Year 5 were fortunate enough to be visited by chicken wire sculptor, William Ashley-Norman, who worked with the children to create incredible sculptures.  The children learnt a variety of new skills and were able to cut the wire using wire cutters and shape it (using pliers) to form a poppy in honour of Remembrance Day. 

They demonstrated great team work and worked carefully and precisely to produce their finished pieces.  To add colour, the children weaved tissue paper between the wires. 

As part of Black History Month, Year 5 learnt about the life of Katherine Johnson. They discovered that, using her mathematical skills, she helped NASA send astronauts to the moon and return them safely home. She overcame racial and gender hurdles that helped make giant leaps for humankind.

The children learnt about the importance of empathy and enjoyed finding out about Katherine’s inspirational life. They created ‘body biographies’ detailing what Katherine was passionate about, the challenges she faced, and lessons learned along the way.

This half term, the Year 5 children have really enjoyed our Art unit which is linked to our book, ‘How to Train Your Dragon’. They have experienced – from design to creation – how to create a piece of Batik using hot wax and blended colours. Taking great care, they consolidated their art skills from earlier in the half term and have created some amazing pieces.

This half term, the year 5 children have really enjoyed our book, ‘How to Train Your Dragon’. Through the chapters so far, they have experienced a number of different genres of writing from diary entries to instructions on how to capture a dragon. They have looked at the features of these genres and managed to replicate them in their own writing with some great success.
You can see from the examples below, that the children have
put a lot of effort into their presentation and quality of work.
Well done, Year 5 and keep working hard!

Since coming back to school after the summer holidays, year 5 have been immersing themselves in everything that is ‘Viking’. From art to history lessons and ‘How to Train your Dragon’ they have already become something of an expert especially in ‘dragon’ art. Using gradation and different mediums, they have created striking dragon eyes, origami eyes and Viking name graffiti as well as planning their Viking shield in preparation for Batik.
You can see from the pictures how effective the art is: Zoe, Oliver (5L), Lana and Aarvin (5R) have particularly excelled at this, creating pieces of art that the other children admired and commented on. Well done, everyone!