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This week has been slightly different. Due to SATS we have been on the move around the school each day. On Monday and Tuesday, we were lucky enough to spend some time with Oak class helping them with drawing club and maths. All the children worked very well with the younger children which was so lovely to see. On Tuesday afternoon, we had a great PE session in the hall playing dodgeball which everyone loved and got involved in. On Wednesday afternoon, the children had a fun science lesson with Miss Penny looking at how animals have changed over time. In particular focusing on the different geological periods of time. We had a very exciting day on Thursday at Paignton Zoo. The children behaved excellently and were a credit to the school. We had a fabulous day seeing lots and lots of different animals, some of our favourites were; squirrel monkeys, the sloth, tigers, agoutis and the baby orangutan which was super super cute! We also had a workshop where we learnt lots about how giraffes have adapted over time to suit their environment. Today we have also had an exciting morning, learning that we will be performing Aladdin as our year 5/6 play this year. We spent time listening to all the songs and learning a little bit about each character. After break we then had a year 5/6 rounders game which was very fun and some great rounders were scored! I hope you have a lovely weekend :) Welcome to our weekly blog!
We have had a lovely week enjoying the sun! In English, we have been publishing our information texts on different endangered animals. The children have produced some excellent reports on these animals with lovely writing and drawings! Look out for these display around the school soon. In maths, we have finished our unit on coordinates and have started our new unit on converting units of measure. Today we focused on kilometres into metres and kilograms into grams. On Monday we will be focusing millilitres and millimetres. In computing the children designed their own quiz on any topic of their choice. Next week we will be creating the quiz on scratch using our programming skills we have learnt over the unit. Today we had an excellent PE session where we played a big game of rounders with year 6. The children were fab, they all participated and were supportive to one another! This afternoon we have continued with our bridges unit in DT. We have been making truss bridges out of spaghetti and masking tape. This has proven to be quite difficult. See below for some pictures of our wokr in progress. I hope you enjoy your weekend and hopefully in the sun too! Happy Friday! Welcome to our weekly blog!
What another busy week we have had in Hazel class. In English, we have been researching our own endangered animal. We have been researching why they are endangered and what is being done to save the animal. Children have chosen lots of interesting animals from Bonobo to a monarch butterfly. Today we began to write our own information text and will continue this next week! In maths we have begun our topic on position and direction, looking at coordinates and translation. We are trying to remember that the X coordinate comes first by saying ' along the corridor and up the stairs!' We will continue this unit next week by focusing on reflection. In PE we have been focusing on striking and fielding. Our PE session on Tuesday was focused on practicing skills needed in cricket and today we have focused on playing a whole class game of rounders! This afternoon, we have started our DT project on Bridges. We have started by building different bridges using card and seeing which design can hold the most weight. See pictures below. I hope enjoy your long weekend and I hope the sun does shine! Happy Friday! Welcome to our weekly blog.
This week has been another busy week really getting into all our topics. In English, we have been writing our own persuasive speeches on saving an endangered animal. The speeches the class produced were excellent and very persuasive. On Thursday everyone was very brave and had a go at performing their speech to the class. See some photos below. In maths we have continued looking at shapes and angles. We have been working out missing angles based on facts we have learnt (such as angles on a straight line always add up to 180 degrees). Next week we will complete our end of unit assessment on shape and angles and begin a new unit. In our history lesson we focused on how the Middle East is very important for different religions. We looked at our it is an important place for Christians, Muslims and Jewish people within their history. In RE we continued looking at gospels in the Bible and looked at the messaged and key teachings we could learn from them. Our PE focus this term is rounders. Over our PE sessions we have been focusing on our batting and fielding skills which are improving which is excellent. Today we played catching rounders which focused on throwing and catching the ball from long distances. In French the children completed a listening assessment. It was focused on clothes and greetings. The children tried very hard with this and did very well. Lots of exciting things to look forward to and lots of important dates for the summer term will be announced soon. So keep an eye out on dojo for dates and messages. Have a lovely weekend :) Welcome back to the Summer Term! This is my favourite term of the year as there is lots of exciting opportunities and events to look forward to.
This week we have been busy starting lots of new topics in lots of different subjects. In English, we have began our new text 'Can we save the tiger?' which is a non -fiction text all about endangered animals around the world. The children have been very engaged by this book and have been fascinated learning about all the different animals. We have started to plan our own persuasive speeches on saving an endangered animal. Next week we will be spending time writing these and then performing them to the class. In Maths we have started our shape unit by focusing on angles. We have learnt how to measure angles and how to draw angles using a protractor. We have also learnt the names to classify different angles: acute , right angles, obtuse and reflex. In history we have begun our unit on the middle east by looking at one of the most ancient civilisations known - Mesopotamia. We looked at the inventions they invented and discussed which we thought was the most important. Most agreed that the wheel was the most important invention. On Wednesday with Mr Legg, the children started their new science topic on humans and animals over time looking at Charles Darwin and his discoveries. This will link well with our trip to Paignton Zoo in a few weeks! Today we had our first lesson on rounders. We spent time practicing the basic skills needed, batting and bowling and then ended the session with a class game. Next week we will build on these skills and also incorporate more rules into our class game. Spellings and maths homework due in on Monday. I hope you have a lovely weekend! Happy Easter!
