DT - Spitfire Models and Enterprise Week

During Enterprise Week Year 5 have been making Spitfire planes. The Spitfire planes were used before, during and and after WWII and were an outstanding piece of machinery that helped Britain to win a major air battle known as 'The Battle of Britain'.  We made them out of wood, paper, elastic bands, paper clips, beads and propellers. We painted them to make them look like real Spitfires. We had great fun making them,and they look amazing.  So we hope your children will buy them they are soooooooooo good. Written by CR and EG

Art- Homework

On the 23rd of January y5 had been given homework to design their own labryth. Some people drew a picture. Some people made a 3D model so they used lego, old cereal boxes or a shoe box, and some made a key for their labyrinth. All of them are amazing. One even had food stuck on to it. Most of them had blood, crushed bones and of course Theseus and the Minotaur.

Art - Apollo 11 Moon Landing

Y5 have been learning about the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 when the first man walked on the moon.
Everyone recreated their own image of the moon landing. Lots of people did 2D, but some did 3D with
the man, the Lunar Module, the USA flag and the craters standing up.

D.T. - Space Rockets

Our topic has been space and this week we have been looking at rockets.
First of all we looked at real rockets such as the A-Class that took the first living being into space. We identified the shapes used to make a rocket such as a cylinder and a cone.

Next we designed our own rockets using the same type of shapes. However our rockets were designed to take tourists into space. Then we made our rockets using junk materials and then we painted them.

Science - Shadow Investigation

During the day we have been investigating how shadows change in length and direction. We recorded our results carefully and presented them in a graph. Our results showed that shadows are longest at the beginning and end of the day. This is when the sun is at its lowest in the sky.

Badminton Festival

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Anyone for badminton? Year 5 were on Wednesday where they joined lots of other children from the local network of schools. They had a great time developing their skills and the sports leaders from the Blandford School put on a very well organised event.

Model Racing Cars

We've had a great time making model cars out of wood. The cars have sails and were blown along with a fan. Almost every car went approximately 3 metres.