Category: Year 5 Blog

This week we have prepared, cooked and eaten Mexican food. It was delicious!

Year 5 took part in a Skint to Mint Workshop ran in conjunction with Coventry Building Society.  They learnt about branding, saving and making money. They had to resell a potato thinking about its selling points.  

As part of ‘Maths Week’, Year 5 spend this morning taking part in activities relating to 3D shape.

As part of our Write Stuff unit ‘The Explorer’, we made mini rafts out of twigs. This knowledge will come in handy in our sentence stacking lessons next week.

Wednesday 6th November

A squad of 8 Year 5 children were chosen to represent Coundon Primary School at the ‘Values’ dodgeball event against 15 other schools. These values events aren’t about how well the children play the game, instead they focus on the respect, honesty and teamwork showed by the players. These judgements are made by the opposing team at the end of each match using a points system. Our squad played incredibly and represented the school well, unfortunately we didn’t make it to the next stage. The children still enjoyed themselves and were lucky to have had the opportunity to take part. Well done!

This week, many of the year 5 pupils took part in a range of activities.  In Maths, we had a scavenger hunt for clues to find numbers.  We then had to work out sums to find the solutions – some of the clues were really hard to find.  We produced an art pallet using different media after exploring leaves and trees.  Following this, we had our own leaf slide show exploring the many beautiful colours in our natural environment.  In English, we debated the pros and cons of ‘Cycle lanes versus trees!’.  We finished the two days with digital photography and editing to produce autumnal finished photo slides.   At Coundon, we really appreciate our school grounds and Forest School.