5C definitely had a reason to celebrate this morning, these girls have both achieved their Open, Grow, Believe badges! We are very proud of them, they only started at Brooklands in September and have settled into our school brilliantly! They have opened their hearts, grown in their relationships and believed in themselves and others. Well done girls!
As year 5 arrived at school this morning they were transported back to the year 1665. Boys and girls were separated into different classrooms, with the teachers being very strict, much like in a Stuart era school. The morning started with the boys and girls learning, in silence, an extract from Shakespeare’s Macbeth which they then had to recite to the class.
Year 5 have had a fantastic day exploring Christianity through lots of different activities. We have learnt about the Bible and how Christians use it to teach them about God and the world, the 10 Commandments and about influential Christians like Desmond Tutu and William Wilberforce.
We did lots of fun activities including research on the iPads, lots of discussion, drama, making comic strips and presenting our learning!
As the Volkswagen deadline draws nearer (Wednesday 12th November!) year 5 have been working extremely hard to ensure their final product is of the highest quality, ready to be shown in Volkswagen headquarters this week!
Today, we identified Volkswagen factories around the world. Andrew, a manager from the Volkswagen group, came in to explain how Volkswagen decide where to produce their vehicles and parts. We looked at the graphs which showed us how expensive it was to build in each country, how many cars are sold in each country and also the quality of living in each country. All of this information will help us to decide where we would like to build our car!
5C are growing so much and taking huge leaps on their learning journey in French!
Last half term they enjoyed learning the french words for different foods, and could even explain how to make a pancake in french! They also learnt phrases such as ‘I am hungry’, ‘I like…’ , ‘I don’t like…’ and ‘I am thirsty…’!
This half term they have moved onto learning about the seasons and the months of the year. Here are some photos of them working in groups to sort which months are in which season- all in french!
As part of our Volkswagen project, year 5 are going to write a letter to Volkswagen to persuade them to rebrand the 1960’s Beetle. To prepare us for writing this letter, 5c have started their talk for writing sequence with the imitate phase.
We talked the text using our story map and actions. We practised in small groups and then performed to the rest of the class. We set each other next steps so we could grow in our learning.
It has been an amazing week in year 5, the children have been buzzing about Volkswagen week.
Yesterday, we worked in groups to research and create a timeline for the Volkswagen Beetle. We then presented our timelines to Andrew, who is a Manager at Volkswagen! He even told us some more information about the Beetle which we didn’t know already. Here are some pictures of us sharing our learning with him:
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What an exciting start to our Volkswagen project. Yesterday we had the privilege of becoming part of the Volkswagen group as the company set each year group a project question to answer!
In year 5 our project is:
How can we rebrand the Volkswagen Beetle to make it popular in 2014?
To ignite our project we have had several exciting activities going on. First of all, the playground became a car park when Volkswagen kindly bought along some of their cars and vans for us to look at! This included an electric Golf, Audi’s, VW Scirocco, campervans and most excitingly a 1970’s VW Beetle! We enjoyed climbing over the cars, playing the stereos really loud and beeping the horns! The most popular car was definitely the campervan which even had a bed in it!
Today the excitement continued as Year 5 were visited by an experienced member of the Volkswagen team. We looked at the history of Volkswagen and the history of the Beetle, we asked our expert lots of interesting questions to grow our learning and understanding of the Beetle, how and why it began being produced and why it was such a popular car. The knowledge and expertise we have gathered today will be extremely useful as we plan our re-branding of the beetle.
And finally, we also got the opportunity to explore breakdown vehicles as we were visited by the AA and VW roadside assistance! We spoke to the engineers about the calls they respond to and how they fix some of the cars.
We will now be working hard on our project so we are ready to share our findings and ideas with Volkswagen in November. We look forward to sharing our projects with you too!
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Thank you to all the parents, children and staff that came to the cross country on Saturday morning. The children’s attitudes were amazing and they all made everybody very proud.
For the end of our talk for writing sequence, based on the book The Snow Leopard, 5c have been writing their own short stories.
Their success criteria included:
Everyone made excellent starts on their writing. They magpied some of the vocabulary from the Snow Leopard to use in their own writing.
We would like to share some of the amazing writing with you:
Anya:
Billy:
Emily:
