Science in 5N
Returning to school after the half term, 5N conducted a science experiment about how differing levels of activity affect our pulse rate.
We took our resting pulse rates in class to see how many times our heart beats while we are sitting down.
Then we went into the hall to begin our mild exercise! We walked at a normal pace around the hall for a minute and a half then sat down to take our pulse rates.
We noticed that they had increased from our resting rate.
Then we began our vigorous exercise! We ran around the hall, again for a minute and a half before stopping to take our pulse once more.
As we panted and tried to get our breath back, we realised our pulse rate had dramatically increased!
We went back to class to complete our experiment sheets, and to catch our breath!
Come back to our webpage soon to see what else we have been up to in 5N!
Miss Barrett
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5N have been really busy recently.
This week we went to the museum of science and industry and met Prince Charles! More information on this visit can be found on that page, click on the link on the top left of this page.
We have been continuing our hard work on the topic of the Tudors. This week we got even more involved in Tudor life by cooking and eating some Tudor style food.
We made bread and a dish called Pottage.
Pottage is a recipe which originates from Tudor times. Some of the ingredients include carrots, onions, parsnips, cabbage, leeks, turnips and celery. We peeled and chopped all these vegetables (enough for around 100 people!) and began to boil them. Then we added dried beans and lots of different herbs to add flavour including thyme, coriander and sage, along with some vegetable stock. Later we included porridge oats to thicken the mixture. 
We mixed and baked individual bread rolls to eat alongside the Pottage.
Once everything was ready we tasted the Tudor food. Some people were braver than others and were more willing to taste the food.
We learned that Pottage was eaten by poorer people in Tudor times. The recipe didn’t include any meat because people couldn’t afford it.
Later in the week we evaluated the Pottage in relation to our topic of healthy eating. We decided that although the Pottage was healthy because it included lots of vegetables, it wasn’t a balanced meal as it did not include any meat or dairy products.
We also brought the Pottage into a numeracy lesson where we calculated the price of an individual portion and decided it was a very cheap meal and very suitable for poorer people in Tudor times.
5N are performing their class assembly on Tuesday to the rest of Key Stage 2 and some children have been working very hard at learning their lines. We will be performing a few scenes from a Tudor play about Henry the 8th as well as discussing other work we have been doing throughout this topic.
Come back soon to see how our assembly went and what else we have been doing in school.
Miss Barrett
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Welcome back to school for the spring term even though Manchester is covered in lots of snow!
School re-opened on Monday 4th January after the holidays and we began our lessons for this half term.
In literacy we will be working on poetry this half-term but on Monday we had a big writing session where we wrote about our holidays. There were some excellent descriptions of the snow and the fun we had playing in it, during the break.
In numeracy we began working on fractions which we will be working on for a while.
Our Science topic for this half term is healthy eating and we will be starting work on this next week.
Also on Monday, Miss Nortcliffe introduced our topic for this half-term The Tudors! The class were really happy and enthusiastic about this topic and the children wrote down some questions they would like to find out about Henry VIII whilst we are working on this topic.
On Monday night the snow came! This meant that everyone struggled getting to school on Tuesday morning and so Miss Offord closed the school for Tuesday and Wednesday.
On Thursday morning school re-opened and we can carry on with our exciting work this half term despite the bad weather.
There will be lots of exciting activities in 5N this half term so check the website again soon to see what we have been doing.
Keep safe and warm in the snow!
Miss Barrett
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There has been alot going on in 5N recently!
We have elected Mamnoon Ahmed as our Student council representative and he has been very busy representing the views of our class at the Birchfields Student Council meetings. Children in 5N can tell Mamnoon about any ideas, issues or problems they may have and he can relay the class ideas to the student council.
This week we have visited the Gita Bhavan Hindu Temple in Whalley Range. We all got the bus on Tuesday morning and had a lovely time learning about Hinduism. Mr Sharma was our guide for the day and he introduced the history of the Hindu religion then showed us round the Temple and all the different deities. We saw some beautiful pictures that seemed to be looking at us wherever we were in the room!
We took gifts of fruit and flowers to the Temple to thank them for allowing us to visit. Afterwards we were each offered a piece of fruit to take home. We had a lovely morning and learnt lots about Hinduism. The pictures of our trip will be online very soon for you to look at.
Next Friday we are visiting Chester Zoo as part of our topic Are all living things equal? Please could the money for the trip be in the school as soon as possible. As it said on the letter children can bring up to £5 to spend in the shop and must wear suitable clothing (Warm and waterproof) as we will be outside for most of the day.
A quick reminder that school is closed on Friday 27th November to allow for Eid celebrations.
Come back soon to see what we have been getting up to in 5N
EID MUBARAK!
Miss Nortcliffe and Miss Barrett
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This week 5N have been learning to Identify the reproductive parts of a flower.
First we looked on the BBC website and did an interactive activity on the whiteboard. It let us drag parts of a flower to the correct name and then gave us some information about each part. If you would like to have a go at this activity you will find the link here.<embed src=”http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/flash/life_cycles.swf?” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”584″ height=”300″/>
Next we filled in some worksheets that helped us to label the parts of a flower and there were some excellent pieces of work.
Lastly we looked at some real lillies to see if we could identify the reproductive parts of a flower. We each had a magnifying glass to help us look at the smaller parts.
Have a look through our pictures of us hard at work
