Valence House Museum

Year 5 enjoyed a wonderful trip to Valence House Museum on Thursday. There were three activities in the morning : a tour with one of the museum guides, focusing on Dagenham as a village; a trail, where we searched the galleries for answers to the questions we were given; and a fascinating talk from Mr Watkins. After lunch, we enjoyed sketching in the grounds of the house and in the herb garden. We finished the day with a game of rounders on the field. It was a lot of fun and we found out so much about the history of our area.

"I loved listening on the phone in the trail. I was amazed at how big the whalebone is too." Debrah
"This is great! I want to come back with my nan and grandad - they'll love it!" Jay
"I love the way the children are motivated and want to return to this fantastic local museum." Mrs Lawrence.
"This museum is really cool!" Sumayah
"It was exciting and enjoyable and I learnt lots!" Victoria
"The children were very well-behaved and enthusiastic to be learning about their town." Mrs Playle
"I liked the trail - there was lots to do, lots to look at and listen to." Zovee.
If you want to visit Valence House Museum, pop along any day from Monday to Saturday. It's not only fantastic, it's free!
http://www.lbbd.gov.uk/MuseumsAndHeritage/ValenceHouseMuseum/Pages/Home.aspx

Spelling fun

Have a look at this site and have fun while you practise your spelling. Think about what patterns you already know that could help you to escape. Good luck!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/spelling_grammar/spelling/play.shtml

Get ahead with some multiplication practice.

We hope you all had a wonderful half term holiday and had lots of fun.
We hope you kept your skills sharp with some of the homework activities we gave you too. Remember that we will be doing lots of work using multiplication over the next couple of weeks, so try to learn all your tables off by heart and practise answering really quickly. There are lots of games on the internet, as well as Mathletics, but don't forget about lots of other ways you can practise. Try turning a tricky table into a rap, sing along with a CD, copy them out in different colours, invent a game to play with a friend, etc. Why not share your favourite way here?
If you're not sure where to start, have a go at this site http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/game/ma10mult-game-conveyor-belt-multiplication .

RAINHAM MARSHES

Year 5 enjoyed a wonderful day at Rainham Marshes on Thursday. Over to 5W to explain some of the fantastic activities we experienced.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/r/rainhammarshes/
 Water cycle race

In the water cycle race we had to get a cup of water from a bucket and take it to the other bucket and say evaporation. Once we got all the water to the other side we had to come back. On the way back we had to say precipitation. After we took a look at the water in both buckets in my group we got roughly the same amount of water. It took team work to get both sides.

By Katie

 Ropey River

We had an activity called ropey river. What we had to do is make our own river with rope, string and wool then put words on our river these are the words: tributary, mouth and source .Then we had to name our river my group called it River Sage then we had to tell the rest of our classmates about our rivers.

Ellie.

 Field sketch

Year 5 went to a place called Rainham Marshes. We had 4 field teachers. We done lots of activities and one of them was Field Sketching . We learnt that the Thames River flows away from the source and away from London. We had to draw what we could see like the power station, QE2 bridge and most of all the features of the river.

 Blotic  index

We had to spit up into 4’s or 5’s groups in order to do the Blotic index. Basically we have to lie on our tummies and do a type of dipping called Pond dipping and do a figure  of 8 ,so you can catch a fish or a river creature . After we had to count all of the creatures altogether and work out  the score of it . And the total was 4.3. This told us that the river was fairly clean but there was some pollution.

By Joshua Warder 5w

                Build a river

What we had to do is we had to bild the river Thames.We had to use team –work,when we finished we had to find out were we have to put the tributary,confluence,source and mouth and why.When we were fixing it,at the beginning it was hard but some one found out that there were numbers at the back of the carpet tiles and that was how we finished it

Khuabaib.

Many thanks to Brona and all the field teachers at Rainham Marshes, to the staff and helpers from Henry Green and, most importantly, all the well-behaved children for making it such a successful trip.

First Aid Training

On thursday the 19/01/12 year 5 and 6 went to the south hall and did some first aid with us.A man called Jon came to tell us the process of first aid training.Jon tought us a word called DR.HAB which tells us what to do if someone has an accident this is what you do:

D -danger

R-response

H-help!

A-airway

B-breathing.

Danger means look for anything around you that the person might have tripped over. Responce means that call to them and see if they can response.Help means just shout for help.Airway means open their mouths slightly tilt their head backwards.Breathing. After call the ambulance ,then check if their bleeding on the head ,the back and the legs and always  remember to look at your hands after each part. If there is no bleeding now check the bones.

Now the most important part is to do the cpr. The cpr is say the person is not breathing you pump their chest 30 times and then you breath in the mouth 2 times if the chest goes up that means you have done it right.

There are only 3 reasons why you should stop. 1 is if you get tired 2 is if the paramedics come or if the person start to breath.
by Jade and Debrah 5W

Year 5 scores a Hat Trick!

Year 5 had an afternoon of sporting fun last Friday when Richard from Hat Trick joined us in offering the children a choice of activities. They were able to increase their skills in football or netball or build stamina by playing crab football.

Many thanks to Richard from Hat Trick for generously giving his time and sharing his expertise.

Smoothie BLENDER

Year 5 loved  doing the smoothie to day we used ice, mango, half of  bannana and orenge juice to make a mango smoothie. To make a mixed berry smoothie  we used berries,half  a bannana  and some ice appel juice.
BY HARRY AND DYLAN