Here you will find all about recent activity in Year 5
We are going to be entering our final term of Year 5 in a few weeks. Can you believe it? It will be a term where we will be preparing the children for Year 6 and working on key skills in reading, writing and maths in order to send the children to Year 6 ready for their final year in Primary School. We will also be learning about The Victorian era. A topic the children always love! Don't forget to prepare your costume for Victorian day!
Year 5 enjoyed exploring The Hamptons, this time with a map in hand. They followed the map to find key places of interest: the amphitheatre, the community centre, nature reserve, play park and car park. They carefully marked these places on their maps. The next step is to create OS style maps using this information.
Year 5 had a wonderful experience at North Cheam Baptist Church this week. The immersive, engaging experience really brought The Easter Story to life for our children. It is such a highlight of our year. Thank you, Sutton Schoolsworks.
This week the children learnt about the lines of longitude and latitude and their significance. They enjoyed using the atlases to locate countries and the coordinates of a given city.
We absolutely loved reading the story 'Leaf' as part our World Book Day Project this year. The children wrote some amazing character descriptions. Well done to Sanaya and Manu who read their writing in assembly on World Book day. It was wonderful to see so much effort made with costumes. Thank you for all of your support. Please make sure you follow the school's Instagram and Facebook accounts where you might spot your child on World Book Day.
The children loved the Space Dome this week. It was fantastic to experience a planetarium from the school hall. The children learnt lots of facts about the planets and the earth's rotations around the sun. It was a fantastic way to launch the topic. Please make sure you check out the reel on our social media pages.
We loved our Food Tech day in Year 5 on Monday. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed ingredients; it really made a huge difference. Thank you to Sanaya's mum, Sienna's mum, Hala's mum and Oscar's nan who helped us massively with filling jars and washing up. We really appreciate you giving up your time. We look forward to next half term. Our new topic is Earth and Space.
Year 5 had a wonderful day out on Thursday at Hampton Court Palace where they took part in a Tudor Workshop about the jobs people had in the palace. Hearing more about John Blanke, the black trumpeter, who the children learnt about in school made it very special and memorable. Thank you to the parent volunteers, who helped out on this great day out.
What a fantastic week in Year 5. The children used online nutritional calculators in order to work out the nutritional values of their vegan bolognese. Thank you for signing up to purchase something off the recipe list. Please see important information in this week's Peek of the Week.
The Year 5 children have learnt a new mathematical strategy over the past week - 'the bus stop method' or short division, and we are so proud of their progress. Seeing the lightbulb moments and the connections being made around the classroom has been so rewarding. Well done Team 5.
The children really enjoyed adapting the traditional Bolognese recipe this week by using ideas they have seen their families use at home or ideas from cooking websites. They also used the Eatwell plate to check that their bolognese still had food from all the different food groups and looked at alternative sources of protein for beef. Good job year 5. We look forward to our cooking day coming up soon.
We have really enjoyed having a reset this week. We have looked at the school rules, behaviour and expectations as well as getting into our new topic, 'Notable Tudors'. Please read the Peek of the Week attached to find out about some exciting activities planned inside and outside of school.