my year5 meprys

Year 5: Reflection

Year 5 has been quite enjoyable as we zoomed through the whole year! We learnt about loads of things and the best thing I have improved on is my Maths. Also, in the year, because we were doing so many different things my favorite subjects changed every week! My favorite topic was WWII and the best book was "There's a boy in the girls bathroom!". I think year 5 is a memorable year. I wish this year would never ever end! Thank you Mrs Collin, Mrs Thornton and everyone else who who helped out this year!

By Chloe xx eee EEEE

school BBQ

On the 3rd July we had a school BBQ, it was really fun, there was loads of stalls including all of these:

• lucky dip
• crossbar challenge
• sponge throwing
• speed stacks
• guess the weight of the cake
• guess the photo

The food was really tasty, plus this year there was a live band to enjoy they were great, We also got a free burger, cake and drink. Our stall was the guess the weight of the cake and guess the photo stall.

By Luke and Callum B

y5 camp Fai$al.G & Nicola$.H

At y5 camp we had a great water fight with a fun game capture of the flag.
We roasted marsh mallows and some were burnt but still tasty.The night was loud
but fun,despite the scary story 75% were scared. Before the story we made doughnuts out of bread.
One of the best parts was the role play.
We all had very interesting characters, who we had to act like for the evening.

Next morning we packed up and went home.

Everyone enjoyed themselves at year five camp most people enjoyed the water fight the most.

Most people wanted to stay longer.

Year 5 camp and BBQ

On the 3rd of July 2009 Year 5 had there camp/BBQ. We camped on the field at are school.It was really fun because we toasted marshmallow's and chewest on the camp fire.The tents were funky! We named the tents they were called Fruit slushy tent,cherryade tent,cheeky monkeys,blue boys,cc clan and pocker tent.On the saturday we had a treasure hunt it was so fun also we had a water battle that was so so so fun teem red won the battle my teem after we did a cowboy murder mistorey that was fun to luke chris were the murders.




ByBrooke+Katie.

Year 5 BBQ

On the 3rd of July, Year 5 had a Barbecue with the following:

• Sponge Throwing


• Lucky Dip


• Guess the weight of the cake


• Guess the picture of the staff


• Speed Stacking


• Hot Dogs, Burgers, Cakes and Drinks


• Crossbar Challenge

You should of been there, it was AMAZING!!!!!!

By Dylan Painter Year 5

Year 5 camp

The 3rd to the 5th 2 nights 3 days we slept in freezing cold weather, joggers, jumpers and socks were slept in.

We sat around the fire talking and toasting marshmallows.We even toasted grapes and

chewitts.

On Saturday we had a water fight and a mystery murder game .Slick o' Hare (Luke) and Clem (Chrisopher) were the murders it was so so so much fun finally we got some sleep ,well I known I did.

By Lucie

Year 5 camp!!!!!!

The 3rd to the 5th of July was year 5 camp. It was sooooo cool and sooooo much fun!!! On Friday the 3rd of July after the BBQ year 5 set some tents up. Then we got dressed and sat round the fire toasting marshmallows ,they were so nice.

In the morning we got dressed and went to breakfast we had a full English breakfast it was soo good. Mrs Dolman Mrs Gibson cooked it. Then we had a treasure hunt it was fun. Then some people went to Tescos to buy lunch. Then some people helped Mrs Dolman to prepare the food then we had it. After that we had a water fight, it was fun. Then we got ready for the Murder Mystery. It was time for the Murder Mystery. I was sooo excited. We played our game after dinner. We got changed and had donuts round the fire and did a spooky story then went to bed.

The next morning we packed ore bags, got dressed and went to breakfast it was croissants and they were soooo nice. After that we all went home!!!!!!!!

xxAlishaxx

Year 5 Camp and BBQ 09!

On Friday 3rd of July we had Year 5 Camp and our Family BBQ! I'll start with the BBQ...... Friday evening was one of the best evenings of Year 5. The atmosphere was really good. Everybody enjoyed eating hot dogs, burgers, cakes and ice cream. Also, and I think everyone will say the same, thank you for the live music and the patient neighbours too! The stalls were also exciting. Sponge throwing and the Lucky Dip were very good (all the others were good too though!).

Eventually, people started to go back home and that meant that our hot chocolate and marshmallows were on the way. When we went to bed it was fun because Bree and I stayed awake for ages!

