Summer Holiday Challenge - Trek to Tokyo

Hello everyone,

To commemorate the Tokyo 2020 Olympics which are no longer taking place this Summer, the Hampshire School Games Organisers (SGOs) are challenging you to Trek to Tokyo!

This is a 6-week challenge for the summer holidays, asking you to complete daily physical activities and creative challenges throughout each week. Earn miles for each activity you take part in and record your daily miles on the chart as you trek your way across the globe to Tokyo.

Every week there’ll be a new booklet for you to download from the Energise Me website - https://www.energiseme.org/schools/hampshire-school-games/hampshire-school-games-trek-to-tokyo/ containing different challenges for you to try and have a go at – you can even get your family and friends involved too.

So, how far is it to Tokyo? It’s 5,991 miles from Hampshire to Tokyo! That means you need to travel 1,000 miles a week to reach Tokyo by the end of the summer.

The booklets and further information can be found each week from 

Please see the following video for a taster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=UsHIBSXxjss&app=desktop

Good Luck and I hope to see you in Tokyo. 

Mr Knight

Year 5 WOW Wall

Hello everyone,

We hope you have had a good week and are looking forward to your summer holiday. We have received some fabulous art, computing, DT and science work in this week, as well as your English and maths. Below are some examples of work that has been sent to us. Thank you to all of you who sent work in                          

 

Some of you have been keeping very active! As we missed sports day at school, Dominic and his family decided to hold their own. It looked like great fun!

Well done to you all. We can see that you are still working really hard. In next week’s pack, you will find a message from your class teacher. We hope you enjoy reading them.

Have a lovely week,

Mr Davies, Mrs McWilliam and Mrs Paish

Year 5 WOW Wall

Hello again,

This week, the weather has been very changeable! We hope you have managed to get outside and have not been caught in the downpours! It has been lovely talking to some of you on the telephone and hearing about your activities and learning at home. Only two more weeks till the holidays!

Thank you to the children who sent in their pictures this week. Here are a selection of them. We have been very impressed with your creativity and crafting!

Some fabulous work – well done everyone.

You will now know who your teacher will be in year 6. We are sure you are all feeling very excited – and a little nervous maybe! Today, you will receive a message that will allow you to access a recorded message from your new teacher via the school website. We hope you enjoy watching them.

Next Friday would have been the school’s sports day. Many of you have been practising your PE skills at home and some of you have been taking part in the senior school sports challenge, https://twitter.com/alderwood_pe so this week, we would like you to send in pictures of yourself  being active in any way you can, for us to display on the blog next week.

We hope you have a good week and enjoy the activities that have been set.

Mr Davies, Mrs McWilliam and Mrs Paish

Year 5 WOW WOW WOW Work!

Hello everyone,

Another week has passed and there are only three more weeks of term left. It has been a week of beautiful weather and we hope you have been able to get outside to enjoy it.

The children attending the key worker provision in school have been working hard as you can see below.

At home, you have also been busy. We have really enjoyed seeing the results of your creativity and hard work. There have been some wonderful art works created using natural resources.

We have also received some fabulous newspaper reports and topic work. Well done and thank you to Anouk, Liam, Chloe, Sebby, Megan, Etrat, Lilith, Dominic and William for sending in their photographs.

This has been our last week of Treasure Island. We hope you have enjoyed the story. We are really looking forward to reading your alternate endings to the story and seeing what else you have been up to. Don’t forget, to show us your work, or if you need help, you can email us on year5@alderwood.hants.sch.uk.

As we said last week, for those of you who like competitions and sports, Alderwood, led by the senior school PE department, are taking part in a competition with two other schools. Check out their Twitter feed for more information on how you can get involved.  https://twitter.com/alderwood_pe   If you have already got involved, send us your pictures and stats!

We hope you have a great week,

Mr Davies, Mrs McWilliam and Mrs Paish

19th June Year 5 WOW Wall

Hello everybody,

Well, we are now only 4 weeks away from the end of the school year. It’s hard to believe! We hope you and your families are well. It has been lovely to speak to some of you this week and to hear what you have been doing during the lockdown.  If we have not yet been in contact, we will be in the next week or so. 

Thank you to those children who have been sending in examples of their work from the home learning packs and other fun activities at home. Here are pictures of some of the work we have received.

I’m sure you will agree that William’s cake looks fabulous!

Thank you to everyone who sent in their photographs. We really enjoy seeing what you have been doing.

For those of you who like competitions and sports, Alderwood, led by the senior school PE department, are taking part in a competition with two other schools. Check out their Twitter feed for more information on how you can get involved.  https://twitter.com/alderwood_pe

The final of BBC Radio 2’s 500 words competition was held last week. If you want to listen to the stories, get some inspiration for next year and see who won, go to their website where you can listen to the 50 finalists and the winners. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00rfvk1

Remember, if you need support with your home learning, or want to show us work you have completed, email year5@alderwood.hants.sch.uk  We look forward to hearing from you.

We hope you have a great week,

Mr Davies, Mrs Paish and Mrs McWilliam

Year 5 Wow Wall June 12th

Hello everyone

Well, the summer term is passing quickly but it remains a very strange time for us all.  We hope that you are all keeping well.

We have received some lovely examples of work in from you this week. Thank you Liam, Dominic, Freya, Lilith, William, Anouk, Etrat and Caleb for sending them in.

                                                                   

   

     

      

                                                                                   

The children in school for our key-worker provision have also been very busy.