I hope you had fun in the snow this morning and haven't got to wet in the rain this afternoon! We have had a lovely end of term busy getting up to lots of activities. On Monday we joined with year six to create Easter wreaths. The children worked really hard on these and by the end of the session they looked amazing! In the afternoon we finished our geography unit on biomes by looking at the savanna and how humans are negatively impacting biomes. We watched an incredibly powerful and moving video explaining the effects climate change is having our on planet. On Tuesday we finished publishing our newspaper articles about Anne Frank. The children were really engaged with this unit which was great to see! In the afternoon we finished our gymnastics unit too. We also had a go at re creating the move from one of our favourite just dance brain breaks 'waka waka'. See some pictures below! We had a great final day of term by writing and publishing Easter poems. We also had some free time choosing different Easter themed puzzles and maths games to have a go at. In the afternoon children made beautiful pop up Easter egg cards which looked great. See more pictures below! Lots of exciting things to look forward to in the summer term and fingers crossed the weather starts to improve. I hope you have a lovely Easter break! Happy Easter Miss Collins :) Happy Friday!
We have had a super busy week with our bike ability sessions! The instructors were very impressed with our children and their behaviour, which was great to hear. Meanwhile, in class some children were busy having a go at lots of different projects. They designed their own biomes (see pictures) and their own secret annexes. We have also continued with our English and maths lessons. In maths we have started a new unit all about area and perimeter. We have looked at how to find the perimeter of rectangles and the area of rectangles and compound shapes. We will finish this unit next week. In English we have been exploring the features of a newspaper article and begun writing our own newspaper reports about the discovery of Anne Frank and her family. We will aim to finish these and publish these by the end of next week. We have not covered much of the wider curriculum this week due to bike ability but we will be finishing our units off next week before the Easter Break! Have a lovely weekend :) Happy Friday! This term seems to be flying by!
We started the week by having a joint assembly with year 6 with the book trust. It was all about authors and their experiences becoming authors. They also gave lots of top tips to children who would one day love to become an author. We were even lucky enough to receive a book for each child from one of the authors from the virtual assembly. Today we our celebrating and fundraising for Red Nose Day by wearing something red for a donation and after school we are having a bake sale in the hall. Please come along for some delicious sweet treats! In English, we have started our new unit on Anne Frank. Children have been very engaged by this book and the topic. We have discovered this amazing online resource the secret annex and it provides you with a virtual tour of where Anne Frank lived and hid. Next week we will be having our bike ability sessions! It is going to be a very exciting opportunity for the children to learn how to ride a bike safely out on the roads. Look out on dojo for messages and updates . Have a lovely weekend! Happy Friday!
It has been another busy week with lots of learning taking place in Year 5! It was great to see lots of the children dressed up as their favourite book character. We had a hot dog, Harry Potter, Matilda and Alice in Wonderland! The children completed a world book day quiz testing their knowledge all about books, made some reading bookmarks and also completed an emoji book quiz. In our English lessons, we have been continuing to write, edit and publish our own fairy-tale sequels. the quality of the writing has been phenomenal, lots of budding authors in this class. Next week, we will start our new unit all about Anne Frank and her story. In maths we will have been learning about decimals and rounding them to nearest whole number and to the nearest one decimal place. We will finish this unit next week when we look at percentages! On Wednesday afternoon, the children created some great gymnastics sequences in partners practicing their balances and learning their own mini sequences to perform to the rest of the class. After our busy PE lesson, we came back and had a go at making our own parrot vector drawings on the computers. This proved to be quite a challenge! Next Friday will be Red Nose Day, look out for information on school dojo regarding this! TTRS is now back up and running again so children should be practicing their timetables at home please! Spellings and Maths homework due in on Monday please. Have a lovely weekend :) Happy Friday, what a wet week it has been! I hope you enjoy reading this week's blog.
This week in English we have begun to plan and write our own sequel to the 'The Sleeper and the Spindle'. We have been planning our own versions using different settings and characters from other famous fairy tales. Next week we will continue to write and edit our own sequel stories. In maths we have been continuing looking at decimals and learning equivalent fraction decimals. We have been looking at numbers with up to three decimal places. Children have been excellent at identifying and representing decimals in a place value chart. We were lucky enough to have three PE sessions this week, where in every lesson all children have been working really well. On Monday, we had a lesson with Mark Templeton from Real PE which focused on using our core strength, Tuesday we looked at balances and creating our own sequences in gymnastics. Today we had a lesson looking at skills used in netball and we even played some mini netball games practicing our skills of throwing and catching. In Geography this week we looked at the factors that affect a biome and how important they are for humans. We also researched and designed a picture to represent a biome of our choice. They look lovely out on display outside our classroom. I hope you manage to stay dry this weekend! It was lovely to see nearly all of you at parents meetings this week. Have a lovely weekend! The Year 5 Team |
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