Imitate WW1 Explanation text

At Selby Abbey Primary School we are using a new method of learning in Literacy. 

It is called Talk for Writing. There is more information about it available on:

www.talk4writing.com click the link to read all about it.

As our new topic is WW1, we have been learning to re tell an Explanation Text about surviving WW1 as a soldier, by using actions. This is called imitation.

Here is part of a video of us, re telling the full explanation text by heart. (It was 7 minutes long, so too big to upload!)

Miss Palfreeman has been very impressed with how hard we have worked!

Community in Year 5

Today our Church Ambassadors, Josh, Daniel and Joe, lead our collective worship all about community. 

We began by passing the peace around the circle, we then discussed what community means to us and what communities we belong to.

We listened to a story from the bible about Jesus feeding the five thousand. 

Passing the peace around

Here we listened to the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand. We then discussed what the story told us. Our responses included; not being selfish, thinking of others, not keeping everything to ourselves and being part of a community. 

We then had a prayer to close

Community

This half term we are looking at our next Christian value of community.

We began looking at this by discussing what community meant to us. We came up with lots of key words and noticed that they were linked to our other Christian values. With this in mind, we discussed how they all work hand in hand together. 

Next we looked at what communities we belong to. Our list got rather long! They included:

Selby Abbey School, Year 5, Family, brownies, Cubs, friends, swimming club, karate club, gymnastics, netball and football club. 

We looked at how welcome we felt in all of these and how together we looked after one another. 

This week we have been focusing on remembrance day and respecting the fallen soldiers from different wars. We thought about how as a community we all come together to pay our respects and how they fought for our country. 

We recreated Van Gogh's "Field of Poppies" , read In Flanders Fields by John McCrae and looked at the significance of Poppies.

Here are some examples of our art work:

Friendship

Last half term we looked at friendship as our Christian value. 

This included creating a potion of how to be a good friend, accepting friends make mistakes and learning how to forgive one another, welcoming new friends and many more elements of friendship. 

We heard biblical stories including Jesus and the paralysed man. We discussed what good friends this paralysed man had as they carried him to Jesus so that he could be cured.

We also looked at not being an honest friend and how if we tell lies we can get in to a bit of a mess!

Below is a picture of our class. We listened to a story and each time a lie was told we passed a ball of string around. What a mess we ended up in! We realised that telling lies may be easy but un doing them and telling the truth can be tricky. 

During collective worship we also looked at sharing between friends. We heard a story about a wonderful, bright coloured fish and how when it didn't share it had a sad, lonely life. However once the fish shared with the other fish it had a much happier life. We looked at applying to this our everyday lives, at school and at home. 

Dissolving!

Yesterday during Science year 5 investigated what materials were soluble and which were insoluble. 

We looked at what we knew about dissolving and discussed how when solids dissolve they don't just disappear! Instead the mix together with a liquid to create a solution. 

We also learnt that if a solid is soluble it means it will dissolve, where as insoluble means it won't dissolve.

Here are some people pictures of us using our numeracy skills for measuring out water to see if solids would dissolve in it. 

We found out solids such as sand, pasta and rice don't dissolve in water. Therefore these are insoluble. Other materials we tested such as salt and bicarbonate soda did dissolve and therefore are soluble. 

What other solids do you think are soluble or insoluble?