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Year 5 Local History Walk

By History, Year 5

The settlement of Wickersley is thought to have begun in Roman times.  A clearing was made in the woods on a prominent hill, about 6 miles to the southeast of the fort at Templeborough.

In 870, the Danes invaded this part of Yorkshire.

They may have given this clearing its name of  ‘ Vikar’s Ley’.

‘Vikar’ is an old Norse word for a steward and ‘Ley ‘ is a Saxon word meaning clearing.

So, Wickersley is named after a person or a steward and is a clearing in a wood.

As we continued our walk, we looked at the erosion of the sandstone walls.

We thought about how the toll booth would have been used to collect money as people travelled along the road into Wickersley.

We also looked at the war memorial.

15/06/2025
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Animal Classification

By Science, Year 4

Y4 have been looking at classification and how animals can be sorted into different groups such as fur and no fur or cold blooded and warm blooded.

Here they sorted their favourite cuddly toys into different groups.

 

 

 

07/05/2025
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Where does our food come from?

By Geography, Year 5

Trade is the buying and selling of goods and services we want and need.

When we think about trade as geographers, we consider the scale of trade and think about how trade links places and people.

Everything we want and need cannot be sourced within the national borders of the United Kingdom. We therefore import items such as food products from other countries. We import some goods into our country for sale and we export other goods which means we send goods to other countries for sale.

The physical geography of the UK prevents us from growing certain foods here.

This week in geography, we have been looking at the packaging of different food to see where it was produced. We discussed the country of origin and the continent, using an atlas to make sure we located different countries correctly.

01/03/2025
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Abstract Art in Year 5

By Art, Year 5

In Art, Year 5 have been learning about the abstract painting of Wassily Kandinsky. He was believed to have synaesthesia which means that when he heard music he saw colours.

We have been learning to mix powder paint with the texture of creamy yoghurt. We listened to different styles of music to see how it inspired our paintings.

Next week, we will be studying his paintings and trying out different painting techniques.

01/03/2025
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Learning about Length in Reception

By FS2, Maths

This week, Reception have been learning about length in maths. They have read Superworm and used the specific vocabulary of ‘longer than’ and ‘shorter than’ to describe objects.

The yellow superworm is shorter than the pink superworm.

All the children enjoyed the different activities to practice their new learning.

25/02/2025
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Year 5 have a Norse Visitor

By History, Year 5

Today, Year 5 were lucky enough to have a Norse visitor who shared his knowledge of the Anglo Saxons and the Vikings who raided, traded and settled in Britain from AD 786.

We thought about the role of archaeology and studied artefacts. We looked at them closely and tried to decide what they were made of and how they would have been used.

We tried on clothes and helmets and held swords.

We looked at runes and used them to make a leather key ring.

 

23/01/2025
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Year 5 Geography Fieldwork

By Geography, Maths, Year 5

Fieldwork is when you go outside the classroom and find things out for yourself.

Today, Year 5 started our geography fieldwork by trying to answer the question- How busy is Morthen Road?

We counted the different vehicles and made a tally chart to collect our results. Everyone took part in the time sampling. We will create a line graph to show the information we have collected.

 

03/10/2024
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Year 5 Science – Biology

By Science, Year 5

In Year 5, we have started our science work by looking back at what we already know about plants. We have looked at the plants in our local environment and the fruit and seeds they have produced.

Dispersal is the spreading of things over a wide area. Dispersal of seeds is very important for the survival of plant species. If plants grow too closely together, they have to compete for light, water and nutrients from the soil. Seed dispersal allows plants to spread out from a wide area and avoid competing with one another for the same resources.

We then created paper seeds and observed how they moved.

This will link with our work on forces.

15/09/2024
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