Class 5
Friday 12th January 2024
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I would just like to start this week’s blog by saying that I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
We have had such a fantastic start to the next half term and to 2024 this week in class 5. We have started our brand-new topic – Rainforests – which has been so exciting. We have learned all about the 7 major land biomes during our geography lessons before focussing in on the rainforest biome and it’s features. We have even linked this learning to our English work where we have started writing persuasive texts to convince someone to visit the Amazon Rainforest for a holiday – I don’t think I’d take too much convincing!
In Maths we have been looking at some tricky reasoning questions but despite a tricky start, all of the children showed such determination and perseverance throughout the week and made some fantastic progress – I am so proud!
We have continued our dance lessons with Mrs Matthews this week in preparation for our Strictly Pennine performance at the Lawrence Batley Theatre on the 29th February and both myself and Mrs Matthews have been SO impressed with the skills that the children have been showing. I can’t wait for the final performance already.
Finally, we have started reading our latest class novel ‘The Explorer’ this week, both myself and the children are absolutely loving it and can’t wait to read it each and every day.
I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 15th December 2023
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This week has been ‘Christmas play practice central’ here in class 5! With the big performance less than one week away we have been hard at work rehearsing our lines and practicing our songs along with organising our props and costumes. I have been so, so impressed with everyone’s hard work and dedication to making the performance so fantastic and can’t wait until Wednesday next week to show you all how amazing it is.
In between all of the Christmas play madness, we have also started our new English topic – diary entries. The children have looked at typical features of diaries and how they may be written along with starting to plan what they will include in their very own Ancient Greek themed diary entries.
We have been taking a look at decimals, fractions and percentages in our maths lessons and the relationships between all 3. The children have really impressed me with their knowledge and understanding of this topic, it has been lovely to look through their independent work.
We also started our D&T project this week whereby we will be designing and creating our very own pop up toys using wheels, cams and dowels. I can’t wait to see the finished products next week.
Finally, in our Mandarin lessons we learned the numbers up to 100 and how to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. It was a lovely, festive lesson!
And on that note, Merry Christmas everyone, have a lovely weekend!
Oh and as promised, please see some pictures below from the past few weeks of our learning.
Miss Eastwood
Friday 8th December 2023
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Christmas has officially landed here in Class 5! At the start of the week we decorated our in-class Christmas tree by each placing baubles on it and topping it with our ‘NPS’ tree topper. The children have also really enjoyed reading an advent Christmas themed joke each morning.
It has been a really busy week in school with lots of assessments in the mornings. The children have really impressed me with how sensibly they have approached these, showing great determination throughout!
In the afternoons we have been continuing our science lessons (looking into different forces), Mandarin lessons (focussing on family names), computing (where we are creating and editing our very own videos) and history (where we have been learning all about Ancient Greece).
This morning we had an extra exciting treat – a Christmas pantomime in the hall! The children (and teachers!) thoroughly enjoyed it and it got us all EVEN MORE into the Christmas spirit.
We are all looking forward to ‘Stories with Santa’ this evening and a very special brass performance by some of our amazing Y5 pupils.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Eastwood
*Please note that photographs from this week will be posted to next week's blog entry due to a technical fault*
Friday 24th November 2023
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Wow, what an amazing week, week 3 has been here in Class 5!
We started off the week in English by looking at a brand-new genre of writing, journalistic writing. The children learned what journalistic writing is, examples of it and even the typical features you would find in this type of text. We then moved on to creating our own headline news stories in small groups – one of which was the breaking news story that Miss Robb had stolen and eaten all of the popcorn for our upcoming movie night!
In maths this week, our learning has been all about statistics and data. We have been looking at line graphs, tables and timetables and answering lots of different questions about the data displayed in them.
We also conducted a really cool science experiment testing the friction on different surfaces. The children found out that the more friction present, the slower an object will move and also that the smoother a surface, the less friction it will produce.
It has also been Road Traffic Safety Week all around the country this week. In class we looked at some different statistics and facts about road safety, discussed some ‘true/false’ statements and discussed how we can keep ourselves save when walking near roads. We even had a special assembly by some outside visitors who explained in even more detail about how we can keep safe.
The children have continued their Mandarin lessons too this week, they sang different songs in Mandarin, learned names of different countries and started their new learning on names of family members such as mother, father, big brother, and little sister.
A great week in class 5!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Eastwood
Friday 17th November 2023
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We have had such a great second week of our second half term here in Class 5.
We started the week by presenting our story boards of ‘Odysseus and the Cyclops’ to the rest of the class and I was so impressed with how well the children could speak their stories! We then went on to writing our very own version of the Greek myth and I must say, I think it’s the best piece of written work so far this year! It has been such a pleasure to read them all.
In maths our focus this week has been prime numbers and composite numbers. We have really enjoyed learning about what makes a prime number and which numbers are prime. We finished the end of the week by looking at some division questions with remainders.
Our science experiments this week have been focussing on ‘air resistance’ we used umbrellas and large plastic boards to test whether there was more off less air resistance against our bodies when we ran with/without them. We then created some paper parachutes to test our theories about air resistance to see if we could slow down the rate at which our Lego men fell.
This week has also been anti-bullying week so we have spent a lot of time in class talking about bullying, creating anti-bullying posters and I even set the children a week-long kindness challenge to try and complete as many acts of kindness as possible. As a class, we have found that the kinder we are to others, the happier it makes us feel too!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, see you all next week for another great week of learning and fun.
Miss Eastwood
