Year 5 Birch and Lime
Miss Critchlow and Mrs YoungWelcome to Year 5!
Miss Critchlow and Mrs Young are our Year 5 teachers, and they are supported by Miss Roddam. Miss Critchlow teaches Year 5 Birch and Mrs Young teaches Year 5 Lime.
Information about what Year 5 will be learning can be found in our ‘Curriculum’ section.
Year 5 condition their muscles!
Over the last few weeks, Year 5 have been building their muscles and core strength – by being put through their paces with Alan from Thorp Academy!
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newsletter 02.02.2018
Please find attached this weeks newsletter 02.02.2018 and RRSA Silver ‘Rights Aware’ UNICEF school report:
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West Lane Celebrate RRSA Silver ‘Right’s Aware’ Success!
This has been a proud week for our school – as we have gained the UNICEF (silver level) Rights Respecting Schools Award! We are pleased to announce that we are now an official UNICEF Rights Aware School!
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Martin Luther King Day and UNCRC ‘Rights Respecting’ assembly!
This week, Mrs Tetley led us in a ‘Rights Respecting’ assembly to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King – who fought for the rights of African Americans in the 1960’s. This assembly focused upon the United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child: Article 1 (Everyone under the age of 18 has all the rights in the Convention) and Article 2 (The Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to everyone without exception and Governments should take all measures to ensure that children are protected against all forms of discrimination.)
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West Lane learn to respect…
This week, as part of our whole school learning about the United Nations Convention of The Rights of The Child, Mrs Tetley led us in a ‘Rights Respecting’ assembly focussing upon articles 28 and 31 from The Convention:
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Year 5 ‘discover’ a Viking Box!
Year 5 have had a very exciting start to the term, as we have been given a discovery box full of Viking Artefacts! Take a look at how much fun we had exploring the artefacts we found…
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Year 4 embalm tomatoes!
Last week Year 4 became embalmers! Unfortunately, they could not mummify a real body (no ‘body’ would volunteer!), so instead they practised mummifying some tomatoes. To do this they followed a set of instructions…
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Year 5 go all Greek!
We bet you didn’t know that year 5 are extraordinary fashion designers?! Last week, we sketched outfits into our books inspired by Greek warriors and Goddesses. This week, our challenge was to design outfits based on our original sketches, using recycled materials.
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Year 5 sculpt with Andrew!
On Monday 4th December, Year 5 were lucky enough to be visited by a sculptor. They spent the morning designing intricate pieces of artwork which could be used on Andrew’s latest design…
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Year 5 ‘tweets’ the famous Maz Evans!
Year 5 have been writing diary entries based on the characters in our class novel ‘Who Let the God’s Out?’ written by Maz Evans. Miss Edgar decided to get in touch with best selling Author Maz via Twitter and guess what?… SHE REPLIED!
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Year 5 debate sparta
Last week, as part of our topic and literacy work, Year 5 held a debate about which city would be best to live in: Athens or Sparta. We came up with some very interesting arguments and worked in small groups (as a team) to promote our views.
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All different all equal…
On Monday this week, Mrs Nugent led KS1 and KS2 in two ‘Rights Respecting School’ assemblies – where the theme of ‘difference’ was considered to recognise the importance of celebrating the wonderful diversity within our school, families and community.
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