Year 5 have had another great week of learning. The children have settled well and are really getting into the swing of things. Many of them have earned themselves lots of dojo points already because of their great attitude, focused learning, effort and great work. We’re now checking diaries daily and all bookmarks have now been updated . I’m so pleased to see so many have already read and are getting their diaries signed each night - dojo points are also rewarded for this. Well done Year 5, keep that up!
Our learning this week…
In English we have continued to investigate the features of author Jeremy Strong’s writing. His style of writing includes a lot of parenthesis - extra information or after thoughts. The children have been learning to use parenthesis marked by commas, brackets or dashes.
Our focus in maths has been rounding numbers up to 5-digits to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. We learnt a little rhyme to help us remember the rules for rounding.
In RE the children have discussed the Scientific view of how the World began and also listened to the Creation story from Genesis 1 (Theological view) and have made their own Creation wheel as a reminder of the story.
In Science we have been considering different types of evidence, both direct and indirect evidence, for the shape of our Earth. We also spent time on Wednesday , as it was a really sunny day, observing how a shadow of someone changes over the course of the day and why that is.
We had a really successful Computing lesson this week where the children learnt all about Binary coding that computers use to communicate with each other. The children found out that the Curiosity Mars Rover communicated back and forth with Nasa using this code. They have learnt how to read binary up to eight characters and understand that each one or zero is referred to as a bit. They then played a game on the computer where they needed to calculate binary numbers, knowing each digit is worth double the one that precedes it. It’s quite a challenging concept so I was really impressed with how quickly they understood this and they managed some really high scores.
In our Spanish lesson this week we learnt to ask and answer some basic information about ourselves and have begun to explore how we answer those same questions about someone else.
In Bounce Forward this week, we discussed tough times that people go through and the resilient things we can do to help us get through them. Some of the children chose to share their own personal stories and I really was impressed with their openness and honesty. We talked about how important it is to talk to someone we trust and share how we feel when we’re going through a tough time, as a problem shared is a problem halved. Resilience is the ability to bounce forward in tough times - “When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.” Barack Obama.
Our award winners:
Golden Award - Leo
Writing Award - Henri
Maths Award - Evie
Year 5 Star Winner -
Another great week Year 5, keep up the great work! We hope you all have a lovely weekend with your families.
Mrs McVey, Miss Evans and Mrs Frost
