Class 5
Friday 26th April 2024
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Another fantastic week in Class 5!
We have continued our wonderful work of ‘Our World’ in topic and even carried it through into our English lessons this week. The children have worked in groups to research a particular type of natural resource, making notes and preparing a poster before presenting this to the rest of the class. I was really impressed with how confidently they spoke about their chosen areas and how well researched they were.
In Maths it has been fractions, decimals and percentages central! We have been further investigating the relationship between all three, completing worksheets, questions, textbooks and even creating informative posters about them. Well done, Class 5!
In PE the children have been continuing their tennis lessons and also started their gymnastic lessons this week. The skill that the whole class have shown in both areas has been fantastic to see!
Our Mandarin lessons this week were marvellously musical, with the children learning a very fast-paced Mandarin song, and of course, throughout the week, have also continued our singing lessons in preparation for the Kirklees Primary Music Festival.
We also learned about St George’s Day on Tuesday in our KS2 assembly.
Well done Class 5.
I hope you all have a fab weekend!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 19th April 2024
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Another fantastic week in Year 5 this week!
We started things off on Monday by practicing some Year 6 SATS style reading questions which can be really scary! I was so proud of how the entire class tackled them with positivity and determination and everyone’s efforts were fantastic. Later in the week we used the text from one of the reading questions to inspire us to write our very own 2nd chapter of the story – it was all about ‘Lil Pele’ a young and aspiring footballer who lived in the Brazilian favelas.
In Maths this week we focussed on shapes and angles, recapping our understanding of properties of 3D shapes and revising how to use protractors to measure angles.
We also kick started our brand-new topic, having spent last week completing our topic work form last half term. Our new topic is called ‘Our World’ and this week we have learned what natural resources are and looked at some examples such as geological resources and agricultural resources. We also learned the different between renewable and non-renewable resources and make some incredible fact-file posters about wind power, solar power, geothermal power and hydropower. I was particularly impressed with everyone’s artistic skills when depicting each of these in drawings.
We have also been spending lots of time practicing for the Kirklees Primary Music Festival coming up on 18th June. We have been learning various songs and the classroom has sounded so beautiful, filled with lovely music all week!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 12th April 2024
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It has been so wonderful to welcome all of the children back this week after the Easter break and we have had such an exciting week to get things started.
On Monday we started things off by looking at time in maths which is a notoriously tricky topic! I was so impressed with the hard work and resilience showed by the children during that lesson and saw so much progress being made. Well done Year 5!
We also tried our hand at creative writing this week which everyone LOVED! The children were given a starting topic to inspire them and then were allowed the freedom to write whatever came to their mind. We had some spooky stories, funny stories, diary entries and even some inventions of brand-new super powers. We then spent time listening to everyone’s work as they read it aloud which was wonderful to hear.
Tuesday was an extra exciting day this week. As part of our Mayan topic from last half term, the children spent the entire morning baking and cooking different dishes inspired by the Mayan cuisine. Everyone was so sensible, diligent and worked really hard to ensure they created a wonderful food dish. Then, in the afternoon, we donned our very best chef hats and invited parents and carers in to try our delicious food and take part in some Mayan activities such as creating a Mayan mark, a reading task, designing a chocolate bar and watching various informative videos. It was a wonderful afternoon and I hope everyone who attended, enjoyed it as much as us!
On Wednesday we had another exciting day where we took part in a read event. An author joined a zoom call with the children of Y5 in Netherthong along with various other local schools. She explained all about two amazing new books she has written and hopefully inspired lots of children to give them a read!
Our final bit of excitement for the week came today when we were joined by the West Yorkshire Fire Service who spoke to us about fire safety. It was very informative and we learned so much useful information.
Well done to everyone in Class 5 for a great week!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Eastwood
Friday 22nd March 2023
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We have had a fabulous final week in Class 5.
In English we have been completing our very own Rainforest themed stories complete with magical trees and talking animals. The children spent time breaking the story down, chapter by chapter, paragraph by paragraph and really fine tuning their writing skills to create fantastically detailed and descriptive pieces of writing. It has been an absolute please reading them.
Maths this week has focussed on revising 3D shapes and their properties. We spent a lot of time making different nets for multiple 3D shapes and then completed a full unit review to consolidate learning. The children did amazingly well and showed that they have really understood the topic!
In our History lessons we looked at architecture and archaeologists. We learned what these words mean and then spent time looking at different Mayan building, using what we could see to try to work out what the buildings may have been used for. I was really impressed with the children’s archaeological skills!
Of course, we have also been practicing an awful lot of singing this week. In a couple of months, Class 5 will be invited to sing at the Huddersfield Town Hall as part of the Kirklees Primary Music Festival. We have a whole booklet of songs that we need to learn before then so we really sunk our teeth into practicing this week and my word, I was blown away with the musical talent in this class! I can’t wait to be sitting on stage with them whilst they perform on the big night!
I hope you all have a wonderful Easter break!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 15th March 2023
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I have been so immensely proud of Class 5 this week. We have been completing our termly assessments and they have tackled them with such a sensible and determined approach. I would just like to take this opportunity to say a huge well done to everyone in Cass 5 – well done!
In between all of our assessments we have also continued with our music, PE, science, PSHE, topic and RE lessons, the children have worked wonderfully well in each of these lessons too, particularly impressing me with their aiming and striking skills in PE!
In addition, we have also had two VERY fun afternoons in school celebrating British Science Week. Every child in school got the opportunity to take part in 6 different science activities and experiments over the course of 2 afternoons. They tried everything from a ‘Stuck in the mud’ soil investigation to looking ‘Floating Liquids’ and even ‘Paper Aeroplanes’. It was a fantastic afternoon and a huge well done to Mr K for organising it.
There are also details of two, extra, at-home investigations that your child can choose to take part in it they wish. These can be found on our class Teams page.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Eastwood
