Year 5

DSAT Times Tables Rockstars Tournament

By Mr FrelichMaths, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Our children took part in a KS2 Times Tables Rock Stars Tournament in May.

— St. Alban’s CofE finished 1st out of 12 schools from DSAT.

— Out of 60 class taking part, our Y4s came 2nd overall.

— Out of 1035 children participating, three of our pupils made it into the top 10: Shivraj (2nd), Dominic B 7th and Mikey M 8th. Noah K placed 21st, Myles F 41st, Grayson K 46th and Isla C 50th.

The effort and commitment from our KS2 children is something we are incredibly proud of. As the results are based on average scores for each pupil, every child who took part contributed to our success.

The photos show the award ceremony where the top 10 MVPs (Most Valuable Players) received their awards and the DSAT trophy was presented. It now sits proudly on display in the school reception.

23/06/2025

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Year 5 Local History Walk

By Mrs.StaniforthHistory, 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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Where does our food come from?

By Mrs.StaniforthGeography, 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 Mrs.StaniforthArt, 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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Games Club

By Mr FrelichGames Club, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

08/02/2025

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Year 5 have a Norse Visitor

By Mrs.StaniforthHistory, 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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School Pantomime Trip

By Mr FrelichChristmas, Community, Drama, FS2, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Today was our annual trip to Rotherham Civic Theatre to watch this year’s pantomime: Robin Hood. The children were all fantastic and had a wonderful time.

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28/11/2024

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Year 5 Geography Fieldwork

By Mrs.StaniforthGeography, 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 Mrs.StaniforthScience, 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.