Y5 Veolia adverts

Year 5 worked really hard together to produce these fabulous adverts for a competition.  They thought carefully about a punchy advert to persuade people to recycle more and to market Veolia Environmental Services, a large recycling company in the UK.  The winners get to record their advert for a real radio broadcast.

listen to ‘Veolia advert BS,MH,MP’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Veolia advert JB,AD,HL,HS’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Veolia advert LB,AM,JW’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Veolia advert MM,MR,AA’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Veolia advert - Lauren & Naomi’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Veolia adverts PE,JC,LF’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Veolia adverts SH,LH,BR’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Veolia adverts VF,EG,HT’ on Audioboo

The Deep end of project animations in Y5

Although we had lots of fun, we also learnt how to animate, export, import, add music and sound effects as well as voice over and titles.  Enjoy watching them!

Year 5 Christmas programming

Y5 have used tutorials in their independent computer time to learn how to program.  They have created complex programming sequences like this loop sequence:

Year 5: please add a comment to help people use your Scratch applets - let them know if they need to use certain keys to activate actions.
Enjoy their success:

Josh W:

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Sorry - no name on this one but it's another hard working person in Year 5 who has worked out how to get a character to spin!

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Year 5 Christmas programming

Mia & Ben

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 Lauren & Lewis have got their Scratch Santa & festive horse to draw as you guide them round with the mouse...

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 Lucky gravity doesn't seem to affect Violet, Hannah & LiamF's:

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Year 5 Christmas programming

Use your arrow keys to enjoy Josh's programming skills Learn more about this project

Mohammad's: Learn more about this project and Milla's Learn more about this project

Mia's magnificent maths

Enjoy and learn from Mia 2 ways you can use to subtract numbers.  Superb clear explanation.  Well done!

The Deep

A bit blurry I'm afraid as we weren't allowed to use the flash as it would scare the animals.

Y5 dive team

Our virtual explorers share more of their experiences.  Enjoy their delightful expression!  Listen to Glenaire Radio for more snippets from our great speakers.

listen to ‘Violet - blood curdling scream!’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Paige - great expression!’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘JoshC SHARK!’ on Audioboo

Exceptionally good speaking and listening

Click on the play buttons to hear this week's commentators as part of our Endless Ocean carousel in Year 5.  Some of the children really tried to use their writing targets as they were speaking.  Not an easy task... well done!

listen to ‘Mia the world famous diver’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Mia the marine biologist’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Mia explaining how colours underwater are so beautiful’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Mia the conservationist’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Mia's detailed dive commentary’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘LiamF rescuing an injured fish’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Famous diver LiamF expertly interviewed by JoshH’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘LiamF's near miss’ on Audioboo

Clever commentaries from Year 5

Hear more of our fabulous commentaries from Bailey, Lewis & Hannah.

listen to ‘Endless Ocean Y5’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Endless Ocean Y5 2’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Endless Ocean Y5 3’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Endless Ocean Y5 4’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Endless Ocean Y5 5’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Endless Ocean Y5 6’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Endless Ocean Y5 7’ on Audioboo

A winning team!

Here are the 4 children from Year 5 who attended the Oscars and won their category in the Film & Animation Competition in July.

Dramatic commentaries from Year 5

In Year 5, we've been playing working on Endless Ocean on the Wii.  We're currently running a carousel of activities.  These children were working on their own to record commentaries of the dives they were watching other people do.  Listen to their creativity and expression.  Fabulous!

There's more from them on Glenaire Radio...  Check it out!

listen to ‘Alveena fish commentary’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Harrison About to dive’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘HarrisonS at a meeting’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘HarrisonS Seen a hammerhead’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Subhan Good day today’ on Audioboo

Homework sentences from Matt

Can you work out what Matt's spelling pattern was last week? Great use of your new targets to up-level your work Matt!

Calf
The calves were playing tig.

Half
I played one of the two halves in my match.

Hoof
After the War Horse lost its hooves, it ran quite slowly.

Leaf
When Autumn comes around, all the leaves become pyramids on the ground.

Scarf
If it's four degrees, my grandma puts on three thick scarves.

Shelf
My dad tells rubbish jokes like "Ahh the shelves fell on me today. That’s why I’ve got a tire mark on my head”.

Wolf
When Wolves hunt, you best be beware.

Knife
While the dishwasher was on, all the knives were clattering.

Wife
King Henry VIII had 6 wives.

Mia's artwork homework

Enjoy disappearing into Mia's whirling dream-inspired artwork.

Great work Mia. ClassDojo added!

Superb speaking skills in Y5

We have been involved in different learning linked to Endless Ocean today.  Here's Naomi's and Milla's commentary linked to the underwater scenes we were diving.

This is followed by a fact we picked up today.  After feeling the weight of 1kg, we realised this was a sizeable fish!

And the grand finale is Adam who has made minutes of fabulous recordings about his underwater adventures (which did get a bit scary and gruesome!).  This is a safe one to listen to :-)  Listen out for his tremendous expression!

listen to ‘Naomi's Endless Ocean commentary’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Milla's Endless Ocean commentary’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Ben's fishy fact’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Adam's action commentary!’ on Audioboo

Paige in Y5's brilliant Blockbuster homework challenge

this is my design of a island the coloured bits are the different cities, although they look big they are tiny.


My island is on the coast of a unknown bit of the world. I chose this bit of the world because i thought that the only person who lived there could have some peace. The unknown place is on the edge of Barbados where dingo where transported from Australia to my island. Don’t tell anyone where it is sssssssssssshhhhhh.

Mrs Cole added: I'd sit on the tip of the grey peninsula... Where would you sit?

Fabulous recount letter from Alveena

iPad Junior Jam in Y5

What a fun morning of music production on the iPads.  We learnt about bars and rhythm and repeating sounds as part of our Junior Jam session.

Olympic posters - our thoughts

We enjoyed pretending we were the posters and analysing what we thought about the artists who created them.  We used the iPod app Morfo and some of us used iMovie to piece snippets together.

Making a tree lie!

These photos link to the videos further down of the talking trees.  Here's all the fun we had preparing our tree characters and stories.

Megan's dream

What do you think went on in Megan's dream? Take a look... (Click the link left)

Then listen to Megan's music creation - I think it would go perfectly as background music to the dream!  What do you think? (You have to wait about 30 seconds for it to start to play)

Flame followers

We were very pleased so many children got to see the flame last weekend.  Here's a few family shots from Y5 children who were able to go.

Outdoors + literacy + clay + QR Codes + iPods = FUN

This unusual (& perhaps a little scary!) combination of activities left us feeling like we'd had a great day of fun and learning.

 Half of Y5 & half of Y6 joined together for the day.

We began by creating a tree character and then wrote a lie about something that had happened to it. This lie grew and grew until we had fabulous fictional stories. Once the drafts had begun, we went on QR Code Treasure Hunts which revealed new sentence openers which we were challenged to incorporate into our stories. We then recorded our stories using the Morfo app which enabled our trees to come to life.

 We did well! Check out what we've achieved!




 

The Oscar winners!

What a fabulous afternoon we had at The Oscars ceremony in Bradford today.  Well done to the Year 5 team that got through to the finals and won their category.  You worked hard independently to achieve these results.  Fantastic!

Everyone can create music!

Have a listen to Lauren's Blockbuster Homework composition. Well done Lauren... love it!

Going for Gold animation

Yesterday, James Betts offered to return to Glenaire to help us with another iPod animation session using I Can Animate for a new Y5/6 carousel group.  We weren't going to say no and what a fabulous afternoon of great Olympic and Paralympic values in operation.  Just have a look at the results...

(Did we enjoy it?  Just a bit!)

Y5s reflecting on what they've learnt today.

Y5 refreshed their memories on square numbers today and then investigated whether any whole number can be made from no more than 4 square numbers.  Everyone showed amazing resilience, worked as a great team and cracked on with the task at hand.  Spot Joshua's discovery too which he noticed during the lesson.  Mrs Bavinton may well still be working on this at home :-)

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WOW! Our Y5 animation entry

CaitlinM, Katy and some of their friends have worked very hard indeed in their own times (and on their own) to produce this magnificent animation which we are entering into The Bradford Film & Animation Competition.  Fingers crossed we make it to the finals!

