Year 5 – Oak & Maple
We are delighted to welcome you to our Y5 Team page. This space is a great way for us to share snapshots of your child’s learning journey in a way we hope will be both celebratory and informative. We’ll give you a taster of our curriculum and what we plan to cover – term by term. At Parkdale, we are also committed to Active Learning. Children are encouraged to be physically active as part of, and between, their learning sessions. Look out for letters, reminders and anything else we think will be useful by scrolling down to the Y5 Information and Documents tabs. Finally, and most importantly, enjoy the photos of your children learning, creating, achieving and having fun in Y5.
Teachers
Y5 Maple – Miss Van G
Y5 Oak – Mrs Carter
Our Class Ambassadors
Year 5 Notices
KS2 Christmas Performance
Please click on the link below to find out about Key Stage Two's Christmas Performance on Thursday 19th December. Letter to Parents 2024
Weather Next Week
For a while, the forecast for next week suggested that there might be significant snow on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. This would now seem to have changed to cold with a chance of rain and some sleet. If and when we do get snow over the coming Winter, we tend to...
Missed Photos
We realise that quite a few children were off poorly on Wednesday (13th),so missed having their photos taken. We will make sure that there is an opportunity to have a 'catch up' individual or sibling group photo taken when the photographers come back in June for class...
Forest School Fun in Year 5
This week, children in Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed their Forest School session - they learned how to use a ‘fire steel’ and worked in small groups to produce a small fire using twigs, cotton wool…and lots of perseverance! Children also created some fantastic ‘firework’...
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Y5 Photo Gallery
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Giraffe sculpture
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Den building in progress
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Den building in progress
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Rangoli Art
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Rangoli Art
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Rangoli Art
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Rangoli Art
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Cheerleading awards
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Forest School – fire pit
Nature Art
Nature Art
Exploring Forces
Exploring Forces
Slave Trade Workshop
Slave Trade Workshop
National Online Safety – Avatar creation
National Online Safety – Avatar creation
Collaboration Challenges
Collaboration Challenges
Textiles – pencil cases
Reading
Reception and Year 5 enjoying a book in the sunshine
Sewing
Sewing our pencil cases
DT – Textiles
Creating a pencil case
World Mental Health Day
World Mental Health Day
Healthy Tart – DT Project
Healthy Tart – DT Project
Salvation Army visit
Salvation Army visit
Music Celebration
Music Celebration
75th Anniversary of the Empire Windrush
75th Anniversary of the Empire Windrush
Women in technology
Women in Technology at JIGSAW24
Tennis Skills
Building our tennis skills
Geography
Locating countries using latitude and longitude.
geography
Using latitude and longitude to locate countries
Women in technology
Women in technology project
Collaborative play
Collaborative play
Art
We zoomed in to zoom out
art
Sketching skills
Art
Sketching skills using sketching pencils
table tennis
Table tennis skills
table tennis
Table tennis
Still life
Still life artwork
artwork
Still life artwork
DT outcomes
Such pride with their DT outcomes
Our finished frames
Our finished frames
DT project
Learning to saw and mitre
Y5 ukulele lessons
5 Maple enjoying their Ukulele lessons
Y5 Coding day 2022
Y5 Coding Day 2022
NOS Y5
Copy, modify, alter – National Online Safety
Drumming
Y5 practising their drumming skills in their workshops
Jacob Lawrence Art
Jacob Lawrence collaborative art
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Our personal identity work, which includes our sunflowers with adjectives, similes and metaphors to describe us!
Cauliflower Christmas Art
Excellent blending skills to create baubles for our cauliflower cards
Maths retrieval
Great discussion and exploration taking place in our maths retrieval.
Working memory
We played a maths game to help improve our working memory.
Reading for pleasure
During our reading for pleasure time, we have been reading our current books to each other and having great discussions about them.
Collaboration
Fantastic collaboration taking place in Maple.
Syria and UK comparisons
Syria and UK comparisons
Making memories
Making memories
Ravenstor 3.5.22-5.5.22
Ravenstor 3.5.22-5.5.22
Team building race
Team building race
Team building
Team building
Agents in training
Agents in training
We’re nearly there
We’re nearly there
The sky is the limit
The sky is the limit
Teamwork
Teamwork
Team building exercise
Team building exercise
working together
Working together
Agents training
Agents training
LEADERSHIP
Leadership
Teams 1,2 & 3
Teams 1, 2 & 3
We’re going on an adventure
We’re going on an adventure
A short walk
A short walk
Smiles all round
Smiles all round
Climbing the tunnel
Climbing the tunnel
Team 2 ‘I think it’s me – Spy Ninjas’
Team 2 ‘I think it’s me – Spy Ninjas’
follow the leader
Follow the leader
Mission impossible
Mission impossible
Agent Ghost Rider
Agent Ghost Rider
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Agents on a mission
Agents on a mission
Is it a bird?
