Toucan Class Gallery

Spring 1

Week 6

On Monday, we learnt to juggle! Mr Pryke came down to show off his skills and to be a 'blue' coach, in-line with our ReflectEd. The majority of us started the lesson off as 'red', which meant we didn't know anything about juggling. A few of us were 'yellow', which meant we knew a little about it but needed some more support. As the session went on, we found that we floated between the colours. When we became confident in the first step (which made us green) we then moved on to the next step, which meant many of us were back to being red/yellow again. This was a great session as it showed us that by breaking down a task into smaller steps, this allowed us to build on our perseverance and resilience. 

Toucan - week 6

 

Week 5

This week in PE, we finalised our dance routines and then performed them to the rest of the class. When creating our dances, we chose from a list of moves and performed them to a count of 8. The moves we chose from were extend, travel, kick, slide, ripple, jump, tilt, fall, twist and spin. Can you spot any of these moves in the pictures?

Toucan - week 5

 

 

Week 4

During our Art lesson this week, we learnt a range of techniques that can be created when working with Indian ink. Using a paintbrush and a wooden skewer, we were able to create colour values (shades of colour after adding varying amounts of water to the ink), colour washes (where the ink bled into the water wash) and differing line widths and patterns.

After this exploration, we began to recreate land and city scapes from around North America.

Our challenge was to confidently take risks in our sketchbook and explore what WE could achieve when using ink!

Week 4 Toucan Art

 

Week 3

In Art this week, we have continued building on our topic of using mixed media for land and cityscapes. Today, we had an exploration session, where we tried out 7 different media to see what it was like to work with. We used chalk, charcoal, colouring pencils, handwriting pens, oil pastels, water colours and Indian ink. We spent a short amount of time using each media, which meant we could focus on what effect we could create with each rather than worrying too much about our drawings being perfect. Take a look at our pictures to see what we have created so far. 

Toucan Art week 3

 

Week 2

In Geography, we have been locating the 23 North American countries and their capital cities. We found that the most common languages spoken are English, French, Spanish and Creole and that the largest country in North America is Canada and the most populated country is the USA. We also discussed how the USA are attempting to reclaim Greenland from the Danes (which was a nice link to our Vikings topic last term).

In English, we have had lots of fun designing machines to tidy our bedroom, complete our homework or to please our teacher. These will be used to help us write an explanation text.

Toucan Geog and Eng

 

Week 1

This week, we have started a unit for Art called Mixed Media Land and City. We looked at the artists Vanessa Gardiner and The Shoreditch Sketcher and explored some of their artwork. In our sketchbooks, we produced a page about them.

 

Toucans - land and city scapes

 

 

Autumn Term 2

Week One

PSHE - Cultural Differences

In PSHE this week, we have been learning about different cultures from around the world. We played games from Europe and China and celebrated the diversity within the UK.

 

 

Week Two

Guided Reading - Drama

In Guided Reading, we have been reading a text called 'Do Aliens Really Exist?' The text is about the controversy over whether aliens exist and how some people believe and others don't. The text talks about an incident in Roswell, USA. We practised interviewing each other and asking questions about what was seen. We could choose whether we were a skeptic or a believer.

 
Week Three

Viking Day - Toucans

On Monday, Year 5 had an unforgettable Viking Day as our visiting experts bought history to life! The children looked fantastic in their costumes and spent the morning creating traditional Viking crafts before learning some battle formations. In the afternoon, the children became archaeologists, carefully digging through soil to uncover Viking artefacts and exploring what these discoveries could tell us about life in the past. It was a brilliant day of hands-on learning and adventure! A huge thank you to all the adult volunteers too!

 

Week  Four 

We have had a very busy week. We have finished our stories and published them in our Writing Journals and we have adding and subtracting mixed numbers in Maths. In Science, we learnt about night and day and in History thought about who might have been king after Edward the Confessor. In Music, we started our unit for singing and sang some Christmas songs. We are looking forward to sharing them with an audience on the 17th December. 

 

Week 5

In PE this week, we played a range of team games. We mixed all 3 classes up and got into teams of around 10. We started off with a relay race where we tried to move a cone up and down an obstacle course using only our feet - this proved quite difficult! After this, we had to hold hands in our line and get a hoop from one end to the other without letting go; we were impressed with how easily some groups found this! Then we played the good-old 'over/under' game with a basketball. Finally, we put all these games together in an obstacle course and raced against each other. There was a lot of excitement and it was a very close race at the end!

 

Year 5 PE Games