Crook Primary School
Crook Primary School
We have been very busy this half term with our topic learning in Year 5! Last Wednesday, we enjoyed a trip to Raby Castle, where we visited the castle, gardens and maze in the sunshine. We found it fascinating to learn about what all of the different rooms in Raby Castle are used for, and even had a go at demonstrating how some of the items in the rooms worked.
Of course, we had to get a class photo too!
We then had some visitors last Friday to talk to use about their careers, including social workers, video producers, a play worker and the managing director of the charity Women In Need. The children asked mature and insightful questions, and gained lots of knowledge about jobs they had not heard of previously. We particularly enjoyed the practical elements of Mr Penfould showing us the equipment he uses in his heating and renewables business.
Finally, this week we have become rap stars and performed our own version of Will Smith's 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'. We have really enjoyed this week of hip-hop music, as we have also appraised songs by MC Hammer and The Fugees.
In our new History unit, our historical enquiry question is 'What is the significance of castles in North East England?'. We have enjoyed learning about three local castles to us (Auckland, Durham and Raby) as well as sharing our experiences of visiting some of these castles with our families. We were surprised to learn that people can still live within Durham castle today if they are students of Durham University!
On Thursday 6th March, we celebrated World Book Day within school with a variety of book-themed activities, including designing a potato and paper plate book character, Harry Potter themed riddle solving and taking part in a live lesson with Michael Rosen, who told us more about the story behind a poem we love, Chocolate Cake.
We had a range of great costumes, from books by JK Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson and Jeff Kinney, as well as some bookish themed pjs!
This week, Year 5 have been busying with our DT unit, which was to design and make a healthy seasonal soup suitable for schoolchildren. We used our skills of claw holds, bridge holds, peeling and grating to prepare the vegetables for our soups.
After that, we combined our ingredients and adding seasonings and dissolved stock cubes to make our soups. Then, it was time to let them simmer before taste testing....... and most of us loved how our soup tasted, with many children commenting that they would love to make their soup again at home!
Here we are looking very proud of our work, and rightly so!
We hope you all have a lovely half term break before returning to school on Monday 3rd March.
In English, we have recently started Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. To begin with, we researched J.K.Rowling (the author) and wrote out our initial thoughts about the Harry Potter series.
We have read the first few chapters and have answered questions based on what we have read, as well as delving into some of the main characters. We all agree that we like the character 'Hagrid' as he says things as they are!
We have a number of long writes planned based on this book using our year 5 skills. Keep an eye out for these!
Take a look at some of Year 5's fabulous watercolour travel posters! Can you see any places you would like to travel to?
Mrs Marsh
Miss Thompson
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