In the morning, at around 6.30am we had to "earn" our breakfast! When we got our breakfast kit was worth while! Mrs Dolman and Mrs Gibson made everyone a full English Breakfast!!!!! It was very, very nice! Then we had a tent inspection. This meant cleaning and tiding our tents. Mr Lavis came around judging every body's tent. We then did other stuff. Our Lunch was also delicious! The best thing was the water fight because we went into teams and we had a flag. With this flag we keep it in the teams castle. Another entertainment was the Murder Mystery. I was Minnie May Adams and the murders were Luke and Christopher! In the evening we had donuts and a spooky story! I slept in Sophie-Lou's, Katie's and Alisha's tent. We were all quite worried about the story!

On Sunday we over-slept and I had croissants for breakfast.


By Chloe.

Year 5 camp and BBQ AE and LA

On Friday the 3rd of July it was BBQ time!!!!!!!!!! There were burgers, hot dogs, cakes and drinks!

Whilst the BBQ was happening year 5 and there families (not forgetting Mr Lavis!) were also pitching tents. We had so much fun, we had breakfast (a full English one of course!), had a tent inspection, a treasure hunt, me and my tent crew had the most points on the chart and went to our local supermarket, Tesco for lunch! We had some rolls, crisps, fruit and vegetables!

After lunch we had a break, chatting playing and lazing about in our tents!

It was time for our next activity... a water fight!

I got soaked! Everyone kept on throwing wet sponges, shooting me with their pistols and throwing cups of water at me!

That evening we had our Murder Mystery party! For tea we had jacket potatoes and the murderer was (or were Christopher and helped by Luke!)

I was an Indian called Runs Like A Deer and Liam's Name was Sheriff Abe Blane.

Sitting round the camp fire we made doughnuts with jam and chocolate spread inside, they were yummy! When we had finished our doughnuts Mr Lavis told us a scary story that was really quite funny!

Then we went to bed, it took me about 3-4 hours to actually get to sleep and I woke up at about half past 5!

On Sunday we had another tent inspection, packed up the rest of our tents, had breakfast and waited for our parents to arrive!

For breakfast I had a croissant and a pane au chocolate, they were delicious!

Emily had come back from her holiday on Friday and so she handed out some rock(as in the sweet of course!)

Eventually our parents came and I went to sleep that day at 8.30pm and woke up at 11 am in the morning!

From Alanah!

Year 5 camp.

At year 5 camp I had lots of fun. My favourite thing was the water fight I really enjoyed. In my tent we won the treasure hunt and the tent inspection which meant my tent got to go to Tessco to buy lunch. We named our tents there was Cherryade, the blue boys, C.C.clan, Fruit slushy, the poker tent and the Cheechy monkeys. On the day that we were going home Igave out some rock and we all went home. I had lots of fun!

oxoEmilyoxo

The wonderfull cricket season!!

This season we have had some good cricket matches.We have won all of our matches exept 1 that we have lost.We had to win 1 of our games because

it was against Mrs Thornton's sons school and we won.It was against Mildown.It was the first time that Mildown lost a match.We lost 1 of our matches against Spetisbury but they are good.Yesterday Monday 6th of July we were supposed to play Dumbery but unfortunately

it was called of because of the rain.

By Jamie and Scott

Y5 Camp 2009

On the 3rd July the school had a BBQ. After the BBQ y5 had a camp, we had a camp fire before we went to bed, we toasted marshmellows over the fire and some people toasted chewitts, weird!

After that we went to bed, most people didn't get any sleep.

In the morning we had to tidy our tents ready for tent inspection which we got points on how tidy they were.All points were added up after other games. First (before tent inspection) we played games to win our breakfast then we had breakfast then finally tent inspection.After that we were given a clipboard and a sheet with some questions on it. They were given out in groups 1 per tent the answers were in the school somewere. Then there was a picture version . After that they added up the scores the tent called cherryade won that meant they got to go to Tesco to buy some food for lunch. When they got back a small group went and prepared the lunch, once that was done we ate lunch. After lunch we had lots of games and about half an hour later we had a water fight (we all got very wet) the red team won. After the water fight we all got dry and into our cowboy clothes ready for later. We all had lots of fun. We all liked trying to work out who the murderer was. We found out that it was Luke and Christopher. Then we all had a little fire and had dounuts, then we went to bed. In the morning we had to pack all our bags to go home. We had breakfast then we all sat outside to wait for our parents. Emily gave us some rock sticks and we went home.( we had loads of fun)

By Emily and Luke

Cheekymonkeys Tent

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Fruitslush Tent

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Poketent

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Blueboys Tent

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Cherryade Tent

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The Cool Card Clan

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Did Judge Paulson Make the Right Judgement?

