This week ended with a whole afternoon dedicated to our online safety. Year 5 have explored how they can become good digital citizens by following the rules of digital etiquette (netiquette). They have looked at how it is important to adhere to the same standards of behaviour that we would use in real life - treat others the way you would want to be treated. We discussed: how to stay safe and private on line by not sharing personal information about yourself or anyone else (permission must always be asked for); ways to communicate clearly online to avoid misunderstandings; trolls and flamewars (cyberbullying) and what to do if we come across these issues - tell an adult, report and block.
Our learning this week:
English - The children this week have explored how Jeremy Strong uses dialogue between characters to give clues to the reader about the characters and what is happening. The children then copied his style and have been writing their own dialogues between characters in preparation for the planning and writing of their own story next week. The children have also been revising the rules for speech in order to ensure correct use of inverted commas.
Maths - the children have become quite good at finding equivalent fractions and comparing fractions this week and they have also been learning to simplify fractions into their lowest terms.
Science - the children have been looking at the movement of the Earth and other planets relative to the Sun. They have looked at how long the Earth takes to orbit the Sun, understand why we have a leap year and looked at how the tilt of the Earth affects the seasons.
RE - the children have listened to the story of Noah from the Bible and have learnt about the Covenant that God made with Noah (and us ) and the significance of the rainbow.
Geography - they’ve continued to use the data collected from our fieldwork trip to answer our geographical questions. We hope to collect the rest of our data on our next fieldwork trip next Thursday.
Our Award winners:
Maths award - Charlie won this award for great work comparing fractions. Well done, Charlie!
Golden award - Claire received this award for always demonstrating enthusiasm, a wonderful positive attitude to all her work and giving 100%! Well done, Claire!
Writing award - Well done Abigail for producing a great accurately punctuated dialogue between two characters that revealed how the character was feeling and what was happening.
