Each year group posed a question to Rev. Paul relating to their current topic questions for R.E. Watch the video below to see his answers.
Look out for a special guest appearance from Maisie the dog too!
In Maths, for the next few weeks, Year 5 are building on our knowledge of multiplication and division. We have been looking at multiples, factors and common factors. Striping back to basics, we have used four gets to create arrays to visualise numbers, which has really helped support our learning.
In Science this week, Year 5’s CSI team have been trying to discover what substance was put into Professor Brainstorm’s tea.
Continuing with our topic of properties and changes of materials, we looked at how to separate mixtures using sieving, evaporation, filtration and magnetism processes. The children also established that some changes are reversible and irreversible.
It turned out that someone had put sodium chloride in the professors tea… the investigation is ongoing. Check back next week for any case updates!
This week, Class 11 have been learning breakfast nouns in French. They tucked into a continental French breakfast consisting of: crossiants, pain au chocolat, orange juice and apple juice. This was a great experience for the children and they learnt lots of new words as well as the opportunity to practise their manners in French. Magnifique!
This week Year 5 started their new science topic on Properties and Changes in Materials. Over the next few weeks they will be working on answering the Learning Challenge Question: Could you be the next CSI investigator?
The first lesson involved the children taking on the roles of crime scene investigators and looking at the evidence to identify the top secret project the kidnapped Professor Brainstorm was working on.
They had so much fun!
Year 5 have been learning a dance routine over the course of the last half term. They have all worked very hard and have had lots of fun too. Here is their finished routine.
This week in Year 5 we completed our final character descriptions and moved onto writing diary entries based on our class novel Journey to Jo’burg. We have worked hard to include a range of features in our character descriptions. Including the use of: sentence openers, interesting adjectives, similes and metaphors. Our final pieces of work have been excellent!
Last week was Space Week. The theme this year was Satellites. In Year 5 we have looked at the uses of manmade satellites and we have also learned about natural satellites such as moons that orbit around planets like Earth.
We then researched and compared the planets and discussed where we could go if we could no longer live on Earth. As a class, we decided on Mars.
In Class 11, we have been thinking about our personal targets for the rest of the Autumn term, as well as discussing our targets with Mr Wilson for Numeracy and Literacy.
Here is an example of what we have been thinking about and the types of targets we have been set. All our targets are SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-based) and are agreed with the teacher so that we know what we are working towards.
Ask your child about their targets!
This week in Year 5 we have moved on from Place Value and we are now looking at the addition and subtraction of four-digit numbers with more than one exchange using column methods.
Here is a lesson we did this week on addition:
