Class 5
Friday 25th November 2022
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This week's blog has been written by our very own Zachary and Betsy! We hope you enjoy reading it!
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MATHS
This week we have been learning how to read data, charts and graphs. It was really fun but tricky at the same time. Although it was a little tricky, some children in class managed to answer all of the questions on sets A, B and C!
Geography and English
Our topic this term is Ancient Greece and our English work has been linked to it. We are really enjoying the topic and if you want at lunch time, Miss Eastwood puts on a Greek Myth video and some children spend time watching them. In English this week we have been finishing up writing our newspaper reports about our book Odysseus which is based in ancient Greece. Chapter 4 was about when Odysseus gets caught in a deadly storm and nobody can find them. Miss Eastwood told us all the steps of writing a newspaper report and we have been following this guidance to write our own. We have chosen the names of our newspaper companies, written headlines, by-lines, an introduction and then the body of the report. Next week we will be writing them up in our neatest handwriting using actual newspaper column layouts!
World cup
This week as most of you know the world cup started this week and Miss Eastwood kindly let us watch some of the first England match as long as we had completed our work first. It was England vs Iran. England won 6 – 2. We were all very excited. Sadly, we didn’t get any popcorn! On Thursday morning we all got envelopes to decorate. Inside the envelopes was different names of the football teams in the world cup. No one knows which team they have inside their envelopes but in January we will open the envelopes and see who got the winning team then they will win a prize. Thursday afternoon we had an assembly about the world cup. Abby from – Pennine sports partnership- kindly ran the assembly which was very interesting, she even showed up highlights from different world up matches over the years!
Geography and Topic
This week in geography we had to race across Europe. We had to go from Leeds to Athens following a special map which gave estimated times for travelling from one area to another. We even had some winners for the quickest and the cheapest to travel. The winners were our very own Jemimah and Alex G with the cost of £140. Then Millie and Isaac with the time of 35hr.
PHSE
This week in PSHE we have been learning about how to understand value for money. We each got a statement and worked with our tables to make a mini court room and decide on agrees for that statement and disagrees. It was really fun! Here are some of the statements
EVERY COUNTRY SHOULD HAVE A NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.
Shops should not offer people plastic bags.
It should be illegal to pay people an unfair price for their produce or work.
SCIENCE
Our science topic this term is forces. Some of our learning objective are:
To explain what makes objects fall to Earth.
To know what air resistance is.
We have also been doing water resistance.
We have really enjoyed this topic so far!
MUSIC
In brass this week Mr Whiteman taught us jingle bells and how to play F
We also found out that we are preforming in the winter fair! WE ARE SO EXCITED!
We are so excited!
Friday 18th November 2022
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This week's blog has been written by our very own Alex H and Amelia! We hope you enjoy reading it!
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This weak class 5 we have been writing a newspaper report on our class book THE ADVENTURE OF ODYSSEUS in English. We have read the book up until chapter 3 so far and have used the book as inspiration to help us write Greek myths, letters and now a newspaper report. We have met some interesting characters in the book along the way including the Greek God Zeus, his brother, Poseidon, Odysseus and his brave army of men and even a cyclops!
So far this half term in Maths we have been learning how to use negative numbers and how to add or subtract negative numbers. We used umber lines to help us with this because it was quite tricky! We have also been learning about 2D and 3D shapes. We revised the different names of 2D and 3D shapes and also learned about nets, plans and elevations. More recently this week, we have had a bit of a challenge wit learning prime numbers. A prime number has only 2 factors, 1 and itself. For example, 7 is a prime number. No other numbers go into it apart from 1 and 7. We also learned what a composite number is which is basically any number that is not a prime number.
This week in PSHE with Miss Kendall, we have learnt how to use money and spend it on what we need not just what we want. We used storyboards to help us with this. In RE we learnt why different religions worship Jerusalem.
In music This week we have been continuing out learning of how to play a brass instruments including: trombone, cornet and baritone. We have been learning songs such as hot cross buns, jingle bells, pop song and rock n roll and last but not least heavy metal.
In science we have been learning about forces including gravity, friction and air resistance. Today we tested out the levels of friction on different surfaces such as carpet, sooth wood, rough wood and cardboard. We found that the smoother the surface, the less friction it had.
Finally, it has been Anti Bulling Week this week so Miss Eastwood discussed what bullying is and we had a whole class chat about what we could do if we or someone we know is being bullied. It has also been Road Safety Awareness week this week. For this, we learned about how to be safe on the roads and then made colourful posters to teach others about how they could be safe on the roads. Finally, today we have celebrated Children in Need Day by wearing non uniform to school. We all donated a pound to do this, and the money will be donated to charity. In class we have been doing fun activities including drawing Pudsey the bear and using our maths knowledge to help us to complete a code breaker style quiz about fundraising.
Friday 18th November 2022
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This week's blog has been written by our very own Alex H and Amelia! We hope you enjoy reading it!
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This weak class 5 we have been writing a newspaper report on our class book THE ADVENTURE OF ODYSSEUS in English. We have read the book up until chapter 3 so far and have used the book as inspiration to help us write Greek myths, letters and now a newspaper report. We have met some interesting characters in the book along the way including the Greek God Zeus, his brother, Poseidon, Odysseus and his brave army of men and even a cyclops!
So far this half term in Maths we have been learning how to use negative numbers and how to add or subtract negative numbers. We used umber lines to help us with this because it was quite tricky! We have also been learning about 2D and 3D shapes. We revised the different names of 2D and 3D shapes and also learned about nets, plans and elevations. More recently this week, we have had a bit of a challenge wit learning prime numbers. A prime number has only 2 factors, 1 and itself. For example, 7 is a prime number. No other numbers go into it apart from 1 and 7. We also learned what a composite number is which is basically any number that is not a prime number.
