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Friday 23rd June 2023
Posted: Jun 23, 2023 by: Megan Eastwood (MEastwood) on: Class 5
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.
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