Class 5
Friday 16th June 2023
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What another absolutely amazing week in Class 5! I have been EXTRA proud of my wonderful pupils this week as I have had so many teachers around school letting me know how brilliantly behaved they have been as they have seen them in the hallways, during assemblies, at lunch times and playtimes and just generally around school – it makes me SO happy to hear!
As always, we have had another jam-packed week with lots of fun. We have been continuing to work on the fantastic poem ‘The Highwayman’ in our English classes and have just started work on writing a narrative version of the poem from a different perspective – exciting stuff! In maths we have been working on converting between different units of measurement and weight and we are well on the way with our new topic lesson which this week took a focus to Henry VIII and the English Reformation.
On top of all of that we have had visits from the amazing flute player Simeon Wood (who has even featured on Britain’s Got Talent) to play his amazing flute, amongst other cool instruments and we took part in a boccia competition involving the whole school.
This week’s blog has been written by our very own Laura and Alex.
We hope you have as much fun reading it as they did writing it. Enjoy!
On 15th of June Thursday, there was a flute assembly where a man came in and talked to us, played some flutes. He also used some random objects and turned them into instruments. He somehow played a bike pump like a flute! He also joined some classes for some questions throughout the day. He showed us this item that he was going to play and we had to try not to laugh, after 1 tiny blow EVERYONE LAUGHED. It was a flute that made a trumping noise!
In maths we learned about problems including: weight and mass. (Of course, it was wordy problems that most people in class dislike doing! ☹).The questions were very tough but we dragged our self through and managed to produce some great work. We also reviewed our learning of decimals from last week.
On Wednesday, we actually did something really fun! We sketched our own trees while sat in the sun on the field. We also meditated under some trees in a relaxing way. When we were meditating we were told that we had to sit on our own to do it which was quite boring to us and a lot of thoughts went through our minds.
In English this week we continued on the highwayman poem and we drew a storyboard about the 6 main parts of the poem! We also looked at the words we didn’t understand and put the meaning on a piece of paper. It’s been a fun week in English.
Overall, we have had a great week but we are all looking forward to enjoying the sunny weekend!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Laura & Alex H
Pictures from our recent trip to Jodrell Bank
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Friday 9th June 2023
admin on: Class 5
We have come back from a wonderful half term break with such an AMAZING attitude in class 5! I have been so impressed with everyone’s hard work, enthusiasm and incredible behaviour. I can’t quite believe we are now in our final half term of the year and I’m already getting upset at the thought of my wonderful year 5 class moving on!
We have got things started with a BANG this week with our first school trip of the year, introducing our brand-new topic ‘Great Britain’ and even a day of road traffic safety training.
During our first few history lessons on our new topic ‘Great Britain’ we have learned what the words monarchy and chronology mean. We have learned all the names of our monarchs in Great Britain from 1066 until modern day and some cool and interesting facts about lots of them. For example, did you know that Charles II was known as a party animal and he was the first person to introduce champagne into England?!
We also learned SO much information during our road traffic safety training session and had a lot of fun doing it. We were even asked to sit a hazard perception test! We are all now confident in how to safely cross the roads. Remember: STOP, LOOK, LISTEN, THINK whenever you try to cross a road.
Finally, we attended a very exciting school trip to Jodrell Bank today. Jodrell Bank is described online as “a landmark of scientific discovery, a site of Outstanding Universal Value, and home to the development of radio astronomy.” It was just that! We got to see a huge working telescope, sit in an awesome planetarium and find out tonnes of cool and interesting information about Earth and Space. We also made sure to sing lots of songs on our long bus journey’s and even squeeze in a few games of Bingo!
I would like to finish by saying a massive thank you to the children of Class 5 this week, especially today for their impeccable behaviour and manners. They made myself, the school and themselves so proud! Well done!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 26th May 2023
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As we come to the end of the day of our penultimate half term in class 5, I just wanted to write how proud I am of all our pupils in class.
They have had such an amazing half term and have been SO enthusiastic towards their learning, they have really enjoyed learning about fossil fuels, renewable energy and how we can help the environment. We have taken part in so many cool and exciting science experiments with some really amazing hypothesis and predictions being made by all students and in our D&T project they have made some incredible eco-friendly phone cases out of felt and thread. We have some really talented sewers in our class, I must say!
On top of all the work we have done, we have had lots of fun, lots of laughs and lots of smiles in class this half term too which is probably the reason it has just flown by!
A HUGE well done to everyone in class 5, I hope you and your families have a wonderful half term and can’t wait to welcome you all back to school in a week’s time when we will start our final half term and our brand-new topic of ‘Great Britain’!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 19th May 2023
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We have had another great week in Class 5, our penultimate week before we break up for our half term break.
The class have shown phenomenal behaviour and a fantastic attitude towards their learning this week.
We have worked on writing a formal, persuasive piece of text in English and I have been so proud of how the children took the time to edit and improve their work to make it EVEN better.
In Maths we have been looking at place value once again to consolidate our knowledge in this area as we approach our final half term of Year 5.
We have had the opportunity to complete some more brilliant science experiments this week and even took part in a reading event for the amazing author and TV presenter, Stephen Mulhern.
All in all, a fab week! Well done, Class 5!
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I am afraid we have had another technical glitch in Y5 with our computer this week and unfortunately, the blog which was written by our very own Autumn and Freya has somehow managed to delete itself!!
I have tried to recover it but have been unable to do so.
My apologies.
Miss Eastwood