Autumn Term 1
Year 5 2025-2026
Friday 24th October - Woodbridge Winners for Confidence
Thursday 24th October - Athletics tournament. Three Otters represented the school at the Athletics Tournament this evening. They were absolutely amazing!
Thursday 24th October - After our skills lesson on using clay last week, we're creating our own clay leaves today. Look at the concentration and focus.
Monday 20th October - The Kingdom of Benin - History - As part of our Black History Month, Otters have been looking at the timeline of Africa. We had to place all of the events in chronological order before deciding which we thought was the most significant event and explaining our reasoning.
Friday 17th October - Woodbridge Winners for Resilience
Wednesday 15th October - Here we all are being introduced to 'Beat The Street'. Use your cards when you're out and about in Alfreton to gain points as you register your card at all of the points.
Tuesday 14th October - Using the baton to practice our relay skills.
Monday 13th October - Computing. We've been looking at different search engines and learning how to refine our searches. We can check how good our search is by looking at how many options there are.
Friday 10th October - Woodbridge Winners for Creativity
Thursday 9th October - Year 5 trip to Twycross Zoo including a workshop on 'Life in the Rainforest'.
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Friday 3rd October - Woodbridge Winners for Responsibility
Friday 26th September - Woodbridge Winners for Pride
Thursday 25th September - It's Pirate Day - Aaargh! here we are designing and making our pirate masks in readiness for Saturday when the pirates take over Alfreton.
Meet our School Councillors and RJ Ambassadors:
Friday 19th September - Woodbridge Winners for Aspiration
Tuesday 16th September - Science - Here we are learning about asexual reproduction in plants. We have potted on celery as well as our spider plant babies to see what happens.
Tuesday 16th September - PE - Fine-tuning our running skills.
Year 5 2024 - 2025
100% Attendance Autumn Term 1
25.10.24 Value Award Winners - CONFIDENCE
Design & Technology - Chicken & Vegetables Skewers
English - Second Independent Write of the year!
Bikeability Certificate Presentation in Assembly
18.10.24 Resilience Award Winners
Art - Clay leaves and flowers
Bikeability Level 2 - Keeping safe on the roads
NEW Trim Trail!
English - Rainbow Grammar
Bikeability Level 1 - Cycle confidence and technique
11.10.24 CREATIVITY Award Winners
Art - Practicing creating our clay leaves
P.E - Practicing our throwing techniques and skills this afternoon - mini javelin, shotput and chest passes!
Topic - Similarities and differences between the Amazon Rainforest and Rio de Janerio
4.10.24 RESPONSIBILITY Award Winners
Handwriting - Beautifully neat handwriting shown as Otters write-up their independent writes for display
English - Group work on analysing character traits, from our book 'the Explorer'
27.9.24 PRIDE Award Winners
Zones of Regulation - Which emotion fits best into which zone
English - amazing focus and concentration during our independent write session!
20.9.24 ASPIRATION Award Winners
Our 1st swimming session of the year!
Art - The effect of light on pencil drawings of plants and leaves
1st Forest School Session of Year 5!
Maths - Otters hard at work independently looking at place value up to 1,000,000