Is it a bird?
Agent Peely
Agent Peely
Agent Little
Agent Little
Chee Tor Tunnels
Chee Tor Tunnels
Climbing Chee Tor Tunnel
Climbing Chee Tor Tunnel
stepping stones
Stepping stones
A walk by the river
A walk by the river
Crossing the river
Crossing the river
Quick picture
Quick picture
Rocky terrain
Rocky terrain
Bushcraft
Bushcraft
Chopping kindle
Chopping kindle
Fire lighting
Fire lighting
Watch your step
Watch your step
Caving
Caving
Agent Universe
Agent Universe
Mind your head
Mind your head
SMILE
SMILE
Team 3
Team 3
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Good work assembly
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Cricket festival
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Two for one
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Mission complete
astronaut
Big smiles all round
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I’m an astronaut!
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Astronaut
Space Centre
Astronauts assemble
Space Centre
The wonders of space
Comic Relief/Holi celebrations
Comic Relief/Holi celebrations
The Planet trip
The Planet trip
World Book Day 2022
World Book Day 2022
Rufford basketball winners
Rufford basketball winners
A win for Clumber
A win for Clumber
Basketball
Great teamwork in basketball.
Coding day
Fantastic collaboration in Y5 with coding.
Reading for pleasure
We have been thoroughly enjoying our class book for this term- The Last Wild by Piers Torday
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DT Photo Frames
We have loved using DT and Digital skills to create our photo frames.
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Our finished art work inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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DT woodwork skills in full flow
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!st Merit Card complete – congratulations
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Adding transitions to our Keynotes
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Thank you Digital Leaders for explaining
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Reading Treat after our assessments
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Yoga and breathing wellbeing session
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Loving our class book for Autumn 2
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Reading Champions & Star Writers
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Never too old for a story sack
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Fairytales, true stories, thrillers and lots more!
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Y5 ‘Short Story‘ sacks
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Making our story sacks
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Historical enquiry on the Empire Windrush
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We definitely needed a magnifying glass
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Looking at passenger lists
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Lucky to have a first glimpse into the new book
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George’s author Grandma comes to visit to share her new book
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Learning about Migration through Art
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Enjoying the Rhythm And Poetry of Karl Nova
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Parkdale (serves 438) By Y5
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Our sketch book responses to the paintings
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Exploring our anxieties
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Our city scapes
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Exploring shape in Art
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Urban life – Jacob Lawrence style
Finding out about inspirational authors
Expanding our author choices
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Showcasing our Topic Writing
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We’ve learnt about the inspirational Olaudah Equiano
Tennis retrieval of the Triangular Slave Trade facts
Retrieval of slave trade facts
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Proud of our Identity Display
Personal responses to our class text
Reflecting on culture and equality in Windrush Child
Digital Maths
Making Maths more visual
Proud of our published diaries
Proud of our publications
Dabbling of our diary-writing skills
Dabbling with diary-writing skills
Diversity poetry in action
Class poetry in action
Class read-aloud of Windrush Child
Leading Windrush Child recital
Animated digital maps to show the Triangular Slave Trade
Animated map of the Triangular Slave Trade
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Human rights – related work in Y5
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Beautiful messages
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Reading cafe
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Book presents!
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Introducing Y5!
Values tree
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More inspirational writing
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Fantastic work based on the text Shine
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Escaping into a book!
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Inspirational author Benjamin Zephaniah
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Launching our Y5 Identity & Diversity text
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Which one will you read?
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Inspirational author Benjamin Zephaniah
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Mathematical investigations on our iPads
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Y5 Rules & Rewards
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Avatar Identities
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Our creative Identities
Book Shelf
Class Documents & Resources
Class Information
Y5 Homework
PE Days
Our PE days are Wednesdays and Thursdays. Please come in your PE kit for the day & remove any earrings and watches.
Our school Rules
Our School Rules
- Listen to and follow instructions
- Be polite and care about other people
- Always keep hands and feet to yourself and play nicely
- Look after the school and its environment
- Look after your property and have respect for other people’s belongings
- Do not tease, bully or upset anyone
- Speak respectfully to others and do not swear
Useful Links
Spelling Shed
Click HERE to go to Spelling Shed
TT Rockstars
Click HERE for TT Rockstars
Showbie
Showbie
Read Theory
Read Theory
Y5 Reading List
