Well I can hardly believe we’ve been in school a month already and achieved so much. The children continue to make me proud with all that they do and achieve. Keep up the great work Year 5!

Bedrock

I am so delighted to see that so many of the children are using Bedrock at home and moreso because so many of them are completing more than what is expected of them for homework. This programme is a fantastic resource and really does improve the children’s vocabulary. To say the children have only been using Bedrock for just over a week, I am completely blown away by how many points some children have already earned themselves…

Here is our TOP 5 on the scoreboard this week:

1 Sam 204 points (WOW!👏🏻🌟)

2 Maisy 141 points

3 Gabriella 95 points

4 Idana 70 points

5 Ebony 65 points

This truly is fantastic so well done Year 5 and keep up the great work! Don’t forget Year 5, you need to earn 140 points by the 24th October to be entered into the Bedrock competition for a chance to win an amazing prize (see poster below). There will also be an in-class prize for the member of Year 5 who has the most points by the end of term.

Reading

In class we have been talking about the importance of reading and I’m really pleased that so many children are reading daily. As Doctor Seuss says, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Please can I ask that parents continue to encourage your child to read at home and sign their reading diary. More recently, we have noticed that some children are already not reading as regularly as they should and some children are not bringing their reading diaries to school everyday. This is such a shame and it really is having an impact on their quiz scores in school and the progress they are making. The children should be reading for at least 20 minutes a day at home. To improve this, we will continue to check reading diaries daily and in addition to the Dojo points and the Golden tickets they usually receive for reading and taking quizzes, they will receive daily bonus points which will be decided by our spinning wheel. By earning Dojo points for reading, this will support the children in getting a minimum of 40 Dojo points each week in order to be included in our weekly prize draw on a Friday and will increase the number of Golden tickets they receive ( as usual our Golden ticket winners will be drawn at the end of term). Get reading Year 5! 📚

Our learning this week…

In English the children have begun planning their own episode of Ramona’s escape down the mountain using ideas from Jeremy Strong’s story.

Our focus in maths has been reading and writing numbers up to a million and adding 10s, 100s, 1000s, 10000s and 100000s.

In RE, the children have been reflecting on the importance of the Creation story and have identified the reasons why God made us.

This week in our space topic in Science, the children have been describing the orbit of the Earth around the Sun and have looked at how the tilt of the Earth give us the Seasons.

In Computing the children have furthered their knowledge of binary coding and have now been challenged to doing binary addition.

In our geography unit the children continued to identify places to send the chosen travellers to, based on their particular interests. The children have now settled on 7 places through north and south America and have a used an atlas to identify their location on a map.

In Spanish we have looked at a new vocabulary for family words and we identified these by looking at some of the characters from the film Coco.

In art the children have enlarged their Hundertwasser images they have created and have begun to develop their work using layering methods to communicate ideas and make images.

During our Bounce Forward session we continued to look at the basics potion on the resilience framework and the children identified three different ways that they can challenge themselves to be more resilient. Take a look at the resilient framework here.

In PE the focus of the lessons continued to be attacking and defending. This week the children played dodge ball and an inclusion game called Goal Ball. In Goal Ball the children were in two teams sat facing each other on the hall floor with their eyes closed and they used their sense of hearing to pass the ball (a bell ball) to each other with the aim of scoring a goal.