Year 5
Teachers
Year 5 Teachers (ID 1211)
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Miss A Babcock
Miss A Babcock
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Miss Y Prowse
Miss Y Prowse
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Miss L Maclellan
Miss L Maclellan
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Mrs N Anderson
Mrs N Anderson
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Crimestoppers
'What Would You Do?' has been the question on all of Y5's lips this week, as we've started our project led by the lovely people at Crimestoppers and Unique Voice. They have chosen us at Riverside as one of only 3 schools in Plymouth to trial this project which has run very successfully in Bristol for a number of years. They pose real-life problems which we work together to discuss and find suitable solutions. Our voices are all important and have proved to help each other out. Watch this space to see more photos and videos from the up-and-coming sessions.
Posted 18 Apr, 2024
Y5 Have Rhythm
Year 5 have got rhythm flowing through their veins: just mention the word, 'Shosholoza' and you'll receive the melodic response, 'kulezo ntaba'! This is all down to the music unit we've been learning about: South & West Africa. Over the term, we've learnt South African song which was originally sung by men going to work in gold mines. They sang the song as a large group – acapella – meaning without instruments. It was to boost morale, which means it made them feel happier when working. Safe to say, it's done the same for us! Not only have we enjoyed singing, we've loved learning to play the glockenspiels and djembe drum as accompaniments. If you're needing to boost your mood - find Y5 and join in!
Posted 19 Mar, 2024
JIGSAW PSHE
During our JIGSAW PSHE learning this term, we are considering how our personal choices impact if we have a healthy lifestyle or not. We started off by discussing - at great length - 'Smoking and Vaping'. This proved to be an emotive topic and many of us felt that we needed to speak to adults at home about the choices they made regarding this habit...And it's impact on people around them e.g. passive smoking. Next, came 'Alcohol'. The most recent lesson taught us how to use the 'recovery position' and when we might need to employ it - or when we might not e.g. if you fear the person might have broken bones. Safe to say, we're very knowledgeable about how we can make 'informed decisions' if faced with such dangerous choices when we're older.
Posted 05 Mar, 2024
WWII
It’s not very often that you ‘Blast to the past’ and meet Winston Churchill, but that’s what Y5 have done so we can immerse ourselves in the events of World War 2, our History focus this term. Having listened to Churchill’s rousing speech, we wrote out own versions and tried our hands at code-breaking too! We learnt about propaganda posters and handled real-life WW2 artefacts—the items which taught the world about the atrocities that happened between 1939—1945. All-in-all, a very informative and exciting experience.
Posted 21 Feb, 2024
Dreams & Goals
Throughout this term's PSHE, we've been contemplating our 'Dreams & Goals' which has had us in a very reflective mood. Having considered what we aim to achieve in our lives - not just in terms of the job we would like, but also, how we would like our life styles to be - we committed our goals to paper and investigated what we need to do to make them happen! Some of us were lured in by the salaries certain jobs promised to provide, but others of us wanted to make sure we chose our paths wisely to ensure we are happy above everything else! On top of all this self-awareness/reflection, we've continued to develop of skills of empathy by comparing how different cultures provide different opportunities.
Posted 30 Jan, 2024
Argyle PE Sessions
This term we are lucky enough to be enjoying PE sessions delivered by the Argyle Community Team. They've been teaching us about the effects of physical activity on our bodies and giving us new skills to help us create our own games to get us moving more! We've then had the responsibility to teach our group's games to the other children: all in all much fun and many racing hearts!
Posted 19th Jan, 2024
D&T Week
Anyone that has been in the Y5 corridor this week has left salivating! We've been getting our baking groove on - and we're quite the bread bakers, let us tell you! With the D&T brief of designing and baking our own Christmas bread to share with our family on Christmas morning, we started with tasting a load of different breads - some were delicious: others, not so....Then, having compiled a list of typical Christmas ingredients, we created our own masterpieces, choosing from: orange peel, cinnamon, ginger, raisins, cranberries, glace cherries, marshmallows, apple, chocolate chips, to name but a few tasty additions. Comments like, 'pillowy' and 'cloud-like' were floating around our corridor because our baked rolls were just so soft and bubbly, thanks to not only the yeast, but also our fabulous kneading skills! Take a look at our creations - you'll be licking your lips too!
Posted: 18 Dec, 2023
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