Friday 4th September 2024

This week we have been looking at vocabulary in English, exploring expanded noun phrases and writing diaries to demonstrate feelings. Year 5 have shown great enthusiasm for netball and have improved their passing and teamwork skills this week. 

In Maths, we have continued to add and subtract, culminating in multistep problems and the use of the RUCSAC acronym. 

We are continuing to explore Viking design through clay and the children enjoyed experimenting and learning how to use, mould and mark clay. 

 

Friday 27th September

This week we have been finishing our place value unit by rounding numbers up to one million. In Art, we have been drawing Viking-inspired dragons and concentrating on our line work and mark making ahead of the clay work in the next few weeks.

We managed to beat the rain and enjoyed netball outside on Wednesday. This was after the school photos, so no need to worry! The children’s understanding of the game has become much more focused and some of them are really learning to communicate with their teammates effectively.

Our English lessons involved writing a description of a setting and looking at characters. Having read some more of the book, we analysed the character of Rurik in Viking boy. 

Friday 20th September 2024

This week in English Year 5 have been working on punctuating speech accurately and thinking about how authors show character in their writing. In Maths, we have been continuing with Place Value, ordering numbers up to 1 million.

On Friday, we spent the day hoping for sunshine so that we could carry out our shadow experiment for Science, mapping the length and the rotation of shadows at different times of the day to show the rotation of the Earth.

Friday 13th September 2024

This week Year 5 have been continuing with their work on 'Viking boy' by Tony Bradman, looking at characters and how we could describe them using expanded noun phrases and relative clauses. 

In Maths, we have been exploring the value of digits up to one million and looking at the powers of 10. 

The children have been enjoying the Viking topic, creating Viking-inspired knots in their sketchbooks. They really showed resilience in creating their art, some preferring small intricate knots and others preferring larger knots, where they could experiment with colour and pattern. 

  

Friday 6th September 2024

Welcome back to school and welcome to Year 5!

We hope you had a lovely summer break, and we are looking forward to lots of exciting learning this year.

From the whole of the year 5 team.