This week in PSHE with Miss Kendall, we have learnt how to use money and spend it on what we need not just what we want. We used storyboards to help us with this. In RE we learnt why different religions worship Jerusalem.
In music This week we have been continuing out learning of how to play a brass instruments including: trombone, cornet and baritone. We have been learning songs such as hot cross buns, jingle bells, pop song and rock n roll and last but not least heavy metal.
In science we have been learning about forces including gravity, friction and air resistance. Today we tested out the levels of friction on different surfaces such as carpet, sooth wood, rough wood and cardboard. We found that the smoother the surface, the less friction it had.
Finally, it has been Anti Bulling Week this week so Miss Eastwood discussed what bullying is and we had a whole class chat about what we could do if we or someone we know is being bullied. It has also been Road Safety Awareness week this week. For this, we learned about how to be safe on the roads and then made colourful posters to teach others about how they could be safe on the roads. Finally, today we have celebrated Children in Need Day by wearing non uniform to school. We all donated a pound to do this, and the money will be donated to charity. In class we have been doing fun activities including drawing Pudsey the bear and using our maths knowledge to help us to complete a code breaker style quiz about fundraising.
Friday 11th November 2022
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This week's blog has been written by our very own Samuel and Jackson. We hope you have as much fun reading it as they did writing it!
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MUSIC
Music has been very exciting this week as we have all been learning different notes (E). Some people even did solos which included the new notes being played in their performances, it was very impressive. Samuel even played we will rock you with his baritone. We also spent some time playing pop songs. Sometimes our music teacher (Mr Whiteman) even lets us play a name game which is linked to our music lesson. We got to play it this week which was really fun! The name game is where someone says another person for example, Daniel, then Daniel will say another name then they say another and so-one.
ENGLISH
In English we have been continuing reading our class book (Odysseus) and we have been writing about the cyclops (Polyphemus) from chapter 2 of the book. Because we have all been so inspired by ancient Greek myths in our new topic, Miss Eastwood has also shared different Greek myth stories with us throughout the week. We have learned all about Medusa and her head of snakes and her look that turns people to stone. Kind Maidus who was granted a special power to turn anything he touches into gold and even Pandora and her box that she opened. We are all really enjoying them!
SCIENCE
In science we made parachutes and learnt about air resistance. We learned that the larger the parachute you use, the slower you will fall to the ground because the larger parachute causes more air resistance. Also, we learnt that if you drop a tennis ball and a football at the same time and they will hit the ground at the same time. Why? Because gravity is a force that is acting on them and it affects all objects the same.
REMEBERANCE DAY
Finally, and most importantly, today makes Remembrance Day which is a special day that we use to remember the soldiers that have fought in all wars all over the world, past and present. We began the day by each writing our own acrostic poems to remember fallen soldiers, then we watched some videos and had a discussion about Remembrance Day. Some children even shared their stories of family members that they know who have served in different wars. Finally, at 11am the entire school came outside, faced the field and completed two minutes of silence, during which time we all thought about soldiers who have served or are serving in wars past and present. It was an emotional tribute to a very special cause.
Friday 4th November 2022
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This week's blog has been written by our very own Freya, Martha and Tommy! We hope you enjoy reading it!
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P.E
In P.E this half term we are doing gymnastics. We have had just one gymnastics lesson so far and it is a bit of a mixed response in class. 15 people in our class like gymnastics and 17 do not like it quite so much. Maybe as the weeks go on, that will change! We are also learning about netball in PE. In our netball lesson this week we have been learning lots of amazing netball skills such as defending or ‘marking’, footwork and pivoting when catching the ball, different kinds of passes such as chest passes and bounce passes and even running into space and signalling to catch the ball.
English
Our English lessons this week have been linked to our new History and Geography topics, all about ancient Greece! We have been reading a new class book called Odysseus which has stories of ancient Gods, battles and even a cyclops! We have been getting into character using drama to pretend that we are the cyclops from the book to write letters to our father, Poseidon, God of the sea. Some children even got to wear a pretend cyclops mask with only one eye, it was very funny!
MATHS
Recently in maths we have been spending time working on negative numbers. Negative numbers are when the number is below zero. Miss Eastwood gave us all number lines to help us work out some of the tricker problem questions and this really helped. We all felt like the lesson was good! We have also been learning about the place value of decimal numbers such as tenths, hundredths, and thousandths. To help us with this lesson we used place value charts that included decimal numbers. We all quite enjoyed this lesson!
SCIENCE
In science we have been explaining what makes objects fall to Earth. We found out that the reason this happens is due to the invisible force, gravity. We also did an experiment where we dropped 3 different types of balls, a tennis ball, a football and a huge space bouncy ball to see whether they fell at different rates. We were mostly surprised to find that they al fell to the ground at the same time. We learned about Isaac Newton and his theory of gravity and how all items, no matter how big or small, will fall at the same rate unless something else like air resistance is slowing them down.
We continued our science lessons throughout the week by looking at how forces are measured. The equipment we used were called Newton meters. We measured the force of scissors, water bottles, lids and our planners. We used the hook to attach to different objects and the newton meter showed us in (N) the force of that object.
FRENCH
In French this week we practiced the French alphabet by listening to some different songs and then playing some games. Then we wrote the letters in our names and also wrote them out phonetically in French. Finally, we finished by listening to the French alphabet song again as we enjoyed it so much the first time!