Earth, Sun & Moon

On the 22nd of November class 9 did some work on how the position of the earth, sun and moon can help us measure the passing of time. We figured out that it takes 24 hours for the earth to spin all of the way around on its axis. We also found out that it takes 1 year for the earth to orbit the sun. As well, we found out that it takes 1 month for the moon to orbit the earth. By L.E and L.F

In IPC this week we have been learning about the sun, moon and earth. We have been trying to know how the moon gets its shape. When the sun gives sunlight to the moon that part of the moon lights up and then it shows a shape. When the moon gets light from the sun it reflects of the sun to the earth.
By PH

This week in IPC we were learning about the phases of the moon. We were learning the way the earth blocks parts of the moon to create the shape and the way the sun shines the rest. We found out the moon moves around the earth making the earth able to block parts on the moon creating the four shapes. The shapes are: the crescent, half moon, lemon moon and the full moon.
S.l

On the 23rd November all of year 5 had a science day. We carried out an investigation where we had to find out how the sun affects a shadow. We measured a shadow of a pencil using a pencil a piece of paper a cotton wheel and a metre ruler. We went out every few hours to see if the shadow got bigger or smaller, it mainly got smaller each hour. By C.R. and B.P.

Shopkeeper Goes Bye-Bye!

This week in literacy we have been writing about the shopkeeper’s arrest in the film Alma. The film Alma is about a little girl called Alma that spotted a doll in the shop window that looked exactly like her. When Alma touched the doll that looked exactly like her, she turned into it. Our task was to write a newspaper report about it.
By LH and AP

by RW

by JP

Mission to Mars

In y59 we have been learning about the distances of the planets to the sun.
This diagram shows the distance from the sun to scale.

The real distances are:
Mercury: 57,909,100km
Venus: 108,208,600km
Earth: 149,598,000km
Mars: 227,939,200
Jupiter: 778,298,400
Saturn: 1,429,400,000
Uranus: 2,870990,000
Neptune: 4,504.,000,000
Pluto: 5,913,520,000
LJ, C.J & H.W


Class nine did a display board with the solar system and we painted the nine planets and we put blobs of white paint to make stars and when the planets dried we put them on the display board. The planets are all drawn to scale. by LC and CD

Look how tiny Pluto is!

Human Pictogram

In maths we made a human pictogram and we only had 2 sheets of paper, sellotape, ourselves and scissors. It is called a human pictogram because we had to stick the raindrops on ourselves .Luckily Miss Turner let us look what last year’s class did. One raindrop was worth 2cm of rainfall and half a raindrop was worth 1cm of rainfall.The purpose of doing this is because we were learning about graphs and learning how to set them out.
CD, LC, AP

Alma - Animated Film

In literacy we have been doing lots of work based around the award winning animated film 'Alma' by Rodrigo Blaas. This is what we've been up to:

Alma was a bit scary because there’re dolls that move their eyes side to side. What happens is that you wright on the chalkboard and a shop makes a doll that looks like you, and then you really want it but when you touch it you turn into a doll. The film was a very short film but it was still good.
by R.P.


Alma by R.P.
Alma was a bit scary because there’re dolls that move their eyes side to side. What happens is that you wright on the chalkboard and a shop makes a doll that looks like you, and then you really want it but when you touch it you turn into a doll. The film was a very short film but it was still good.

We were watching a film called alma it was where there was a ghost was turning people into dolls after we watched the film we made a wanted poster for the police to catch the ghost. Then we wrote 5 sentences about the ghost and we drawn a picture to show the police who it is and mostly what the ghost looked like. After that we coloured it in that was fun we named all of our ghost character I named mine Joshua. By jj

In literacy we made a wanted poster about a person that traps children from a short movie called Alma. On our wanted poster we had to use 5 sentences to describe the person like what they looked like or how they dressed and underneath the description we wrote what to do if you see them. In the movie a girl called Alma gets trapped in a dolls body when she wrote on a blackboard and touched a dolls nose in a deserted doll shop. While we were watching Alma we were looking carefully at each picture and made hand shapes to say if it was a low, high, medium, close or wide angle. By s.l

This week in we made we made wanted posters from Alma.
In the movie Alma the girl gets stuck in a dolls body when she was walked to a deserted little village one day. We made wanted posters about the evil shopkeeper who kept all those dolls. We made description about the shopkeeper .We also had to draw a picture what your shopkeeper looked like. BY J.F

Wanted poster by AB

This week, we made wanted posters for the evil shopkeeper in Alma. First, we did a practice. We had to do a description for the shopkeeper. It could only be five sentences. We did that in one section and we had to put a reward of money and a telephone number if they had found them. In the top section we put a question like, HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? We then typed it up on the computers. We printed them out and put an illustration in the middle box. It was a whole piece of work complete.
By A.B


CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHOP KEEPER

William Hunt is a horrible man since he has a love for child snatching. He has short, brown hair and he has a very strange scar on his hand. He had a very horrible childhood therefore he is being mean to children. He is originally from England although he can speak lots of different languages. He owns lots of shops so that he can capture lots of children. by LE

Mr Brian did not have a good child hood so he wants revenge. Mr Brian turns children into dolls because he wants the grownups to go crazy. Brian can rule the world and capture all of the grownups so it is his planet. Mr Brian is a trillion years old but he looks young .Mr Brian has a scar on his face so he puts a cap over it. by FP

Surviving in the Wild

On Tuesday the 1st of November 2011 Y5 went to Plantsbrook Nature Reserve. Our topic is a mission to mars and we are finding out what people need to survive. We looked out for plants,animals,polution and dangers. The plants and animals we saw were Holly bush,Ivy and reeds the animals we saw where ducks, birds a squirrel and seagulls. The polution we saw was a tin can in the water and some litter. DS & RP

We were thinking about setting up a camp for the month and what sort of things we would need to survive like food and water. For food, we could have birds, ducks, black berries and fish. For dink we could drink the water from the the lake by boiling the water first to get the germs out, then drinking it. TA & JJ

We saw some dangers like fungus,plastic bottles and wrappers. Te was also some animal habbitats like a beavers. We thought we could build a shelter out of long grass,stick and logs.LJB & CMW

More Poetry...

We have also written some Kenning poems which were lots of fun!

Can you guess what these poems are describing?

T.V Hogger
Chocolate lover
Bad dancer
Messy eater
Loud snorer
Fast swimmer
Warm hugger
Football player

By A.D


Meat eater
Speedy hunter
Fast runner
Animal eater
Great escaper
Quick swimmer
Loud Rorer
Wet licker

by AB


Mouse chaser
Bird hunter
Slow eater
Fish killer
Wall climber
Paw licker
Tail chaser
Wall scrachter

By AM

Seed Eater
Loud Clucker
Egg Giver
Toast Eater
High Flyer
Short Liver
Frog Eater
Slow runner
By P.H



Loud snorer
sweaty sleeper
stinky farter
annoying moaner
peperoni eater
dog lover
t.v hogger

By JJ


Tv hogger
Music lover
Ride lover
Game player
Chocolate eater
Loud snorer
Football player
Food scoffer

By GS

Film crier
Clothes-picker
Make-up lover
Good cooker
Big coddler
Food lover
Good cleaner
Good hairdresser
By JF


Terrible singer
Slow runner
TV hogger
Load snorer
Dog hugger
Dog hogger
Fast swimmer
Fast eater

by OC

Autumn Poetry and Art

In literacy we have been writing Haikus to describe Autumn. We have also made Autumn art in the style of Andy Goldsworthy, a famous artist.

The berries are sweet
The leaves are falling off trees
That is in autumn.

by AB

Crimson leaves dropping.
Blue sky shining down on land.
Brown conkers so nice.

by JJ

Sapphire blue sky,
Leaves Fluttering from the trees,
Autumn starts today.

By LE

Autumn Time
Crispy golden leaves,
Soft fluffy dandelions,
Cotton wool up high.

By LH

Smooth and rusty leaves,
How tall and thin they may be,
Floating past conker trees.

By AP

Squirrels squealing
On the branches
Eating conkers while sleeping madly.

By RP

Squirrel eating nuts
Leaves turn golden in Autumn
Birds sing beautifully.

By CD

Outward Bound

Last week most of year 5 went to the Outward Bound centre in Ullswater in the Lake District. This is what we got up to:

At Ullswater my favourite part was the tunniling. I was in Ms Turner’s group. My instructor was Pete and he was a very good instructor. He was very nice at some points. JP

At Ullswater , we went hill walking , gorge walking (which is climbing a waterfall) and tunnelling. LF

At Ullswater we went to do jog and dip. I got very wet but it was funny. AB

At Ullswater I really enjoyed doing the gorge walking because I got soaking wet and I love climbing. I also liked building the raft and canoeing across the lake. I found the hill walk very tiring and I found the night walk very challenging. L.E.

