Year 5

Year 5 are currently involved in an exciting project called My Place with local author Steven Camden. Each week we spend two hours working with Steven and his friend, Zaki, developing ideas for our own stories based in Smethwick. So far we have explored our surroundings, drawn maps and started to create characters. We are all thoroughly enjoying this project and we are excited to see what we can create. Watch this space...

On Tuesday 14th January, we had a workshop about nutrition and sustainability. We learnt how what we eat can affect the environment and how vegetarian foods are much better for our carbon footprint. We then made houmous and tasted this with carrots and cucumber. Mmmmmmmm!

In DT, we designed and made our own pizzas. To prepare for this, we designed pizza boxes, did some taste testing, carried out a questionnaire and then decided on our toppings. We made our own dough too and our pizzas were delicious. Here are some of our mouthwatering meals...

Some of Year 5 took part in an enterprise project. In groups, they were give £5 and had to buy equipment to enable them to make a product to sell. The aim was to make as much money as possible for the school fund. They did brilliantly and produced some great items. They then sold these to Key Stage 2.  Which product do you think made the most money?

On Thursday 21st November, Year 5 visited the National Space Centre in Leicester as part of our Science topic, Space. We had a great time exploring the different zones, going up the rocket tower and watching a show in the planetarium. We learnt more about the planets, life as an astronaut and we even saw a real rocket toilet! It was so interesting and we all wished we could stay longer. Check out our pictures...

5V had a very exciting PE lesson recently with a visit from three WBA players. Josh Maja, Uros Racic and Gianluca Frabotta came to take part in football lesson with us. They showed us their skills, shared some tips and even answered some questions from the children. They were definitely inspirational and we all loved the lesson. Thank you!

To start our year in Year 5, we looked at the artwork of Cyrus Kabiru. He is a Kenyan artist who enjoys creating glasses out of recycled materials. We used his creations as inspiration for our own. Take a look at our wonderful glasses...