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More from Cactus Gaulch

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Way Out West Murder Mystery

Who was the murderer? Who stole the sheep? Who was Elijah Entwhistle really? Who was the mysterious Freddy Lloyd?

All these questions were answered and more besides during our murder mystery evening in the Silver Dollar Saloon at Cactus Gaulch.
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What an effort!

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Bree drops in for a chat...

Bree helps us put the world to rights. She quite rightly points out that "People lose their dignity when eating popcorn in the cinema - just chucking towards their mouths!"

Quite right Bree - we should learn to eat properly!
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Having a Natter

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Entertaining Ourselves.

Speed stacking.
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Taking Our Responsibilities Seriously.

Washing up after ourselves.
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Year 5 Camp - Lunch

Lunch occurs! Bought at Tescos!
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Arts week

Arts Week Cooking

On the the 25th June 2009 for our Jamaican study we had a party before the party we cooked the food we were going to eat Dylan's Group made Jamaican beef patty my group made rice and peas and lots of other groups made different foods and cakes, then we sang a song called banana boat song its a Jamaican song by calypso


By Callum.L

The Piano by Aidan Gibbons

As part of our literacy work, we have been writing narrative for a sort animated film called The Piano.

We used a pesentation programme to import freeze frames from the film and wrote our own voice overs. We had done lots of presentation work for this thinking about what the characters would say and how they would feel and how camera and film techniques are used.

VE DAY STREET PARTY

Plans are well underway for our VE Day style street party on Friday. We are all very excited about acting out our own street party as if it was 1945!

We have done lots of research to make our party as authentic as possible and are now busy planning costumes , deciding what food to bring (not easy with rationing!) making decorations and deciding on what entertainment we will have.

We have been learning some WWII songs for a sing along and have learnt some simple waltz and swing dancing moves.

We know we are going to have such a great time - hope to see you there!!!

What a busy couple of weeks we have had - we are very sorry for not posting sooner!

Last week was Enterprise Week. In Formula Base we studied Fairtrade and how it helps improve the lives of farmers in developing countries and we made masquerade masks to sell at the enterprise market to raise money for Comic Relief.

Here is our week in pictures:

We learnt about Fairtrade chocolate and about how much of the money from a £1 bar of chocolate actually goes to the cocoa farmers. We even got to try the chocolate!

Part of our display about the chocolate journey and Fairtrade.

We carried out a survey when planning our masks designs to see what materials, designs and colours people preferred. We then recorded our results in graphs and made conclusions from our findings.

One of the designs for our masks.

We made symmetrical templates.

A mask in progress.

A finished mask. We managed to make 62! We worked out that it cost us 23 pence to make each mask.
We advertised our product in assembly. We wrote and recorded radio adverts.



Our glitzy stall all ready for the enterprise market. We sold 57 masks and came second in the competition to see which class made the most money!

CALLUM'S BOOK REVIEW !

This week for my homework I had to write a book review to put onto the espresso website. This is my review, mine is a fiction book it is Harry Potter

Title of the book: Harry Potter
Author's name: J.K Rowling
Publisher: Bloomsbury


What is the book about?
Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy until he is sent to Hogwarts Witchcraft and Wizardry School and learns magic.

Who is your favourite character and why?

Harry because he makes all the right choices, he learns cool magic, he has a lot of friends and he thinks of others, that's why he's my favourite character.


What is your favourite part of the book?

At the end when Harry and Voldermort meet, and Harry and Voldermort fight each other.

Sophie-lou's space poem

Uranus

I'm Uranus. I look at Saturn with its hot, fiery rings.I wish I had some rings like his to keep me warm.

The bright stars around me make me shimmer gracefully in the dark night sky.

My glittering, icy rings swirl around my mystical, magical bluey-greeney.

By Sophie-lou

Jupiter

This is my space poem called Jupiter.


Jupiter

Jupiter, Icy cold at negative 180 degree,
Jupiter, staring at Saturn's icy ring with my wonderful red eye,
Giant Jupiter, 1,318 times larger than the tiny earth (well that's what I think)
Jupiter, I was discovered in the mid 1800s (I think I am old)
Jupiter, I can't believe it I am the biggest, WOW!
Jupiter, my wonderful 6.2876108km diameter,
Jupiter, my wonderful eye the size of earth.

By Jamie

Book reviews

In Formula Base as one of our activities to celebrate World Book Day on Thursday 5th March, we have been writing book reviews to put onto the espresso education website that we use at school. We chose between fiction and non-fiction and we are now waiting to see if any of them get published to the site (we keep checking to see if they are there!) - how exciting!

