St John the Baptist CE VA Primary School Year Five

In Year 5, this week we have been busy doing lots of  things! On Wednesday the 17^th it was Christmas dinner day and we spent the morning making Christmas hats to wear. We then enjoyed our Christingle Service in the afternoon. On Friday, we had a very special visitor to our classroom and he brought us some toys for when it is wet play!

I hope you all have an amazing Christmas, and I will look forward to seeing you in the New Year!

This week in year 5 in English we have been looking at cinquain poems, this is a poem that is made up of 5 lines, each line must have a certain number of syllables. The rule for a cinquain poem is:

Line 1: 2 syllables

Line 2: 4 syllables

Line 3: 6 syllables

Line 4: 8 syllables

Line 5: 2 syllables

Poppies

The poppies blow

From failing hands, we throw

That marks our place, and in the sky

Poppies

By Evie

Poppies

We are the dead

The larks bravely flying

That mark our place and, in the sky

The guns

By Darcy

This week in year 5 we have had lots of fun in English finishing our survival guides. The children had a choice of, a forest, a rainforest, a desert and a snowy terrain to base their survival guide around. We did lots of research and compiled it into our guide that would help someone survive if they were stranded in one of these locations. The guide included, how to build a shelter, how to get food and water, what are the dangers and much more. We started gymnastics in our Thursday PE lesson this week and we are focusing on flight this half term. We looked at 7 different jumps we can do, these were pencil jump, tuck jump, star jump, pike jump, straddle jump, half turn and 360 turn. The children enjoyed practicing these jumps in small group

This week has been a packed week in Year 5. On Monday we made seasonal vegetable pasties from scratch. First, we made the pastry by measuring out the right amount of ingredients and followed the instructions to make our pastry. Next, we picked the vegetables we wanted for our filling and put them on our rolled out pastry. Once we had all the filling we wanted, we folded the pastry over and secured it by pressing down the edges with a fork. Once they were cooked and cooled, we took them home ready to taste test them.

This week we have also been participating in bikeability. Each day, the children have been going out with two instructors on their bikes around the village. It has been a really enjoyable experience for the children.

Today in year 5 for Design and technology we were taste testing different seasonal vegetables. We were trying them to decide what vegetables we would like to mix with potato and onion to fill our pasties. We tried swede, parsnip, carrot, butternut squash, sweetcorn and cabbage. Some of the vegetables we discovered we liked and some… we didn’t like. After trying all the vegetables we looked thought the notes we made and chose up to three vegetables to use as out pasty filling.