5H
Welcome to Mr Hussain's class.
Our class – 5H – is full of children who are: funny, smart, nice, kind, caring, VERY unique, energetic, talented, creative, and very sporty! These qualities make us special, and they are why we love our class so much. We also take pride in the fact that our class, 5H, is very inclusive. We make sure nobody is ever left out, whether it is in the classroom or on the playground.
There are many things we love about our school. We love that our school is a number school. The maths we’re going to learn in year 5 seems challenging, yet interesting!
There are so many activities in year 5 we cannot wait for. We love how our school takes us on some fun trips and how there are so many activities we will get to take part in in year 5, as part of helping us learn more. For example, we’re all really excited about eventually getting to visit Leeds City Museum, as part of our class project on Ancient Greece.
We’re all really excited about swimming! Quite a few of us don’t yet know how to swim, so learning will be great fun. We love the fact that we get to learn how to play the cornet in year 5 – and take the instrument home to practise, too! We cannot wait to go on our residential trip to Buckden House, later in year 5. Both ghyll scrambling and caving sound terrifying and fun. We love our school for giving us these opportunities to learn new things.
Reflecting on Spring
What fun we’ve had this spring term! While reflecting on this time together as a class, we realised just how much we’ve learnt, and how far we’ve come, in such a short space of time. We’ve put together some of our favourite moments this term.
English
“I loved learning about mummification and writing our own set of instructions on how to do it because it was so interesting. For example, they removed organs and put them in canopic jars for the afterlife. It’s gross but so interesting!” Oliver, 5H
Posters on our working wall about ancient Egyptian burial services
An edited assessed writing piece on mummification
Guided reading
“I really liked reading Secrets of a Sun King because I liked reading between the lines and the lore of the story. My favourite part was when Lil snuck into Professor Hanawatti’s house and tried to find some research to find out what happened to some mysterious jars and about the curse of the Mummy.” Alex, 5H
Our ancient Egypt-inspired reading area
Louis and his incredible painting of the Boy King, inspired by our study of ancient Egypt and our class novel, Secrets of a Sun King, by Emma Carroll
PE
“I felt relieved knowing I’d made so much progress with swimming. I think we all showed courage during our survival skills test. I liked the last day when we got to have fun down the slide.” Amelie, 5H
“I loved all the invasion games we played. Netball was fun because it was nice and competitive, and I understood the rules easily because (I won one of the matches). I’m feeling excited about the netball competition coming up – I feel really prepared for it now!” Leo, 5H
We’re more than ready for the upcoming Netball Festival, this summer.
Project
“I liked testing friction in project, where we had cars and car ramps with different materials. Why? It was just fun!” Megan, 5H
“I loved learning about forces. I liked using the newton meters because I got to do it with my friends. I also liked using the parachute outside to test how it would go up or down. We were checking air resistance and the force of pull. We even used Newton meters, which we’d never done before” Annabel, 5H
Measuring force using a Newton meter
School trip
“I liked doing the treasure hunt for the artefacts and dressing up in dragon outfits when we were exploring the Asia floor.” Kaitlyn, 5H
“The animal section was my favourite – I never realised how big tigers were until I saw one! I found it interesting to see how snake skin was turned into a bag.” Ethan, 5H
“I liked looking at the Egyptian artefacts. I was interested in seeing the mummy, Nesyamum. I felt surprised to see his corpse. Checking the hip-hop floor was cool, especially seeing the artefacts from the early 2000s. I liked checking out the Subway cart and looking at the coolest Nike kicks – ET was cool too.” Louis, 5H
5H getting a bit carried away in the hip hop subway photo booth…
RE
“I liked the freeze frames we did about the story of Jesus and his crucifixion because it was fun how we got to pretend to be other people. It was fun to be dramatic. I feel like I understand the story of Jesus’ resurrection better now.” Macy, 5H
Freeze frame depicting the crucifixion