Mars

Mars, I am mars red cold and dusty planet
I can see the earth it is right in front of my face
It will take 6 months for people to get to me
I am the fourth planet from the firey sun
and I am the second nearest to the earth
by Katie

Saturn

Saturn

Watching beautiful Saturn As its icy ring circles by

Spectacular orange,red,yellow and brown flames burst into the night sky

4.6 billion years old and is made of gas and is the second biggest

It's named after a god called Saturnus and is 1,427,000,000 km from the sun.

Right next to him floats giant Jupiter and shimmering Uranus.

by Emily

Planet Mars

I am mars and I am as cold as ice.

Red dust lives on me.

Rocky volcanoes lives on me too.

I look in front of me and I can see the Earth.

I am the 4th planet that's nearest to the Earth.

By Ethan

Thanks to the sun! Shadows!

We were very thankful that the sun came out from behind the clouds today so that we could measure the shadows! On Monday we planned an investigation around the question, how do shadows change over the course of the day? Unfortunately we had, up until now, been unable to carryout our measurements because it had been very cloudy.

Finally today the sun decided to come out and play and we were able to go to the playground and make our measurements taking into account how to make our test fair. There were a couple of occasions when we had to wait patiently for the sun to shine down on us but we are now able to look at our results and draw some conclusions from them.

Daniel's poem

Neptune

I am Icy cold like a freezer
I am as wet as the sea
I look at uranus,but pluto is behind me
I role around in the atmosphere
I am 2.8 million killometers from the sun
But very silent, silent as a mouse
And nobody will build a house on me

by Daniel

Jupiter

I'm Jupiter biggest of them all
orbiting round saving the earth with my huge force of gravity.
I have seen humans four times in fact .
I'm 5th from the sun but still i cant see him,
I see Saturn and mars by my side


By Christopher

Uranus Poem

Uranus

I'm Uranus

I look at Pluto everyday, he's really small

I remember when I was that size,

My secret sparkly icy ring circling round me day and night,

My freezing cold weathermakes me shimmer in the dark space around me,

The colour of me is bluey green,

I'm really bright so I can be seen.

By Olivia

watson's poem

Mars

I have icy flakes on
me.
I watch the earth spinning
on its axis.
I am hot and dry with holes all
over.
Lots of hot rocks bashing into
me.
Little bits of sand flickering on
me.

by Watson

Uranus

Everyday, I Uranus shiver at my freezing degree,
I set my eyes upon Neptune.
Wondering what it is like upon him.
I am the third and fourth biggest planet in the Solar System.
I wonder whether I am glowing to the stars beyond?

By Tom

Pluto

This week we have been doing poems and this is my poem


Teeny tiny Pluto looking at the other planets wondering

when I will be that big.

I can't see the sun it is really far away.

I can see Neptune he's right in front of my face.

I look to one side and I look to the other side no planets at all.

I can only see the black starry night gleaming in my eyes!!!!

By Alisha

Callum's Space Poem

In my Earth and Beyond work I produced a poem for my planet Jupiter.

This is my poem

Giant Jupiter Swirling around the sun
Jupiter's eye looking at you
and the faint planetary ring sparkles in the sky
I'm not all alone, I look around and next to me is red and dusty Mars



By Callum.L

My Alien creature

This week we have all entered a competition to win a nintendo ds and a education pack. We had to pretend that we were on an island called Cloudipia , sweatopia, ice-otopia and cavernopia and we had to design a creature that could live in one of them places. My creature is called Leafter and it lives in Cloudopia. Clouopia is warm damp and has giant trees. For my creature life would be very hard. Our creatures had to have something that could help them survive and my creature has some protection plates to stop it drying out and it also has some antennas to help it detect its enemies. My creature eats fruit and Monkeys eat my creature. My creature can build a nest out of leaves and lays eggs. It also breathes through its skin.

By Emily

Darwin in Space

This week we have been working towards a competition called Darwin in Space for National Science and Engineering Week. We had to imagine that Charles Darwin had discovered an alien planet where new life exists. There are four islands on the planet. Each is completely different and far away from the others-one is a desert, anther very cold, another hot and tropical and the last one covered in mountains and caves.

We had to invent an alien creature for one of these environments and write about how it is suited to living there.

By Alisha Dolman

The Planet Suite

We have started composing our own planet music. We listened to some music from the Planet Suite by Holst thinking about what instruments the composer used and for what effect.

Next we began to plan our own music. First we thought about what instruments we would use to create the sounds that we wanted to make. we have also started to write our music down using simple notation.

