Class 5
Friday 20th January 2023
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Another fantastic week for my fabulous Year 5 class! We have had quite a few indoor morning and lunch breaks this week due to the colder weather which can always be a little frustrating for the children, however they have been so well behaved and so sensible during this time which makes me so proud! The end of this week marks halfway through the term, time is really flying but we have 3 more weeks of exciting learning, progressing and succeeding ahead of us!
This week’s blog has been written by Tatham & Millie We hope you have as much fun reading it as they did writing it. Enjoy!
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On Thursday we voted for school council. Everybody who wanted to run for a place had to prepare a speech and perform it to the whole class. Some people even made voting posters and stuck them up around the class. After the speeches, everybody came outside one at a time and sat on the sofa to place their votes. We chose are favourite 3 contestants then put it in a blue box, then read our books while waiting for everybody to finish. We can’t wait for the results to be announced!
Throughout the week we’ve been looking at converting between different metric units of measurement in maths. After a few days we then worked up to converting between imperial and metric units of measurement. It has been very hard for most people at first but it’s safe to say that everybody is really good at it now! At first everyone was on set A to get a feel for it then next lesson when we did this the same but the final maths we did something a little different. We did converting mass instead of length!
On Tuesday we did Mandarin and although we do Mandarin every week this lesson was special because we were learning about Chinese New Year and all the years e. g year of the rat or year of the chicken. Then she gave us two Chinese New Year calendars and a beautiful ornament to put in our classroom. How kind!
On Wednesday we learned about the life of frogs and butterflies in a lot of detail. Like learning about the way caterpillars turn into butterflies and tadpoles turn into frogs! We have learned about this before in younger year groups but this time it was much more complex!
On Wednesday we did PSHE, learning about humanists and we were actually lucky enough to have an actual humanist come in and talk to us about her beliefs also mentioning that humanism is not a religion! And not all humanists have the same beliefs. We then acted out what makes us be happy.
On Thursday we did brass and played different songs like robots on the dance floor and I want to play in a band. Then we did some practising of D and C chords together in a song. Then we fished of the lesson/day with the name game and some solos.
We had an assembly on Monday about an engineering competition where you can submit your engineering ideas and the winner has their design actually made into a real thing by real engineers!
There is also an English competition that has been running this week called The Big Green Poetry Machine where we have each been asked to write a piece of poetry and send it into the competition to be submitted AND if you win you get your piece of poetry printed and published in an actual book!
On Wednesday we did a dance that we are practising to preform! It is quite hard and complicated but really fun. Then on Thursday we did rugby which is also really fun and this week we used the crashmat and dived onto it!
All in all, we have had a fantastic week!
Millie & Tatham
Friday 13th January 2023
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Well 2023 is definitely turning out to be OUR year in Class 5! We have had another incredible week, had so much fun and learned so many new things! I have been really proud of the unbelievable effort that so many of the children have been putting into their learning this week, not just in class but at home too. It’s really amazing to see and makes me very proud!
This week’s blog has been written by our very own Daniel and Sophia! We hope you have as much fun reading it as they did writing it. Enjoy!
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This week we have been making posters about the rainforest in our English lessons. The posters were to try and convince people to choose the Amazon Rainforest as their next holiday destination! We have also been learning about how to prepare and write speeches in preparation for school council elections next week! We had a lot of fun in this lesson. Some children even came to the front of the class and practiced reading a famous JFK speech!
But…. back to the rainforest we have been reading a class book called The Explorer. We are all really loving the book. Miss Eastwood asked us to listen silently while she read and try to close our eyes and imagine and picture the scene of the book. It made the book seem much more interesting and as though we were right there with the characters!
In Maths we have been solving word problems using the 4 operations (that means addition, multiplication, subtraction and division, not knee operations!) These lessons have been really tricky but when we reviewed our learning form the week today, lots of children did really well with their questions.
In P.E. we have been doing dance and rugby. In dance there is going to be a dance show at the Batley Theatre with lots of other schools in the area. This week we began practicing our dance which is a street dance style. We can’t wait for next week to learn more steps.
We have also been doing rugby in PE. In these lessons we have been learning foot movement and learning how to pass a rugby ball to other players.
In PSHE we have been learning about canal safety here is some ways to keep safe near canals: Stay away from the edge, Canals are waterways not play ways , don’t swim in canals because there is a risk of drowning , Canals are not the best place to swim, swimming pools are better.
