Year 5AK: Blog items
Mother's Day and fun with fractions!
Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 3:48pm
Year 5 have had fun this week applying their times table knowledge in order to simplify fractions, it's a tough one but they've all worked really hard to get the method right.
In preparation for Mother's Day this weekend, they have had the opportunity to make cards to bring home and they look amazing!
Year 5’s Fun-Filled Red Nose Day!
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 2:32pm
Year 5 had a fantastic time celebrating Red Nose Day, raising money for charity while having lots of fun! The children wore red accessories and funky noses, took part in fun games and challenges, and even shared jokes to spread laughter. They learned about the importance of helping others and how their donations make a difference. It was a day full of kindness, fun, and smiles! ❤️
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 1:14pm
Year 5 had an exciting science-meets-cooking lesson, making delicious smoothies using dry ice and fruit juice! As they poured the juice over the dry ice, a cool mist swirled around, creating a magical effect. The children learned about states of matter and how dry ice turns straight from a solid to a gas. It was a fun, hands-on experience, and the smoothies tasted amazing too!
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 4:01pm
5AK have had a lovely day celebrating World Book Day! Have a look at the attached pictures.
Date: 28th Feb 2025 @ 6:05pm
This week we had our launch lesson for our exciting geography topic this term - Andalusia! The children had a look at some videos of this beautiful area in Spain and we discussed all the things Andalusia is known for including bull fighting. The children then got to follow along with some beginner flamenco videos and test out their dancing skills - with costume props of course! They enjoyed it so much that they asked to practice some more once they had their coats ready for home time.
Year 5 Proudly Present Their Ancient Olympics Reports!
Date: 6th Feb 2025 @ 1:20pm
Year 5 have been learning all about the Ancient Olympics and have written fantastic non-chronological reports packed with interesting facts and detailed information. They researched, planned, and organized their ideas carefully to create engaging and well-structured pieces of writing. Everyone is incredibly proud of their hard work—take a look at the attached pictures to see their amazing efforts!
Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 2:08pm
This afternoon we have been really lucky as Wood Street Mission have been into school and each child has been able to take home 5 books to add to their home collection and enjoy! What a wonderful way to celebrate the importance of reading.
We have also begun tackling two new methods of multiplication in our Arithmatic lesson which will be built upon next week to ensure the knowledge is secure.
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 8:10am
What a busy week it has been at Ravensbury. From part day to Christmas dinner! In the midst of the festive joy, some year 5 and 6 children visited Winter Wonderland on Wednesday. Have a look at some of the pictures!
Date: 12th Dec 2024 @ 11:34am
Years 5 and 6 performed their Christmas songs at St Cross Church today. The children sounded wonderful, especially with the acoustics in the church. Thank you to all parents and carers that came!
Year 5 Football Frenzy: Tournament and Fun-Filled Activities!
Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 3:54pm
Year 5 had an exciting Football Day filled with fun and energy! A group of children headed to Trafford for a thrilling football tournament, showcasing their skills and teamwork on the big stage. Meanwhile, those who stayed at school enjoyed a day packed with engaging activities, including football challenges and games. It was a fantastic day for everyone to celebrate their love for football, whether on the field or in school! See the attached pictures.
Standing Together Against Bullying: Year 5
Date: 14th Nov 2024 @ 1:10pm
This week, Year 5 took part in an anti-bullying workshop to support Anti-Bullying Week. Together, we discussed the impact of bullying, ways to support one another, and the importance of kindness and respect. We also got creative by designing posters with powerful messages and artwork to promote a safe, inclusive environment for everyone.
Year 5's Inclusive Wheelchair Workshop
Date: 18th Oct 2024 @ 4:50pm
Year 5 children enthusiastically participated in a fun, inclusive wheelchair sports workshop, promoting teamwork and understanding.
Please Complete holiday homework and continue to read!
Date: 11th Oct 2024 @ 2:48pm
This week in PSHE, we explored teamwork through a fun activity where we collaborated to build a spaghetti model structure.
Step back in time: Victorian launch
Date: 13th Sep 2024 @ 9:26am
This week, we travelled back to the Victorian era in preparation for our Quarry Bank Mill trip on Monday! We explored Victorian toys, like spinning tops and wooden dolls, and tried our hand at writing with slate and chalk just like children back then. Victorian fashion fascinated us, with boys in waistcoats and girls in long dresses and bonnets. We also learned about how wool and cotton were processed, giving us a glimpse of what life was like working in the mills. We're excited to see it all come to life during our trip next week!
Please can you make sure your child is reading every night. Homework will be sent out today and is due by Friday 20th September.
