Class 5
Friday 8th September 2023
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Wow, what an amazing start to a really exciting year here in Class 5!
It has been SO wonderful getting to know all of the fantastic new children I have in class and I have been truly blown away by the amazing behaviour, enthusiasm for learning, beautiful manners and friendly faces that I have come across this week. I am so excited for what we have in store for the rest of the year. I already know we are going to have lots of fun and learn many new things!
We have really hit the ground running already with our learning, spending time generating exciting vocabulary to describe an imaginary visit to the planet Mars in our English lessons and practicing how to lay out of work in Maths in Year 5.
We have also introduced our brand-new class topic ‘Earth and Space’ in a very creative way… by making papier mâché sculptures of the different planets in our Solar System.
I hope all of my students have enjoyed the week as much as me.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 14th July 2023
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I can’t quite believe I am writing the blog for our penultimate week in Year 5! We have had a fantastic week filled with lots of fun and lots of learning.
This week in English, the children have been writing letters to their future selves full of advice and friendly words of encouragement they may need as they approach the end of their time in Netherthong next year. The idea being that they open the sealed letters in exactly one years’ time. The children designed their own colourful envelopes too and the letters have now been locked away ready to be returned in 2024.
We have also spent our week in maths revising various topics from the year including area and perimeter and place value.
We have had a REALLY interesting week in art too. We created pictures in the style of Hans Holbein The Younger but with a fun twist. Instead of drawing different monarchs in their fine robes and crowns, we replaced them with our own pets dressed in fancy royal attire! The results were amazing with some really fabulous pictures being produced and it was so lovely to see so many pictures of the children’s lovely pets!
Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to take part in our KS2 sports day this week due to the weather but the children did spend the earlier part of the week practicing all of their races with some really amazing results. We will cross our fingers that the weather improves ready for Monday.
Overall, we have had a wonderful week and we are all looking forward to next week where we have lots of fun activities planned!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 30th June 2023
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I know I seem to write this every week but, WOW, what another amazing week in Class 5!
The children have blown me away with their hard work, writing, behaviour, enthusiasm, maths work and their PERFORMANCE skills this week and I couldn’t be prouder.
As you all know, on Tuesday, the children took to the Town Hall in Huddersfield centre to practice the 12 musical songs they have been rehearsing in school for the past few months in preparation for their big performance in front of you parents that evening. We took the public bus there and back and had to walk a short distance through Huddersfield Town centre to reach the Town Hall.
The children were impeccably behaved and represented the school so beautifully. They were quiet and respectful of other passengers on the bus journeys and thanked the bus driver there and back too. They were so sensible when walking through the busy streets and were cautious not to block the pathway for other shoppers. It was such a joy to see.
THEN, they spent the entire day singing, dancing and performing a multitude of songs with such enthusiasm and such AMAZING singing voices. They really stood out amongst all the schools and put a tear in my eye. It was brilliant.
FINALLY, I want to discuss the incredible final performance in the evening and say a huge thank you to all of the children and parents who attended. I am sure you enjoyed the show and felt just as much pride as myself to see Netherthong children up on the big stage singing their hearts out and playing their brass instruments to such a huge crowd. I HAVE to also say a special well done to our very own Sophia Tame who bravely got up and sang the final solo of the evening. It was spectacular.
I would like to finish by saying on final WELL DONE and THANK YOU to all the Class 5 children this week.
Miss Eastwood
Friday 23rd June 2023
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Once again, we have had a fantastic week in Class 5 with so much fun and so much learning going on.
We have been really focussing on our singing practice this week as we have a very important music festival taking place at the Town Hall on Tuesday next week. The children have really impressed me with their efforts in learning TWELVE different songs over the last few months, even some Punjabi lullabies. It has been so wonderful to hear their amazing singing echoing through the school halls all week and I for one can’t wait for the final performance next week.
Singing aside, we have managed to squeeze in so much other work alongside too. The children have been completing their narratives in English which have been inspired by The Highwayman poem and the character Tim (The Ostler) before writing them up in their very best, neatest handwriting.
In Maths we have been looking at revising our knowledge of area and perimeter of shapes and introduced the method of working out the volume of a 3D shape too. The children have worked so hard in maths this week and I have been really impressed.
