This week Year 5 were really excited to meet their Reception buddies. They gave them a special welcome letter and a wooden heart with their name on to introduce themselves. Year 5 will be developing their leadership roles this year and as part this, they will not only be role models to their buddies to Reception but also play leaders to KS1. Over the coming weeks, Year 5 will receive training in leadership from Blackpool Football Club Community Trust during their Wednesday PE lesson and also a couple of leadership workshops including refereeing. The first of these other sessions will be on Thursday and the children will need to wear their PE kit.
Our award winners:
Golden Award - Isabella
Writing Award - Ruby
Maths Award - Amelia
Year 5 Star Winner - Mickey
Our learning this week…
In English the children have been learning to use parenthesis marked by commas, brackets or dashes.
In Maths the focus has been on place value and the children have been reading and writing 5-digit numbers and recognising the value of each digit.
In RE we have been discussing how the world began and have compared their own views against those of their learning partner.
In Computing 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.
Our geography unit this half term is about lines of latitude and longitude. We have started looking at the significance of these lines and the children have started to identify some of these on a World map: the Equator, the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the Arctic and Antarctic circles and the Prime Meridian
In music the children were learning to recognise the basic style indicators of the Classic Rock song ‘Livin’ On A Prayer by Bon Jovi’.
In our art lesson the children have continued to explore and draw sections of Hundertwasser’s images into their sketchbooks.
Well done Year 5 for your hard work this week, we hope you all have a lovely weekend with your families.
Mrs McVey, Miss Evans, Mrs McCooey and Mrs Hodgkiss
