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Welcome to class 5S at Allerton CE Primary School in Leeds. Here, under the careful guidance of Miss Saeed and Mr van Loo, we will blog to the Big Wide World.

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Happy Blogging!

Miss Saeed

Mr van Loo

WOW

WOW is a pupil-led initiative where children self-report how they get to school every day using the interactive WOW Travel Tracker. If they travel sustainably (walk/wheel, cycle or scoot) once a week for a month, they get rewarded with a badge. It’s that easy!

It’s simple to run and children love taking part. Each year, the collectable WOW badges are designed by pupils in our annual badge design competition. On average, WOW schools see a 30% reduction in car journeys taken to the school gate and a 23% increase in walking rates.

Here you can see 5S Eco ambassador quizzing the children on the initiative.  

Cosmic Art

In Art, the children are developing their skills using different kinds of pastels. Last week they began by focusing on zooming in on a planetary surface and shading to make the cracks, craters and shadows apparent. This week we have looked at a range of different surfaces which included different colours and shapes. The children’s task was to fill in the blank in the same style as the complete original images.

Leeds Museum

After the children’s dress and technical rehearsal we thought they earned a well deserved break so we took a little trip to Leeds Museum. Below you can see the children enjoying their time in the Hip Hop Journey exhibit. We were mesmerised by the Ancient Egyptians exhibit and saw a replica of a 3000 year old mummy and its tomb. This was so exciting because our unit for next half term is the Egyptians!!!!

Celebrating the Life of William Shakespeare

To compliment our Macbeth theme we have been studying the life of William Shakespeare and the impact his works have had on our culture. The children learnt about the key moments of his life and how he started off in the world of theatre. We loved learning about the words and phrases he made popular through his works such as ‘to be or not to be’ (you can see some more below).

What does the future hold?

In todays computing lesson the children looked at how to code so their Microbit would become a fortune teller. The children did this using the online programming site called Scratch. The children learnt that the Microbit had a sensor built into to it allowing them to program in a way where they didn’t have to press any buttons to get an answer but to just simply shake using the ‘on shake’ coding block.

Microbits!!

In 5S we have started our computing unit where we are learning how to program using MicroBit MakeCode. The children programmed a MicroBit to show correct when button A was pressed and wrong when button B was pressed, through this we learnt about conditions and that we have to instruct a computing by coding and programming. Have a look below!

Anti Bullying Week

5S had great week of learning during Anti-Bullying week. We took part in the UKS2 picket – we created our own picket signs and had our own class chant, ‘stand up, speak up, make a noise’. During our Anti-Bullying PSHE lesson, we conducted a silent debate. The children silently moved around the classroom in groups, writing down their thoughts and opinions for different bullying incidents.

I was really proud of the class – they put a great deal of thought into their silent debate contributions!

Remembrance Week

We spent the week looking at what Remembrance Day is truly all about, its significance and the sacrifice of those who fought for our country. We learnt about the significance of the poppy and how they were seen in Flanders Field by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He saw them and was inspired to write a poem which became so popular it is the reason we use poppies today as a symbol for never forgetting those who died in the war.

Here is a poem by Abigail inspired by ‘Amulet’ by Ted Hughes.

Remembrance Day:

Inside the bitter cold, the despicable pain.

Inside the despicable pain, the horrific losses.

Inside the horrific losses, the Flanders Field.

Inside the Flanders Field, the only hope.

Inside the only hope, the flourishing poppies.

Inside the flourishing poppies, the distressing years.

Inside the distressing years, the bitter cold.

Inside the bitter cold, the fight for freedom.