Y5 | St. Mary's RC Primary and Nursery School

PE, Sports, Y5

Y5 Bikeability

5th May 2023

The Year 5 children have spent two days doing bikeability both in school and out on the roads of Denton. They have all really enjoyed the experience and their behaviour and manners were commented on positively by all the instructors.
Modern Foreign Languages, Y3, Y5

French breakfast morning

27th February 2023

Year 3 and 5 enjoyed a French breakfast this morning. Year 5 acted as the waiters and Year 3 as the customers. They asked each other what they would like in French and then enjoyed a selection of delicious French breakfast foods including croissants, crepes, pain au chocolat and brioche. Miss Longden
Y5

Year 5 Community Christmas Cards

16th December 2022

The children have been out and about this week delivering Christmas cards to local residents of Denton. The children really enjoyed the experience and there were some lovely comments from those who had received a card.
RE, Y5

Y5 Advent

9th December 2022

For Advent, the children have created a Jesse Tree and each day we are listening to a story linked to it. The children have also been sending home the travelling crib and sending back pictures and messages.
English, Y3, Y5

Y5 & Y3 'Wolves in the wall'

9th December 2022

The children in Year 5 have been writing nightmare stories over the last few weeks based around the book ‘Wolves in the Wall’. Once they had finished their stories, they read them to the Year 3’s. The Year 5’s really enjoyed having an audience to read their stories to and the Year 3’s all agreed that the stories were...
Design & Technology, Y5

Y5 Design & Technology - Festive food

2nd December 2022

In D/T this term we are going to design a festive food product linked to our topic on bread. So far, we have tasted different types of bread, filled in surveys linked with how much bread we and others eat, made a basic bread dough and designed what our final product will look like. In the next few weeks...
Science, Y5

Y5 Science - Levers

28th November 2022

In science, the children have been learning about levers. We created our own catapults to demonstrate how a fulcrum works and tested them to see which catapult was the most effective.
English, Y3, Y5

‘Wolves in the Wall’

28th November 2022

The children in Year 5 have been writing nightmare stories over the last few weeks based around the book ‘Wolves in the Wall’. Once they had finished their stories, they read them to the Year 3’s. The Year 5’s really enjoyed having an audience to read their stories to and the Year 3’s all agreed that the stories were...
Geography, Y5

Y5 The Alps

25th November 2022

In geography, our new topic is linked to the Alps. The children used various maps to identify which countries the Alps crosses and then used playdough to create their own fold mountains. We also looked at tourism in the Alps and discussed the positives and negatives linked to it.
Science, Y5

Y5 Science: Reversible and Irreversible Changes

24th June 2022

In Science this half term, we have been studying changes - both reversible and irreversible. We have been doing several investigations to show this. We have looked how mixing baking soda and vinegar and create carbon dioxide and we proved this by showing how it can inflate a balloon when we mix them. We also looked at creating a...
Curriculum, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5

Class Dojo - Years 2,3 and 4

20th May 2020

This week Class Dojo has been rolled out to parents and children in years 2, 3 and 4. Year 5 have been trialing the app for the past week and it has proved extremely successful. It is an excellent tool for communicating between school and home. Teachers are able to answer questions and queries relating to home learning and...
Art, English, Maths, Y5

Posters, poems and comprehension!

14th May 2020

More fantastic work from Year 5 submitted to Class Dojo. Cody has written a wonderful poem about his time in lockdown, how much he misses everyone and his frizzy hair! Amelie has designed an excellent poster encouraging everyone to stay happy and demonstrating social distancing with monsters! Finally, Ella has been hard at work completing extra comprehensions and maths...
Art, Design & Technology, Geography, PE, Y5

Yr 5 Class Dojo protfolios

13th May 2020

Members of Year 5 have begun uploading their work to their portfolio on Class Dojo for Mr Whittle to check, comment and feedback. They have been exceptionally busy with their home learning which is great to see. Cody has been busy with his maths and English and his Amazon research; Anna has been working hard on her grammar and...
Curriculum, Y5

Year 5 Class Dojo

12th May 2020

We have signed Year 5 up to Class Dojo. This an interactive tool which allows communication between school and home and we feel would be particularly useful at this time. You will hopefully have received an email which contains an invite to join and a link to download the app. Within the app all conversations between yourself and the...
Art, Curriculum, Design & Technology, English, History, Maths, Y5

Year 5 Home Learning

1st May 2020

Children from year 5 have been hard at work this on their home learning. Matteo has again been hard at work on his maths, English and keeping up with his times tables. Beth has produced some fantastic art work in the style of impressionist artist Monet. Finally, Amelie has made a model of a Mayan god along with a...
All Pupils, Curriculum, EYFS, Nursery, Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6

Home Learning

21st April 2020

Home learning for all year groups is now available on the class pages. Some of the work may need downloaded to look at but the majority should be able to be completed within the children's home learning books. For maths there are also links to both the Power Maths scheme of work which we follow in school and has been...
Curriculum, English, Enrichment, History, Y5

Year 5 Bronte Museum

28th February 2020

Year 5 enjoyed an eventful day at the Bronte Museum, Haworth. After an eventful journey the children finally arrived ready to undertake their day. However, due to the adverse weather conditions their moorland walk had to be cancelled. The children did not let this dampen their spirits though. They had the opportunity to look around the Bronte Museum and...
Science, Y5

Friction Footwear

14th February 2020

Continuing their science topic on forces, Year 5 this week tested how much force would be needed in order to move a variety of footwear and see what resistance was created through friction caused by the soles. The children used forcemeters to pull the shoes and see how much force was needed. After their predictions, the children came up...
Enrichment, PE, Sports, Y5, Y6

Football success

6th February 2020

Well done to our year 5/6 school football team who put in an outstanding performance to overcome Micklehurst Primary school and progress to the next round of the Tameside Milea Cup.
Curriculum, Science, Y5

Air Resistance

6th February 2020

During their science unit on forces Year 5 have been learning about a variety of different forces. Last week they studied the relationship between weight and mass and used forcemeters to test and this week they studied air resistance. Their challenge was to come up with the best possible parachute design so that a person would fall slowly and...