Year 5

Welcome to Year 5

This term, our Christian Value is: GENEROSITY  

Our class:

Your teacher is: Mrs Foy

Your teaching assistants are: Miss Risk (am) 

                                                                  Miss Arthur (pm)

                                                                  Miss Weatherley (pm) 

Our learning this week:

Maths

In maths this week, we have been consolidating our learning of place value and rounding. We then moved onto our new topic of addition and subtraction and began to look at strategies to work out calculations mentally. 

English

This week, we wrote diary entries as Rose, from our text Rose Blanche about a significant moment in the book. Children have all worked well to produce some great writing this week and have made a good effort to include some of the grammar they have learnt over the past few weeks. In Guided Reading, we have read chapters 4 & 5 of Goodnight Mr Tom. 

Topic

This week we continued our music topic and children enjoyed listening to a selection of WW1 &2 music. We continued to discuss tempo, pitch and the dynamics of the songs. Children then learnt the lyrics to ‘Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag’ and ‘white cliffs of Dover’ and created some actions to go with the song. 

French

This week, children learnt how to say ‘I like’ in French. They then constructed some written and oral sentences about which fruits they liked. 

PE 

Children have enjoyed playing monkey ball and ‘mini football matches’ this week in PE. They all displayed brilliant teamwork this week! 

Science 

This week, we conducted an experiment to test friction and how different materials affect this force  

RE

This week, children learnt about the theories of cosmology and evolution and how these theories differ with Genesis explanation of creation