Class 5
Friday 26th January 2024
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We have had a wonderful week here in Class 5!
We started the week in English by completed our persuasive brochures to convince people to visit the rainforest for their next summer holiday. The children really impressed me with their ambitious vocabulary and persuasive features! We then moved on to our next topic, poetry inspired by music. We listened to The Carnival of the Animals and tried to match up each piece of music to the animal it was referencing. It was such fun!
We have been learning all about measuring area and perimeter in maths which has been quite challenging but definitely rewarding as the children have made so much progress just in the last 5 days! Well done, Class 5!
Our topic lessons have all been science based this week, looking at the life cycles of many different living things from frogs and butterflies to humans and birds. We ended our topic lessons by choosing two different living things and comparing how their life cycles were similar and different.
Of course, we have been continuing to learn our dance in one of our PE slots and in the other we worked on hand-eye co-ordination by dribbling and bouncing basket balls with different targets. We worked independently and as a team to try and score as many points as possible in the different games. It was really fun and REALLY tiring!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Eastwood
Friday 19th January 2024
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We have had another wonderful week here in Class 5 and I can't believe we have only 3 weeks left until the next half-term break!
We have been working REALLY hard in maths lessons this week, looking at converting between different units of measurement for example converting from cm to m. We have had a really positive attitude to such a difficult topic and persevered with a growth mindset. I have been really proud to see how hard all the children have worked.
In English we have continued our work on persuasive writing, this week focussing on a persuasive brochure. We have practiced writing rhetorical questions, exaggerated language, metaphorical language and repetition to put into our finished writing later in the week.
We have continued with our Mandarin lessons too, learning how to say how tall/short someone is, practicing the numbers up to 100 and even learning how to talk about different facial features.
In PE we have continued practicing for our dance performance next month, even introducing some amazing props!
Finally, in our topic lessons we have been focussing on geography and science. In Geography, we learned about the physical and human features of South America and in science we learned about all the different parts of a plant.
Happy weekend everyone!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 12th January 2024
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I would just like to start this week’s blog by saying that I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
We have had such a fantastic start to the next half term and to 2024 this week in class 5. We have started our brand-new topic – Rainforests – which has been so exciting. We have learned all about the 7 major land biomes during our geography lessons before focussing in on the rainforest biome and it’s features. We have even linked this learning to our English work where we have started writing persuasive texts to convince someone to visit the Amazon Rainforest for a holiday – I don’t think I’d take too much convincing!
In Maths we have been looking at some tricky reasoning questions but despite a tricky start, all of the children showed such determination and perseverance throughout the week and made some fantastic progress – I am so proud!
We have continued our dance lessons with Mrs Matthews this week in preparation for our Strictly Pennine performance at the Lawrence Batley Theatre on the 29th February and both myself and Mrs Matthews have been SO impressed with the skills that the children have been showing. I can’t wait for the final performance already.
Finally, we have started reading our latest class novel ‘The Explorer’ this week, both myself and the children are absolutely loving it and can’t wait to read it each and every day.
I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 15th December 2023
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This week has been ‘Christmas play practice central’ here in class 5! With the big performance less than one week away we have been hard at work rehearsing our lines and practicing our songs along with organising our props and costumes. I have been so, so impressed with everyone’s hard work and dedication to making the performance so fantastic and can’t wait until Wednesday next week to show you all how amazing it is.
In between all of the Christmas play madness, we have also started our new English topic – diary entries. The children have looked at typical features of diaries and how they may be written along with starting to plan what they will include in their very own Ancient Greek themed diary entries.
We have been taking a look at decimals, fractions and percentages in our maths lessons and the relationships between all 3. The children have really impressed me with their knowledge and understanding of this topic, it has been lovely to look through their independent work.
We also started our D&T project this week whereby we will be designing and creating our very own pop up toys using wheels, cams and dowels. I can’t wait to see the finished products next week.
Finally, in our Mandarin lessons we learned the numbers up to 100 and how to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. It was a lovely, festive lesson!
And on that note, Merry Christmas everyone, have a lovely weekend!
Oh and as promised, please see some pictures below from the past few weeks of our learning.
Miss Eastwood
Friday 8th December 2023
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Christmas has officially landed here in Class 5! At the start of the week we decorated our in-class Christmas tree by each placing baubles on it and topping it with our ‘NPS’ tree topper. The children have also really enjoyed reading an advent Christmas themed joke each morning.
It has been a really busy week in school with lots of assessments in the mornings. The children have really impressed me with how sensibly they have approached these, showing great determination throughout!
In the afternoons we have been continuing our science lessons (looking into different forces), Mandarin lessons (focussing on family names), computing (where we are creating and editing our very own videos) and history (where we have been learning all about Ancient Greece).
This morning we had an extra exciting treat – a Christmas pantomime in the hall! The children (and teachers!) thoroughly enjoyed it and it got us all EVEN MORE into the Christmas spirit.
We are all looking forward to ‘Stories with Santa’ this evening and a very special brass performance by some of our amazing Y5 pupils.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Eastwood
*Please note that photographs from this week will be posted to next week's blog entry due to a technical fault*