We have heard about some activities that any of you who are sci-fi fans might enjoy! If you have access to Twinkl, they have teamed up with the BBC’s Dr Who team to produce lots of activities related to the show. There are different ones based on Nikola Tesla, Rosa Parks, spiders and more. They look like great fun!

  

Over the next few weeks, your class teachers will be making contact with you again to see how you are. We are really looking forward to speaking to you again. Remember to drop us an email at Year5@alderwood.hants.sch.uk and let us know how you are getting on at home! We are thinking of you all.

Take care,

Mr Davies, Mrs Paish and Mrs McWilliam.

Year 5 WOW wall

Hello everyone,

It has been a lovely week for us teachers as we have had the chance to speak to lots of you. It was wonderful to hear from you and your adults how well you have been doing at home, how hard you are working and how much fun you are having. We have had so many emails this week with examples of your work. There is a huge variety! Here are some examples – thank you and well done to Cerys, Anouk, William, Ralph, Lilith, Freya, Eva, Logan, Phoebe, Caitlyn, Harley, Roo, Sebby, Joshua and Etrat for their pictures.

As you know, the school has been open for the children of keyworkers to attend. The teachers have been very impressed by the effort and positive attitude demonstrated by the children attending. It looks like they have been having fun! Well done to all of you.

As you may have heard this week, Mrs McWilliam is expecting her first baby in August. I’m sure you join all of the staff in wishing her all the best. Below is a lovely message she received from Kiran-Mai. What a thoughtful and imaginative way to send her congratulations. Great job!

Next week is half term so we will not be sending out a learning pack! Hoorah,  I hear you shout!!

We hope you have a lovely break and we look forward to seeing what you have been up to. Remember, if you want to send in any pictures or just ask a question, please email year5@alderwood.hants.sch.uk.

We hope to see you soon,

Mr Davies, Mrs Paish and Mrs McWilliam (and bump J)

Year 5 WOW Wall

Hello everyone,

We have reached the end of another week. We hope you all enjoyed your learning packs this week and look forward to seeing your photographs and videos of your news reports. We will be saving them ready to show when we return to school.

Your work has been coming in thick and fast. We are so impressed with your effort and creativity. Here are some of the pictures we have been sent. Keep them coming!

There have been many examples of the acrostic poem sent in. Here are a couple of them.

This is from Dominic. We were all really moved by his thoughtful words and his positivity.

And this from Freya, reflecting the changes in her daily routine.

Here are some of the other pictures we have been sent. Thank you to Phoebe, Liam, Robyn & Ernie, Oscar, Dominic, Anouk, Owen, Freya, William, Olivia and Harrison. Well done to all of you.

Mrs Hulme has been busy discovering places where you can access books to read while you are at home.

And for you football lovers out there… (Yes, Mr Davies, that includes you!)

Finally, here is some colouring for you to print off and complete.

We hope to see you soon,

Mrs McWilliam, Mr Davies and Mrs Paish

Year 5 Wonderful Outstanding Work

Hello everyone,

We hope you are all well and enjoying the sunshine. This is a very special week as tomorrow commemorates the 75^th anniversary of the end of World War 2 in Europe. It carried on a little longer in Japan. The day the war ended in Europe is known as VE (Victory in Europe) day and, as you can imagine, it was a very important and welcome day for the country after almost 6 years of war.

Although the plans to celebrate this anniversary have had to change due to the current situation, many organisations have posted suggestions for activities online. Here are some websites you might like to look at.

https://www.rushmoor.gov.uk/VEDay - Our local council has a programme of online events throughout the day and lots of ideas for things to do.

https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/remembrance/teaching-remembrance - The British Legion has put together a home learning pack for anyone who would like to know more about VE day. Look under the heading ‘VE day resources for home’.

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t2-h-4750-wartime-recipe-booklet - Twinkl has a wartime recipe book for you to try. The recipes all contain ingredients that would have been available in wartime Britain.

https://www.history.org.uk/primary/categories/782/news/3840/ve-day-75-free-home-learning-resource - If you want to know more, there are further learning activities here from the Historical association.

You have all been busy this week with your home learning packs. We have been sent some fabulous examples of your hard work and some of these are on display at the infant site. Keep an eye on Twitter as Mrs Shuttleworth will be posting some examples there. Here are some of the things you have been doing.  

We were very impressed with the information you discovered about Mary Anning – she is fascinating!

As you can see, there has been some excellent learning happening at home. Well done all of you and thank you to Olivia, Owen, Demi, Caleb, Freya, Anouk, Layla-Shay, Liam, Sienna, Phoebe and William for sending in their pictures.

We hope you have all been looking at the music lessons on Yumu. If you have not yet logged in, please contact the year 5  email address below and we will send your password to you.

Finally, here are a couple more activities you may be interested in. 

https://www.artforkidshub.com/ - – For all budding artists out there

https://www.wizardingworld.com/collections/harry-potter-at-home - We posted this link a while ago BUT… they have just added a video of Daniel Radcliffe reading the first chapter of Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s stone! What a treat for all you Potter fans out there! There will be other celebrities reading more of the book over the coming weeks.

Don’t forget, you can contact us for help, to send us pictures of your work or just to let us know how you are and what you are doing. Email year5@alderwood.hants.sch.uk   

We hope to see you very soon,

Mr Davies, Mrs McWilliam and Mrs Paish