Mrs Simmons

We have worked very hard to make leaves from willow as part of art activities linked to Nature Week. You can see our designs on display at Farnworth Green on Saturday 14th March.

As part of our Geography topic, ‘Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Climate’, Y6 Green have been learning how to locate places (in this case, the world’s volcanoes) using six-figure grid reference, including Eastings and Northings. It was a bit tricky to begin with, but they soon got into the swing of it! Well done!

It’s been a lovely week in Year 5 this week. The Christmas tree is up, we had a fantastic time at the panto and are going to make some lovely decorations. In curriculum we have been learning about how we can separate salt and water by drawing some pictures and allowing the water to evaporate. We finished this week with a bonus lesson with Rees Sports who helped us improve our netball skills.

We have had a very busy week in Year 5. Monday saw the start of assessment week and we have worked really hard to show off our learning. On Tuesday we attended Harper Green for the morning, learning about careers. A cleaning company came to speak to us about all the job opportunities they provide. It was exciting to hear about all the amazing events they had worked at – cricket, Olympics, football, horse racing, concerts…the list was endless! We even got to see an Olympic torch from the 2012 games.

Today, after a two week break, the children returned to learning how to play chords on their ukuleles. Not only did they play a wide range of chords successfully, but they also once again started to compose their own, using a combination of different strings and frets. An excellent job 6 Green!

This week, 6 Green continued to learn how to play the Ukulele, practicing previous songs, requiring them to change strings and use frets. They then began to develop their own chords in order to create their own pieces of music. They have made so much progress and their own compositions were fantastic! Some even wrote lyrics too!

On Tuesday 14th October, Year 6 joined the rest of the school watching M and M Productions’ version of Peter Pen. It was a loud and engaging show, with Mr Simmons happy to see one of his favourite characters… Tick-Tock the Crocodile!

6 Green investigated how exercise affects their pulse rate (number of heart beats per minute). To do this, they worked incredibly hard at doing literally nothing, before measuring their resting pulse rate. They then ran on the spot as fast as they could for a minute, before measuring their pulse rate again. They then measured it a further twice, looking at their recovery rates.

Year 5 have been learning all about different types of settlement in the UK. We have been fact finding about Cartmel as a village, Bolton as a town and Norwich as a city. All very different but great places to live!