Red Kite - Y5/6

Welcome to Red Kite!

We are a year 5/6 class and you will find us in the second classroom from the main entrance, in the KS2 corridor.

Miss Imogen Browne, Red Kite Teacher

Mrs Pascha McGrath, Teaching Assistant

Mr Rob Payton, Teaching Assistant

Mrs Carly Fisher, Teaching Assistant

Mrs Caroline Smith, Teaching Assistant

Our teacher is Miss Browne.

Our TAs are: Mrs Fisher, Mrs McGrath, Mr Payton and Mrs Smith.

If you have any questions, you can email the teacher at FPSredkite@palladianacademytrust.com

Year 5 Pencelli Meeting to parents PPT - please see below in the documents. 

Term 4:

Welcome back to another exciting term! In science, we will continue to explore evolution and adaptations. We are also looking forward to celebrating science week, where we will focus on the scientist Charles Darwin, including experiments and artwork inspired by him. In DT, the children will be designing, creating and evaluating their own stuffed toys, using a variety of stitching techniques. Our reading lessons (and year 5 writing lessons) will be focussed around our class text ‘Skyhawk’ by Gill Lewis. In geography this term, we are exploring the question, ‘Why do oceans matter?’ and the children will be given the opportunity to apply and extend this knowledge during our school trip to the Bristol Aquarium.

In science this week, the children were investigating the importance of 'blubber' (a layer of animal fat). Animals adapt to the colder climates, like polar bears. They're layer of fat provides them with warmth, which they need for survival! The children had two bags to put their hands in: one was coated in lard (which represented the fat) and the other was kept as it was. They put their hands into ice cold water and compared which hand stayed slightly warmer. In science week, the children made their own invisible ink and created some messages!

Term 3:

This term in Year 5 and 6, we have really enjoyed becoming familiar with some of the stories in our book ‘Survivors’ (some of them were quite gruesome!). We have been busy learning and refining our journalistic writing skills, to report on some of the incredible tales of survival. In science, we have been learning about how and why different species evolve over time and have explored some of the specific adaptations which help them to survive in their environments. We particularly enjoyed learning about hybrid animals and were surprised to learn that some of our own pets could be considered as ‘hybrid’ breeds. In art, we became architects, sketching and designing our own buildings and taking inspiration from other famous architects. In History, we have been learning about Greek myths; Greek beliefs and how the different city states were governed, including the rights of their citizens. We have been studying the structures of various different types of bridges in DT – ask us which type of bridge is the strongest! We enjoyed building bridges from different materials, including spaghetti, paper and wood – learning how to saw safely and accurately was definitely our highlight!

Here are a few pictures of us trying insects, like Aron Ralston!

In DT we started looking at structures of bridges: arch vs beam. Last week, we made spaghetti truss bridges!

Term 2:

An amazing, busy term! In Science, we continued to explore the different types of forces and used our knowledge to conduct more experiments. The children looked at levers, pulleys and gears; creating a wind powered pulley system to lift a paper cup. Our English lessons featured the wonderful story ‘The Explorers’ by Katherine Rundell. Our genre of writing was journey narrative. For Art, children used mixed media to create self-portraits. In Geography this term, explored the question ‘Why does population change?’. DT was really exciting! The children designed and created their own pop-up books, aimed at year 1 children!

Here is a snippet of our science lesson (wind-powered pulleys):

Here are some of our 'changing faces' portraits. The children had to experiment with materials and techniques; representing an emotion or atmosphere. Can you guess what mood they are trying to portray in these portraits?

CHRISTMAS JUMPER DAY & CHRISTMAS PARTY!

Term 1:

Welcome back to all the children in Red Kite class. This is the first term of a fantastic and busy year! The children will be learning all about Vikings, during our history lessons, focusing on the topic question ‘Were the Vikings raiders, traders or something else?’ Over the next 2 terms, our science focus will be ‘forces and magnets’.

During the third week, the year 6’s will be away on their residential for a week and the year 5’s will take part in a project.

Our book this term will be ‘The Viking Boy’, linking to our history topic. The final write will be an informal letter. We will focus on the grammar features of brackets, colons and semi-colons.

Our maths this term will be around the place value of numbers up to 10,000,000.

Towards the end of term 1, we are looking forward to attending the Bath Literacy Festival, to see the author Katherine Rundell!

                                                    Year 6 SATs Information