Year 5

Peer assessment

Year 5 took part in a peer assessment session. They found lots of ways to improve their writing.

PE

Year 5 had an interesting and very competitive game of dodgeball during PE.

Wet play darts

Year 5 enjoyed playing magnetic darts during wet play and it involved a fair amount of addition calculations.

Black history art.

Year 5 created fantastic art work in the style of American artist Alma Thomas.

Harvest Trail

Year 5 took part in a wonderful Harvest trail across different areas of our school site.

Mary’s meals

Year 5 enjoyed eating their porridge and learning about the valuable work carried out by Mary’s meals.

Mission

Year 5 have been learning that we all have a mission, no matter how big or small. They created a mission which they can carry out at school. One group’s mission was to help some year 3 children play tennis.

Maths party

Year 5 had a wonderful maths party day. They took on a number of very creative maths tasks.

Meet a Judge Visit

Members of Junior leadership team, School Council & Rights Respecting ambassadors attended a visit to the Liverpool Civil and Family Court to take part in a mock robbery trail. They were all given roles to play and even took part in a question and answer session with 3 serving judges from the Crown, Family and Employment courts. 

Prayer and liturgy

Year 5 took part in a beautiful Prayer and Liturgy about hopes and dreams.

Food for thought

Year 5 had an amazing time stepping back in time to make Viking pottage with the fantastic team from Food for Thought! The children loved getting hands-on with the ingredients and learning how the Vikings cooked their meals.

Science investigation

Year 5 have been busy investigating which materials make the best thermal insulators – real scientists in action!

Jubilee celebration

Year 5 took part in a Prayer and liturgy, celebrating the Jubilee as we become pilgrims of hope.

Greek comedy and tragedy masks

Year 5 created Ancient Greek comedy and tragedy masks. The used plaster of Paris to make the masks and painted them trying show the facial expressions of comedy or tragedy.

Sports day

Year 5 had a fantastic time during sports day. Lots of effort and smiles throughout the day.

History Ancent Greece

Year 5 enjoyed learning about how artefacts tell us about the culture and life of ancient civilisations.

Pulleys and gears

The children worked really hard when trying to create pulley systems and gear systems. They tried different materials and carried out a very good evaluations of their products.

Perimeter

Year 5 created rectilinear shapes using cuisenaire rods. They had to calculate the perimeter of those shapes.

Drama and role play

Year five really enjoyed acting out the model text, it helped them to understand how the character reacted to his environment.

Science (filtering)

Year 5 enjoyed taking part in a science investigation into how we can seperate solids and liquids using filtering.

Advent Prayer and Liturgy

Year 5 led today’s Advent prayer and liturgy, celebrating the 2nd Sunday of Advent – Peace.

History museum trip

Years 5 and 6 went on wonderful museum trip to the Imperial War Museum in Manchester.

Lest we forget

Year 5 led a beautiful remembrance prayer and liturgy. This included a visit from friend of St Clare’s, Pipe Major James Axon who performed a wonderful lament (Flowers of the Forest).

Biomes

Year 5 created their own biomes. This included the weather,vegetation and animals for their biomes.

Fun maths day

Maths was lots of fun today in year 5, we took part in a maths lesson outside, creating symmetrical shapes and took part in lots of TT Rockstars tournaments.

Meet a Judge visit

Our Junior Leadership team and School Council members from Y5 and Y6 took part in an exciting opportunity at the Liverpool Civil and Family Court today.

They were invited to a question and answer session with 3 judges currently serving in the North West. Including a Crown court criminal judge, a family judge and an employment judge. It was fascinating to find out about their roles. We then took part in a ‘mock trial’ looking at a case of cyberbullying. We were all given a role to play and even got to dress up in robes and wigs worn by judges and barristers in court.

Y5 Creative fun in Forest School

Thermal insulators

Year 5 enjoyed carrying out an investigation into which material is the best thermal insulator.

Diary writing

Year 5 spent their English lesson considering the thoughts and emotions of runaway slave Henry ‘Box’ Brown.

Author visit

Year 5 and 6 took part in a writing workshop led by children’s author Marie Basting. The children produced some fantastic stories during the workshop.

NSPCC workshop

Year 5 took part in an extremely engaging workshop delivered by the NSPCC.

Year 5 prayer and liturgy

Year 5 carried out a wonderful black history prayer and liturgy. The children read extremely. Well done year 5.

3D shapes

Year 5 created different 3D shapes from cubes to hexagon prisms and cones. Great effort from all the children.

Shapes

Year 5 carried out a number of triangle investigations. There was a prize for the winning team.

History

Year 5 enjoyed researching into the achievements of the Ancient Greeks and how their legacy is a part of our daily lives.

Art

Year 5 had a wonderful afternoon creating Ancient Greek comedy and tragedy masks. The children are extremely creative and they really enjoy expressing themselves through art.

Sports day

Year 5 enjoyed taking part in sports day. Lots of effort from everybody involved, particularly Mrs Jones.

Sefton Park Palm House visit

Year 5 had a wonderful morning at the Palm House. They took part in art and craft activities. They also learnt about the history of the beautiful structure and about some of the fabulous plants which can be found there.

Art

Year 5 created wonderful layered leaves using different materials.

World Book Day

Year 5 spend the day creating their own comic books with fantastic storylines and illustrations. We have lots of future Stan Lees in our midst.

Cricket club

Year 5 and 6 showed fantastic cricket skills during cricket club sessions. We have really talented young people at our school.

DT

Year 5 resident baker. Fantastic effort. Paul Hollywood she’s after your job.

DT

Year 5 enjoyed planning and creating different types of bread,importantly they were able to eat it afterwards.

Talented artist

One of our fantastic year 5 children with his brilliant drawing of the Liverpool skyline.

Science

As part our our forces topic,year 5 created parachutes and carried out an investigation into how air resistance affects falling objects.

Parliament week

Year 5 carried out a parliamentary style debate on whether school uniform should be phased out. A number of children changed their minds and went against the party whip. Keeping school uniform won the vote. Democracy in action.

Safe places to walk and cross

Year 5 took part in a walk through the local community asking for safer places to cross and walk.

Art

Year 5 experimented with different ways to make Greek comedy and tragedy theatre masks.

Health and fitness week

Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed playing a competitive game of rounder.

Health and fitness week.

Year 5 made a healthy Greek dip as part of learning about healthy eating

Cash for kids walk. We’ll done everyone.

Year 5 carried out an air resistance investigation using self- made parachutes. Back to the drawing board.

Year 5 designed and created their own parachutes in preparation for their air resistance experiment.

Year 5 led a wonderful Earth Day assembly. The children talked about the actions we can take to help God’s creation flourish.

For World Book Day, Year five spent the day making wonderful comic books. They enjoyed planning, designing and creating them.

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Henri Rousseau

Year 5 created wonderful layered leaf collages.

Mindfulness week.

Year 5 enjoyed learning about the Palm House and creating wonderful bird houses.