Class 5
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
Friday 17th May 2024
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I can’t believe how quickly Friday has come around again this week, I think the weeks are flying by so quickly because we are having so much fun in Class 5!
This week, in English, we have been working on PowerPoint presentations to persuade people to switch to green energy, as part of out topic work ‘Our World’.
The children spent time researching the benefits of green energy and the dangers of fossil fuels before putting al of their amazing information into a PowerPoint presentation. On Wednesday, they presented these to the class, and I was so impressed with everyone’s efforts, they were a joy to watch!
In Maths, we started the week by taking another look at place value. We then progressed onto some tricker, reasoning style questions before I gave the children a very tricky maths riddle! I have put a copy of the riddle below for any parents that would like to try and work it out. I was so impressed with how the class worked systematically to try and obtain the correct answer!
We have also been conducting various science experiments this week too, from the irreversible change of lighting a candle, to conducting a scientific enquiry into plastic, we have really been busy!
We also had a very interesting and informative PSHE lesson, looking at different substances and how they can be harmful. I was very impressed with the sensible attitude and maturity that the children showed during this lesson.
Of course, we also squeezed in some fantastic PE lessons too. Tennis and Gymnastics and I must say, I was extremely impressed with the gymnastics performances this week. The children worked in groups to create symmetrical and asymmetrical routines using various pieces of gymnastic equipment. They worked so well and the routines were fantastic!
Well done for another wonderful week, Year 5!
Enjoy your weekend, everyone!
Friday 10th May 2024
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I can’t believe we are in week 5 of this half term already, it’s going by so quickly!
We have had a fab time this week in Year 5, in English we have been refining our persuasive writing skills by creating a persuasive PowerPoint presentation aimed at convincing people to switch to renewable energy. It has been so lovely to see the children be so passionate about the project and I was really impressed with the both the content and the delivery of all of the presentations.
In Maths we have been looking at money problems. We started the week with a few lessons looking at worded maths problems involving adding, dividing, subtracting and multiplying different amounts of money before putting all of those skills together to plan and budget for our very own imaginary ‘ULTIMATE’ parties. The children were given a budget and a brochure of party options which they then had to look through to plan their very own parties. They had to make sure that they didn’t over spend though! They really enjoyed the task and I can honestly say I would love to attend some of the parties that were planned, they sounded amazing!
We also started a science experiment looking at the properties of a salt water solution and its evaporation time. The experiment is ongoing so we will update you with our findings next week!
In Mandarin, the children got the chance to practice some Mandarin style paper crafts and in PE they continued to showcase their tennis and gymnastics skills.
What a fab week!
Enjoy your weekend, everyone.
Miss Eastwood
Friday 3rd May 2024
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This week in Class 5 we have been spending lots of time looking at time! All of our maths lessons have focussed on reading the time, changing from 12 to 24-hour time, changing from analogue time to digital time and even linking some outdoor learning to time as well! I have been so impressed with everyone’s enthusiasm and positivity to what is generally quite a tricky topic – well done Class 5!
Our English lessons have been linked to creating a non-chronological report all about wind power. We broke the whole writing process down into small steps and refined and editing our writing on whiteboards before writing our work up in best. I have been blown away with the fantastic writing that the class have produced, it has been a pleasure to read.
We have also found the time to squeeze in lots of interesting science investigations linked to our science topic ‘properties of materials’. We first looked at a variety of materials in investigated whether they were magnetic, transparent, soluble, and electrical. We then looked at different mixtures of materials and worked out which would be the best way to separate them, this included sieving, using magnets and even filter paper and funnels.
Amongst all that fun, we also spent some time outside (during the small snippet of good weather this week) practicing our tennis skills.
Another wonderful week.
Well done Class 5!
Miss Eastwood