Autumn
World Mental Health Day 2025
Team building with Harry from Newcastle PE school sports service
In Transfiguration we transfigured our writing!
Samba!
"Anything from the trolley dears?"
As we were reading about Harry's journey on the Hogwart's Express, the trolley witch appeared and gave us all Hogwarts themed cakes! They were delicious!
We explored who the Ancient Maya were, where did they live? What were their cities like? We revisited using an atlas and refreshed our knowledge of continents and Countries. We developed our non-fiction reading skills and talked about what different clues showed us about how they might have lived. Ask us what we have found out so far!
We enjoyed sketching and painting the Whomping Willow and Hogwarts in autumn. We compared poems and performed some then wrote our own using kennings, our senses, similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and some of the poetic devices we had spotted and liked in the poems that we had shared. Every Thursday is ThursdayVerseday where we spend a short time exploring poets or poetry around a theme and we have enjoyed immersing ourselves in poetry.
On Wednesday 17th September we became astronauts! Thank you for your patience at how long it took us to return from space! We had a fantastic day and learned a lot.
We didn't need broomsticks to blast off into space today! We loved learning all about space in our planetarium workshop and exploring the Centre of Life.
We had fun sorting ourselves into houses.
Astronomy
We have been learning about the planets and used our non-fiction reading skills to sort planets, order them, find the differences between objects in space and to share facts that we found interesting.
Samba!
We have started a samba band, led by Steve and Jay from Newcastle Music Service, and are looking forward to learning lots about samba and performing in a few weeks.
Whilst Professor Trelawney is temporarily unavailable for divination due to unforseen circumstances, Mrs Miller is teaching Muggle Places of Worship. This week, Fifth Years explored how appearance and layout of a place of worship expresses the beliefs of a faith community. They found out what things are found in religious buildings and what meanings they convey to believers. They listed words to describe religious buildings and located a variety of famous religious buildings around the world, from ornate to simple, traditional to unusual.
Most of us are remembering our times tables classroom password every day... Remember Fifth Years, keep logging on to TTRS and practise your tables.
We Created a Class Charter together and our class Aurors have been busy in Defence Against the Dark Arts in ensuring that everyone's cauldron is full and we are earning lots of points and butterbeers! Well done to Elodie and Ayrton for already achieving a trip to Honeyduke's!
Welcome back to school Year Five!
Harry Potter...
Harry Potter has arrived at Newburn! We enjoyed starting our class text for this half term today and creating our own Hogwarts inspired coat of arms in PHSE about ourselves.
Have you filled a cauldron today?
During potions, we decorated a cauldron each and will be filling them for each other throughout each week with kind messages and thanks and once a week will take all our messages home.
PE
After a wet lunchtime put a hold to playing quidditch, we had a dodge ball tournament. Gryffindor won initially but then Slytherin and Hufflepuff teamed up to dodge, throw and defeat the others with some spectacular catches from Ravenclaw ensuring that they too won a match and lots of fun was had.