I really enjoyed Ullswater because it is an enjoyable place to be. You have lots of fun and do lots of activities. My favourite part about Ullswater was everything!!!! I found mountain climbing and gorge walking challenging and I thought I’d never be able to climb them but i did. I didn’t give up on any of the activities. AP

I loved Ullswater because it was the most fun I have ever had. My favourite bit was tunnelling because when I and Rw Oc Jp came out the tunnels and left the girls in there so all of us had to go back in to find them. I was in Scott group!!!! LJB

My Group by JP

At Ullswater I enjoyed Gorge walking because you got really wet! I also enjoyed canoeing because you got to discover rocks that were about 2 or 3 years old. My worst bit about Ullswater was climbing up the mountain because the bags were really heavy! By R.P.
The best part at Ullswater was the hill day because we made a den. The second best bit was the food it was delicious. And the worst part was doing the chores. LJ

When we went to Ullswater we did lots of activities and my favourite one was Hill day because it was fun but also tiring. We took big back packs to take our water in and to take other stuff. My second favourite was canoeing because it was my first time out deep and it was really scary because J kept shaking the canoe and I wouldn`t stop screaming but it was worth it. Ullswater is really good I slept in a dorm with AD, CD and JT and also me. PH

On the 10th of October to the 14th our year went to a trip called the outward bound centre we did a lot of activities like gorge walking, rock climbing, building a raft, hill walking and much more. My favourite was gorge walking and hill walking but my favourite was gorging. Gorge walking is climbing up a waterfall but it is really challenging because of the current and slippery rocks. SL

The thing I think that was challenging in Ullswater was the hill day because I thought I wasn’t going to make it to the top but after a few hours I did it. After we had to go down a steep side. RW

Some of us stayed at school but we still had a great time:

I really enjoyed jogging around the field for the health and fitness test. I jogged around the field 13 times with K.F. It was really challenging to make a football out of plastic bags. AB

All about our brains

This half term we have been learning about our brains and how we learn.

Here are some of the facts we have researched:

The brain is light-pink and grey
The brain sends messages to all the parts of the body
A.P and L.J.B

When your brain stops working the whole system stops working because the messages from the brain are cut off.
Your brain develops all the time from the day you were born to when you die, it grows when you collect information. By L.F and A.B

The human brain is over three times as big as the brain of other mammals that are of similar body size. A.D

A skull fracture is a break in one or more of the bones in the skull usually occurring as a result of blunt force trauma . CC & CJ

Cerebrospinal fluid is fluid that protects the bran and stops germs going into it and cushions it. FP & CD

If you shake your head rapidly it will stop the brain from working. HW & JF

The brain is pink and grey.lc and jj

Only 10% of the brain is made of neurons and the rest of it is made of blood vessels. L.E

The skull doesn’t always protect the brain from germs.A.B

The brain is wrinkled because the surrounding fluids get sucked up and makes the brain all pruny.
The brain gets signals, adds them up and sends them in a split second.
L.J. and R.P.

A Brain by JF


The Brain is pink and grey.
Germs can get into your brain like meningitis From RW and CR.

The brain and the heart are important. If there was no brain the heart would not be able to work. If there is no heart the brain would not have enough blood to function.
If you’re a child your brain will weigh 5 pounds. O.C & D.S

Your brain helps you move your muscles and see and hear.
Your brain helps you hear see and move and think it can also store lots and lots of memory like when you’re favorite TV program starts stuff like that.
If you never had a brain you would be DEAD. OH NO!
By H.F and P.H.

A Neuron by PH

New Class 9 - 2011-12

Meet the new class 9

My name is A.B and my best friend is J.F. I enjoy playing football with my dad and my brother, also going to J.F’s for a sleepover. My other friend is G.S and L.F. My favourite colour is Blue. My favourite food is chocolate.

Hi my name is D.S. I go dancing!
I like the food chips.
I have a pet and it’s a dog black and white.
I’m 10 years old wow 2 digit numbers!!!!

I am 10 years old and my best friends are RP and LF. I have a little brother who is 8. My favourite colour is purple and my favourite food is pizza. My hobbies are playing football and playing guitar. The thing I love most is playing football for my team. - CR

My name is A.p and my favourite colour is aqua blue. I have a little sister and my favourite food is German hotdogs from the
German market. My favourite animal is a dolphin.

My name is j .f and my best friend is a.b. I go to brownies on Fridays.
And I have got a rabbit called muffin

My favourite food is chocolate and my favourite colour is purple. My best friends are L.C and L.H. My hobbies are dancing and playing badminton. I have a brother called Thomas who is 12 years old. My favourite T.V programme is The Simpsons. L.E

My favourite food is: vegetarian sausages

My Best friend is: LJB and OC

My favourite colour is: Red

My favourite fruit is: Pineapple

My favourite sport is: Football
I am 9 years old - RW

My name is J.P and I am 9 years old. Also my best friends are O.C and L.J.B .My favourite foods are pizza, chips and beans. My favourite sports are Football and Tennis. I have a sister, brother, mother, farther and two guinie-pigs.

