Category: Year 5

This term, a number of Year 5’s have been busy making a podcast about Climate Change in their Thursday media club with Miss Joyce. The children interviewed a local Surrey councillor and a Surrey Wildlife Trust representative and they’ve done a fantastic and very professional job! We hope you enjoy it! The Climate Crew Podcast,…

Year 5 have immersed themselves in their history topic this term and have produced some delightful presentations on different Victorian inventions.  The thought about which invention has had the most impact on our world today. The light bulb was the winning invention.

Pupils have loved attending their clubs this week. Creative club have been making these delightful snowmen inspired of course by the festive season. They look beautiful! Elsewhere in origami it’s been raining cats and dogs, very impressive!

Throughout school the focus in P.E. this term has been dance and exploring different styles.  A special guest joined Year 6 and Year 5 for PE this week, as Ms Lawrence lent her Morris Dancing skills to the lessons. The children really enjoyed it, with a Year 5 child claiming it to be her highlight…

Year Five attended an online workshop with the National Archive on Monday.  They learnt about the importance of the National Archive storing lots and lots of interesting sources of evidence of the past.  The children explored the question ‘How much can documents reveal about the lives of Black people in Victorian Britain?’  The children used…

Year 5 are studying Mime this half term. Mime is the art of portraying a character, mood, idea, or narration by gestures and bodily movements. They have studied the work of Marcel Marceau and Charlie Chaplin as well as the more recent work of Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. The children have been learning the…

Years 4-6 also enjoyed a cinema trip this week. They watched ‘Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds’. The children had a wonderful time together – with the whole cinema to themselves and had a fantastic experience!

Year 5 had a fantastic afternoon of LEAF this week. The children built dens using nothing but tarpaulin and rope, demonstrating their great knot trying skills, they whittled sticks using knives and peelers before finally starting their own campfires using flint and steel. An awesome afternoon!

Our Year 5 & 6 boys played away this week at Greenfield school. They all played really well and did Lyndhurst proud with their sporting spirit and effort. Although not a winning day on this occasion they all really enjoyed the match. Well done boys!

Here are some of the Year 5 children in front of their new Music room display about the 80’s decade. They enjoyed spending time discovering some of the artists and learning about the different genres that made up the very impressive time in music!