Year 5 Newsletter

 Well, what an unexpected end to the week we had in Year 5! We firstly want to mention how proud we are of all the children with how they dealt with news that we we had to return to home learning. And as upsetting this was for lots of children (and adults), we have lots of exciting events to look forward to on our return! The children in Year 5 have settled back seamlessly into the home learning routine and we have been enjoying ourselves with pyjama parties and quizzes which has been uplifting and positive for us all. The children in writing have been writing suspense stories and this is a genre we can tell they are enjoying and the Year 5 team can not cope with all the cliff hangers, we need to know what will happen next!!!! In maths the children have been consolidating their knowledge of shapes and calculating unknown angles using the information available and they have remembered the basics which they have been able to build on.

Flickbooks in Year 5

 This afternoon, the children have been designing the twenty frames for their Suffragette flickbooks, considering slight movements between each frame and simple drawings that are easy to repeat. Inspired by the propaganda posters of the time, the children have created stories portraying the Suffragettes as ugly or being silenced by padlocks! Each is very unique and we are excited to create the final outcome!

Year 5 Newsletter

 We have had a very productive week this week in year 5. In our reading lessons, we have been looking at newspapers as the source for our comprehension questions - the children were especially excited to read about the Euros. We have started our non-chronological reports all about penguins and we have written about the extreme climates and temperatures that the penguins have to battle through to survive. In maths, the children revisited fractions and have overcome the initial barrier that “fractions are hard” and this has enabled us to explore adding, subtracting, multiplying and fraction word problems! In our PSHE lesson, we discussed gender stereotypes and how we should challenge these stereotypes to ensure everyone has equal opportunities and rights. 

Maths mystery in Year 5

 In year 5, we have kept up with the football theme in maths today and we have been solving maths problems to solve a football mystery. The children have used their knowledge of finding fractions of amounts, times tables and graphs. Can you guess who the culprit is?

The News Shed in Year 5!

 In year 5 this week, we are looking at newspaper articles in our reading lessons. We considered the structure and features of newspaper articles before answering comprehension questions on a variety of articles. Today’s article is all about saving our seas. Did you know World Ocean Day was celebrated on the 8th June this year?

Poetry Week in Year 5!

 Inspired by the poem, Still I rise, by Maya Angelou, the children in year 5 recreated their own poem with a theme of bullying. We have collected lots of vocabulary together and used similes, metaphors and rhymes for impact in our poems. Here we have shared our whole class model. 

Presenting Jesse Owens’ biography

 This afternoon, the children added the finishing touches to their biographies and edited and improved them until they were happy to perform them. We have learnt so much about this iconic Olympic hero and the children all crafted their biographies in a unique way. In the children’s words, ‘Jesse Owens never stopped fighting for what he believed in and he will be remembered as a hero for many years.’

Year 5 Newsletter

 We have been very impressed with the children’s curiosity this week for World History week! The children in year 5 kicked off the week with some fantastic outfits for their chosen historical figure and they performed their speeches clearly and with confidence. Throughout the week, we have been learning about Jesse Owens who surprised the world at the Berlin 1936 Olympic games by winning four, unexpected, gold medals and we have used all of our new information to write a biography all about his life. The children have also created some brilliantly, bold Olympic art. In maths, the children have shown off their knowledge about shapes and we have started to explore the different types of angles and how to make estimations about the angle size and then how to check the measurement with a protractor. 

World History Dress Up Day in Year 5

 WOW, we have learnt so much about many significant figures in history today from all over the world and from different time periods! The children prepared some factual and entertaining speeches that they performed in front of the class - I have definitely learnt a lot about different characters in history today! Can you guess who the children have dressed as?

Artwork from Year 5

 This week for World History Week, the children in year 5 have been focussing on the theme ‘sporting heroes in history’ and we looked into the incredible life of Jesse Owens. Inspired by this sporting hero, we decided to create some bold, eye-catching, Olympic art! The results were fantastic!

Life of a Suffragette

 This afternoon, the children in Year 5 discovered different events that happened during the time of the Suffragettes and they learned when the Suffragette period stared. The children were set the task to order the events on a timeline and infer information from their timeline. 

Votes for Women!

 Year 5 this week have been examining multiple sources of evidence to understand the deeds that suffragettes committed in order to get the vote! 

Deeds not words, was a famous phrase used by the suffragettes. The children were shocked to learn about some of the actions the women took and were able to draw opinions on our key question, whether or not the suffragettes were clever or criminal.