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Friday 20th January 2023
Posted: Jan 20, 2023 by: Megan Eastwood (MEastwood) on: Class 5
Another fantastic week for my fabulous Year 5 class! We have had quite a few indoor morning and lunch breaks this week due to the colder weather which can always be a little frustrating for the children, however they have been so well behaved and so sensible during this time which makes me so proud! The end of this week marks halfway through the term, time is really flying but we have 3 more weeks of exciting learning, progressing and succeeding ahead of us!
This week’s blog has been written by Tatham & Millie We hope you have as much fun reading it as they did writing it. Enjoy!
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On Thursday we voted for school council. Everybody who wanted to run for a place had to prepare a speech and perform it to the whole class. Some people even made voting posters and stuck them up around the class. After the speeches, everybody came outside one at a time and sat on the sofa to place their votes. We chose are favourite 3 contestants then put it in a blue box, then read our books while waiting for everybody to finish. We can’t wait for the results to be announced!
Throughout the week we’ve been looking at converting between different metric units of measurement in maths. After a few days we then worked up to converting between imperial and metric units of measurement. It has been very hard for most people at first but it’s safe to say that everybody is really good at it now! At first everyone was on set A to get a feel for it then next lesson when we did this the same but the final maths we did something a little different. We did converting mass instead of length!
On Tuesday we did Mandarin and although we do Mandarin every week this lesson was special because we were learning about Chinese New Year and all the years e. g year of the rat or year of the chicken. Then she gave us two Chinese New Year calendars and a beautiful ornament to put in our classroom. How kind!
On Wednesday we learned about the life of frogs and butterflies in a lot of detail. Like learning about the way caterpillars turn into butterflies and tadpoles turn into frogs! We have learned about this before in younger year groups but this time it was much more complex!
On Wednesday we did PSHE, learning about humanists and we were actually lucky enough to have an actual humanist come in and talk to us about her beliefs also mentioning that humanism is not a religion! And not all humanists have the same beliefs. We then acted out what makes us be happy.
On Thursday we did brass and played different songs like robots on the dance floor and I want to play in a band. Then we did some practising of D and C chords together in a song. Then we fished of the lesson/day with the name game and some solos.
We had an assembly on Monday about an engineering competition where you can submit your engineering ideas and the winner has their design actually made into a real thing by real engineers!
There is also an English competition that has been running this week called The Big Green Poetry Machine where we have each been asked to write a piece of poetry and send it into the competition to be submitted AND if you win you get your piece of poetry printed and published in an actual book!
On Wednesday we did a dance that we are practising to preform! It is quite hard and complicated but really fun. Then on Thursday we did rugby which is also really fun and this week we used the crashmat and dived onto it!
All in all, we have had a fantastic week!
Millie & Tatham
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