Year 5
Year 5 Latest News
08.11.24
Year 5 have kicked off the new half term with some excellent learning to help them settle back into school. This week, we have started our new Geography topic - Amazing America! The children used their map and atlas skills to plot different places and landmarks across North America. In Science we made oobleck to explore the properties of solids, liquids and gas. There was a lot of excitement on Thursday, when a dragon visited the year 5 classrooms and left Storm Dragon eggs, which we have been using as part of our writing! Finally, we had a great start to our Art lessons by mark making and using a range of pressures to add levels of depth to our drawings and finished our week with a lovely whole school trip to the cinema!
25.10.24
In Year 5 we have been using our knowledge of times tables fluency facts to develop our understanding of prime numbers and composite numbers in maths lessons.
In English lessons we have written some fantastic short burst poetry, using similes, metaphors and detailed expanded noun phrases.
We had a focus on the British Value democracy in our reading lessons this week. We read the story 'Sofia Valdez, Future Prez' and discussed how resilient Sofia was when people wouldn't listen to her at the start of the story and how at the end, the community came together to sign a petition to make a positive change. We also discussed how it is important to have democracy in our society.
On Friday, we had a visit from the Coram Life Education programme, who provided the children with some advice on friendships and communication which links to our PSHE curriculum.
18.10.24
It has been another productive and busy week for year 5! In maths, we have finished our unit on addition and subtraction, working hard on our presentation along with picking out key language in the questions to tell us which operation we need to use. We have spent our English lessons writing our own finding tales based on our class text - Dobber and the Silver Ring. The children have worked very hard on these, resulting in some very creative pieces of work! Our DT project has also been completed this week, with the children using different types of cuts and joins to make their own Tudor house. The Kingfishers and Toucans have dedicated a lot of time preparing for our Black History Month assembly, which we hope you enjoyed!
Please remember to encourage your children to read regularly at home and sign this in their reading records. The expectation is at least three reads every week.
04.10.24
This week has been very productive for Year 5! In maths, we have started addition and subtraction as a new unit. The children have been exploring both operations through number lines and the column method. In writing, we have been boxing up Dobber and the Silver Ring and have started to write our class version of the text. This is a great chance for the class to use their learning about inverted commas, fronted adverbials and description. During history this week, we have created leaflets all about how the rich Tudors lived, detailing their jobs, homes and diet. Finally, we have been learning all about time zones in science and exploring how the world is split into separate meridians.
20.09.24
This week, year 5 have been completing some drama around our class text - Dobber and the Silver Ring. They have been looking at speech and the behaviours of certain characters that we have met throughout the story. Our maths lessons have focused on using our place value knowledge to arrange and compare numbers using bar models and number lines. Working in groups, we spent our history lesson creating a family tree of the most significant members of the Tudor royal family and have been outside exploring how shadows created by the sun change through the day, which the children have thoroughly enjoyed!
13.09.24
In Year 5 we have been learning to retell the story of 'Dobber and the Silver Ring' in our English lessons. The children have done a fantastic job of learning the words and actions. In maths, we have been improving our knowledge of place value by comparing and ordering numbers up to one million. In our reading lessons, we have read the first few chapters of Treason which has linked well to our history lessons as the main character lived in the Tudor period.
