To complete our geography work on natural disasters, Year 5 have been constructing 3D models to show their understanding of the main parts of a volcano. We used our creative skills to produce cross-sections that show the location of the main vent, secondary vent, magma chamber and crater.
There has been and air of excitement across Year 5 all week because the children have been baking their own bread. After evaluating a range of commercially available breads, the children chose their own ingredients to customise their own recipe. They then learnt how to make a basic bread recipe, how to incorporate the ingredients to form a dough, what “proving” and “knocking back” means in the world of bread making and then they baked! Once our bread was ready we enjoyed eating and evaluating the fruits of our labour.
Year 5 have shown some great thinking skills during the course of the week and there is so much work in so many learning journals that speaks volumes about the ability and attitude to learning of the children. The Year 5 teachers have also been exceptionally impressed by the quality of the homework that has been completed over the past few weeks. We received so many well organised and engaging letters that sought to persuade the teachers to give the children an end of term treat (we are still thinking about it) and there were a whole range of informative and well designed fact sheets about famous volcanoes from across the world. Well done Year 5!
