Saltwood Church of England Primary School

SaltwoodChurch of England Primary SchoolLove, Creativity and Strength

Class 5

See what Class 5 got up to last year!

 

Creating And Teaching Our Own Invasion Games

This term in PE, we have been learning about invasion games (e.g. football, basketball and hockey) and we have mostly been focusing on improving our skills in a less common invasion game called Ultimate Frisbee. As part of our learning, we were encouraged to create our own activities based on the skills we have been progressing this term such as passing, finding space, marking and throwing towards a target area. When we had created our activities, we had some time to practice teaching our activity and get used to different roles such as statistician, referee, coach, timekeeper and grounds person. Then it was over to us the be the teachers and teach other groups our activity, this was a lot of fun being the teacher. Please spend some time looking at the pictures of use teaching our activities.

 

Ultimate Frisbee Inter-House Competition

As part of our PE lessons this term, we have been learning the different skills, tactics, rules and roles within the invasion game of Ultimate Frisbee and as our learning in this topic is coming to an end, we looked to apply everything we have learning in an inter-house competition. In the competition, we played three 9-minute matches, meaning we played every house once. For a win we would receive three points, for a draw would receive one point and we would not score any points for a loss. There was lots of great skill on show such as passing, possession play, marking, teamwork and sportsmanship. Following the completion of all the matches the final results were Hastings (1st, 50 house points), Dover (2nd, 35 house points), Sandwich (3rd, 20 house points) and Romney (4th, 10 house points). Please take a look at some of the shots of us in action.

 

Outdoors and Adventurous Activities

This term in PE, we have been looking at the Outdoors and Adventurous Activities (OAA) aspect of the PE curriculum. In OAA, we have to work well as part of a team to solve problems and complete tasks and this was evident in all our lessons, as Mr Mullin would set us lots of different challenges which we needed to try and complete as part of a team, these challenges were there to test lots of skills such as communication, teamwork, problem solving, map reading, agility and coordination. To finish off our OAA unit we were also challenged to an orienteering race around the playground which really put all our newly honed skills to the test. These lessons have been really fun and has set us up well for the Bowles residential activities next year.

 

Making our Wobble Bots

As part of our DT curriculum this term, we have been learning about electrical systems and this particularly focused on the use of a motor in an electrical system. To start our learning about electrical systems, learn what a series circuits is and how to make a series circuit which included a motor and a light. Then as we progressed our knowledge, we looked to recreate an existing electrical product known as a Doodler which is an electrical toy that uses a motor to cause the Doodler to jump and move and therefore leaving a pen mark on the paper below. After this, we looked at how we can adapt the purpose of the Doodler by using trial and error to think about making another electrical product. From our findings, we went on to design our own electrical product and then created this product, we came up with so many get creations such as a jumping kangaroo, ship a sea, the London Eye and many others. Please take some time to have a look at the pictures and videos from out lessons.

 

Viking Longships

This term we have been learning about the Vikings and as part of our homework we were set the task of making Viking Longships and the final products did not disappoint, we had many different types of Viking Longship coming into the class including ships made from biscuits, banana, gingerbread, fruit, Lego, junk modelling, wood, 3D printing materials and CAD software. Please look at some of our wonderful creations in the pictures.

 

Anglo-Saxon Battle

To celebrate our learning in the first two terms of Year 5, the Year 5 parents and adults were invited to an open lesson which would end with the much-anticipated Anglo-Saxon battle. Our open lesson by showing our adults all our wonderful work in our books and then we had a quiz (children vs the adults), where Class 5 came out on top, with the final score being Class 5 5-4 adults. Then it was finally time, the class 5 parents arrived at school in full expectations of two epic battles, but they were also treated to a demonstration of the shield wall formation, boar’s snout formation and some axe throwing (the parents enjoyed taking part in the axe throwing with us). Then we began the first battle, the Battle of Hadrian’s Wall, it all started with King Vortigern (Henry) asking Hengest (Tessa), Horsa (Gracie) and the Anglo-Saxon tribes for help to defend Britain from the Scots and Picts tribes. They all headed up to Hadrian’s Wall (the quiet area) to find the Scots were trying to get into England (the playground) and battle commenced. Eventually, the Anglo-Saxons were successful and forced the Scots back to Scotland (the quiet area). But it all ended with Hengest and Horsa chasing King Vortigern trying to get more land.

Then we moved on to the second battle, the Battle of Edington, where the Vikings arrived in Northumbria (the playground) and they were trying to take control of Britain. The Anglo-Saxons tried to defend themselves but were unsuccessful and were left living in just Wessex (the quite area), also, King Vortigern (Freddy) went into hiding. After this, the Anglo-Saxons retaliated and regained some land, this is when the Treaty of Wedmore was signed by King Alfred (Freddy) and King Guthrum (Eliot).

It was such an amazing day full of great history knowledge and brutal battles!!! Thank you to all the parents and adults for their support during the day.

 

 

Performing Cautionary Tale poems by Hillaire Belloc

In our literacy lessons we have been learning about a type of poem called a “Cautionary Tale” and famous poet called Hillaire Belloc. A Cautionary Tale is a poem which has a moral within it and comes with a warning to the people reading the poem. In this lesson, we started by watching a video from Joseph Coelho about how he performs his poems and we were tasked to use his ideas in reading a poem from Hillaire Belloc. We could choose from the Cautionary Tales called “George”, “Henry King” and “Algernon” and we had to think of different actions, ways of saying different things in our selected poem and where we performed out poem. After some time practicing our poems and perfecting our performances, we were able to share some of our performances of these Cautionary Tales.

 

Cheerleading Sessions by the Shepway Sports Trust

Recently, we were extremely lucky to have one of the highly skilled coaches from the Shepway Sports Trust to come into Saltwood and teach our Year 5 and 6 children about the sport of cheerleading. In each session, the children were taught how to safely perform different types of lift, perform different cheerleading tricks and different tumbling techniques. Everyone really enjoyed themselves as they learnt about a new sport and showed lots of great skills. Also, as an added bonus our school Sports Leaders were treated to a special session where they were taught about the coaching elements of cheerleading so they can use this in their Sport Leader role.

 

 

Performing our own Cautionary Tale poems inspired by Hillaire Belloc.

To start our learning in literacy this term, we have been learning about a style of poem called a Cautionary Tale which was made famous by the poet Hillaire Belloc. We have been learning about the different skills and devices Hillaire Belloc would have used in his poems to create our own modern-day versions of his Cautionary Tales. Some of the modern-day foibles we included in our poems included too much gaming and then going blind, not wearing a seatbelt and coming to an untimely end and cutting down trees to have the tree fall on top of them. Once we had created our own Cautionary Tale, we tried to find our inner Joseph Coelho to perform them to each other. Please take some time to look at some of the pictures of our performances.