Dance workshop

Last week Year 5 went to Priestnall High School for a dance workshop. We had lots of fun learning the routine and we represented St John's really well!
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Snow time for lessons!

The children had lots of fun playing in the snow at playtime today. Miss Kingsley, however, preferred to watch from the comfort of the warm classroom!
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A festive puzzle...

How many Year 5 children does it take to remove a pair of wellies?!
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THE CRIME SCENE

This term we have been doing about a crime scene were my MANGER John Brownrigg died.We found a lot of evedance we've got a GLOVE , a LETTER with a FOOTPRINT on it an ENVOLOPE with BLOOD on it and a ROLLING PIN . We have 2 suspects CHILLI and
MR JONES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Murder at St John's (very cool)

These last weeks in year 5 we have been learning about a murder of foot ball coach JOHN BROWNRIGG. John Brownrigg was a football coach who was killed by a rolling pin. The following evidence was found at the crime scene: a glove, two letters, the rolling pin and an envelope. The police believe he was killed because someone wanted to take his job as football manager of the team.
by Sam and Grace

killer 221 on the loose!

Today we took part in a fake murder it was the  best thing we have ever done at school the victim John Brownrigg got hit on the head with a rolling pin. The forensic scientists examined the scene and they found a glove left by the victim and a letter which said, 'I will do whatever it takes to be the manger of the St John's football team'. The murder investigation continues....
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The Big Picture

Hello Year 5 children and parents,

I hope you are looking forward to coming back to school for a very exciting half term!
Our new topic is called 'The Big Picture' and we will be using pictures to inspire our work. For Art, Science and Understanding English we will look at the famous painting 'Bar at the Folies - Bergere' by Manet. In December we will use a painting of a scene from the Nativity story to inspire our work.
I hope you are also looking forward to learning the vocabulary for our very first Spanish Video Conference.

See you on Wednesday,
Miss Kingsley x

                                                            'Bar at the Folies - Bergere'

Yesterday year 5 & 6 went on a trip to styal mill we saw lots of machinery that was used in the past and how they used it.We also looked around the  mill & how cotton was made.

STYAL MILL

On our trip to Styal Mill we went in the Apprentices house and we had to do the alphabet. Then we went upstairs to see the beds. After we looked at the medicines and the kitchen.

Yesterday we went to styal mill we were learning about the Victorians, First of all we went down to the school showroom and had a Victorian school lesson. We got taught the alphabet up to E and we,were not allowed to look him in the eye and we had to call him sir,we sat at tables with benches and had to cross our arms and look down at the table.After this louis got told to stand in the corner of the classroom hold some kind of  weights in midair.and stay there. the man  also had the Kane  in his right hand and every time we recited the letters A,B,C,D,E he banged the kane down on the dirty brown table.

styal mill

Yesterday Y5 and 6 went to styal mill. Styal mill is an cottan factory and is very educasional. there is man made  cottan and natral cottan.Is was built in the victorian times.The victorian times were really hard times people had lims cut off in the factory such as fingers hands and arms.   there schools were strict but porovideing.

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Year 5 worked as Victorian scientists today on a mission for Joseph Swan, the inventor of the first electric light bulb in Britain!
We experimented with the equipment to make an electric lighting system for Styal Mill. Some of us discovered how to make our bulbs brighter whilst others could connect a circuit with more than one bulb in it!

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World Book Day

To celebrate World Book Day today, the children of St John's came to school dressed as a character from a book. Here are some super examples!

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This week we have been learning about Joseph Swan ,who created a public light bulb in 1879.We also have been learnig about dibates in english.also last week on friday Mr Lloyd -Jones came in to talk to us about the saalvation army.

Pakistan Floods.

This week we have been doing debates and discussions and we have done to either donate to them or spend it on yourself. So we played a game called consious alley where people stand on each side and somebody walks down the middle of them and everybody says reasns for and against donating.

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Having a go at being part of the Salvation Army brass band!

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On Friday 8th October years 5 and 6 were visited by Mr Lloyd-Jones. He came in to school to talk about the Salvation Army. We learnt a great deal about how and why it began and what the people of the Salvation Army do now. Thanks ever so much Mr Lloyd-Jones!

salvasion army

today we have learnded about the salvasion army the flag means red is for blood blue is for fire yellow is for spirit

SALVATION ARMY

William Booth started the Salvation Army in 1865 but it was called the Cristian Mission till 1978.

the salvation army.

The salvation army flag has 3 colors which is:   

• RED = BLOOD
• YELLOW/GOLD = SPIRIT
• BLUE = FIRE     

The salvation army helps homeless people and families.The have been helping people since 1865-2010.

salvasion army

Today we learnt about the salvasion army.We were told the coulers of there flag they are red blue yellow.


RED: RED stands for blood.
BLUE: BLUE Stands for spirit.
YELLOW:  Yellow stands for fire.

THE SALVASION ARMY HELP PEOPLE.

What I learnt about the Salvation Army today, by Oliver

They  helpt   the   piypol   theat    ar   ingad. (Oliver wrote this sentence on his own and remembered the full stop and capital letter)
They had blue, red and gold for their flag. Red was for blood, blue was for God and yellow for spirit. The Salvation army help homeless people by giving them food, work and beds. They treat them nicely when they have no money, no food and no roof over their heads.
People from the Salvation Army wear a tie, a white shirt, black trousers, shiny shoes, a hat and a jacket. At Christmas and Easter they sing songs and play in a brass band.

what we have learnt this week

this week i have learnt that in the victorian times poor people had to share a toilet with strangers.Also that there was somebody called lord shaftsbury and he helped orphan children and poor children in their lives.

we have also learnt how to use fractions in maths. we have been on educaition city and have been on fraction games.

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This week in year five we have been learning about the victorians and how they lived and ate.In maths we have been learning about fractions and it was at time hard at other easy.we have just started to learn about spanish and how we say our familys ,like:

DAD: EL PADRE
MUM: LA MADRE
BROTHER:HERMANO
SISTER: HERMANA
FAMILY: LA FAMILIA

BY aLEX F.G , LOUIS And OLIVER

Our photo story about Lord Shaftesbury, by Megan and Joe

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The Victoria sponge cake while it lasted!
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Year 5 had lots of fun making Victoria sponge cakes today!
Miss Kingsley
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This week we have been learning about victorians and persuasive language. In the victorians we have been learning about lord shaftesbury and how he helped young children and thir lives.We watched a video/advert about Nick Clegg before the election and on that clip he used as much persuasive language as he could, he uses these tricks: alliteration,slogans,memorable endings,rhetorical questions,repetition, personal pronouns,metaphors,body language,exaggeraition,give the facts and list of three.