Year 5's Spellings W/C 01.04.19

Please find below Year 5's spellings for this week. Please encourage your child to practise every night so that they are prepared for their test on Friday.

Miss Breen, Miss Mullan and Miss Daly :)

 

 

Year 5 Certificates!

Congratulations to Megan, Olivia and Morgan for being awarded the Presentation certificate!

Congratulations to Georgie and Oliver S for being awarded the Reciprocity certificate!

Congratulations to Tyler and Maisie for being awarded the Reflectiveness certificate!

Congratulations to Oliver H and Arya for being awarded the Resilience certificate!

Year 5- Mersea Residential – Equipment Letter

Year 6 Certificates! 29/3/19

A huge well done to all of the children who received certificates this week.

In Redwood, Bobby and Ayomade received their R certificate!

In Willow, Grace,David, Ashroosh, Finley and Finley were awarded their 4 R certificates. Trinity has been awarded the presentation award for her lovely presentation and Yugartha has made his teacher happy!

In Larch, Mikkileigh was awarded the presentation award and Sacha, Jameel, Adebare, Eriya and Ashlee were awarded the I made my teacher happy for being so keen in the reading challenge!

Year 5- Topic Stay and Learn

Firstly we wanted to say a huge thank you to all of the parents, carers and family members who attended the topic session today.

 

We started the session by discussing the science national curriculum objectives:
During years 5 and 6, pupils should be taught to use the following practical scientific methods, processes and skills through the teaching of the programme of study content:

• planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary
• taking measurements, using a range of scientific equipment
• recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, and bar and line graphs
• using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests
• reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations
• identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.

Our current focus using the Science Empiribox scheme is Forces:

• explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object
• identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces
• recognise that some mechanisms including levers, pulleys and gears allow a smaller force to have a greater effect

The class teachers then explained that at the start of a new science, history or geography topic we like to have a ‘Wow lesson!’ This lesson is to capture the attention of the children. Today, we asked the parents to join us for our ‘Wow lesson!

 

Investigation - Effervescent Rocket Poppers

 

 

 Method

 

1. Break off half a tablet of vitamin C and place it in a dry film canister
2. Pour a third of the canisters volume in water into the container. 
3. Place the lid onto the canister.
4. A snap must be heard otherwise the lid may not be on properly. 
5. Stand BACK!
6. Time the rocket until it explodes. 

 

At the end of the experiment we asked some key Scientific questions:

1. What has happened?
2. What does the observed fizzing mean?
3. Try and devise a way of making the canister travel faster, further, higher etc.
4. Is there a better way for us to obtain more valid results?

It was clear to see that the children loved having you all join us in class today!

We really appreciate all of your continued support.

 

Thank you again from the Year 5 team!

Year 6 Spellings 25.3.19

Below are the Year 6 Spellings for this week. The weekly test will be on Friday and children should hand their spelling books in on this day. Pupils are expected to practice their spellings for 15 minutes per day as well as practice their times tables and read at home. Children are encouraged to search for the definitions of the words and use them in sentences.

	A	B	C
WOW	correspond	correspond	excellent
1	amateur	forward	accidentally
2	queue	grammar	believe
3	vegetable	complete	by
4	nuisance	purpose	Christmas
5	hindrance	sentence	different
6	discover	discover	great
7	mission	mission	hour
8	loose	loose	increase
9	sign	sign	library
10	country	country	mind
11	gymnastics	gymnastics
12	edible	edible
13	posture	posture
14	sleigh	sleigh
15	delicious	delicious
16	scent	scent
17	illusion	illusion
18	re-enter	re-enter
19	parachute	parachute
20	abundance	abundance

Year 5's Spellings W/C 25.03.19

Please find below Year 5's spellings for this week. Please encourage your child to practise every night so that they are prepared for their test on Friday.

Miss Breen, Miss Mullan and Miss Daly :)

 

 

Year 5 Certificates!

Congratulations to Jessica for being awarded the Presentation certificate!

Congratulations to Alfie for being awarded the Reciprocity certificate!

Congratulations to Conner and Paige for being awarded the Resourcefulness certificate!

Congratulations to Maliat for being awarded the Reflectiveness certificate!

Also, this week we want to say an extra special congratulations to Fayo who has been awarded the 'I have made my teacher happy' certificate. 

Year 5- Maple swimming update

Year 5 Virtual reality experience

Yesterday, Year 5 students had a virtual reality workshop as part of our topic on Ancient Egypt. During the session each pupil had the opportunity to wear the virtual reality headset to experience and travel to an Ancient Egyptian landscape.


The children ventured into pyramids, explored tombs and spotted an ornate sarcophagus all from the comfort of a Year 5 classroom. This virtual reality experience complimented the work we have been doing on Ancient Egyptian beliefs and mummification and consolidates our study in the British Museum on Monday.


Sydney from Elm said, "I really enjoyed the VR experience. The sarcophagus I saw was just like the one we made in class. When you looked into the pyramid, it felt like you were going to fall into it!"

Year 5

Year 5- Topic Stay and Learn

Year 5 will be opening our classroom doors to all parents and carers on the following date this term:

 Tuesday 26th March from 9- 9.30 am - With a focus on Topic.

This will be an opportunity for you to come into your child's class, have a look at how topic lessons are taught and the type of activities the children complete during their topic lessons. There will be an array of activities for you to complete with your children.
 

If you have any questions please contact Miss Daly via the school office.
 

We look forward to seeing you at the Topic Stay & Learn session!

Year 5 British Museum Visit

Yesterday, Year 5 visited the British Museum as part of our topic work on the Ancient Egyptians. Firstly, we attended a presentation about the evolution of mummification and how the process differed according to the wealth and status of the person being mummified.

We discovered that the British Museum has not unwrapped any of the mummies in its collection, but rather used technology such as CAT scanners to look inside the ancient tombs. 

Following this, year 5 students were accompanied in small groups to view the Ancient Egyptian exhibit which spanned six rooms in the museum. The children completed different tasks in each room such as locating different artifacts and suggesting what they might be used for. They used their reciprocity skills to work together and identify the objects. 

Overall, this was a very successful trip and effectively consolidated our work on ancient Egyptians. 

Mathew said, "I enjoyed learning about the sand-dried mummies."
Nathan said, "I enjoyed looking at the old jewelry that the pharaohs wore." 

Year 5 

Year 6 Spellings WC 18.3.19

Below are the Year 6 Spellings for this week. The weekly test will be on Friday and children should hand their spelling books in on this day. Pupils are expected to practice their spellings for 15 minutes per day as well as practice their times tables and read at home. Children are encouraged to search for the definitions of the words and use them in sentences.

	A	B	C
WOW	mischievous	mischievous	bruise
1	signature	minute	business
2	restaurant	natural	complete
3	explanation	continue	popular
4	necessary	straight	through
5	develop	weight	woman
6	vision	vision	your
7	misplaced	misplaced	medicine
8	distance	distance	class
9	brilliant	brilliant	continue
10	thoughtless	thoughtless	enough
11	prey	prey
12	previous	previous
13	cousin	cousin
14	passion	passion
15	facial	facial
16	lightweight	lightweight
17	nationality	nationality
18	ceiling	ceiling
19	variation	variation
20	ferociously	ferociously