Year 5
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Year 5 Topics (2009)
Autumn Term
Life in the 19th Century (including a visit to
Swansea Museum to meet Alice Francis)
Looking for clues about Victorian Swansea.
Have we found everything yet?
Year 5 children visited the Cabinet of Curiosities, 
upstairs at Swansea Museum.
Recounting our visit to Swansea Museum.
We recently visited Swansea Museum and The Waterfront Museum in the Marina. We were studying Swansea in the 19th Century. We were going to see Alice Francis (acted by Val Williams) and Gerald Gabb, a local historian.
We boarded the coach and after a short time we were there! We went in and met Alice Francis. She talked about her life as a servant. She explained that she was quite lucky to be a servant. Alice explained that there was not a privy in the whole of Morris Lane, where she lived, so they went to the toilet in buckets and threw the waste out of the window! She also said that she thought that the steam train was a wonderful invention. We asked her lots of questions and soon it was time for her to go.
Gerald Gabb showed us some artefacts and Victorian newspapers. We looked around and after a while Val Williams, the actress who acted as Alice Francis, came back into the room. She told us how she had got her information from newspapers, letters, diaries and census forms. We asked her about her job and the way she worked.
We had lunch in the Waterfront Museum, then we met a lady called Cathy. She had to split us into 5 groups. One group looked at census forms, others looked at the exhibition displays and made drawings.
Later, we returned to Swansea Museum for a slideshow about 19th Century Swansea. We then went to the Cabinet of Curiosities, upstairs. We looked for things that Alice Francis might have used. Soon it was time to go.
I really wished that I could have stayed much longer because I enjoyed the trip so much.
Year 5 pupil, 2009
Many thanks to Gerald Gabb and all the Staff at
Swansea Museum and The National Waterfront Museum.
Here is an Internet task for Year 5 children studying 19th Century history:
Name:
Victorian Internet Treasure Hunt
Using Internet Explorer type http://www.victorians.org.uk/ into the address bar and then press ENTER. The site has information about how people in Britain lived in the 19th century. Once on the site search it and try answer the questions below.
1. The ‘Day in the Life’ section looks at the lives of who?
2. The ‘Day in the Life’ section looks at the week of factory workers, what was the date of this week?
3. On Monday who gets up earlier, John or Elizabeth?
4. What does Elizabeth do when she gets up on Wednesday?
5. Looking in the ‘Theme Gallery’ and at Personal Health, where would people living in the country get their water from?
6. Using the ‘transport’ page what form of transport changed the lives of Britons?
7. How were the buses different from buses we have today?
8. Looking at Victorian childhood, what were children forced to do to earn extra money?
9. At what age did boys, even in wealthy families, stop wearing dresses?
10. How was food stored in the 19th Century and why? Use the ‘Cooking and Cleaning’ section to help you.
Keep going, there's more Year 5 Topics (2009) Spring Term :India and Life in an India and two Science topics:
one on Sound, and one on Earth and Beyond.
Similarities and differences in Wales and India
Similarities Some of the buildings are the same.
There are rivers and lakes.
People go to work.
They have beaches.
There are mountains.
Some of their wild life is the same fish, birds etc.
Some kinds of food are the same.
Some traditions are the same.
Some of their clothes are the same.
They have celebrations for birthdays and weddings. Differences They eat different food.
They have some different transport. Some children don’t go to school.
They have different buildings.
They have different wildlife, tigers in India!
Their traditions are different.
Some of their clothes are different.
Indians celebrate on different occasions.Some of the transport is similar- cars, buses, trains, etc.
How would you travel from our place to India?
We love SCIENCE, WE DO! One of our Science TOPICS is Earth and Beyond.
On Wednesday 18th March 2009, Class 5D went on a trip to the Observatory at Swansea Marina.
Firstly, we went onto the coach and strapped ourselves in. We went round a roundabout and we went to the Observatory. It was a bumpy ride and when we got there, we went into the Observatory in twos.
Secondly, we sat down and pretended we were in a space rocket and we met the crew - the Captain, Brian, Henry, Chief, P.E.R.C.I, 2 Imps and 3 PESTS. We saw 170 moons, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
Then we split into two groups. Group I went up a spiral staircase as big as four giraffes on top of each other. Finally, we got to the top, but it wasn’t over yet! We had to cross a very short bridge but it was a very, very long way up. Eventually, when everyone was brave enough we crossed the bridge and went into a room where the Captain showed us the telescope, which is the biggest (of its kind) in
Next, we went onto the beach and had lunch, then we played football. The final score was 9-9. I scored 4 goals and the teams were me, Sam, Joe and Annabelle and the other team were Huw, Muizz, Saieed, Afshin and Annie
Finally, we packed up and got on the bus and went home, but we made a wrong turn so we were late. EW Y5D
Team building at Parkland At Parkland we consider team work to be very important in developing good skills and attitudes. Over the years we have had various sporting teams - football, netball, rugby and hockey. There are, also,The Peacemakers, made up of Y6 pupils who help in the Infant playground; The Eco Teams - Heavy Squad for digging, gardening and recycling , Litter Gang to keep us tidy, and Switchers to reduce energy waste. The Eco-Committee makes plans to improve the environment and the School Council works very hard to make Parkland great! Our orchestra is probably the most tuneful team at Parkland. Here is a nostalgic look at various teams at Parkland Primary: MY TRIP TO THE OBSERVATORY
A Parkland Football Team at an indoor tournament
A group of Treginnis Farmers at the Bishop's Palace, St.David's.
This is our annual Y6 residential visit to live and work on a farm
in Pembrokeshire for a whole week.
Eco Club on a litter pick down at the Dell.
Year 5 children growing daffodils in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Litter Gang on patrol in the school grounds.
We collected Sainsbury's tokens to get the litter pickers.
This group of Parkland children are on a trip to Margam Park,
we visited Margam Castle and the Orangery.
More footballers from our archives.
Here is our present team (Season 2008-2009) at an indoor tournament at Cwmdu. We played 6 games, drew one and won five. We scored 25 goals and conceded only two.
Can you guess..
What's happening?
The last three photos are from a Red Nose Day activity.
We were encouraged to 'do something funny for money,'
so we collected lots of 'copper' coins from the bottom of drawers, piggy banks, wallets and purses and placed them end-to-end in a long line. Every class did this, then came the difficult job of measurng the lines! Year 5 measured their line of coins at 72 m .
That's a lot of money, and we know it will be used to help people in Africa and the UK. The whole school raised over £800 for Red Nose Day. Great effort!