Autumn 2 Week 3
This week we have had lots of fun.
Our maths lesson was an active one and involved playing tag, something we all enjoy, whilst practising squaring and cubing numbers. We have moved on to multiplying numbers by 10, 100 and 1000.
We went to the village hall and after an hour of litter picking…
Autumn 2 Week 2
This week we have benn finding common factors, prime numbers, squared numbers and cubed numbers in maths. This has proven a little tricky at times so we have focussed on reading the question carefully, and using a logical process to solve problems. We persevered when it was difficult and…
Autumn 2 Week 1
We have all returned from the half term break with smiles and positive attitudes.
Our new text in English is My Secret War Diary which links in well with our History topic of World War 2. We are all excited about this topic and looking forward to the learning and activities to come.
Our D&T…
Autumn 1 Week 8
The highlight of our week was the orienteering trip to Cannock Chase. We worked in groups mixed with children from The Howard and St Mary’s and had a great time. Fantastic behaviour and teamwork was demonstrated by all. Not all groups were successful in finding all of the checkpoints and some of…
Autumn 1 Week 7
In English we have started looking at our new text, a poem, The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. We have found some of the old fashioned language tricky but are working hard to understand and interpret the meaning.
Maths lessons have seen the start of a new block of work, we are now looking at…
Autumn 1 Week 6
This week we have continued our study of Charles Darwin in English and of Evolution in Science.
We have looked at inverse operations and estimating in maths as methods for checking our calculations and are nearing the end of our Addition and Subtraction unit of work.
In PE we have continued…
Autumn 1 Week 5
This week our English and Guided Reading text links with out science topic. We are reading an adaptation of Charles Darwin’s on the Origin of the Species.
In maths, we have recapped using the column method to add and subtract two four-digit numbers before we moved on to adding numbers with…
Autumn 1 Week 4
This week there as been lots of laughter and fun alongside our learning.
Working in small groups, we composed our own pieces of music, and performed them in front of the rest of the class. We had a variety of percussion instruments to work with, including djembe drums, coconut shells, bells and…
Autumn 1 Week 3
This week we have explored numbers to One Million in maths and continued to look at the stories from ‘How the whale became’ in English and Guided reading.
We became personal trainers to our friends in PE and have devised training plans to help each other improve our stamina, strength or speed.…
Autumn 1 Week 2
This week we have settled into our routine of lessons and have had some fun along the way.
We completed fitness tests in PE, it was very warm but lots of rest breaks and water meant we all tried our best. There was lots of encouragement for others too. For the next few weeks we will be personal…
Autumn 1 Week 1
We have had a fantastic first week back!
We have come back to school with really positive attitudes and the children are keen to take on more responsibility now that they are in year 5. We have been really patient while Mrs Gully learns our names and the school routines.
After agreeing some…
Year 5 Blog
What a busy week! We have continued studying the Maya in History and in particular the hierarchy of society. We worked in pairs to produce to study one tier of society and produced booklets on what we found. We have also linked our English work into our Mayan topic. We have written an…