Birch - Years 5&6 | Kingswood Primary School

Birch - Years 5&6

Welcome to Birch!

Year 5/6

Home Learning Photos

Time Capsule PDF to fill out

2020 Covid-19 time capsule sheets.pdf

Dice and Card Games At Home

Card and dice games.docx

The Great Bug Hunt 2020 Something you may want to join in with.

BBC Bitesize Maths

BBC Bitesize English

Want to carry on with mindfulness? Here are some activities from ELSA

Birch Reading Work

Birch reading.docx

Nature Activities

Why not watch the Edinburgh Zoo animals? You could keep a diary of what they do, write a diary as one of the animals, draw them or research about the animals to make an information text.

Joe Wicks Workouts 9am on a weekday

Hit The Button Times Tables

Topmarks Daily 10 Maths website with questions to do at home

Mini Maths Website Arithmetic questions

Spelling Frame - Website to help revise spellings

After reading ‘How to Live Forever’, the Year 5s drew a world from their favourite book

First Science Fair at KLB

During the morning, we did lots of exciting things at KLB and even saw a Big Bang show, which was brilliant.

Science Week at KLB

This term's topic is all things Space!

Keep looking at our page to see what we have been up to.

Music: composing relaxing music

Gymnastics

Information Texts About Space

Year 5 Percentages

Abstract Art

Day 1

First, we all looked at Wassily Kandinsky’s abstract artwork.

Then we took inspiration from his most famous pieces to create a success criteria. We decided we should use bright colours, black lines and shapes.

Afterwards, we listened to Holst’s Mars, thinking carefully about how the music made us feel.

Lastly, we created our own abstract art, trying to replicate Kandinsky’s style, whilst trying to express the emotions we felt from listening to the music.

Day 2

Firstly, we looked at each other’s painting and gave feedback: thinking about what we liked (whilst looking at our class success criteria) and how they could further improve.

Next we planned how to act on the feedback so that our work was even better.

Then we were able to create our improved paintings.

Please see below for pictures of our art.

Abstract Art Day 1

Finished Paintings Day 2

Our explanation texts linked to STEAM Week

Trip To 'We The Curious'

Which object is representing which planet size?

First we looked at the objects, discussing ideas

Then we researched the sizes of the planets

Finally we decided the correct size and order

Rocket Mice! A Science Investigation.

Forest School

K’nex Challenge

We designed and built K’nex carnival floats.

In our Science lessons this term, we are learning about forces. So far, we have learnt about air and water resistance.

We love learning through experiments and hands on activities so we designed an experiment with paper spinners to find out more about air resistance. Also, we learnt about water resistance by designing and building plasticine models that would float or sink.