Helping plants grow

Here in year 5 we are currently exploring the effects of different conditions on the growth of plants.  Can we put what we have learned in our lessons into practice with this activity from the BBC?

Parts of a Plant

What can you remember about healthy living?

Use this activity from the BBC schools site to see what you can remember about healthy living and your heart rate.

Battle of Marathon Victory Blog

This week, Year 5 studied the Battle of Marathon and the remarkable events masterminded by the Greek military leader Miltiades.  It was Pheidippides who ran the 22 miles from Marathon to Athens to bring news of the victory - and then dropped down dead from exhaustion!  With a modern slant on bringing news of victory, Year 5 are writing a victory blog - see their entries below.

Alexi said...

We are the champions we beat Persia.We are awesome we thrashed Persia and now we are safe. We put our lives on the line and only lost 192 men and they 6500 we owned them.Then we held them of at the bay we are super. DON'T FORGET WE WON

Sina 5N said...

I am a soldier from Athens. I have a sword and a shield with me. This morning around 20000 Persians arrived by boat. I acn see them coming at us with their horses. Once the huge army was next to us we started fighting with our weapons. Once we saw the army we sent our herald(Phippides)to Sparta to ask for help. In the fierce battle 6400 Persians died and only 192 Greeks were killed. The rest of the Persian army ran away and tried to attack Athens. After Phidippides came back he ran to Athens to announce our victory. He the collapsed and died. Sina 5N

James 5T said...
Battle of Marathon The Persians had 200000 men but we only had 10000. Our leader decided to send out Phidippides,our fatest soldier to Sparta to ask the Spartans to help defeat the Persians. But the Spartans were in a religious festival celebrating their victory and would not come to help until the full moon. So the Athenians had to fight the Persians themselves. The next morning Phidippides ran to Athens to tell us the bad news. But we had a clever way to fight the Persians, we smacked them with our shields then we stabed them with our sword and kept on doing that until the remaining Persians escaped in their ships. Then phidippides ran to Marathon to tell them we have won and then died of exhaustion.

Carina said...
The attack by the Persians was very surprising for us.We wanted to fight because we new if we didn't fight,the Persians would think that we are scared of them.A warrior called Phidippides ran all the way to Sparta and back which i think is very impressing.Our commander Milltidies had a plan.The plan was never done before but our commander was sure that it would work.We started the war in Marathon.It was time to try our plan,so we did it.We won,we won.everybody was glad and Athens was safe.Phidippides ran to Athens to announce the news.After announcing the news that they won,he fell on the ground and passed away.

Zaid said...
Phidippies was sent to sparta to ask for help but the sparta said they will help intil it's full moon,Phidippies went to marathon and told the soldiers that the sparta will araive at full moon then phidippies fighted with the soldiers.
The Athenian soldiers had a plan,the plan was they had to split into two small groups and some stay in the middle the first group went to the left of the battle the second group went to the right of the battle the persions ran to the Athenian soldiers the Atheniean soldiers fought with the persions and right away the groups started throwing arows at the persions while they were fighting the Athenian soldiers then there were a little of the persions they sailed of to persions.
they sent phidippies to Athens to tell everybody that they won when he araived he said,"we won the battle" then he calapsed.

I felt glad that we won the battle.

Shapes

Do you know your scalene from your isosceles? This activity from the BBC will sharpen up your shape knowledge!

Year 5 splashing around Under the Sea!

Arrangements for KS2’s production of “Under the Sea” in March of 2011 are well underway.  Ms. Allison Thomas, as director for this school production, has undertaken an enormous task to organise, coordinate and direct pupils from Years 3, 4, 5, & 6.   

We hear from Ms. Thomas that the children are working very hard to do a fantastic job!  Fortunately, many staff and students from all across the school have offered their help to manage the many aspects of putting such a big production together.  Many thanks are extended to those who have begun to put the many pieces of the play together. 

In Year 5, the entire year group is performing two dynamic songs: “Daughters of Triton” and “Poor Unfortunate Souls”.  We also have many shining stars in our midst.  Ami Coppard is playing the lead character Ariel; Ruben Reeves is playing Prince Eric; Noura El-Bayrouti is Ursula the Sea Witch; Jacob Reyes is Sebastian; Matthew Gair is Chef Louis; Zaid Beck and Bahrouz Khan are Flotsam and Jetsam; Maya Taha, Rida Nayeemullah, Ayra Sheikh, Sophia Khwaja, Ipek Ildeniz and Caitlin Czarnota are the Mermaid sisters; Talia Sahin, Mariana Haddad and Khaled Hallak are Sailors; Sarah El-Khouly, Dylan Pragbanan, Raamiz Ahmad, Tayma Aubed, Carina Joseph and Rida Nayeemullah are Narrators; and Rehan Rauf is a Dramatic Dancer.

Sandwich Day!

Today year 5 have been making their own exotic sandwiches, bringing their ingredients to school and following their own instructions, written or typed by themselves, to make it.  This is all part of our Literacy for this week, writing and following instructions.  Look how we did!