Spring 2

Week 2:

As we get closer to our Royal Albert Hall concert, the excitement is building across year 5. Our final rehearsal with a live band, Pete Churchill (the composer) and Soo from MMF along with other Merton schools was held at St Marks Church in Wimbledon. The Year 5’s sound amazing and it promises to be a fantastic evening. Leaving the school building again, Year 5 participated in an immersive Easter Experience at St Martin’s Church in Morden. Children learnt about the story of Easter by re-enacting Holy week and understanding the events leading up to Easter Sunday. As scientists, we have investigated how changing the position of the fulcrum in a lever affects the amount of force applied. We used our scientific enquiry skills to gather and compare data and then applied our pattern-seeking skills to discover that if the fulcrum is closer to the load then you need less force to lift it. As athletes, we are developing our skills in hockey, learning how to dribble, pass and shoot the ball with accuracy. As mathematicians, we have learnt the difference between area and perimeter by using the lines in our playground to identify these before learning the strategies to calculate them.

Week 1:

Spring 2 has started in full force! Beginning the week with a P4C session, we used reasoning to discuss whether something is true or useful using pictures related to our next writing genre - fairytales. We looked at stereotypes and identified the features of a fairytale, using freeze frames to understand how Hansel and Gretel came to be abandoned in the forest alone, ready to write our own story based on the traditional tale of Hansel and Gretel. As scientists, we are continuing our understanding of forces, creating a simple lever and using our woodland area to investigate how they allow a smaller force to have a greater effect. As designers, we are learning about how a CAM enables a toy to have a moving part, investigating toys which contain CAMs to research and identify how they move.