Class 5
Friday 28th June 2024
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It’s been a tricky week for Year 5 this week, not only have we had to contend with a very warm, sweaty classroom but we’ve also had to complete our final Year 5 assessments in that warm, sweaty classroom!
I have been so impressed with how sensible and mature everyone’s approaches to these assessments have been, the children have put in 1000% effort and it has really, really paid off! A HUGE well done to all of you!!
In between those assessments we have stated our final art project too, we are looking at the artist Hans Holbein the younger and some of his incredible portraits of royals and nobles. This week the children were give half of a painting of Henry VIII and they had to complete the other half as a sketch themselves. One word… INCREDIBLE! I was truly blown away by how incredible everyone’s pictures were and it was a pleasure to see how hard everyone worked to ensure they included as much detail as possible in their amazing pieces of artwork.
We also squeezed in a few games of our new favourite game.. rounders! Just as a little treat for completing our assessments. I must say, the children played fantastically well, especially as the games progressed. I can’t wait until we get the chance for another game!
Overall it has been yet another wonderful week!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 21st June 2024
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What a FANTASIC WEEK we have had in Class 5!
I must start by talking about our day time trip to the Town Hall to practice for the Kirklees Primary Music Festival on Tuesday. All of the children in class attended and we took a public bus there and back. Myself, Mrs Parker and Miss Robb were absolutely blown away by the impeccable behaviour, wonderful manners and interaction with the public and the amazing efforts that everyone put in to their singing for the entire day, WOW! It was such a pleasure to accompany the class to their rehearsal. Not only that, but a whopping 25 pupils also came to the evening production where they performed a total of 12 songs along with 3 musical pieces on their brass instruments. It was so wonderful to join them up on stage and I was beaming with pride for days afterwards – in fact I still am! Thank you so much to all the parents and carers who came out to support on the night, it was wonderful to see so many faces in the audience. Thank you also to Mrs parker and Mr Brown for all of their efforts in preparing the children for the brass performance and for organising the night too.
In between all the musical fun, we have also had time to revise our knowledge of shape with area and perimeter in Maths, learn all about the Act of the Union and why the flag of Great Britain looks the way it does in history and even write a diary entry in English inspired by our poem, The Highwayman.
We ended the week today with our fantastic sports day. Just like the start of the week, the children were absolutely amazing, they represented the school and their house teams wonderfully and put in so much effort and hard work for all of their races. It has been wonderful watching them practice all week and to see the final races today – well done Class 5! And thank you to all the parents and carers who came down to watch and support.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone.
Miss Eastwood
Friday 14th June 2024
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2 weeks of our last half term in Year 5 down, 5 to go!
It has been a wonderful week here in Class 5.
We have continued our work on the amazing poem, The Highwayman and even started writing our own narratives of the poem from the point of view of Tim The Ostler. I have been so impressed with the children’s enthusiasm towards this piece of work this week – so many of them have come up to me throughout the week to tell me it’s their favourite piece of writing they have ever done! Not only that, but when I have been marking the work, it’s clear how much effort has been put into it by everyone as the work was just amazing.
In maths we have been converting between different units of measurement all week – a very tricky topic! We have been changing from mm to cm and m, from g to kg and from ml to l. The children have worked so hard and really helped each other with this learning too with lots of tables working together to solve complex problems. It has been great to see.
On Tuesday we were treated to an afternoon of environmental adventure. Mrs Oddy in reception arranged for us to have a visit from a local biodiversity company who helped us learn all about the different wildlife within our school from plants and trees to animals. Birds and insects. It was wonderful for us all to get out into nature and explore our wonderful surroundings.
History has also been a very exciting subject this week. We have been learning about absolute rulers of the UK along with constitutional monarchies too. We looked at the signing of the Magna Carta which the children acted out in their own dramatizations and we have also been learning more about Henry VIII and the English Reformation.
What a fabulous week!
Enjoy your weekend everyone.
Miss Eastwood
Friday 7th June 2024
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Welcome back to our very first week of our very last half term in Class 5!
What a week it has been!
We kicked things off on Tuesday by starting our brand-new English topic – The Highwayman. I have to admit, it’s one of my most favourite topics that we cover all year and I think the children might well agree, give how enthusiastic and engaged they have been with the topic all week. I have been blown away with some of the ideas that have been shared by the class when reading and analysing the poem. Not only that, but I also challenged the children to visualise the poem by drawing what they thought the scene would look like. The artistic skills were just incredible!!
In maths it has been decimals galore! We have bene adding, multiplying, subtracting and dividing all sorts of numbers which include decimal points. Everyone in class has worked so hard and the progress has been fantastic to see, well done, Class 5!
We have also started our brand-new topic this half term, Great Britain! We kicked things off by looking at the chronology of Monarchs of Great Britain right from 1066 up to present day. Each child created a poster/posters of their given monarch/monarchs and we made a huge timeline. We also learned some very interesting facts about lots of the different monarchs, for example, did you now that William the Conqueror’s body exploded at his funeral! Yikes!
PE this week has focussed on our athletic skills in preparation for our upcoming sports day, this week we looked at fine tuning our running skills by playing some really fun games of tig.
Finally, in our assemblies and in class this week we have of course been discussing the 80th anniversary of the D Day landings.
Overall, it has been another wonderful week in Class 5!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 24th May 2024
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This half term has absolutely flown, I can’t believe it has been 7 weeks already! Not only that, but we only have one half term left and then my wonderful Year 5’s will be moving on to become amazing Year 6’s!
It has been such a fun half term this time around and the class have thoroughly enjoyed our topic, ‘Our World’. We have learned about natural resources, renewable and non-renewable energy, global warming and more! I have been so impressed with how engaged all of the class have been throughout all of our topic lessons and especially with how well they have understood the topic too.
Throughout science this half term we have taken part in various science experiments looking at properties of materials from mixtures to solutions. We learned how to reverse changes of materials, sperate materials and recapped our knowledge of solids, liquids and gasses and their particles from Year 4.
This week we have been rounding up our topic work by creative sustainable phone cases by designing and sewing them out of felt! I have been unbelievable blown away with everyone’s phone cases, their amazing design skills and their sewing skills – and I don’t think I’ve ever threaded to many needles in my life!
We also waved off 8 of our class members this week who went over to Huddersfield University on Wednesday to record a video for a Mandarin competition they are entering as part of our MFL lessons – they were fantastically behaved and the songs they were recording sounded phenomenal – good luck to them in the competition!
Finally, in our English work this week we have been completed formal, persuasive texts to try and convince the world to switch to clean energy and in Maths this week we have been practicing rounding numbers to estimate our answers before moving on to some multi-step problem questions which the children tackled with such gusto!
Thank you, Class 5, for another awesome half term – you have kept me laughing and smiling each and every day.
I hope you all have an amazing half term break!
Miss Eastwood
