Owl Class

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 to Term 5, the year is flying by! We hope you all had a lovely 2 weeks and a happy Easter and are really well rested ready for lots of lovely learning :)

Our PE lessons will be on Tuesday - so please remember to wear your PE kit on that day.

This term our topic is Brilliant Britain - Have a look at the recommended reads below which are linked to our topic.

Owl Homelearning

Owl Homelearning - 14th May 2021.pdf

Topic related books to read at home

Brilliant British History - Miles Kelly

The Usborne History of Britain

See Inside the History of Britain - Usborne

The Story of England - Richard Brassey

This is us in our lovely classroom!

During our History and Geography lessons this year, we have been doing lots of learning about The Vikings! This term in our Science lessons, we are learning how The Vikings used to make things with the natural resources they had. Take a look at the pictures below of the children making butter using only cream and arm power and making butter using milk and vinegar.

Making Glue....Viking style!

Making butter...Viking style!

Shake, shake, shake!

Separating the butter and butter milk...

William Blake

In our English lessons, we have been learning the William Shakespeare play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. For our art lesson this week, we learnt about the artist and poet William Blake and focused on his interpretation of the play through his art work. We then had a go at recreating his painting and used water colours to bring it to life! Take a look at the pictures above :)

Terms 3 and 4

WELCOME BACK!

It is so lovely to see everyone, we've missed you!

Affirmation Jars :)

Today, we wrote positive affirmations (Word Of The Day) about each other to remind us how special and unique we are. We then wrote all the lovely comments around our affirmation jars so that we can look at them anytime we need a little 'pick me up'. We hope you like them! You could play this game around the dinner table at home, it is a great way to encourage others :)

Happy Easter everyone!

Fernand Leger - Art and Design

This term we were inspired by Fernand Leger and used his style to create our own sculptures. Have a look at the pictures below to see us making them out of clay and then painting them - don't they look amazing :)

Our finished sculptures

Our Journey Sticks

This afternoon we went on a journey and tied things to our journey sticks - we then came back into the classroom and sketched them - have a look at our fantastic drawings above!

The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang theory states that the Universe is expanding so today, in Science, we partially blew up a balloon and measured 4 different points. We then blew up the balloon to its full capacity and measured the points again. We could then imagine what is happening in the Universe according to The Big Bang theory. It was great fun!

World Book Day!

We had a lovely day celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 4th Match with our theme being Roald Dahl :) All the children at home and at school joined in the fun and took part in some exciting activities. Above, you can see some children dressed up and their amazing drawings which were inspired by Sir Quentin Blake.

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.