Year 5 News

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!

This week in Year 5, we have been planning our ‘cold write’, a piece of writing entirely unique to each and everyone writing! They just have a basic story structure to loosely follow, after that it is all down to their superb imaginations!

We have been ploughing through with our mental maths certificates and badges too, getting almost back to where we were at the end of Year 4 – more badges and certificates to be won soon we are certain. We have also been focussing on rounding and estimating as well as lots of mental arithmetic practise.

In History, we did an end of unit assessment where pupils created a double page poster of all they have learned over the half term, and these are looking really detailed! In PSHE, we have been discussing the meaning of different emotions and how best to deal with these during more challenging times in our lives. In RE, we have been selecting our favourite Hindu Gods or Goddesses and making fact files about them.

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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?