Year 5 Opal Class

Miss Antony	Miss Bond	Mrs Bowman
Class Teacher	Teaching Assistant	Teaching Assistant (PM)

This half term year 5 explored air resistance by planning, conducting and evaluating a parachute experiment. They worked in their groups to create parachutes with different surface areas to answer the question “Does the size of a parachute affect the time it takes for it to fall to the ground?”

They worked well in their teams and was able to reflect on their experience afterwards!

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This has been a creative term for year 5! This term Year 5 had the chance to create live models of our solar system. They explored the movement of the planets around the sun, they explored the relationship between the sun, earth and the moon, the found out why we have day and night.  Year 5 showed great teamwork and communication skills and should be very proud of the work they’ve completed! They were able to recall and share facts about their chosen part, work wonderfully as a team and perform confidently to the rest of the class. 

During the half term children had the opportunity to create 3D model of the water cycle and bring them in to show the class. Everyone did an amazing job at making a water cycle that was unique and sharing key information about the water cycle!