The Big Question - Who made the Victorians healthier?

Which person had the most impact on Victorian public health?

Joseph Lister?
Joseph Bazalgette?
Florence Nightingale?
Louis Pasteur?
Dr John Snow?

This week we started our projects. We are going to work in groups to showcase the work of one of the above Victorians, showing the impact that they had on Victorian public health.

Scarlet
Y5 Neptune
I am going to do a model of Florence Nightingale, with a small grave stone made out of Mod Roc saying who she was, what she did and how she died.

Joseph
Y5 Neptune
I am going to do a puppet show of Dr John Snow
with 5 or so puppets of John snow and victims talking to them. I will write a script that will tell the audience about his important discovery.

It was the turn of Joseph Lister this week. We researched on the internet and in texts. We found out that he is known as 'The Father of Antiseptic Surgery'.

Who.......do you think had the most impact?
Why.........................................?  Explain.

Try these links to find out more -

www.wartgames.com/themes/world/victorian.html


http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/z2wqxnb

Victorian Public Health

We have been researching the Victorian cholera epidemics and the resulting improvements in public health. Cross Ness Pumping Station is a local example of Victorian engineering, that had an impact on public health. It was designed by Joseph Bazalgette. During our computing lessons we have been researching him and the Cross Ness Pumping Station.

http://www.crossness.org.uk/




We also learnt about a man called Dr John Snow. Try playing this game at home to help him make the link between drinking water and cholera.

http://www.choleraandthethames.co.uk/education-resources/dr-john-snow-game/

Trip to Kent Life Heritage Farm

Don't forget about our trip next week to Kent Life. Our booked work shops are Victorian Food and The Victorian Schoolroom. There are lots of other interesting things to see. Take a look at their web site.   http://www.kentlife.org.uk/

We are travelling there by coach - Red Route Buses

It should be a great trip and don't forget that you may dress up as a Victorian if you want to. Your teachers are!

Industrial Revolution

We used animations, games and quizzes to find out The Industrial Revolution.

The Industrial Revolution

This week we were answering the question - What was the Industrial Revolution?
We used the link below to find out about steam engines, blast furnaces, mills, factories, Stephenson's Rocket and much more.

http://www.wartgames.com/themes/industrialrevolution.html

Food Glorious Food!!

As promised, here is a link to the 'Food Glorious Food' song. Keep practising and don't forget the actions.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7PONiKGUs

In preparation for our Harvest Assembly next week we have been learning the Horrible Histories song Work Terrible Work.Use the link below to practise at home. With actions of course!  
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/music/p00hbc4q

E-safety

This week we have been learning about e-safety. We watched a very thought provoking video clip, encouraging us to Zip it, Block it, Flag it. Here are some of our posters giving that message.

Finding out about the Victorians

Meet the Teacher reminders -
* PE days are Monday and Wednesday
* Spelling tests are on Thursdays
*Homework is given out on Wednesday, to be returned by the following Monday

Our computing activity this week was to explore the BBC website about The Victorians


http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/

During History and English lessons we have found out about Victorian workhouses. In our class book, Street Child by Berlie Doherty, the main character Jim has arrived at the workhouse. We wrote a fact file about workhouses in our topic books and wrote a diary entry for Jim during English lessons.

Here are some of our impressive diary extracts - 

Dear Diary,

My name is Jim and I've just had a shocking day. My mum collapsed and we've ended up in the workhouse. I got upset when the police came and put her in the back of a cart. I was petrified and did not know what to do.

Jamie - Class Earth

Dear Diary, 

If ya 'ave been in a workhouse, ain't it just the worst! Err! Sorry ya ain't heard me story yet. 'Ere, let me take ya back in time. It all began when |I was walking down Pudding Lane with me ma.

Iona-Class Earth

Dear Diary,

I was then led to a room and had my comfortable clothes ripped off. I was splashed with the ice cold water and fitted into itchy clothes and then I had my hair snipped, snapped, snipped with blunt scissors.

Amy-Class Neptune

Dear Diary,

Today was the saddest day of my life. Me and my mum were strolling along the road. My mum was exhausted. I needed to find her a seat before she collapsed. We found a wooden bench, it was the best I could find.

