Owl Class | St Nicholas' CE VA Primary School

Welcome to Owl Class!

We are Owls class, we are year 5 and 6 and our teacher is Mrs Heath. We hope you enjoy our class page.

Welcome back everyone! Hope you all had a lovely a restful half term break :) As always, please get in touch if you have any queries about Google Classrooms - our meet will be every afternoon at 2:30pm except Monday and Wednesday where it will be at 1.20pm as we have a whole school worship on those days.

Our PE lessons will be changing from now on to a Wednesday - so please remember to wear your PE kit on that day if you are in school, children at home, you will also be doing some exercise on a Wednesday!

This term our topic is Exploring Scandinavia. Have a look at the recommended reads below which are linked to our topic.

Owl Homelearning

Owl Homelearning - 26th February 2021.pdf

Topic related books to read at home

The Ice Sea Pirates - Frida Nilsson

Odd and the Frost Giants - Neil Gaiman

This is us in our lovely classroom!

Viking sketching

Look how incredible the children's art work is! We used a grid to help us sketch this Viking warrior and used shading techniques that we learnt to bring him to life!

Art - Viking symbols

As part of our art lesson we learnt about the different symbols that surround The Vikings and the Norse gods. We then thought of our own Viking symbols and drew them so they had meaning to them. Have a look at some of ours from the lesson, brilliant aren't they!

Amazing poetry!

We were inspired by Walter De La Mare's poem 'The Listeners' and have produced some amazing narrative poems with rhyming words! Take at look at the brilliant writing in the pictures above.

Terms 1 and 2

Design Technology - Making our draw-string bags

Closing our bags!

How lovely are they?

Christmas Cards!

Experimenting with Friction!

Our Science learning this term is all about Forces! We have learnt about Sir Isaac Newton and created a fact file about him. Above you can see us experimenting with friction. We used a weighted object, put in on different surfaces and used a Newton force meter to measure how the friction changes the weight on the object we were dragging. We found out that the smoother the surface the easier it was to pull meaning the reading was lower on the force meter.

Feel the Force.....of air!

This week in science, we experimented with air resistance and made our very own parachutes! (see above). We used multi-link as our parachuter and explored how different parachutes fall to the ground. We found that the bigger the surface area of the parachute, the more air resistance and therefore a slower descend to the ground!

We also found out that objects with the same mass and shape fall to the ground at the same time! If you drop a tennis ball and a cricket ball (the cricket ball is 3 TIMES heavier then the tennis ball) at the same time, they will land on the ground at the same time regardless of its mass! This is because there is the same amount of air resistance acting against them as they are the same shape - mind boggling!!

Going down!

Down!

Have a look at the blended learning that is planned by clicking the link below

Owl Class

Questions to ask your children when they read

KS2 reading questions.pdf

SATS sample papers 2017, 2018 and 2019

Bitesize SATs Revision Practise for your SATs with these activities in English, Maths and Science.