Planet Artwork

We have been busy researching the planets in our solar system. We decided which planet we wanted to research and then got googling! We found out a number of facts such as what our planets look like and are made of, their temperature and their distance from Earth and the Sun.

We used our research to produce a pieces of artwork.

Alanah and Lucie work on producing Saturn


Luke working on his


Callum painted the Earth

Chloe's blue hand after smudging and blending

Planet Saturn

Crazy Rotations

This afternoon we learnt about how day and night are made. We learnt that the Earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours. When our part of the Earth is facing towards the Sun we have day and when we face away we have night.

We worked with a partner to demonstrate this - one of us was the Sun and one of us was the Earth. We used scientific vocabulary in our explanation. It was quite tricky stuff!

Have a look at this animation:

http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/spacesciences/observingsky/motion1.htm

The Earth and Beyond

It is science week in Formula Base and our topic is The Earth and Beyond. We are finding out lots of interesting facts about the place of Earth in our solar system. For example today we found out that the Earth is 150,000,000 km from the Sun.

To get some perspective of this distance we made a scale drawing of the sun and then using a scale of 150m = 1,000,000km we used a trundle wheel to measure how far the Sun would be from Earth (Mrs Thornton was the Earth spinning on its axis!). The field measured 50m so we worked out that if we walked down the field three times this would be 150m and would represent the distance of the Earth to the Sun.

We thought that 150m might be approximately the distance to Tesco from school so if you multiply that by 1 million that is how far it is to the Sun! Wow!

Pantomime Time!

As part of our literacy work we have been learning about stories from other cultures. We have been reading One Thousand and One Arabian Nights by Geraldine McCaughrean. In this book Shahrazad tells King Sharhryar a story every night to postpone her execution. It includes stories like Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. As many of theses stories are often reproduced as pantomimes we thought we would write our own.

We decided what we thought the features of pantomimes are and drew up a list. We used this list to write our pantomimes, always checking that we were including all the features.

As we got more excited about our work we decided to act them out. This actually helped with our writing and we began to edit and improve our work as we went along.

When we performed our pantomimes to the class there was lots of booing and hissing to be heard!

Jamie's Anderson air-raid shelter

For the past 2 weeks our homework has been to make an air-raid shelter. I found it really fun. These are the materials I used:

• One cereal box
• One big cardboard box
• One quarter of the big box's top
• Green and brown colouring pencils
• Super glue

It was great fun Mrs Collin was really pleased with all of them.

Nicolas's Andersons bomb shelter

This year Y5 have been learning about WW2. We have been making Anderson bomb shelters

these are the materials for my shelter:

straw
paper

super glue
shoe box lid
kitchen roll

First cut straw then glue it in between two pieces of paper. Do the same with front and back of it and cut a door and stick with tape. Then super glue to shoe lid.

I am very proud of my work and it took me 3 days to make my bomb shelter.
Here is my bomb shelter

Lucie's Anderson Air-raid Shelter

For the past few weeks we have been learning about WW2 and for our homework we had to make a Anderson air-raid shelter. It was really fun making it. First I made shelter by folding some cardboard. Then I put tin-foil over the cardboard to make it look like metal. Next I put in some soil and then I stuck some tin-foil to the bottom of the base of the shelter so I could stick green paper over it so it would look like grass.

Anderson Air-raid shelter

For the last two weeks for our homework we had to make a anderson air-raid shelter.

This is how I made mine first I got a cardboard box and cut a strip out of the carboard box. Then I got a bit of cloth and cut a square and stuck it in the door way. Next I stuck some brown tissue paper and I crushed up some green tissue paper and put it on top. Then I started to do the garden the last thing I had to do was stick it on the garden. And that is how I made my shelter.

By Katie

Air raid shelters

What's up with year 5? Well as you can see we are doing world war 2 and we have made air raid shelters for our home work. We have had 2 weeks to do it. Some of us worked so hard on it so like my one air raid shelters are metal my one is metal they have sand bags I got tea bags for my sand bags. Go on to

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2children/

http-junior.kent.s://www.woodlandsch/war.uk/Homework/shelters.htm

Here are some websites for you to find out more about World War 2

By Brooke

Scott's anderson air raid-shelter

For our homework we had to make an Anderson shelter. We had two weeks to make it and I made it with wire and paper mache and green paint. What I did was I made a base with wire then I put paper mache over it and then when it dried I had to paint it green.

When I started I did not know anything about Anderson shelter but now I know a lot about Anderson shelters I made a good shelter but in my opinion everyones shelter is brilliant. When we were making them we had to make a plan as well and we had to bring it in as well because our teacher wanted to see our plan.

by

Scott