Y5/6AM Art Skills
In their artwork, Y5/6AM have been learning about the portrait work of Hans Holbein and Pablo Picasso. Using a range of techniques, Y5/6AM used their sketchbooks to develop their mixed […]
Category Archives: Year 5/6AM Learning Blog
Y6 Units of measure
Today in Y6, the children were set a number of Christmas-themed measurement challenges to complete. Supported by a number of resources, Y6 showed excellent teamwork and resilience in realising, writing […]
Experiencing cognitive wobble in Y5
Today in year five we have experienced “cognitive wobble” whilst learning about fractions. Cognitive wobble is where children are encouraged to think deeply about a specific topic. Sometimes the answer […]
World Kindness Day and Children in Need
Spirits are high in Year 5 today as we celebrate world kindness day with a game of bingo and also children in need too!
Using our learning journeys to analyse a text
Today in literacy we have used our learning journeys to analyse a text. We have started learning about discussion and how to have a balanced argument. Watch this space for […]
Poetry in Y5
Tonight I was marking the Y5s independent writes and I was amazed by what they’d achieved so I thought I’d share a selection. These poems have been planned and written […]
Exploring Fractions in Y5
We have started to explore fractions in Y5 with some away from the desk learning. We are focusing our initial investigations on concrete and pictoral representations and soon we will […]
Subtracting mixed number fractions with numicon
Today in maths, Miss Alexander’s group were learning how to subtract mixed number fractions. We used numicon to help us build the fractions and convert them to improper fractions before […]
Martin Luther King Jr portraits
As part of our learning about Martin Luther King Jr for Black History Month, Y5/6AM used ICT to create a portrait using words that represented Martin Luther King Jr as […]
Y5 Away from the desk maths
This week, Year 5 have been building on their place value work in maths by multiplying numbers and amounts by 10, 100 and 1,000. We took our learning outside this […]
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