Westonzoyland Primary School ‘Achieving, Learning and Growing Together’
Hobby – Miss Grant (Year 5/6)
Welcome to Hobby Class
Hello and welcome to Summer term in Hobby class.
Our topic this term is 'Sports around the world' This will link in with Euro 2020, the Tokyo Olympics and other sporting tournaments happening this summer.
In English, we are working with the book 'Journey to Jo'burg' to learn about third world countries and the life and work of Nelson Mandela.
In History, we are learning about Greece, linking this with the history of the Olympics.
In Science, we are learning about keeping our bodies healthy, including healthy eating.
we are studying the skeletal and muscular systems to learn about our amazing bodies and how they work.
We are also pleased to be welcoming back in, visitors to bring us several exciting workshops over the next few weeks.
Our day for P.E this term is Monday. Please could children come into school in their P.E kit. This half of the term we are practising our invasion skills.
Outdoor learning is on a Thursday. Please could children come into school wearing old clothes that they don't mind getting dirty as we will be outside in all weather! Please could they also bring in wellies if they have them or a change of footwear for indoors/outdoors.
We have exciting plans to grow various different vegetables in our raised bed and polytunnel as well as sunflowers. The children have already been working hard digging the soil to prepare as well as tidying the rest of the garden area. They also will be painting and decorating wooden signs to display in the garden for their vegetable growing.
Homework will be set on Google classroom and we would like it to be handed in on a Friday.
From Monday 10th May, reading records and books may now be taken home again. Please could children log home reading in their reading record in PEN. Reading records will be collected in on a Friday. Children are expected to read at least 4 times a week for a minimum of 20 minutes.
The Hobby Team
Friday 11th June
In outdoor learning, we have been very busy putting up the wonderful class signs that we have created. Using spirit levels to make sure they were correctly positioned, some of us then used the drill to screw the signs to the raised beds.
Our vegetables have been growing really well and we have been busy weeding our raised bed. We also picked our first radishes!
Enjoying the sunshine, some of us have chosen to take our art work outside and mindfully create in the relaxed garden environment.
Thursday 20th May: Today in outdoor learning, we continued our science experiments. We investigated friction by identifying the effects of friction that act between moving surfaces.
We measured how high the ramp needed to be for the car to start to move over each surface.
In Art, some of us finished painting our class signs for the raised garden beds while others worked on creating mosaic art related to Westonzoyland.
Thursday 6th May: Today in outdoor learning we created parachutes using a selection of materials. Using cling film, fabric, wool and tape, we designed our parachutes with our knowledge of gravity and air resistance in mind. We then tested them from height in the garden, recording the length of time taken to land. Using our maths knowledge, we took two recordings and worked out the average time for our parachute. We then worked out the perimeter and area of our parachute during maths.
Thursday 29th April: Today in outdoor learning we continued with our science topic of measuring in weight and mass.
Using our knowledge of weight, mass and gravity, we selected various objects and measured their weight and mass using both scales and newton scales. We then recorded this information and discussed what links we found between the two.
Thursday 22nd April: Today in outdoor learning we planted sunflower seeds and also courgette seeds. We will be planting the courgette plants in our raised bed with our other vegetables which are starting to pop through the surface of the soil this week!
Thursday 1st April
This Morning, during outdoor learning , we had a class Easter hunt in the garden finding paper eggs. Some were easier to find than others! We then planted carrots, peas, potatoes, onions and radish in our class raised bed.
Some of us spent a mindful morning creating wonderful signs for our Hobby garden.
Wednesday 31st March
Today in Hobby, we created spring scenes with a stained glass/ silhouette effect using coloured tissue paper and black card.
Check out our amazing Space artwork!! We used a range of techniques including chalk, marbling and watercolours and we're really pleased with the results.
For outdoor learning this week, we made nature inspired bookmarks. We explored the garden to find inspiration for our designs, then using water colour and ink, we chose a tranquil area to create our bookmarks.
Merry Christmas Hobby class!!
We hope you all have a truly magical Christmas! Rest up, spend time with your families and we can't wait to see you all in the new year!!
For a bit of end-of-term fun we have put together our own covid version of '12 Days of Christmas'. Thank you to Hobby class for the inspiration - you know who you are!
We hope it brings a smile to your faces!
Love Miss Grant and Miss Hellyer x
In Hobby we talked about Rememberance Day and created our own poppies.
In R.E we have been learning about Hinduism. We recently learned about Hindu festivals including Diwali. The children created their own Rangoli patterns to celebrate the festival of light using different mediums.
Some of the children have created their own models for our Native Indian topic.
We have had great fun this term learning all about the Native Americans! Here is our Topic display exhibiting some of our tribal posters, dreamcatchers and totem pole designs.
Over the last two weeks we have been working in groups, creating powerpoint presentations about various aspects of Native American Life. We have researched Weapons, religion and beliefs, entertainment, clothing and tools used. Yesterday we presented these to the rest of the class.
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31/01/20 As part of our half term’s social play learning, we have been thinking about how people with different needs would find our classroom and social environment. This week we used blindfolds to simulate a sight difficulty. We found it tricky to enjoy the activities that we usually do such as drawing, card games and moving around the room.
30/01/20 We have been learning about genetics in our science lessons. Here we are making our own geneticons!
16/01/20 Hobby Class were editing their work today by visiting different stations on the editing train line! It helped us to remember what we need to include and gave us some helpful hints if we forgot what something meant.
06/12/19 Hobby Class are really enjoying Social Play where we learn different games to play with each other. Our teamwork and communication skills have really improved. Here we have children playing werewolf, carrot and stick, silent ball and drawing games.
5/11/19 We used atlases and maps to look at different places in the U.K. We then learned about how land can be used for different things such as farming, hills, rivers and cities.
Missing photos! Some photos on our class page have gone missing! Mrs Meyers is hunting to see if she can find them again and put them back online. Sorry for this.
20/09/19 Working with some of Osprey Class, we played some barrier games to test our communication skills. What a lovely way to spend a Friday afternoon!
30/09/19 We love writing up our work into our final write books.
