Year 5 are continuing to work hard and we’ve had an enjoyable week. Despite being out of school for so many months, the children have quickly settled back into school life and I’m very impressed with their great behaviour and how focused they are on their work. It’s also a pleasure to see how well the children get on and play together at playtimes. Your children are a real credit to you and our school!
Our Learning this week…
This week in English the children have continued to look at the features of Jeremy Strong’s writing. They have had a go at creating their own sentences with parenthesis indicated by brackets, dashes and commas and they’ve recalled one of the episodes of the story and included dialogue in their writing.
In maths the children have been thinking about mental strategies for adding and subtracting methods and they have challenged themselves to use the most efficient methods to be quick and accurate. Keep practising these at home!
In RE we have been discussing how the world began and have compared their own views against those of their learning partner.
In science we have begun our Space topic and have been looking at the shape of the Earth, Sun and Moon and have considered both direct and indirect evidence which proves this. We did a pencil and water experiment which demonstrated that although our senses (direct evidence) can be useful in Science, we also need to consider other evidence too. Ask Year 5 what examples of evidence there are that the Earth is spherical.
Our Computing topic this half term is all about the Mars Rover and this week the children have learnt about the automated motor vehicle and have explored how and why the Mars Rover transfers data. To get an idea of the distance that the Mars Rover had to travel, the children also researched the distance to Mars based on the length of other objects, such as the Eiffel Tower, the length of a blue whale , a football pitch and the Great Wall of China.
Today Year 5 have started their weekly PE sessions with a coach from BFC. The children have been put into two groups and each group will get one hour of PE with them. This half term the focus of the sessions are athletics.
Our award winners:
Golden Award - Jacob
Writing Award - Elliot
Maths Award - Isabella
Year 5 Star Winner - Sam
Great work this week Year 5, we’re very proud of you all! Have a lovely weekend with your families.
Mrs McVey and Miss Evans
