Class 5
Friday 13th October 2023
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This week has been out sixth week in Year 5 and what a fab week it has been!
We have been completing our final, written up biographies of Tim Peake and then moved on to our new writing genre, a writing competition! We have been creating imaginative, unique stories which we will enter into the BBC’s 500 Words writing competition with a chance to meet Queen Camila at Buckingham Palace – WOW! I have been SO impressed with the children’s enthusiasm for this and I am SO excited to read all of the finished stories!
In Maths we have been doing lots of work on fractions! We have been looking at how to find an equivalent fraction, ordering fractions with the same denominator and ordering them with different denominators. It has been fractions central around here! I have been so impressed with how the children have listened and focussed during our maths lessons this week as fractions can definitely be tricky but the children have been fantastic and leaned a lot!
The music lessons have continued this week with our visiting music teacher and the children definitely seem to be getting to grips with their instruments now. It’s so lovely to hear all the wonderful music coming from Class 5 on a Thursday afternoon!
In science we created and conducted a scientific investigation using shadows to prove that the Earth rotates on its axis. Unfortunately, due to the lack of sun this week, our experiment kind of failed! But nevertheless, we enjoyed planning it and have definitely learned a lot from it!
And finally, we have continued to work on our gymnastics and netball skills in PE.
Another jam-packed week filled with fun and learning.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 6th October 2023
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We have had yet another lovely week here in Class 5 and I can’t believe that we are officially over halfway through our very first half term together. Time is flying!
We have been continuing our wonderful work writing about the British astronaut Tim Peake and I have been so impressed with the outcomes! If you are interested in Tim and his life, I would definitely recommend reading some of the Class 5 biographies about him as they are so full of detail and extremely interesting, well done, Class 5!
In maths we have started looking at long multiplication which can be notoriously tricky! I have been SO impressed with the amazing hard work and efforts the class have put into learning this brand-new maths skill, I am so proud!
We completed our amazing pieces of artwork linked to identity in PSHE and even began writing non-chronological reports about terrestrial planets and gas giants in our science lessons.
After reading some of the reports this week, it’s so clear just how much effort the class have been putting into our Space topic this half term because I was blown away with the level of detail they knew about their chosen set of planets – amazing work, Class 5!
Of course we have also continued our PE topics of netball and gymnastics this week learning about different positions in netball and counterbalances in gymnastics.
It has been a week jam-packed with fun and lots of learning.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 29th September 2023
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We have been pretty space obsessed in Class 5 this week!
In our English lessons we have been researching the amazing, British astronaut, Tim Peake. We have learned all about his early life, his career in the army, when he joined the European Space Agency and all of the amazing things he got up to on the ISS (International Space Station). We have read lots of books, articles and watched many videos to make sure that thoroughly conducted our research. We will be putting all of this research to great use next week when we write biographies about his life. Exciting stuff!
We had a very interesting science lesson this week too where we used sheets of toilet paper to map out the distances of the planets from the sun. It was great fun and we learned so much about our solar system in the process.
Maths has been fun this week to, we started the week by learning about rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 and 100,000 before looking at multiples and factors. I have been so impressed with the maths work that the children have produced this week – we clearly have some maths wizards in Y5!
Our PE lessons have continued to focus on gymnastics and netball, and we started a piece of artwork in PSHE which will represent our individual identities.
The children also continued their Mandarin lessons this week where they were each given their own ‘Chinese name’ place cards. They really enjoyed learning and practicing to speak their names in Mandarin.
All in all, a really amazing week in Class 5!
I am so proud of each member of our class in how hard they have worked, they efforts in all subjects and their kindness to each other – keep it up!
I hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Miss Eastwood
Friday 22nd September 2023
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Another fabulous week of learning and fun here in Class 5!
We have been looking at poetry in our English lessons this week! We read a poem titled ‘6 Ways of Looking at The Moon’ by Pie Corbett which uses metaphors to describe The Moon. We then used this as inspiration to create our very own metaphors for The Moon, The Sun and the stars. One of my favourites was ‘The Sun is a giant fiery meatball sitting up in the sky’.
Finally, we put all of our metaphors together to create a final, 3-verse metaphor poem.
We have continued our work on place value in maths, this week looking at how to add and subtract numbers both mentally and using the written method. The children REALLY impressed me with their knowledge and skill in this area.
I couldn’t speak about this week without mentioning our very exciting science lessons! We have been learning all about the phases of The Moon and why we have seasons here on Earth. We even used chocolate biscuits to show the 8 different phases of The Moon. It was interesting AND delicious!
Class 5 have also REALLY impressed me with their incredible gymnastics’ skills! WOW! We created our very own gymnastic sequences using different balances and shapes we had learned last week. I was absolutely blown away with the high-level performances.
Keep up the GREAT work Class 5, I can’t wait to see what amazing learning we get up to next week.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone,
Miss Eastwood
Friday 15th September 2022
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Good afternoon everyone!
We have had another fabulous week in Class 5, which has been jam-packed with lots of new and interesting learning. I have seen lots of smiley, happy, curious, and excited faces all week and it has been wonderful to see such enthusiasm and joy for our learning.
In English we have been continuing to work on our setting descriptions of the planet Mars. We learned how we can edit and improve our work but focussing on changing nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs to make out writing more interesting and how to re-arrange our sentences so that they have the best effect on the reader. I have been SUPER impressed with the range of vocabulary and the incredible imagination that the class have put into their work.
In Maths we have continued to look at place value and identifying the value of a digit depending on where it is placed in a given number. The class have really impressed me with their place value knowledge, we definitely have some mathematical wizards in Class 5!
We have also started to really delve into our ‘Earth and Space’ topic, learning about lines of latitude and longitude, why we have day and night and indeed time zones. We finished our lessons off by telephoning Miss Eastwood’s friend, Joe, who lives all the way in Malaysia! We worked out what the approximate time would be there based on our new learning and asked Joe if we were correct – we were!
On top of all of that, we have also managed to squeeze in some amazing PSHE lessons all about how we are each unique and special, some gymnastics and netball lessons in PE, and learned about online safety in our Computing lessons.
A fabulous week!
Well done Class 5!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Eastwood
