Year 5 News

We have had a wonderful second week in Year 5. Routines are becoming established and the hard and exciting work is really taking shape now!

In English, we have been focussing on creating expanded noun phrases and using relative clauses, all in the context of writing about the Vikings and the invasion of England. In Maths, we have continued on working on place value, looking at rounding, estimating, partitioning and comparing  numbers up to 100,000. 

In RE, we have learnt about who Brahman is and the history of Hinduism - we had some really lovely writing about how Brahman is everything and everything and everywhere - some wonderfully philosophical comments coming from so many pupils!

In PE, we have started playing some team ball games, specifically a great version of bench ball - ask your children about it (unless they are in Blue class, in which case ask them about how their swimming is going!

In Science, we investigated which materials were soluble or insoluble, and had some great discussions about their suitability as materials in real life contexts, like, why could you not make a sandcastle out of sugar and water if the beach was made of sugar?

This week the children created their Take One Picture collages using natural materials and paint. They have turned out so well! The children also painted their clay pots using space colours and glitter.

In Literacy, we continued reading The Girl of Ink & Stars and wrote character descriptions and diary entries. In Maths, we have been learning about parallel and perpendicular lines as well as regular and irregular polygons. 

In PSHE, we created vision boards, looking into our future and setting goals for ourselves.

We are also super excited to know who our new teachers are. Blue Class will meet Mrs Wyman next week, Indigo Class will meet Mrs Harman and Mrs Glover and Sapphire Class will meet Mrs Thorn and Mrs Wilkins. What an exciting time of year this is!

This week we had our Space Day, which was so much fun. We did astronaut training, space dancing, junk modelling and alien writing. The costumes were fabulous! 

In English, we have been continuing to read The Girl of Ink and Stars, and it is starting to get very, very exciting. In Maths, we have started our unit on angles and the children have learnt how to use a protractor. In Science, we have been learning about the sun, moon and earth and in Art we designed a space-themed pot. 

It has been super hot this week, so we have also been enjoying the sunshine outside! 

This week in Year 5, we have been continuing to learn about decimals and fractions in Maths, thinking carefully about ordering and rounding. In Literacy, we completed our Peppered Moth Fact Files as part of our Star Write. We were concentrating on formal tone, scientific language and formal fronted adverbials. 

In PSHE, we learnt about edited photographs and how easy it is to use apps to alter images. We spoke about how dangerous this can be and how we should always be mindful that not everything we see on the Internet is true. In the same lesson, we looked at fake news and how to spot false news articles. 

We are so excited to go on residential next week, and the children staying in school also have really exciting things to look forward to!

What a lovely first week back! Year 5 have been busy reading 'Moth', a book about evolution and adaptation. The children dissected tulips in order to identify the male and female parts of the plant. In Maths, we have started our Decimals unit and in Computing we explored the Lady Bug Munch code on Scratch. We have started our Victorians topic in History, and we cannot wait for our Victorian Day on Monday!  

First and foremost, congratulations to all of Year 5 for their incredible efforts and preparation for their Easter production, which they performed for the first time in front of the whole school on Friday morning. They are due to perform twice to parents and families next week, and as a Year 5 team we are so unbelievably proud of them for the hard work and dazzling performances put in – everyone in the audience was extremely emotional! Special mentions must go to: Caleb for playing Jesus with so much passion, and singing beautifully; Elenia, for stepping in at the last minute for Anvee who was unwell on Friday, all the soloists who sang so confidently by themselves; the technical crew for lighting and sound and of courses everyone in the production for performing so well as a team.

In maths this week, we finished our unit on fractions and in English we have been writing our own free verse poetry. Next week, we will be baking our own individual vegan apple pies with our own personally improved recipes for D&T – a delicious thing to look forward to!