Lianne-Class Neptune

Neptune and Earth - class of 2015/2016

We have settled well into our new year 5 classes. Our new topic is 'The Victorians' and this week we researched, drew pictures and wrote about Victorian children and the jobs that some of them had to do.

                                     

                                   

Life was very hard for these children, they were very poor, hungry and often very young.
We researched jobs that Victorian children did on the internet. Here are some of the comments that children from classes Neptune and Earth made -

I can't believe they had to do jobs at such a young age, even when they were weak and feeble.
Drew - class Neptune

I think that the jobs they did were unreasonable for children.
Lanre - class Earth

If they fell asleep on the job they could lose a limb and some children even lost their lives.
Reuben - class Earth

It's terrible that children aged 5 and 6 had to go to work.
Mya - class Neptune

If you want to find out more .........



www.bbc.co.uk/schools/.../victorian_britain/victorian_children_at_work/

Making fire!

On Monday afternoon, as part of Outdoor Week, we took part in activities with the Ben Bullen team. 

Our first activity was using tea lights, two twigs and a Pringle to fuel a fire.  It had some interesting results!

We also got to bake bread over an open fire (which we then got to eat, yum!)

Finally, we used cotton wool and a flint stick to make even more fire. This was harder than it looked!

And the favourite ice-cream flavour is...

We have now started to develop our Excel skills further and have used the program to collate data from our class survey. It turns out year 5 like their ice-cream!

We then started to practise using this data to create bar graphs using the 'chart tools'.  We are going to explore these tools further over the coming weeks.

Cracking the codes

This term we are learning how to use Microsoft Excel. We have explored how the program uses cells and how we can then use these cells to collate and present data.

We have been busy code-cracking and creating our own codes for our classmates to try.

Fabulous Festival of Learning

It's been a busy afternoon, showing parents our projects on Chembakolli and Bexley Village. I think they'll agree that the children did a fantastic job and have worked hard to present what they have learnt this half term. We'll done! 

Hello Earthlings

Are you out there?

Egg-citing Easter hats!

Earth and Neptune put on a show with their fantastic Easter bonnets and 'egg heads' today. Don't they look great!

Beowulf and the Vikings

Today has been 'history day' and we have been looking at the epic poem 'Beowulf'. Beowulf was a brave Viking warrior who courageously fought and defeated the sea monster Grendel.

Inspired by the story, we made our own Viking longboats and Viking helmets.

Houses of Parliament Visit by Arun and Christina

By Arun


Today we went to visit the Houses of Parliament with the other school forum reps. We had to get to school at 8:15am and we set off and got to the train station at 8:30am.




We travelled on the train for about 30 minutes and passed lots of things on the way like the Shard and Millwall Football Stadium.  When we got there we put our coats and lunch in a wheely basket thing.


Next we went to the really fancy toilets and went into the House of Commons.  They talked about some rugby and sports laws.  We left and went to the Central Lobby with corridors to each of the houses.




We went into a room to do a challenge where we chose two things to make a new law about. We had to chose a name for our Party and look at how much it would cost.  We then had to present our idea to the other groups. When we had finished we went back to the fancy toilets.  Finally, we had lunch and came back to catch the train.


By Christina


First we went to go and see Sophie (our tour guide) and we all got shown around the place.  We went to the place where they make the laws.  Then we also had to walk a lot to get there but there were plenty of places to sit.


We all got split into two groups and went to a workshop where we met the Minister for Kent.  He lives in Barnehurst and works next to the Prime Minister (10 Downing Street). After that we had to go and have lunch and then come home on the train.

Mandarin Masquerade!

Year 5 have been learning about the Chinese New Year story today. 

Earth class have worked hard creating masks of each animal and re-enacting the exciting race.  Don't they look great!

Scratch dancing!

Today, Earth have been experimenting with both movement and sound, challenging themselves to create a dancing sprite!


As well as practising motion sequences and ensuring these ran correctly, they also had to experiment with the sound scripts.  This was quite a challenge in itself, but they were quite successful at bringing the two elements together and producing some great work!


Well done, Earth :-)