how the carbon dioxide bubbles made the raisins float and then popped, making them sink. #PinehurstScience

Maths is off to a strong start in Year 5 as we’ve been learning about numbers up to 1,000,000! The class have been working on their understanding of place value and journaling their learning. #PinehurstMaths

Some spectacular sewing in Maple Class today as children reused old fabric to make phone cases as part of their “Make do and mend” DT unit 🪡🧵The unit links with our WW2 history topic and thinking about how we can be more sustainable to protect our planet 🌍 #PinehurstDT

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Maple Class really enjoyed their field trip to Stanley Park today. It was a great opportunity to put our compass and map reading skills to the test! 🧭 And a big thank you to @cardinalheenan and @broughtonhall for letting us borrow their compasses #PinehurstGeography

Year 5 had a brilliant time at Sports Day! Lots of healthy competition and teamwork. Well done to everyone for taking part 🏅🏆 #PinehurstPE

This morning we went on a Viking treasure hunt to find facts about Viking life in Britain and went on the chrome books and searched some facts about the Viking’s. #PinehurstHistory

Thank you to Mr Cross from @NorthLivAcademy for showing our class more of what we can do using microbits and how these skills can be used to create real games like on the switch! 💻🕹#PinehurstComputing

For the past two days, we have been looking at our new book called Oranges in No Man’s Land. The book is set during the civil war in Lebanon. Today we looked at pictures of Beirut before and during the war. #PinehurstEnglish

Today Year 5 created their own Wikipedia entry for the Bluchers, the menacing, building-eating fungi that have taken over South London in our book, Boy in the Tower. #PinehurstEnglish

This afternoon we practiced our sowing skills in preparation for making our phone case/ pocket from recycled fabric next week 🪡 #PinehurstDT

Some pictures from World Book Day 📖 We spent the morning reading about inspirational people, designing posters to share the benefits of reading, doing reading quizzes, designing our own book and talking about who we came dressed as and why they are inspiring #PinehurstReading

As part of our Earth and space science unit, Year 5 have worked together to measure how the size and direction of shadows change throughout the day. We will record our results in a graph, analysis our findings and use our knowledge to explain what has happened. #Pinehurstscience