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Year 5L Spring Timetable 2

CSI- St. Joachim’s

As part of our ‘Mystery’ English topic and Humanities ‘Crime and Punishment’ topic, we decided to become crime scene investigators ourselves.
We used our skills of deduction and forensic science knowledge to hunt down the culprit of our crime scene. We covered many areas of forensic science such as DNA collecting and creating DNA models and searching for fingerprints. Once evidence had been collected it was time to investigate the samples under the microscope, which helped us to solve the case. For legal reason we cannot name the person who committed the crime, however they have been sentenced to a lifetime in the Pillory where the person found guilty will be held for all to see.

Year 5 CSI 2024 

Mission to Mars - 09.02.24

Year 5 had a fantastic trip to the Natural History Museum. We visited the Earth and beyond floors to find out more information about Space, looked at Volcanoes and went in an Earthquake simulator.
Even more exciting than that we attended a LEGO Mission to Mars workshop. We had to be real scientists and create a prototype Mars Rover, using our STEM skills we built and created features which we thought would be important and make our Rover's successful in its mission. Once built we programmed the Rover and input coding algorithms. It was a great day had by all.

Year 5 Mission to Mars 2024 

Year 5 visited a Charity Fair - 25.01.24

Year 5 visited a Charity Fair as part of our Citizenship Project. They got the chance to meet many different charities. Some that we are familiar with such as CAFOD, SVP- Minnie Vinnies and St. John Bosco camp. They also found out about new charities, Education for change is a charity that fights against racism within the education system and My Place who support homelessness. The children enquired about the charities ethos, their mission and ways in which we can support the charities. The children were inspired by the charities and are planning ways they would like to raise money and support these charities.

Y5L Charity Fair 2024

Citizenship Project – Week 1 -12.01.24

This week in year 5 we have been enjoying the first week of the Citizenship project. We have been discussing the different types of protected characteristics and how we can avoid discrimination against these as well as investigating the challenges that some people face. We have also focussed on the graffiti artist Banksy, and how he uses his artwork to use his voice for equality.

Year 5 Knife Crime Assembly Workshop

On Thursday year 5 took part in a knife crime awareness assembly. The children looked at how to reduce knife carrying amongst children and young people. The assembly emphasised the legal consequences, physical harm and emotional impacts that arise from violence involving knives. The year 5 children were also able to explore strategies on how to reduce their involvement in such actions by good decision making using Awareness, Thinking Ahead and De-Escalation.

 Y5 Knife Crime Awareness Workshop 2023

17.11.2023 - Building Bridges

This week in D&T we began building simple structures as part of our Building bridges topic. We used different art straws which we had to cut down to size to ensure that our structures would be reliable. The focus was to explore ways in which trusses can be used to strengthen bridges. A truss is an assembly of beams put together to create a structure. Here are some of our bridges.

Year 5 Q4 1