Year 5 News

This week in Year 5, we were luck to be able to visit North Cheam Baptist church, where we were privy to a truly immersive Easter Experience performance – the actors were fantastic and lots of the children were able to get involved and be a part of the drama. In Maths, we are looking at decimals and percentages and how to convert between the two, comparing and calculating soon.In English, we are coming to the end of our journey with Me, my Dad and the end of the rainbow and are looking forward to producing some wonderful writing inspired by the story. In Science, we have been looking at water and air resistance and what it means for an object to be streamlined, and how this reduces resistance.

How do you find decimal and fraction equivalents?

This week in Year 5, we started a new topic in Geography all about the great rivers of the world, focussing on comparison of different rivers, and the human and physical features associated with rivers and how they are formed and used. This is also feeding into our English work where were planning and writing non-chronological reports about great rivers of the world. In Maths, we have been looking at decimal and fractions equivalents, and how to convert to and from both of these. Tip! Try to learn some decimal and fraction equivalents like you learn your times tables, then they will be at the tip of your tongue! In Science, we have been continuing our study of different forces and how they act on different objects.

This week in Year 5, we have been gearing up for the sensational visit to Hampton Court Palace – an iconic part of History. What a fantastic time we had there! The children were exceptionally well-behaved and really showed themselves to be trem

 

This week in Year 5, we have been writing or first drafts of our newspaper articles. The writing is a little tough to relive since it is all about the cancelled trip from last term! However, there has been lots of great learning taking place including everyone practising using lots or direct and indirect speech correctly. In Maths, we have started working on shape, space and measure, looking at translations and reflections. In History, the children presented their group work on researching what it was like to be a black person in the Tudor times. In Science, we continued to build on our knowledge of gravity as a force, learning how air resistance can affect gravitational force.

This week, we all worked really hard on our reading, grammar and maths booklets. Some classes still have a booklet or so to go, but we are really proud of everyones efforts in showing what they have learnt under timed conditions. In Science, some classes investigated how effective different meterials are at insulating hot water, with some really interesting results! In English, we have started reading The Matchbox Diaries, which is a fascinating story about a family of Italian immigrants making a life for themselves in the USA in the 1800s. In computing, we have made our first prototype website which we will analyse and improve on next week, then will be adding a range of different media devices to. In Maths, we are about to start an exciting unit on fractions, so any revision you can do on this theme over the weekend will certaihnly be useful!

This week in Year 5 we have been preparing all the necessary grammar and writing practise for writing a letter in the past tense - we will be writing in character as Grace in the Titanic story we have been reading. The specific focus for our writing have been: expanded noun phrases, modal verbs and using visual imagery to show characters emotions, rather than just telling how they are feeling using adjectives. In Maths, we have been revising square and cube numbers and have no moved on to multiplying and dividing whole numbers by 10, 100 and 1000. In Computing, we have started curating our website content which we are all making as a class in our Year 5 classes. These websites will all be about cyber safety, and will be published at the end of Autumn 2 for younger year groups to use. In Science, we looked at reversible and irreversible changes and how these occur - we will be seeing some of these reaction live on Monday!