Sycamore Class Year 5
Welcome to Sycamore Class
Teacher- Mrs Hornby Class Bird - The Flamingo Sycamore
Welcome to our class page!
Here you will find everything you need to know about our class, our expectations and updates on what we've been learning about.
For more information about the curriculum please head over to our dedicated Curriculum page.
Class Bulletin
Learning we are proud 2024-2025:
Autumn 2
RHSE - CO Safety Awareness
9.1.25 - Making step counters and our own games using MicroBits in Computing
2.12.2024 - STEM trip to Enginuity, Ironbridge
21.11.2024 - God's Covenant with Abraham Role Play in RE
14.11.2024 - Ancient Greek Day for History
07.11.2024 - Testing properties of materials in Science.
05.11.2024 - Book Fair visit.
Autumn 1
23.10.2024 - Black History Month Presentation
10.10.2024 - Checking with objects float/sink and which shapes are the most streamlined against water resistance in Science
03.10.2024 - Air Resistance experiment with parachutes in Science (supported by our student volunteers)
4.10.2024 - Our Poetry Performance.
01.10.2024 - Practising our inverse skills for addition and subtraction in Maths
19.09.2024 - Coding using the Micro:Bits in Computing
11.09.2024 - Practising our football skills in PE
05.09.2024 - Our Biome Presentations in Geography
Archived Learning 2023-2024
Craters experiment in Science
Visit from a Storyteller
Testing out our Sun Dials in Science.
Coding using Micro:Bits (Computing)
01.02.2024 - PE: Dance, sharing our group performances
31.01.2024 - Whole school enrichment (and Science) - Alpaca Visit (and animal life cycles)
22.01.2024 - RHSE: Role playing scenarios
16.01.2024 - Maths: Formal written method for division.
Our trip to Enginuity - 'A great day!'
French - On the Move
The children have been revisiting and building on their Year 4 French knowledge by matching the correct noun to the pictures.
Maths - Place Value
To aid our understanding of 6-digit numbers, we used place value counters, charts and interactive ICT games to represent the value of digits.
Geography - Biomes
Having researched different biomes, the children split into groups and made fact files about all they had learned.
Class of 22/23
English and Drama - Shakespeare Week
Our performance of Romeo and Juliet at The Cathedral Globe:
Science and Forest School
Photographing signs of the life cycle of plants:
Geography and D&T
Researching, designing and sewing a lantern for a Chinese New Year parade:
Science and Maths
Scaling the Solar System down to 10m:
History and Forest School
Making Druid Crowns:
Computing and Art
Inspired by Syrian-Palestinian cartoonist, Hani Abbas, we used a mixture of photography and digital tools to create these pieces:
