Year Five
Year 5 present their fantastic building designs to professional architects
Over the past 6 weeks, Year 5 has been working hard with professional architects Georgia and Jamie, to design a community centre building for Hackney Marshes that can meet any challenges that a future change in climate may bring. The aim of the project is to help combat climate anxiety in children by helping them see design as a way of mitigating any challenges that climate change may bring in the future.
As budding architects, the children have been working incredibly hard in creating section drawings, elevations and plans of their community centres as well as building 3D models of what their building could look like. This week, the children presented their ideas, drawings and models to a team of 5 professional architects. They were incredibly articulate and the professionals commented on how impressed they were by the high standard of the children's work.
Internet Safety Day in Y5!
We started our Internet Safety Day by taking part in a class assembly, discussing what internet safety is and what we can do to ensure that we keep safe online. Our main focus was to explore the benefits and dangers of AI technology and software.
We looked at scenarios and held class discussions on any dangers identified within the scenarios. We then listed safe and positive strategies that the people in the scenarios could have followed.
As a final activity, we created posters to demonstrate the uses and dangers of AI!
Year 5 Time Travelled to Ancient Greece!
Physics in Year 5!
Year 5 Evaluates Digital Content!
In Computing last term, we developed our knowledge on evaluating content so that we get better at digital literacy. We did this through exploring self images that represented identity, which all involved image manipulation and enhancement. In pairs, we looked at a range of images that had been altered, and identified areas within the image that alteration / manipulation had been used.
Cultural Traditions in Art!
This term in Art, we explored our theme 'Cultural Tradition's in Art'. We looked at a variety of Folk Art and were very much inspired by Richard Kimbo, who we learned was an oustanding folk artist from Kenya. Using our inspiration from exploring Kimbo's batiks, we developed our knowledge on Media and Materials, so that we get better at Mastering Practical Skills! We did so by using mixed textures and combined visual and tactile qualities to create an interesting collage inspired by Kimbo.