In Topic we have been learning about the 4 layers of a rainforest which are The Emergent Layer, The Canopy Layer, The Understory Layer and The Forest Floor Layer. We learnt about the different biomes as well. The different biomes are Desert, Grassland , Temperate Rainforest , Temperate Deciduous Forest , Taiga , Savana and Tundra. Here a sad part, each year an area the size of Great Britain is cut down from The Amazon Rainforest.
In brass we are learning how to play I want to play in a band. We have been learning the lyrics and singing along but also learning how to play our instruments to accompany the lyrics. Miss Eastwood even came in and watched us do a surprise mini performance, she was SO IMPRESSED!
Thank you for reading our blog.
Sophia & Daniel
Friday 6th January 2023
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WOW! What an incredible start to 2023! Class 5 have blown me away with the amazing attitude to learning since coming back after the Christmas break. We may have only had 3 days in school but we have packed SO much fun, new learning and great memories into those 3 days. I think I have also given out more raffle tickets for great work, great behaviour and great manners than most other weeks last year! Great work Year 5!
Miss Eastwood.
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Our Class Blog this week has been written by our very own Noah & Oscar! We hope you have as much fun reading it as they did writing it! Enjoy
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At the start of 2023 we got in and started dashing around to find our new seats. Each half term we get new places to sit and it’s always exciting finding out where we are going to be! It was also really exciting to see all of our friends and teachers after having 2 whole weeks away from school. In addition to our new seating plan, we got new class jobs too. Everybody is happy with their new seats and jobs. It was super exciting to meet our new partners and new people on are table and tell them everything we have been up to over the Christmas break.
In PSHE this week we learnt how to be safe near bodies of water & we had a sheet with people near a canal and a river & we had to spot the hazards and dangers. We also learnt how our actions can make people sad or happy. It was a really interesting lesson and a great start back to school!
In our New Year’s assembly we got welcomed back to school by Miss Kelly. Also, she listened to our new years resolutions and we had a little discussion about them. It was really interesting to listen to other peoples New Year’s resolutions. It helped us think of some of our own resolutions if we hadn’t already thought of one.
This week we also got introduced to our brand new topic for this half term. We have a new and very interesting topic this term. It is the rainforest which will be super interesting to learn about. We began our first lesson of the topic learning about all different biomes around the world. Do you know what type of biome we live in here in England? It’s a temperate forest biome!
In PE this half term we have dance & rugby. First of all, at the end of term in dance we have a dance performance with lots of other schools around the area so we have to work hard over the next few weeks to make sure we are the best we can be. In rugby, we played tag where if you are tug you get the ball, you become a tagger. After that, we played a similar game where there were certain taggers and if you had a ball you couldn’t move so you had to pass the ball towards the people who were trying not to get tug. It was great fun and we are all really excited about the rest of the lessons over the half term.
Thank you for reading!
Noah and Oscar
Friday 2nd December 2022
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Year 5 Blog
We have had a little bit of a hectic week this week in Year 5!
This week has been our assessment week and the children have been absolutely AMAZING! They have had to complete 6 tests in total which can be really, really tricky but they have tackled it with a great attitude, confidence and resilience. I have been so proud of them!
Our Christmas production practice has also got into full swing this week with lines being learned off by heart, props being chosen and even lyrics being sang. I am very much looking forward to being able to practice on the big stage next week and then show the incredible efforts that all of the children have put in to all of you parents when we do our final performance soon.
In between all of the chaos and bedlam this week we have even managed to squeeze in a brand-new maths skill. This week the children began learning about how to multiply a whole number by a fraction. They were fantastic and really picked it up quite quickly. We even went on to learn how to multiply a mixed number by a fraction. Though this skill had a lot more steps to it, and was a fair bit trickier, I am confident that with more practice Class 5 will master this skill too!
Finally, tonight is our annual Christmas Fair here at Netherthong Primary School. Many children from Class 5 are members of the choir and have come to school dressed in tinsel, Christmas headbands and even Santa hats as they will be performing some songs during the fair. Class 5 have also been especially selected to open the fair with a special performance of their brass band instruments. I am so proud of the amazing talent that we have here in Class 5 and I am so excited to see them perform tonight!
Miss Eastwood
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!
Class 5 Blog
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!