Class 5
Friday 14th October 2022
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This week's blog has been written by our very own Jemima and Tommy. Please enjoy reading it!
BLOG
Here is our blog all about what we have been doing in Class 5 this week!
ENGLISH
In English we have been watching this cool clip to inspire out writing and it’s called “The Eye of The Storm” It shows a man who is flying on an ancient aircraft. He has a dragon pet and is flying towards a horrific storm. As the wind picks up, he sadly lets his dragon pet fly away into the deadly skies. We also wrote a flashback for the clip too, to explain a little bit more about the characters past. Tommy has decided to share his example flashback which reads: “Picking up the vessel he stared at the contents as it bubbled in front of him, then a tear trickled from his eye ball… It reminded him then about when his father sadly died.” Such an emotional flashback!
PE
In PE we have been working on football during our Wednesday lessons. We have learned how to do dribbling, we have also learned how to do passing and this week we even practiced tackling during attacks and defending too. In dance we have been stretching and learning a brand-new street dance. We have been very successful in the dance (which is fast paced and quite tricky!)
MATHS
In maths we have been doing about fractions and they have been a true difficulty to the whole class so far but today we had a bit of a breakthrough when comparing fractions with different denominators. Miss Eastwood said she was very proud of our hard work and determination and has said that we will continue to practice and will continue to improve.
HARVEST SONGS
During our singing assemblies, for the past few weeks, we have been learning how to sing and perform some harvest festival songs in preparation for next week’s harvest assembly. We have been learning ‘Cauliflowers Fluffy’ and ‘Harvest Tango’! We wonder if you know any of the lyrics.
MEDITATION
Miss Eastwood has introduced something new this week. Each day after lunch we have begun spending 5 or so minutes practicing breathing meditation to relax and calm down ready for our afternoon learning. It is something that Jemima has particularly enjoyed but the whole class also seem to be enjoying it too.
EXTRA JOBS
Finally, we are really looking forward to Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next week because Mr. Kershaw has told us that some Year 5 pupils can take over the Year 6 jobs such as door monitor, office monitor and reception helper whilst the Year 6 pupils are away on their residential trip. We can’t wait for the extra responsibility!
We hope you have enjoyed reading our blog.
Tommy and Jemima
Friday 7th October 2022
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This week's blog has been written by our very own Toby and Effie! We hope you have a wonderful time reading it!
Class 5 blog
English
This week we have been very busy working on our Tim Peake biographies. We found out some amazing facts that we were able to include in our written pieces. For example, did you know that when Tim Peake was in space, he ran the London marathon at the same time as the one back on Earth?
We have finished our Tim Peake biographies this week in very quick time.
Maths
Over the past few days in maths we have been doing long multiplication. At the beginning it was a bit tricky but now most people have the hang of it. At the start of the week we were learning short multiplication which was a lot easier than long multiplication as there were less numbers to times by and at the end you didn’t need to add the numbers together. In our daily ten maths questions we have been doing lots of different things (factors, long multiplication etc).
PSHE/RE
In PSHE we have been finishing of our drawings. We have been drawing everything we like and what we’re thinking and sticking a small picture of ourselves to represent ourselves.
In R.E. this week we have been ordering special religious places for Christians and Roman Catholics in order of what is most important to them. After that we wrote down in our books why we think it is the most important. For an example, one group chose Bethlehem as the most important because that’s where Jesus was born.
Science (planets facts)
Science has been fascinating this week as we have been writing a non-chronological report about planets. These are some facts that we found out about some of the planets: Uranus is the only planet that is named after Greek mythology. Uranus’s temperature is -197C. Uranus takes 82 years to complete a full orbit around the sun which means 41 years of sunlight and 41 without.
Because we have worked so well in science this week, Miss Eastwood also decided to treat us today by singing up to an online video event which involved a real-life scientist talking to us about satellites and space junk. We then got the chance to design our very own spacecrafts and satellites.
PE
Seen as though it was raining on Wednesday we could not play football so we played some very enjoyable bench ball and two teams are in the final but they have not played each other as we had to finish a little early for our singing assembly. Miss Eastwood has promised us that we will have the final match before the end of the half term to determine the overall winners of the mini tournament!
On Thursday we did dance where we worked on our core muscles and did fun exercises to help with this and some corner work for fun.
Other
We have been carrying on reading COSMIC (our class 5 book) and it’s been very interesting. Basically Liam (the main character) and Florida (Liam’s friend) go on a rocket ride in the best theme park in the world, well that’s what they think there doing when actually the ride is a REAL-LIFE ROCKET.
MUSIC
On Thursday we did brass which is very fun to do. We learnt a new note to play which was a D. Mr Whiteman (Our music teacher) was very impressed with all of us. We also played the name game where Mr Whiteman says someone’s name to get it started then, they wait 4 beats to the music and say someone else’s name then you sit down. The game keeps going until everyone is sat down.
By Toby and Effie.
Friday 9th September 2022
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This week's class blog in Year 5 has been written by two of our wonderful students, Autumn and Jake and you can read it below. However I also wanted to say a few words to document a truly incredible start to new school year.
WOW... what a fun filled week we have had in class 5! From team building exercises, mindfulness artwork, quizzes, knowledge recaps and even football, we have fitted an awful lot into our first 4 days of the new school year.
It has been so lovely getting to know each and everyone of the wonderful students in my class this week and they have all impressed me with their incredible work ethic, bubbly personalities, positive smiling faces and of course their impeccable manners!
I am already excited for next week and indeed the rest of the year ahead!
WELL DONE YEAR 5, YOU ARE ALL AMAZING!
Miss Eastwood
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Class 5 blog,
By Jake and Autumn!!
RIP Queen Elizabeth II
We had a great first week back in school and enjoyed all of our fun lessons, like using marshmallows and spaghetti to see which group made the tallest tower. The winning group were Toby, Jemima, Tiana and Freya. We think Alex G and Tiana (our new students) have fitted in well with our class.
Some of the other lessons we have done are:
RE and PSHE (with Mrs Kendal)
Mental maths and speed tables – this was tricky after the six-week holidays – but we all did great!
Grammar, where we recapped nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
Today Miss Eastwood gave us a twenty-question maths quiz – again we were amazing!
This week in PE we have learnt football and dance.
We met our new brass teacher – Mr Whiteman, next week we will get our instruments, people at home best get you earplugs ready!
We have done a lot of art this week including making beautiful bookmarks for people to choose from when it’s their birthday, for a treat. We also coloured in bubble letters that make up our school slogan. We also made jigsaw pieces full of true facts about ourselves for our amazing 2 new teachers (Miss Eastwood and Miss Kewley) to know. We coloured them in as well to make them bright and colourful so they stand out in our classroom.
We created amazing ‘I didn’t….but I did….’ poems in English, these were really fun and we have loved listening to them.
We are really looking forward to our time in year five!