Benedict Biscop Academy Year 5 2018 - 2019

On Tuesday we made fake blood! As part of our Science topic we investigated the 4 blood components; plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. To make our blood model we used white marshmallows for our white blood cells, cheerios and red food colouring for red blood cells, water and yellow food colouring and raisins for platelets. The children had an amazing morning and were able to explain the functions of each of the components and why we used the ingredients we did. Each group completed their own PicCollage with a variety of images from their investigations with descriptions. Another great week in Year 5 :)

Good afternoon, I hope you all had a wonderful half term and it is lovely to see everyone back in school raring to go! During half term I set Year 5 a task - to complete a Viking project. I was absolutely overwhelmed on Monday morning when I saw how much effort had gone into these pieces. Yesterday, as a class, we looked through everything together, including; cakes, biscuits, bread, clay models, swords, shields, drawings, stories, diary entries, fact files and much more. Well done Year 5 - I hope you enjoyed being creative. Mrs Bailey :)

During Science, on Wednesday, we dissected a range of flowers with our partners. We were able to pull apart the flower piece by piece and reveal the ovules (eggs) right in the centre. We created an exploded view diagram where we displayed each different piece of the flower on to an A3 sheet of paper with labels detailing what the part was and its function. It was a lot of fun and the children were able to test out our new range of Science equipment too. Please enjoy the photo. Thanks Mrs Bailey

Hi everyone, Yesterday Year 5 had surprise visitors from the Jorvik Viking Centre in York. We became familiar with the Viking life style and how they survived, including; hunting, how they made their houses and the materials used, their favourite food and drink, different musical instruments they used and ways they entertained themselves, for example attaching cow bones to their shoes to skate on the ice. We learnt that the word 'saga' is a type of story which was told using lots of description and metaphors to bring it alive. Isaac, Max, Gracie, Jess and Grace were chosen to dress up and act out a saga told by one of the leaders. The story was about the Viking God, Thor and his hammer which was stolen. The children were amazing actors/actresses and really got into character! After lunch we talked about different weapons and what they were used for. Some children were chosen to hold some of the weapons and different things were passed around throughout the session. We wer...