Year 5 have had a fully packed half term! They enjoyed their trip to The Museum of London Docklands following our River Week in school. The children had an opportunity to explore the history of London further building on our knowledge from Autumn Term when we learnt about The Jewish East End at the Jewish Museum.

In English we have been studying Phillip Pullman's clockwork. Children have enjoyed making clockwork themed Chanukiahs. They have also produced character descriptions using figurative language. Pupils have also created their own prefaces using some lovely new adventurous alternative words from our vocabulary ninja board.

This half term Year 5 have looked at the topics Being Human and Full Power. During Being Human pupils made a model of the heart using water bottles, straws, water and red food colouring. This was very effective in teaching children how blood was pumped around the body, and the systems involved.

The children have had a variety of themed weeks/ days including Science week where they explored science and its links across the curriculum, Inside Out Day, Holocaust Memorial Day where we looked at Anne Frank as a significant person. The children have participated in a variety of though-provoking science experiments based on materials and changing states of matter over this half term. They have excelled in their working scientifically skills sets.

As we drew closer to Rosh Hashanah Year 5 spent time making honey cake with Nursery and Reception, developing skills in leadership and team work. They helped the Reception and Nursery children to measure the ingredients correctly, to fold in the mixture and pour the cake batter into the trays to be baked. All children involved had a fantastic time and made some absolutely delicious cake. 

The children enjoyed their Go Green week where they celebrated Tu B'shvat by making fruit baskets for  GIFT and explored the idea of plastic pollution. They researched how other countries deal with plastic pollution and used these ideas to write letters to their MP's about the issue.

The children enjoyed their Shabbaton at the beginning of term and gave an excellent assembly to the rest of the school about it upon their return. They worked hard in school to prepare for the Shabbaton.

The class also enjoyed our local area investigation which included research in the classroom, working in groups and then taking to the streets of Mill Hill to find information for their lines of enquiry. The pupils successfully produced questionnaires, surveyed the public, surveyed the high street, sketched and photographed. They will be creating these into presentations to present their findings on the investigation questions their groups have chosen.