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Tag Archives: year 5

Class 8 use their oracy skills to debate!

Tuesday, 28th Juneby missdungworth Leave a comment

In our Literacy session today, Class 8 made a great start to their new unit of balanced arguments by engaging in the debate: “Is social media a good thing?” We […]

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A Day As A Viking

Thursday, 23rd Juneby missdungworth Leave a comment

Today, our Year 5/6 experienced a day in the life of a Viking at Locko Park. We met King Cnut and explored his empire and learnt various different skills, such […]

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Dragon Eye Art in Y5/6 – Applying skills to create texture

Wednesday, 11th Mayby missdungworth Leave a comment

This week, children in Year 5/6 have continued their learning of using different techniques to create pattern and texture and have applied this within their own sketchbooks when drawing a […]

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Dragon Eye Art – Creating Texture

Tuesday, 3rd Mayby missdungworth Leave a comment

Very proud of Class 8 today who have demonstrated their outstanding artistic skills by using ink to create texture. We considered the several ways a dragon eye could be interpreted […]

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A Royal Roughwood Tudor Banquet!

Friday, 1st Aprilby missdungworth Leave a comment

Do you have a longing desire to go back in time to experience the wonders of a Tudor banquet? Luckily, the fantastic children in a Class 8 have the opportunity […]

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Y5/6 MyMaths learning

Thursday, 31st Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

Today, Class 8 used their ICT slot to access the Maths platform ‘MyMaths’ in order to apply their prior learning of fractions into some fun challenges! We also introduced decimals […]

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Y5/6 Tudor Day – Part 2

Tuesday, 29th Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

This morning, we also had the exciting opportunity to try out a ‘Tudor banquet’ and taste foods that were popular of the time. The children experienced foods they liked and […]

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Y5/6 Tudor Day – Part 1

Tuesday, 29th Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

What a tremendous day we have had in Class 7 and 8! We have truly brought the Tudor era ‘to life’ in our hall today, with children fully immersing themselves […]

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Using drama to explore character thoughts and feelings

Wednesday, 9th Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

Year 5/6 have made a great start in their Literacy unit by using freeze frames within drama to explore our characters thoughts and feelings from our class book, Treason. We […]

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P4C in Year 5/6 – Recycling

Wednesday, 9th Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

This week, children in Y5/6 have focused upon the topic of recycling and the effects of this on our school, at home, the wider community and the planet. During our […]

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Y5/6 create digital ‘Word Clouds’ in Literacy

Thursday, 3rd Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

Upon our return to school this week, the children in Class 7 and 8 have been exploring narrative writing in our Literacy sessions. We will be writing our very own […]

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Children’s Mental Health Week – Y5/6 Reach for the Stars!

Thursday, 10th Februaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

As this week is ‘Children’s Mental Health Week’, the children in Y5/6 have been focusing on this years theme of ‘Growing Together’ by considering how they have grown and how […]

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Using ‘Hot-seating’ to explore thoughts and feelings in Class 8

Thursday, 6th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

During our Literacy session today, we used ‘hot-seating’ as a drama technique to explore thoughts and feelings of characters in our new class book ‘Treason’. At the beginning of the […]

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Y5/6 STEM MODEL ROCKETS

Friday, 19th Novemberby missdungworth Leave a comment

Class 7 and 8 have had an amazing morning designing and creating our very own model rockets! Our challenge was to design a rocket and module that will keep Mr […]

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Harvest Festival Art in Class 8

Wednesday, 20th Octoberby missdungworth Leave a comment

Class 8 have worked extremely hard on their magnificent ‘Harvest Wreaths’ artwork. We learnt the importance of celebrating the Harvest Festival as it gives us an opportunity to give to […]

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Thought-provoking P4C in Y5/6

Wednesday, 13th Octoberby missdungworth Leave a comment

Over the last week, the children in Y5/6 have been reflecting upon their experiences during the pandemic. We watched a video as stimulus to provoke our thinking skills and, from […]

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Astronaut Training Day commences in Y5/6!

Friday, 3rd Septemberby missdungworth Leave a comment

Ready… set… BLAST OFF! Our brave ‘astronauts’ in Y5/6 have had a fantastic, fun-filled day during our Astronaut Training Day. There were certain skills and characteristics we needed to become […]

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Music Service Involvement and Instrumental lessons

Monday, 17th Mayby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

At Roughwood Primary School, we believe that every child should learn the skills of playing an instrument during their time at our school. These skills include self-discipline, creativity, developing motor […]

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Year 5 begin their animation videos

Monday, 10th Mayby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Children in Year 5 begin their animation videos linked to the class text – ‘ How To Train Your Dragon’. Using ‘I can Animate’ software, the children in year 5 […]

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Year 5 & 6 Hockey

Thursday, 22nd Octoberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

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Y5 moon phases animations

Wednesday, 15th Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

In Year 5 we have been learning about the phases of the moon and created animations to show this. We used paper first and then created an animation using a […]

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Y5 pen and ink astronauts

Monday, 6th Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Phenomenal artwork in Mrs Miller’s Year 5 bubble today! It took the children a lot of patience and resilience but the results are outstanding.

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Year 5 solar system pastel artwork

Thursday, 2nd Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Year 5 created some stunning pastel artwork based on the solar system.

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Year 5 colour wheels

Thursday, 2nd Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We learnt about primary, secondary and tertiary colours and practised our colour mixing skills

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Y5 problem solving in maths

Thursday, 2nd Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We converted 2 metres into centimetres and millimetres, and then investigate how many straws we would need. We then used that to work out how many we’d need for 4m, […]

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Year 5 colour wheels

Monday, 15th Juneby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Class 7 and 8 produced some fantastic colour wheels at home to show their understanding of primary, secondary and tertiary colours

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Y5/6 Space Buggies

Wednesday, 6th Mayby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Class 7 and 8 once again wowed their teachers with their effort and creativity, and created some space buggies! They had to research them, create a plan and then find […]

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Year 5M Earth Collages

Friday, 24th Aprilby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

It was back to distance learning on Monday and WOW! Class 7 were certainly ready and raring to go. Look at these outstanding collages they produced at home – the […]

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Distance learning in class 7

Monday, 30th Marchby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Fabulous distance learning from class 7 this week. Here are some fantastic examples of creative, good quality learning, children working hard and even doing some extra bingo tasks!

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Antonym practise

Monday, 16th Marchby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

In Class 7, we have been learning about antonyms, which are opposites. We have been practising together and then today we have tried some on our own.  We are learning […]

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Vegetative propagation Part 1

Tuesday, 25th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Class 7 have been learning about sexual and asexual reproduction in plants, and about vegetative propagation – artificially regrowing plants. Today we set up our own investigation to regrow spring […]

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Internet Safety in Year 5/6

Thursday, 13th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

A fantastic session with Ann Foxley-Johnson about staying safe on the apps we use. We have now created our own posters about using these apps.

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Courage – Mental Health Week

Wednesday, 5th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

In Y5, we looked at some statements and decided which ones were brave and which ones weren’t. We decided on different ways to categorise them; some of us ranked them […]

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Dragon pencil artwork in Class 7

Tuesday, 4th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We have been learning how to use our pencils to create effective artwork, using shade and tone.

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Terrific thaumatropes

Tuesday, 4th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

As part of our learning about animation, we made our own examples of thaumatropes to understand how animation was created many years ago. Watch our videos at the end to […]

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Creating a PowerPoint quiz in Y5

Tuesday, 4th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We have been researching Dreamworks Animation, linking to our class text of How to Train Your Dragon. We are now creating our own quizzes and learning how to add effects […]

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