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This half term, Year 5 have studied Tiers Albers' artwork - The Moonwalk. They then created their own images in a similar style! Take a look...

Wednesday 26th March - World Maths Day! Year 5 celebrated World Maths Day today by using nets to create cubes then using multiple cubes to create pieces of a Soma Puzzle. Finally they spent some time completing the Soma Puzzle! In the afternoon, they took part in the Mathletics online competition and St Alphonsus came 60th in the world!

Wednesday 19th March - The Year 5 children used the claves and the glockenspiels today to create their own Ostinatos. In groups they composed 2 separate Ostinatos and then performed these simultaneously. They also used their notation skills to note down their rhythms on the stave. Click here to listen!

Tuesday 18th March - Year 5 enjoyed a trip to Pizza Express today! They walked into Manchester, made their own pizzas and ate them outside in the sun! They had a great morning and behaved impeccably as always!

Thursday 6th March - World Book Day! Year 5 enjoyed a visit to the library today as part of the World Book Day celebrations. They had a great time, completed a quiz, looked round and all got a book to take home!

Thursday 6th February - Jacob, Henrietta and Rostyslav led a Celebration of the Word today. They had worked hard on their presentation and led a fanastic session based on The Last Supper.

Friday 31st January - Year 5 experimeted with tennis balls, torches and the globe today in their science lesson as they were learning about how we have day and night. They learnt about the Earth's rotation and the fixed position of the sun. They then discussed time zones and how it would be strange if we didn't have them!

Tuesday 21st January - Today our Manchester United Eco Reds and our Manchester United Leaders did an assembly each to inform the rest of the school about their roles. They had each created a powerpoint presentation to introduce themselves and told the school what they do in their important roles in school.

Wednesday 16th January - Year 5 have designed and constructed their pop-up books in their recent Design Technology lessons. Today, they visited Year 1 to share their books with the children. The design brief was to create a pop-up book appropriate for a 5/6 year old. The Year 1 children thoroughly enjoyed sharing the books and the Year 5 children did a great job at making them and sharing them with their target consumer!

December - The Year 5 children have been working on their 3D installations in their art lessons this term. They created an exhibition space, then used lego men and lighting techniques to showcase their installations.

Click here to watch the children's videos they created in our computing lessons. They filmed their scenes, uploaded them to the computers and used Clipchamp to edit their videos!

Friday 15th November - Year 5 welcomed their families in today to watch their wonderful class assembly!

Year 5 Assembly

Click here to watch more videos of the class assembly!

Jonah, Julia, Nabeel and Savannah are at Manchester United today taking part in the Leadership Academy as part of their roles in school this year as Sports Leaders!

Thursday 7th November - Year 5 visited Lancashire Cricket Club today for the ‘Education without boundaries’ day. They had a great time playing and learning about cricket!

Thursday 24th October - Year 5 visited Old Trafford today for the stadium tour and museum visit. They had a fantastic day out!

MUFC

Thursday 17th October - Year 5 got to put their designs into action today and started to build their Doodlers! Having assessed the form and function of a doodler, they used their designs to create their own! They discovered that the Doodler wasn't as easy to make as it may look!

Doodler!

Tuesday 15th October - Composition in today's clarinet lesson.

Tuesday 15th October - Clarinet Lesson

Friday 11th October - The children in Year 5 created short role plays today to act out what it means to be a peacemaker. The Year 5 Scripture is one of the Beatitudes - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.' The children used this to show what it means to be a peacemaker and learnt how we are all part of God's Family and we are all made to be Holy. Click here to watch their short videos!

Sister Sledge - We Are Family (Official Music Video)

The Chainsmokers, Kygo - Family (Lyrics / Lyric Video)

Sam Ryder - Mountain (Official Lyric Video)

Thursday 3rd October - National Poetry Day 2024 - Year 5 studied the poem 'Paean' by Kate Wakeling today as part of their National Poetry Day work. They came up with their own ideas for a pea, worked on their expressive language and oracy skills, generated ideas to create thier own poem, wrote their own poems and finally performed their poems to each other! They worked extremely hard and created some fantastic poetry. Click here to watch their performances!