Date: 8th Oct 2023 @ 7:02pm
The children have been very busy with their learning so far this year! Here are some of our highlights so far this term!
- Quarry Bank Mill: Year 5 had a wonderful time on our trip to Quarry Bank Mill. The children loved learning about how the mill was used in Victorian times and finding our about the lives of the children who worked there. They visited the Victorian school house and living quarters, tried some of the different jobs and saw the noisy machinery in action!
- In Maths we have been learning about Place Value, including with decimal numbers.
- In Reading the children really enjoyed our text study of Oliver Twist, especially finding out about the different charcters! They used their understanding of the text to create some wonderful character descriptions in their Writing Books!
- We are continuing to discover more about the Victorians in our Connected Curriculum lessons, and have enjoyed finding out and creating a timeline of the main events of the Victorian era.
- In Science, we are continuing our work on Forces. The class really enjoyed discussing, predicting and exploring the effect of gravity on different objects!
- We have had a visitor in school to discuss Online Safety.
- Finally, everyone has worked very hard on practicing their handwriting and presentation in their new Year 5 books.
This week, we look forawrd to some exciting additional sessions including Art, Black History Month workshops and Freestyle Football... it will be another busy and exciting week in Year 5!
Date: 8th Oct 2023 @ 6:43pm
Welcome to a new year in 5JB!
The children have been working hard to get used to our new routines and timetables - here's some useful information for our school week in 5JB:
- PE days are Tuesday and Thursday. Please make sure children arrive in school in correct PE kit (black bottoms and plain white top, school jumper or plain black PE sweatshirt, sensible sports trainers, hair tied back and earrings removed).
- Bookbags should be brought in everyday and reading logs are checked on a Wednesday and Friday. Please support your child with their daily reading and sign their Reading Record each time.
- Homework is sent out and handed in on Fridays.
- Our weekly spelling test will take place each Thursday.
Miss Bryce
Date: 3rd Jun 2020 @ 8:51am
Good morning Year 5!
Some rain this morning, finally! Did you know that May been the sunniest month on record with 266 hours of sunshine?! The previous record was in June 1957, with 265 hours of sun. I have enjoyed it, but am pleased for some cooler weather and rain now!
Anyway, back to our learning - Miss Brookes and I wanted to try a different way of giving you your learning each day, so you can now find everything on this Padlet link here:
https://padlet.com/y5homelearning/year5
(Make sure you scroll down each column and across the page to see all of the activities on there! Click on the picture to open the pdf/document/picture)
We hope it makes it a bit easier for you to find all your learning, as it will all be in that one place. You'll see a section for daily activities (which we'll change every day), a section for weekly tasks, your Reading Challenge, your Connected Curriculum activities, Wellbeing Challenges as well as a Quick Links section for those other useful websites you use to practise your skills. It's up to you when you do the other tasks besides the smaller daily activities - we'd recommend you do one or two of them each day.
We'll still put a blog post on here every day reminding you of the Padlet link, and continue to look out for our Friday Celebration post!
Let us know what you think about this different way of seeing your learning - we want to make it as easy as possible for you to find what you're doing each day!
Have a fantastic day Year 5!
Miss Brookes & Mrs Hodges =)
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 9:18am
Good morning!
How did day 1 of our exercise challenge go ? Here's one of our exercise superstars playing basketball.
Well done to you if you also did some exercise !
If yesterday didn't quite happen for you, that's ok . Today is your day ! Let me know how you get on:
Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Mrs Harriott
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:51am
Good morning Year 5!
I think today is the last day of this incredibly warm weather we've been having - I never thought I'd say this, but I'm quite looking forward to some rain as the garden really needs it! So I hope whatever you get up to today, you manage to get some fresh air in the sunshine!
In case you missed it yesterday, remember that in addition to each daily blog post, you have a weekly Reading Challenge and a selection of Connected Curriculum activities. You can find them in the blog posts from yesterday with those names as the title.
Remember to email across your learning today so we can see what you've been doing!
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Mrs Hodges here!
Just a Sentence of the Day from me today, but before I post that, remember to check out the links I posted yesterday to help you research the arguments for and against bullfighting:
“The Matador” Film Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXiTv7QrUh4
Bullfighting Information:
CBBC has a whole section on bullfighting, where you can find out what happens in a bullfight, different people’s opinions for and against it happening and a reporter’s experience of a bullfight.
More information can be found on Kiddle:
https://kids.kiddle.co/Bullfighting
Right, onto the sentence! Remember to check back later to see my purple pen:
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=CdKZ3mC
How did you get on with today's sentence? Click the link below to see my corrected sentence!
