Here you will find all about recent activity in Year 5
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.
We have had a wonderful yet very busy week in Year 5. We had a lovely Christmas lunch on Wednesday and it was so special to see our Year 5s support their 'Little Friends 'with their first ever school Christmas lunch. Well done Year 5.
The children have been learning all about the world's biomes this week. They focused their learning on the Tundra and researched and made Slides presentations on this fascinating biome. They looked at the devastating effect global warming is having on this biome and what we as global citizens can do to prevent further changes.
The Year 5 children were delighted to meet their 'little friends' from the reception classes this week. They wrote lovely invitations to their friends inviting them to Christmas lunch. The Year 5 children are getting so much out of this special project in terms of some of our school values: responsibility, empathy and self-belief. We are looking forward to seeing these friendships develop further.
Titanic Day was a blast on Thursday. The children really enjoyed the range of activities on offer. The children get so much from these WOW days, so thank you for all of your support preparing and organising their costumes. We will need using this wonderful experience to help write diaries as Titanic survivors.
This week the children have worked very hard completing assessment booklets in class. They also met their 'Little Friends' from Reception for the first time. This is a relationship we hope to nuture over the next year and into the Year 5 children's last year of Primary School. We were blown away by how kind, gentle and nurturing the children were whilst communicating and playing with the smaller children, and we look forward to watching the older children support the younger ones and these relationships go from strength to strength.
The children have made it to the end of their first half-term in Year 5, and we are so proud of how well they have adjusted to Upper Key Stage 2. All the children really enjoyed their first Year 5 topic - The Vikings and we could see from their double-page spread assessments, they have retained so much information. We will spend time going over this knowledge all year so that it is firmly in their long-term memory. Happy Half Term everyone!