Good Luck!

Going for Gold Carousel

Our Y5/6 carousel launched today in great style.

 A little while ago, Year 5 persuaded Mr Betts, the MD from Kudlian Software no less, to assist them with an afternoon of animation.

We had great fun with teams of children producing animations linked to Olympic events. The class used the Olympic & Paralympic values to work brillantly together.

What a fabulous afternoon we all had and a HUGE thank you to Mr Betts for joining us.

How many events can you spot?

Our NEW Ancient Olympics knowledge

Zondle Zuperstar!

Well done to Blake in Y5 for completing the Zondle Phonics mission: Colin the Chicken!

XtraMath Fastest Improver

Well done LaurenM! You're Glenaire's fastest improver on XtraMath - just look at your score and your upward trending graph! This is all down to hard work on our Games Based Learning sites both in school and at home.

FAB-U-LOUS!

Our cricket champs

Y4 and Y5 played well at the local cricket tournament...

Mmmmmmm.... Measuring in Maths!

Lots of requests this week for our refrigerator cake which we made as part of our work on measures.   

So here's the recipe... Remember if you make some at home to bring some in for us too - it'll stop you feeling so sick :-)

Refrigerator Cake in 2 batches

Refrigerator cake is a famous favourite of school fêtes and family occasions. It doesn’t really resemble a cake – this stir-and-set concoction is more like a chewy, homemade chocolate bar. Rocky Road is the American term for the same cake, and the classic recipe for Rocky Road is given below.

2 lots of this mixture Makes Enough To Fill A 30x20cm Tin.

You Need:

• Cling film
• 30x20cm tin
• Large plastic sandwich bag
• Rolling pin
  
  
• 2tbsp golden syrup
• 100g plain chocolate
• 75g milk chocolate
• 75g unsalted butter
• 85g plain, digestive biscuits
• 75g raisins
• 75g sultanas

Method

1.      Line your tray with clingfilm and put it aside.

2.      Weigh out the biscuits

3.      Put them into a large plastic sandwich bag.

4.      Squeeze the air out of the bag gently and seal it.

5.      Use a rolling pin carefully to crush the biscuits. (This step can also be done in a food processor.)

6.      Weigh out the raisins and sultanas and put them aside ready.

7.      Melt the chocolate, syrup and butter in a pan over a low heat. (To save sticky spills, warm a metal spoon using warm water before using it to measure out the golden syrup – the syrup will plop cleanly off the warm spoon.)

8.      When the mixture is smooth and molten, tip in the biscuits and stir quickly.

9.      Continuing to work quickly, tip in the sultanas and raisins and stir thoroughly.

10. As soon as everything is evenly mixed, tip it into the prepared pan and smooth it out with a spatula.

11. Now leave the tray in the fridge to cool: once set, cut it into squares and enjoy!

Using the iPods in maths

Today in Y5, we had fun learning a new app on the iPod whilst practising our newly developed measuring skills.  Take a look at our video...

XtraMath XtraPoints!

Well done to:

• Katy
• Joshua
• Blake
• LaurenM

For already logging on at home using the Parent Flyer we sent out.  Good work!  ClassDojo added!

Glenaire Sumdog Superstars

Well, there are actually many Glenaire Sumdog Superstars.  However, these three children from Year 5 and 6 have answered the most questions on Sumdog this year.

Wow! Take a look at how many questions that is.

Can anyone add up how many the three have answered between them and how many they have got correct?  Email Mrs Cole or post a comment for a reward.

• JoshuaH answered 36,720 questions, getting 33,591 correct.
• JoshuaB answered 11,026 questions, getting 9,410 correct.
• KatyM answered 10,799 questions, getting 9,251 correct.

Sumdog update by Joshua...

There are new things to buy in the shop like bikes and a skateboard and a piano... I'm just letting you know =).


What will you choose?

Artists praise our Y5 children

Well done to our creative Year 5 class for producing fabulous pieces of art.  I'll say no more...  Simply read the comment from the Annual Saltaire Arts Trail (and the comments and likes!)

2 busy people showing off our work - thank you!

Find out who's made this great video which links together some favourite pieces of work over the last few months...