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=IDwaRc0
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Good Morning Year 5 from Miss Brookes!
I hope you all had a fabulous start to your week, and thank you to everyone who has sent in their learning so far. There's quite a bit from me today - maths, GVP and science!
Maths
Here is today's fluent in 5:
Here are the answers, how did you do?
GVP
Here is today's GVP:
Here are the answers:
Science
As we have finished our Space unit, this half-terms science would usually go back to the autumn term, and continue with states of matter. As that is mostly experiments, we have changed things around slightly so that you can do an experiment at home with your grown ups and siblings instead (they may not be states of matter related!) Make sure you send your results in and take photos if you can.
Today's challenge is "does larger feet mean you can jump further?' I've attached a PDF to help you. You need to decide what each of the variables are (what you're going to change and what you will keep the same), there is a method page for you as well as a table of results.
Let us know what you find out on y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
June 2nd - #30DaysWild - Whole School Challenge 2 🐛☀️🐾🌲🕷
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:16am
Hello again,
Just a reminder - This month our school is going WILD! Here’s today’s challenge
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WILDLIFE TRUST WEBSITE
I found this challenge on the free 30 Days Wild app.
Today why not look for signs of new life when you go out for a walk. I saw some ducklings at our local pond over the weekend (see short video) and look closely at the photo. What baby can you see? What is this baby animal called?
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Send your photos in to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk and I'll put them up on our school blog.
PLEASE BE CAREFUL and make sure you complete the challenges with an adult.
STAY SAFE, BE ACTIVE, GO WILD!
From Mrs Ganner
We have some fabulous photos below, just in from Alissia and Keira. Great bug spotting!
#30 Days Wild Launch Day 🌞🌲💐🕷🐛
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 12:27pm
June 1st - #30DaysWild - Challenge 1
Hello everybody,
I hope you had an amazing half term and you’re as excited to be back completing home learning challenges as I am. This month our school is going to go WILD! Yes, that’s right, our mission is to do as many wild things as we can and have fun whilst learning outside.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WILDLIFE TRUST WEBSITE
Each day I will put up a wild challenge and you can take a photo of you and your family completing it so I can put it on this blog.
Here is your challenge for today, see how many wild minibeasts you can find outside:
Send your photos in to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk and I'll put them up on our school blog.
If you'd like to choose your own challenges download this app:
PLEASE BE CAREFUL and make sure you complete the challenges with an adult.
STAY SAFE, BE ACTIVE, GO WILD!
From Mrs Ganner
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 10:57am
Hello and welcome back to the start of our final half term of this school year!
As you know, Mrs Glover has been setting us wellbeing challenges to keep us feeling positive and productive over the last few months. It has been fantastic to look back at all the photos you have sent her showing your creative work!
For the next few weeks, Mrs Glover is lucky enough to be going into school each day to teach as we start opening up the school to certain year groups, so I'll be setting your wellbeing challenge.
So, here's your challenge for this week:
Can you set yourself an exercise goal for the week and try and do a different exercise each day? It could be going for a walk with your family, making up a dance , going on a bike ride, jumping on your trampoline, doing an online workout like Joe Wicks or doing 30 star jumps in your kitchen!
Use the chart below to record your exercise each day ( or just write it on a piece of paper if you do not have a printer) and send it in to:Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk . If you would like to share a photo during the week ,send it in too and I can post it on the blog for others to be inspired to try your idea !
I can't wait to see who can be an exercise superstar!
Mrs Harriott
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 10:09am
Good morning everyone!
So many of you have participated in our Reading Challenges over the past few weeks - so well done!
To wake up our brains this week, I want you to read a book a day (5 books) on Reading Plus. I will give you until Friday afternoon, when I will post the winners.
If you have forgotten your log in details, don't worry - just send me an email and I will let you know what they are.
y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Goodluck!
Miss Brookes
Connected Curriculum Challenge!
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 8:42am
I am so excited for you to get started with these brilliant Connected Curriculum activities, which are all to do with our new topic of Spain, specifically looking at the question:
Why is Spain such a popular tourist destination?
Spain is a beautiful country with a fascinating history and culture. It's geography (for example the climate and landscape) all helps it be an incredibly popular destination too.
There are eight different activites for you to choose from in the attached document - ranging from cooking to dancing, art to geography...and more! A couple of the activities need additional resources, and I have attached those to this blog too. Other activities have a YouTube link that will help you, so make sure to check that out too.
Choose whichever activities you like, and however many you like - some might take several hours, others will be much quicker.
Remember to show us your learning by emailing us at Y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Have fun!!