Class 5
Friday 23rd February 2024
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Our first week back to Spring 2 term has started off amazingly.
We have dived straight into our new English topic where we have written diary entries from the viewpoint of the main character of one of the books we have been reading in class. We completed lots of role play exercises to get into the mindset of the main character, Bradley, before writing out different diary entries from events we had read in the book, imagining how Bradley REALLY felt about them. I am so excited to read the finished pieces of work over the weekend.
In Maths it has been angles and measurements central! We learned about how many degrees are in a right angle, straight line, ¾ turn and a full turn and then applied that knowledge to work out missing angles of rectangles and regular polygons. Not only that but we learned how to use a protractor too.
We started our brand-new Science topic too, ‘Animals including humans’ where we started to look at the life cycle of humans by checking out some rather embarrassing photos of myself from my childhood until now to see how much I have changed so far in my life cycle. We then went on to learn what the gestation period means and how this differs for many different mammals.
We are continuing our work on Rainforests this half term and this week we extended our knowledge to learn about different climate zones around the Earth.
The children have also been well under way practicing for their Strictly Pennine dance performance next week. Having watched them perform it through from start to finish this week, I must say I am extremely impressed and cannot wait for the actual performance next week!
Finally, we were treated to an incredible pantomime production this week at Holmfirth High. The children represented the school fantastically, walking very sensibly all the way to the school (in the pouring down rain!) and sat amazingly well during the entire performance. It was a great show, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone.
Thank you,
Miss Eastwood
Friday 9th February 2024
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Well yet again we have had another wonderful week here in Class 5!
It has been our last week of the half term and it officially marks half way through the year which is bitter sweet.
We have been very busy, writing letters of complaint to Rishi Sunak about the issue of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest, writing a non-chronological report all about the amazing David Attenborough and some children have even written school council speeches too. Lots of writing in class this week!
We also held a democratic vote in class today to allow each child to vote for who they would like to be their school council leaders. I was so impressed with every single child who had the courage and determination to write and speak their amazing speeches, it was so wonderful to see. Well done, everyone.
In maths this week it has been decimals, percentages and fractions central! We have been learning how to convert between each of them and even answering some tricky word-problems about them too. The children have blown me away with how well they have taken to the topic, very impressive!
We also completed our artwork this week by using watercolour paints to paint our Henri Rousseau inspired drawings of the rainforest.
All in all, a jam-packed week full of fun and learning.
I hope you all have an amazing half-term break and enjoy a well-deserved rest.
I already can’t wait for the first day back where we will be starting our brand-new topic all about The Maya!
Thank you,
Miss Eastwood
Friday 2nd February 2024
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Well, it has been a funny old week this week! I have been off most of the week with a nasty flu but my word, the children have really done be proud in my absence. I have received such lovely feedback from Miss Monday and Miss Robb who kindly looked after the classroom for me.
The children have been learning all about decimal points and rounding to the nearest whole numbers and to one decimal place in maths. They even extended this learning to the context of money too.
In English the children wrote and decorated some incredible poems about sloths, inspired by our topic this half term – rainforests. They also started to do some research into deforestation and logging the in-Amazon Rainforest. We will be using this research to write a letter of complaint about this issue next week.
They also started an incredible Art topic, drawing and painting a rainforest scene using watercolour paints inspired by the artist Henri Julien Felix Rousseau.
On top of all of that, the children even managed to complete some programming in ICT.
What a wonderful week.
Well done Class 5!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 26th January 2024
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We have had a wonderful week here in Class 5!
We started the week in English by completed our persuasive brochures to convince people to visit the rainforest for their next summer holiday. The children really impressed me with their ambitious vocabulary and persuasive features! We then moved on to our next topic, poetry inspired by music. We listened to The Carnival of the Animals and tried to match up each piece of music to the animal it was referencing. It was such fun!
We have been learning all about measuring area and perimeter in maths which has been quite challenging but definitely rewarding as the children have made so much progress just in the last 5 days! Well done, Class 5!
Our topic lessons have all been science based this week, looking at the life cycles of many different living things from frogs and butterflies to humans and birds. We ended our topic lessons by choosing two different living things and comparing how their life cycles were similar and different.
Of course, we have been continuing to learn our dance in one of our PE slots and in the other we worked on hand-eye co-ordination by dribbling and bouncing basket balls with different targets. We worked independently and as a team to try and score as many points as possible in the different games. It was really fun and REALLY tiring!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Eastwood
Friday 19th January 2024
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We have had another wonderful week here in Class 5 and I can't believe we have only 3 weeks left until the next half-term break!
We have been working REALLY hard in maths lessons this week, looking at converting between different units of measurement for example converting from cm to m. We have had a really positive attitude to such a difficult topic and persevered with a growth mindset. I have been really proud to see how hard all the children have worked.
In English we have continued our work on persuasive writing, this week focussing on a persuasive brochure. We have practiced writing rhetorical questions, exaggerated language, metaphorical language and repetition to put into our finished writing later in the week.
We have continued with our Mandarin lessons too, learning how to say how tall/short someone is, practicing the numbers up to 100 and even learning how to talk about different facial features.
In PE we have continued practicing for our dance performance next month, even introducing some amazing props!
Finally, in our topic lessons we have been focussing on geography and science. In Geography, we learned about the physical and human features of South America and in science we learned about all the different parts of a plant.
Happy weekend everyone!
Miss Eastwood
