Fraction puzzles and jigsaws with Miss Chau

This morning the children are putting their fraction knowledge to good use with tarsia puzzles,chatter boxes and jigsaws. The games involve adding and subtracting fractions, equivalent fractions and some worded riddles. 

Year 5 Science

Yesterday afternoon, the children in Maple and Elm were given the opportunity to experiment with magnets, Gauss guns, magnetic fields and the forces which attract and repel.

Elm World Book day costumes

Today Miss Chau can hardly recognise the children in her class as they have made a phenomenal effort to come dressed as their favourite book characters. Miss Chau will be teaching 2 Katniss Everdeen's, Bagpuss, Sherlock Holmes, the centipede from James and the Giant Peach, Dorothy and a Tin Man amongst others! Great effort Elm!

Parachute Investigation in Palm

This afternoon, Palm class were investigating the independent variable of 'surface area'. The children made their predictions and then worked in pairs to create their parachutes. Testing the parachutes out on the activity trail on top of the slide climbing frame. The children launched their parachutes from the top of the slide and recorded the time it took for the parachute to hit the floor (in some instances smashing the eggs).

Palm class learnt that air resistance is a force caused by air particles colliding with any object that moves through it. Our results showed  that the larger the surface area of the parachute the longer it took to fall to the ground. This is because more air particles collide with the parachute when there is more surface area as opposed to a smaller surface area. Even though there is more gravity acting on the larger parachutes the smaller ones are more streamlined and also have less air resistance. These two factors therefore meant that the parachutes with a smaller surface area fell to the ground in a shorter time.

Year 5 spellings week 8

Here are the spellings for this week. The spelling test will be on Friday as normal. Please encourage your child to look up definitions of the words as some are trickier than expected. A reminder that children are expected to bring in their spelling book and reading record to school every Friday. 

Elm Star Writer

This week our star writer is Maria Paius. Maria wrote a persuasive letter which included convincing arguments, thought-provoking openers and careful structure. Well done Maria! 

Elm's Sharing Assembly

Here are some photos and videos from the assembly this week: http://broadfordprimary.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/elms-sharing-assembly.html?m=1