Silkstone Primary School

Welcome to Class Five 

Welcome to Class Five

Our class team is Miss Glisson and Mrs Ellis.

Academic Year 2024 - 2025.

Summer Term Curriculum Overview

We are Historians

We had an amazing day at the Coal Mining Museum - it linked really well to our local history study and we saw the conditions that the children of the Huskar Pit would have worked in.  The showers were a bit gruesome! 

We are Artists

We have enjoyed creating Zines using imagery from the Berlie Doughtery poem, 'Ghost in the Garden'.  We selected our favourite lines from the poem and used acrylics and water colours to create our images.

Our Curriculum Map for the Spring Term

We are Designers and Makers

We worked hard to design and make our CAMS Christmas toys.

Run for Epilepsy Action

We ran a mile around the school to raise funds for Epilepsy Action.  

We are Scientists.

In Class 5, we are learning about Forces in Science - this afternoon, we have created parachutes and thought about how air resistance affects how they fall to the ground. We got the large parachute out and explored how gravity and air worked to affect the parachute. We also used our knowledge of air resistance to build a little parachute den - it was so good, we let Year 1 have a go too. Lots of fun and lots of learning - a perfect afternoon. 

Curriculum Information Autumn Term 2024

Academic Year 2023-2024

Curriculum Overview 2024

Street Dance

We loved our street dance workshop today.

Fabric Lenny

We worked with the artist Fabric Lenny to create these wonderful pieces of art linked to Windrush as part of our topic on the British Empire and the important contribution made to our culture and country.

Opera North

We had so much fun with Marie-Claire and Peter at our first Opera North rehearsal - we love the quirky Wonderland Restored and cannot wait to perform at Barnsley Metrodome in July.

Curriculum Map Spring Term

Father Christmas

We enjoyed having a chat with Father Christmas when he came to visit us.

Dance

In PE - we have been learning Bollywood dance moves - we have been using the music Jai Ho and Spice up your Life - both great for doing our specialist move of Shimmying! 

Reading for Pleasure

We have enjoyed our Class book so much; we wrote a persuasive letter to Mrs Adams to get some more books by the same author.  She was so impressed she said 'Yes'.

Typography and 3D designs

In Art, we have learned about typography and map work and linked this to our work on Mountains and Everest - we created 3D models that were so brilliant we held a little impromptu art exhibition for Mrs Dolan and Year 4 - we have created digital artwork from the models and will share these when we have perfected them.

Science

In Science, we have been exploring the properties of different materials.

National CoalMining Museum

Children were exemplary and a credit to Silkstone - enjoyed learning about the Victorian workers in the mine and meeting Sam - whose family were actually very prolific in instigating change and better conditions in the Welsh Mines. We loved meeting the pit ponies, especially Flynn - who was huge! We also learnt how to protect our packed lunches from rats - which linked brilliantly to our learning in Science about properties of materials.

Self Portraits

We are incredibly proud of our self portraits, created in the style of Romero Britto.

Dan the Skipping Man

We enjoyed learning different skipping styles with Dan the Skipping Man.

Run for Macmillan

Well done everyone for running a mile to raise funds for Macmillan.

Curriculum Information for the Autumn Term