Smithdown PrimaryY5

This afternoon we had our first session with our artist in residence, Vicki Opomu! We created abstract collage portraits and thought about our memories of our local area. #smithdownart #theartsatsmithdown

In English today, we shared ideas and generated headings and subheadings for different parts of a text. We read each section first so we could think of appropriate headings to help us summarise. #smithdownwriters

We’ve been exploring different types of media in our landscapes art topic. Today we experimented with different oil pastel techniques #smithdownart

Our fantastic stars of the week in 5NA - well done 👏 ⭐️

We’ve been developing our teamwork skills in PE with @EITC 👌

@NFUEducation We have been enjoying the live Harvest lesson - building on our scienc knowledge of plants, how our food grows and how to prepare it. We even seen a beautiful new baby calf! #smithdownsci #smithdownextra

This afternoon 5EHD have been looking at different watercolour techniques ahead of using them as part of a mixed media piece. #smithdownart 🎨

Y5 are working on teamwork this half term with @EITC Today we had to order ourselves in silence 🤫🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏽🚶🏻‍♂️🚶🏿‍♀️and we played stuck in the mud. @misshartdavies @Miss_Jones11 @MrsKellyx #SmithdownPE

We are looking at life cycles in science, so now have 40 caterpillars that we are going to watch transform into butterflies. We have given them food, and are going to monitor them turn into chrysalises. #smithdownsci @MrsKellyx @MissGuy_

We’ve made such a lovely start to our new mixed media landscapes art topic! #smithdownart

We have been researching and designing structures in DT this week. We have been looking at supporting a load and woodwork. Then we built our Viking longhouses - they are looking great so far! #smithdowndt #smithdownhist

We visited our exhibition at @tateliverpool last Friday. We are so proud of ourselves and all of the hard work we put into this local project 🎨 #smithdownart #smithdownextra

Last week, we made landscape artworks celebrating iconic spaces in our neighbourhood inspired by the line art in Pa-trick Caulfield’s After Lunch! Look out for the exhibition at @tateliverpool in the Clore Studio this summer! #MetalResidency

Our @SmithdownPrimY5 is in full swing! Artist #VictoriaOpomu & Stef have been working with 60 year 5 students to create art inspired by young people’s experiences growing up in Picton & Toxteth.

We’ve started our new science unit on the properties and changes of materials by looking at the three states of matter 👏 #smithdownsci

We’ve been looking at levers and pulleys today in our forces topic. We investigated how changing the length of the arms can increase and decrease the effort required to lift a load. #smithdownsci

This afternoon we had our second session with our resident artist. We created group line drawings based on our local area, then used Gesso to create textured pieces to add character to our line drawings. #smithdownart @SmithdownPrimY5

We had a brilliant day visiting @FarmUrbanUK to celebrate our future food heroes project. We presented our ideas to the team, harvested some greens and Seb showed us how hydroponics and aeroponics works 🌎