Welcome to Year 5!

Year 5 teaching staff:

                                Class teacher - Ms Marskell

In the Spring Term, The Ashley Hill MAT will be hosting an Eisteddfod Competition, a festival of performance. This year we will open up the competition to also allow solo musical acts. All children at White Waltham, Knowl Hill and Bisham will take part in the competition and will perform one poem or piece of music/song that they have learnt. Class teachers will judge the first round to select five winners from each class on Friday 24th January. Successful children will perform in front of a panel of judges on 14th February 2025. During this afternoon, a winner from each class will be decided.

We are hoping that the final will take place on Thursday 6th March 2025 at 6pm at Cox Green School. The winners will perform their poem/musical piece/song once again and this year there will be a winner from each year group. We hope that all parents/carers will be welcome to attend the final.

The Guidelines

This year, we have decided that the children may choose a poem of their choice to perform or choose from a small selection which will be available on the class pages of the website from our return in January. Alternatively, children can choose a song to sing or a piece to play on a musical instrument. Please note that these must be solo performances.

This has been a fantastic event in the past and we hope that you will support your child with learning and practising their poem/song/musical piece.

Please note that we expect all children to learn a poem and perform in the class round, as it forms part of our speaking and listening assessment.

Our learning last week:

This week:

This week in class we have immersed ourselves in our new topic 'Discovering America' with a focus on Geography and music.

Geography: Students have looked at the the different countries within North America and the natural features within the United States of America. We have looked at how the Rocky Mountains were formed and how different areas of the Rocky Mountains differ from each other. We also looked at the Grand Canyon and how it was formed by the erosion caused by the Mississippi river. We then looked at how the climate has effected different states within the USA. We also looked at the causes and impact of the droughts in California and the flooding of the Mississippi river.

Music: We began our music topic by evaluating the British and American national anthem, we first analysed the lyrics and then wrote a description of the anthems. We then learnt 7 notes on the recorder and in groups composed our own pieces of music using these notes. Once we were confident with these notes students then learnt the British national anthem 'God save the King' and performed it in front of the class.