Mangahigh medallists!

Check out these Y5 children's medals and achievements.  Hard work!  Well done.

Whizz! Bang! Science extravaganza!

Yesterday afternoon was amazing!

We had a whole afternoon (superbly organised by Bristol University) of being real scientists.  Take a look at our photos and videos and read our comments below the blog post which gives a clear picture of how well the whole event went down!

Thank you very much to the whole team - brilliant!

Sumdog Stars

Well done to these people who are actively using Sumdog...  2 ClassDojo points to be awarded!

Y5 loves learning outdoors

Enjoy watching CaitlinM, Katy and Patrick learning about estimating and measuring with Mrs Bavinton.  

Listen to our avatars speak our thoughts!

In Year 5, we learnt how to make Voki avatars in our independent computer time by watching Mrs Cole's video instruction.  Enjoy Joshua's, LaurenM's and Levi's here...

Reflecting on our learning

We enjoy our learning.  Here's our latest highlights (which look much better using the Internet Explorer browser than Google Chrome).

Fabulous letter from Keane

Dear Keane

Thank you for your letter which I can tell you took time to write because you were very careful joining up.

The work you have done on PhotoStory sounds excellent and I'd love to see it. You must have been very disappointed when it didn't save properly.

Miss Thomis is now going to log your problem so our computer technicians can fix it for you.

Thank you for writing to let me know.
Looking forward to you video,
Mrs Cole

Sumara's Easter letter

Thank you Sumara for my lovely Easter letter using your beautiful joined up writing.

I look forward to hearing all about your holiday when we're back in school.

ClassDojo!

Happy Easter Y5

Well done for working so hard this term.

Enjoy the Easter break!

Here's a lovely picture from Caitlin C on my Easter card.
Thank you!

Inspired by the Alex Rider novel, Stormbreaker

We've created loads of work in class on Alex Rider.  Here's our latest work.  Today, we used the Strip Designer app on the iPod for the first time to create these introductions to ourselves as Primary Spies.

Digital Leaders' Display

Our five Year 5 digital leaders have created their own display to let the rest of the school know who they are and what they do.

Sumdog Competition Leaderboard

These two competitions are coming to a close and there are some great results here Year 5.  You are working hard (as usual!)  Well done!

Fabulous animation antics from Year 5

Katy (with a little help from EllieW, Danielle & Alisha) has been very creative and produced a fantastic animation using I Can Animate software. Press play and enjoy it!

Y5 Gadget Designs

Take a look at a couple of the gadgets we have designed in our trios.  Today we presented them to an audience that included our parents.  Although it was a little scary, everyone worked tremendously hard to produce successful presentations.

Starlight Express Specs

The Extreme Pop

Gadget presentations

Here are our thoughts about the presentations we did today to our Dragons Den audience (which included parents!)

We had a great time even if it was a bit nerve wracking!  Thank you to all the parents who took part this morning.

listen to ‘Y5 gadget presentations... How we felt’ on Audioboo

Fabulous gadget descriptions!

Listen to Year 5 explaining how their Alex Rider teenage gadgets work using their targets and technological language.  Great work and fun - superb combination!

listen to ‘Gadget features’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Gadget features 2’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Gadget feature features 3’ on Audioboo

Zondle grade book

Here's my snapshot from your grade books.  I've included those people with rosettes this week.  Do you have one yet? (I like your avatars - particularly Thomas's rainbow one!)

Keep having fun, keep playing!

Sumdog: great week!

Just admiring the great outfits you have chosen with your hard earned money!  Well done Year 5.  These are the children who've answered 100+ this week already.  Great to see some new names up there.  Keep on working hard!

 

Tremendous Tangrams!

Enjoy watching a great explanation from Lauren G and Alisha of how we used tangrams.  We learnt about translating, reflecting & rotating as well as right angles, straight line angles and 45° angles.  We even looked at compound angles!


Listen out for our sentence openers too - we're getting very good at using them now!

Alex Rider iPod gadget

In Year 5, here's what we discovered when we explored the Alex Rider iPod gadgets.

Listen out for our sentence openers as we tried really hard to use them to make our radio snippet more interesting.