What have Y5 been up to?
Summer Term
Week 3
The children enjoyed time in our Forest School area, collaboratively working together to create dens.
Week 2
In our Jigsaw PSHE lessons on 'Relationships', the children have begun exploring what safe and healthy online relationships look like.
In Science, we have been learning about the different types of mammals: placental, monotreme and marsupials and their life cycles. The children really enjoyed this and are now experts!
Week 1
We have had a great start to the summer term this week. In maths, the children worked confidently classifying and measuring angles. We began our PSHE Jigsaw unit 'Relationships', where the children considered themselves as a person in terms of their characteristics and personal qualities. In English, we began our new book Journey to the River Sea, where we predicted what we thought might happen based on the front cover and were introduced to some of the characters in the story. I wonder what you predict the book might be about from the front cover?
Spring Term
Week 10
We have had great fun this half term exploring and making vehicles in our Design and Technology unit. We also spent a week looking at Cinquain poems in English and Reading, creating our own by carefully considering word choices and the number of syllables needed in each line.
Week 9
In Reading, we finished The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and reflected upon the book, it is great to know that some of the children are keen to read the next book in the series!
In Science, we explored the effects of upthrust and water resistance, carrying out two experiments. This was enjoyable and enabled us to realise the importance of streamlining objects.
Week 8
This week, as always, we have continued to hard in all subjects. We read more and more of The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe and reached the saddest part of the story. Afterwards we had a class discussion where we shared our thoughts and feelings around Aslan's death and how CS Lewis' description of this contributed to the way we felt. We all listened carefully and respectfully to each others' thoughts.
Week 7
In Maths, we have begun exploring decimal numbers, thinking carefully about place value and how decimals and fractions are linked.
We have continued our work on explanation texts; planning and writing an explanation of forces at work around us.
Our Science work on forces focused on air resistance; we made spinners with different variables and found out how air resistance (working in opposition to gravity) affected the speed at which our spinners travelled to the ground.
Week 6
We began our second half term by looking at explanation texts in English and continuing work on fractions in Maths.
In our new Science topic, Forces around us, we explored what forces are focusing on gravity and the effect it has on objects. We had a great time exploring whether objects with different masses would reach the ground at the same time when dropped. We tried dropping five different balls ,each with a different mass, from the same height and observed which reached the ground first.
Week 5
This week in Maths, the children have been multiplying fractions by integers.
To complete our exploration of The Watertower, in English, the children have been developing their journalistic writing. They have written a newspaper report about the ominous events surrounding the Watertower.
In Music, they have continued their learning by composing and improvising with the glockenspiels.
Week 4
This week in Maths we have started to look at the bus stop method for division. We have been talking a lot in class about how learning our times tables makes this so much easier. Those children that have been practising regularly on TT Rockstars have found it to be a huge help! Why not have a go at home using the method we've used in class?
In music, we have started to read notes! The children are beginning to identify what note to play from musical notation and they were able to practise their skills on our school glockenspiels.
Week 3
Maths
This week we began our new unit on Multiplication and Division, building upon our previous knowledge. We learnt a formal written method to multiply a two-digit, three-digit or four-digit number by a two-digit number. Why not ask your child to teach you our long multiplication written method, it's a great way to help them to consolidate their learning!
Science
In Science, we have continued with our exploration of Earth and Space. We found out in detail how day and night occurs and worked with a partner to write an explanation of this.
PSHE
In our Jigsaw lessons, we have continued with our unit Dreams and Goals. We began considering and discussing our possible future careers and investigated the salaries of a range of jobs.
Week 1 and 2
Maths and English
The children have come back into school and continued with their learning on Fractions in maths.
We have begun to read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis, which we are all enjoying. The children are focusing on the characters' thoughts and feelings as they enter the magical world of Narnia!
In our English lessons, we are exploring the book 'The WaterTower' by Gary Crew. The focus of our learning is analysing and writing setting and character descriptions.
