Year 5 Kestrels enjoyed building a Lego lion and then programmed it to sit up and sleep using Scratch. The children recorded their own sounds (roaring and snoaring).
Here are some examples of children’s work.
Year 5 Kestrels presented their written weather reports using the green screen.
The scripts were written with Mrs Croft in a previous English lesson.
During Computing with Mr Baddhan, Year 5 Kestrels programmed a maths cat to calculate addition, multiplication and other maths formulas.
Kestrels showed some fantastic programming understanding of variables in Scratch.
Here are some examples of the children’s work:
Llukan
Sneha
Miranda
Year 5 have been looking into how everyone around them can be different in lots of ways, yet they are all equal. They have been introduced to Dot and her family and friends, and have learnt how they all support each other in a variety of ways.
During today’s Computing with Mr Baddhan, Kestrels have been learning about Microsoft Excel and how it can do alot of Maths work for you.
The children worked through some historical weather data and added it into Excel. The date they were focusing on was the average rainfall for a specific year. They then were shown how to get the average, sum and create a bar chart.
During Computing today, Year 5 Kestrels learned about emails and how they work. They learned that an email always has the ‘@'(at) symbol.
Every email address looks like this:
Kestrels then discussed the following points:
– Why do people use emails?
– Which are the advantages of using emails?
– Are there any disadvantages?
– Do you have an email account at home?
The class then discussed the risks of having email. They all agreeed that keeping passwords safe was important to ensure that no one can check your emails. And they added that hacking was another big risk in having your email.
The children then were given their own email address, which they will keep until they leave school. They will be able to use and explore email. Kestrels were so excited having their own emails and looked at the various types of folders Inbox, Drafts and Sent Items.
Children can access their emails from school and outside of school. The accounts are restricted so they cannot receive email from outside of school. And they are not able to send emails outside of the school domain. All emails are monitored.
Today, year 5 have watched the story of The Good Samaritan and designed their own parables. They have shown their excellent understanding of why it’s important for people to behave well and were able to offer messages of advice to their readers.
Year 5 are busy writing recounts. They are using Little Red Riding Hood as their text and are going to re-write it from another characters point of view.
Today they acted as newspaper reporters and interviewed Red Riding Hood herself… the findings we’re very interesting.
Kestrels continued with their understanding of variables in Scratch with Mr Baddhan today.
Today they were shown how to get their sprites to count in Roman Numerals. The children were asked to work out an algorithm to get two of their sprites to count upto ten, one sprite in English counting and the other sprite in Roman Numerals.
The Kestrels were asked to use the variable blocks, repeat and if, else functions in today’s task.
Here are some examples of completed work:
Sneha
Miah
Ewan
Year 5 have had a fabulous afternoon testing which solvents are most effective at removing nail polish. They tested a range of chemicals such as hydrochloric acid and ethanol. They had to be very sensible and use the correct equipment carefully. Working together, they recorded their results in a table and discussed their findings. It was interesting to see whether their findings supported their predictions.
