Sacred Heart
Catholic Primary
'Live, Love and Learn Joyfully in the Family of Christ'
Year 5
Year 5
2024 - 2025
Useful Documents
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN UP TO
Year 5 made their own beeswax wrapping in science
World Book Day!
Mud, mud, mud! At Epping Forest feild Studies Centre
Children from year 4 and 5 told the story of Diwali through dance at the Hertford and Ware Schools Partnership dance festival
This week in Mini-Police, we all got to sit in the car and feel like real police.
We thought of our mental health plan during Children's Mental Health Week
We filtered sand as a mixture and evaporated salt as a solution.
We had to separate materials without touching them. We got very creative!
We had our first session from the Mini-Police for our PHSE where we learnt about anti-social behaviour
We used Oreos to describe the phases of the moon, whilst trying not to eat them!
We continue our class worship each week. We like using the outdoor classroom to do it.
We tried to work out the relative sizes of the earth, sun and moon. We worked out if the sun were a space hopper, the earth would be the tiny pom pom and the moon would be the teeny bead.
We have been working on factors, prime, square and cube numbers in maths
Odd Socks day for anti-bullying week
We met up with our year 1 buddies for the first time
We researched charities and created adverts for our CAFOD lesson about preferential option for the poor
In our science lesson on forces, we discovered lifting a heavy bucket was a lot easier if you use a pulley system.
We had a mental health workshop from the NHS. They taught us about our feelings and gave us techniques to help calm us.
Testing our parachutes. We understood the wind affected the tests so we did them all three times.
Making our parachutes ready to test. We all asked different questions about what would affect the speed of their descent. We will only change one thing each time.
What do the 4 types of revelation tell us about God?
Does the mass or shape of of an object affect its weight on earth? Will one accelerate more than another?
Responding to the story of Creation in Godly Play
