Year 5 – Another Busy Week!

It has been another engaging and busy week of learning in Year 5!

In English, we continued to explore more features of our writing toolkit, including ‘-ing, location, -ed’ sentences and dialogue. We put these techniques into practice through a range of short-burst writing activities, thinking carefully about how different sentence structures can make our writing more interesting and effective.

In Maths, we have been developing our understanding of rounding, as well as comparing and ordering numbers up to 100,000. We have been using our knowledge of place value to help us explain and justify our answers.

This week, our Guided Reading learning linked particularly well with Deaf Awareness Week. Through our text, we explored what it can be like to experience the world differently and discussed the importance of understanding and respecting the experiences of others. We delved into some rich vocabulary, including identity, experience, disabilities, isolated, external and amplified, considering both the meaning of these words and how they contributed to our understanding of the text. It also gave us an opportunity to think about inclusion, communication and the different ways people connect with the world around them.

In Music, we worked collaboratively in groups to plan a musical theatre scene incorporating singing, acting and dancing. There were lots of creative ideas as we thought about how all three elements could work together to tell a story.

In Science, we learned how water resistance acts on objects and explored some of the factors that can affect it. We also began to make links with our previous learning about air resistance, identifying similarities and differences between these two forces.

Mini Police has continued this week too, with Year 5 enjoying another session as part of this exciting programme. The children are really embracing the opportunity to work alongside our local police team, learning more about their role within the community and developing important skills such as teamwork, responsibility, communication and making positive choices. It has been lovely to see how enthusiastic and engaged they are during these sessions.

Home Learning

READING: Please read at least 5 times each week, including opportunities to read aloud to an adult.

MATHS & ENGLISH: Please complete the assignments set on Doodle.

Dates for your diary

Our Harvest Festival is on Thursday. Please drop the children directly to the church for 8:45am in smart uniform.

Tuesday 29th September - Y5  & Y6 Multisports Event - Selected pupils

Wednesday 30th September - 8:50 - Class Rep meeting

Thursday 1st October - 9:00 - 10:00 - Harvest Festival at St Mary's Church - Years 1 to 6.  Drop off at the church (smart uniform)

Tuesday 6th October - morning - Individual and sibling photographs (smart uniform for Years 1 to 6)

Wednesday 7th October - Year 5 - Class trip to The Lion King

Wednesday 21st October - 15:15 - 15:45 - Years 3 to 6 - Book Look

Sunday 8th November - 16:00 - 18:30 - PTA Fireworks Evening

Emails sent this week

Year 5 Lion King Trip

Young Voices audience tickets for choir

Iced coffees and pastries

Ice Lolly sale

Year 5 & 6 Multisport for selected pupils

11+ - Thursday mornings

Keeping our school site safe

Thank you for another fantastic week, Year 5. Have a lovely weekend!