My name is CD and I am 9.My Bests Friends are AD, PH and DS. My Favourite Colour is Pink and very Light blue.

My name is LJB I have 4 Brothers and 2 sisters and I’m the youngest of them all! My favourite colour is yellow and black. My favourite animal is a dog the bread is Pugs.

Hello my name is o .c
My best mates are J.P and l j. B. My favourite show is uefa championship and my favourite team is Liverpool fc .
My favourite food is grapes.
I am ten years old.
I have a English spring a spaniel dog.

Hello my name is L.F and I and enjoy riding my bike , skateboarding , drawing and playing football in my garden. My friends are R.P, A.B and C.R. My favourite colours are green and blue.

Hello my name is A.D
My favourite colour is orange. I have a baby brother how is 2 and his name is Jake. I love dancing. I like Chocolate the best out off junk. My favourite food is a cooked dinner.

My favourite food is: chocolate
My best friend is: LE
At school I like doing: PE
My favourite TV program is: The x factor
My favourite sport is: Tennis
My favourite colour is: purple
My least favourite food is: sprouts
I am 10 years old - LC

My name is C.J my best friend is A.M and H.W
My favourite food is Chinese food.
My favourite subject is art.
My favourite sport is football.

My name is FP and my favourite food is steak and kidney pie. My best friends are O, L, A, R & L. My favourite animal is a dog. I have one brother, mom and dad. My favourite colour is white.

I am nine years old and my favourite food is peas carrots mash and chicken with gravy. My Favourite colour is Blue and my best friends is J.P L.J.B and my hobbies are playing tennis and badminton golf and hocky. - AB

My name is S.L and my best friend is G.S and C.C. my friends are A.B and J.F. I like the drums and my favourite food is dumplings I most especially enjoy it when I make my own fresh ones. My favourite subject is art and I really like painting the most. And my favourite sport is football but I only play it at home. And finally my favourite colour is blue.

My name is PH and I am 9 years old. My Bests Friends are AD, DS and CD. My Favourite Colour is Turquoise and my second best Colour is Blue. I have 2 brothers and My Favourite food is pizza and chips and my second best is chicken curry.

Hello my name is TA. My favourite colour is black and red, I love chongshindo and my favourite food is pizza and chocolate. I have both, a brother and a sister. My sister is 7 and my brother is 18. Chongshindo is a martial art and the language is Carrion. I go every Wednesday and I practice every day with my dad who is a black belt.

My name is R.P. I am 9 years old. My best friends are L.F. and C.R. my favourite lesson at school is art because I like trying to draw things I can’t draw. By R.P.

My name is G.S and my friends are J.F and A.B. I have a pet rabbit called Freya. I go to Brownies. I go horse riding .

Hello my name is C.W.
My favourite food is pizza.
My best friend is D.M.
My favourite colour is black.

My name is A.M and my best friends are L.J, C.J and J.J. My favourite food is Chinese and I love drawing outside school. My favourite sport is football and my favourite colour is black.

Hello my name is H.W I am a footballer . I play for walmley tigers and I am a left back. I train on a Saturday, Wednesday and a Friday and play on a Sunday. On a Thursday I hand out biscuits after school. Then I go to karate. My best mate is J.C in class 8. I like to play on my bike I normaly go round to J.C House or L.F.'s house.

My name is JJ
My best friend is: LJ
My favourite food is: cauliflower
My favourite t.v programme is: x factor
My favourite colour is: orange
My favourite sport is: football
My favourite fruit is: pineapple
My worst colour is: pink
My worst fruit is: kiwi
I am 9 years old

My name is L.J, I am 9. My best friends are A.M J.J . My favourite food is pizza and my favourite part at ullswater is the hill day because you made a den.

Hello my name is LH
My favourite colour is pale blue, I love dancing I go every Saturday and Thursday I have a baby brother called ben he is three and very very very annoying. My favourite food is chocolate my favourite drink is hot chocolate I adore chocolate. My least favourite food is , well I have 3 least favourite foods there marmite, mustard, and sprouts but I stay away from my mom every Sunday when we have Sunday lunch because she has sprouts covered in mustard yuck!!!!!

My name is C.C and I am 9 years old. My best friends are S.L and L.B.
My favourite food is Chinese and my favourite drink is Pepsi.
My pets are a snake, a cat and two dogs and my favourite
animal is a Cornsnake. My favourite subject is art and my favourite
sport is football.

My name is H.F and I love to breakdance. I have blond hair and blue eyes. I also enjoy karate. I am four belts away from black belt and my sensei is called Ricky Evans. He's on his 2nd dan.