We’ve also had some great fun in our PE lessons this week, looking at sprinting in our athletics lessons where the children practiced a crouched and standing spring start and decided which method they preferred. We also completed another fantastic badminton lesson where the children had a chance to rally hitting the shuttlecock back and forth with a partner. Both the sporting coach and I were extremely impressed at the high skill level that ALL the children showed!
All in all, a fabulous week! Well done Class 5!
This week’s blog has been written by our very own Florence, Autumn and Samuel. They have decided to fill you in with a little bit more detail about our preparations for the Kirklees Primary Music Festival next week and the songs we have been practicing. They have also discussed a little bit more about what we have been up to in class this week. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as they enjoyed writing it!
KIRKLEES PRIMARY MUSIC FESTIVAL
This week we have been practising our songs that we will be singing in the town hall along with other schools. The songs we are singing are: consider yourself, you can’t stop the beat, singing in the rain, supercalifragailisticexpialidotious, hakuna matata, I’m a believer, be who you are, two lohri-a Punjabi lullabies-, into the light, electricity, when I grow up, This is me. At the town hall we will also be performing our brass songs which we have been practising all year with our music teacher (Mr. Whiteman). We will be the only school performing instruments we will be performing on Tuesday 27 June.
P.E.
In P.E we have been practising sprinting positions and how we can run faster by out movement in our arms as well as lots of athletics in the playground. We have also spent time learning about badminton, trick shots, and also played lots of fun games for warm ups! The badminton teacher has given out lots of badminton flyers for a club out of school for kids who are interested in the sport WE HAVE ALL REALLY ENJOYED P.E lately it has been really fun like always. I think that the people that enjoy running - sprinting were happy to learn the different starting positions for running and take part in and the races.
ENGLISH
LATELY in English we have been learning about how we can add more description to our work by using the thesaurus we have in our table pots so we can go into year six with a FAB start to our writing. Miss Eastwood has been reminding us of different techniques like using more descriptive words and conjunctions also to replace words like said and big with better and more ambitious vocabulary. We have also been working on making sure that our writing is really cohesive. The highwayman is also a poem we have been recapping and writing it down in our own words as a narrative. We have been looking at the story from another perspective. We have all really enjoyed English this week and Miss Eastwood has kept saying how impressed she is with us all and our amazing work.
Thank you for reading our blog.
Florence, Autumn, Samuel.
Friday 16th June 2023
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What another absolutely amazing week in Class 5! I have been EXTRA proud of my wonderful pupils this week as I have had so many teachers around school letting me know how brilliantly behaved they have been as they have seen them in the hallways, during assemblies, at lunch times and playtimes and just generally around school – it makes me SO happy to hear!
As always, we have had another jam-packed week with lots of fun. We have been continuing to work on the fantastic poem ‘The Highwayman’ in our English classes and have just started work on writing a narrative version of the poem from a different perspective – exciting stuff! In maths we have been working on converting between different units of measurement and weight and we are well on the way with our new topic lesson which this week took a focus to Henry VIII and the English Reformation.
On top of all of that we have had visits from the amazing flute player Simeon Wood (who has even featured on Britain’s Got Talent) to play his amazing flute, amongst other cool instruments and we took part in a boccia competition involving the whole school.
This week’s blog has been written by our very own Laura and Alex.
We hope you have as much fun reading it as they did writing it. Enjoy!
On 15th of June Thursday, there was a flute assembly where a man came in and talked to us, played some flutes. He also used some random objects and turned them into instruments. He somehow played a bike pump like a flute! He also joined some classes for some questions throughout the day. He showed us this item that he was going to play and we had to try not to laugh, after 1 tiny blow EVERYONE LAUGHED. It was a flute that made a trumping noise!
In maths we learned about problems including: weight and mass. (Of course, it was wordy problems that most people in class dislike doing! ☹).The questions were very tough but we dragged our self through and managed to produce some great work. We also reviewed our learning of decimals from last week.
On Wednesday, we actually did something really fun! We sketched our own trees while sat in the sun on the field. We also meditated under some trees in a relaxing way. When we were meditating we were told that we had to sit on our own to do it which was quite boring to us and a lot of thoughts went through our minds.
In English this week we continued on the highwayman poem and we drew a storyboard about the 6 main parts of the poem! We also looked at the words we didn’t understand and put the meaning on a piece of paper. It’s been a fun week in English.
Overall, we have had a great week but we are all looking forward to enjoying the sunny weekend!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Laura & Alex H
