Class 5
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
Friday 8th March 2024
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Well it has been yet another jam-packed, fun-filled week this week in Class 5!
It has been the start of careers week in school and we have enjoyed listening to our amazing visitors explaining all of their interesting jobs. We heard from a barrister, a nutritionist, a chef, book keeper and police offer. Thank you so much to all of our visitors for taking the time to come in and talk to us, the children thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot.
It has also been World Book Day this week too. We enjoyed a wonderful class tea party in the library and feasted on some delicious cakes and drinks whilst listening to our class novel, The Explorer. What a brilliant way to enjoy reading. There are some lovely photos of the event below, the children had a fantastic time!
Not only that but this week marked the start of British Science Week which will run over into next week too. Keep your eyes peeled on Teams for some at-home science activities that you can be getting involved with and look forward to next week when each child will be completing 6 different science experiments over the course of 2 afternoons.
Amongst all that excitement, we also managed to squeeze in some fantastic English and Maths lessons this week. We started planning our very own class story which we created storyboards and a clear plot for. Over the next couple of weeks, we will be writing these stories up in best. In Maths we learned about reflecting 2D shapes both vertically and horizontally too. A very tricky task to master but as always, Class 5 tackled it with positivity and determination and really impressed me wit the progress they made over the course of the week.
Well done everyone in Class 5.
I hope you all have a fabulous weekend.
See you next week!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 1st March 2024
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Wow, what a truly incredible week we have had here in Class 5, from musical recitals, and dance performances to computer databasing and multiplying whole numbers by decimals, it really feels like we’ve done it all!
We kicked things off at the start of the week with a wonderful musical performance by Musica who showcased a range of amazing instruments such as: the keyboard, drums and clarinet. They performed a variety of songs for us and have hopefully inspired some budding musicians to pick up an instrument and maybe learn to play themselves too.
In English, we have become agony aunts and uncles, provided advice to a character in one of our books on a range of moral dilemmas he has been facing. I have been really impressed with this writing and seen a noticeable leap forward by so many children in terms of their technical writing ability, well done Class 5!
In Maths we started we week by recapping our knowledge on long multiplication and short division. We then moved on to learning how to multiply a decimal by a whole number. All of these topics can be tricky, but Class 5 tackled them with confidence and determination.
Last but CERTAINLY not least, I would like to say a HUGE, HUGE well done to the amazing children to spent Thursday evening performing a dance (choreographed by our very own Mrs Matthews) at the Lawrence Batley Theatre in front of a massive crowd of parents from all over Kirklees. They performed outstandingly and I thought were so incredibly brave to get up on the stage and do that. WELL DONE! I would also like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Matthews for taking the time to choreograph and put together such a FAB routine. Finally, thank you to all parents that were able to come and show support by watching from the stands. It was a fabulous evening.
Thank you.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Eastwood
Friday 23rd February 2024
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Our first week back to Spring 2 term has started off amazingly.
We have dived straight into our new English topic where we have written diary entries from the viewpoint of the main character of one of the books we have been reading in class. We completed lots of role play exercises to get into the mindset of the main character, Bradley, before writing out different diary entries from events we had read in the book, imagining how Bradley REALLY felt about them. I am so excited to read the finished pieces of work over the weekend.
In Maths it has been angles and measurements central! We learned about how many degrees are in a right angle, straight line, ¾ turn and a full turn and then applied that knowledge to work out missing angles of rectangles and regular polygons. Not only that but we learned how to use a protractor too.
We started our brand-new Science topic too, ‘Animals including humans’ where we started to look at the life cycle of humans by checking out some rather embarrassing photos of myself from my childhood until now to see how much I have changed so far in my life cycle. We then went on to learn what the gestation period means and how this differs for many different mammals.
We are continuing our work on Rainforests this half term and this week we extended our knowledge to learn about different climate zones around the Earth.
The children have also been well under way practicing for their Strictly Pennine dance performance next week. Having watched them perform it through from start to finish this week, I must say I am extremely impressed and cannot wait for the actual performance next week!
Finally, we were treated to an incredible pantomime production this week at Holmfirth High. The children represented the school fantastically, walking very sensibly all the way to the school (in the pouring down rain!) and sat amazingly well during the entire performance. It was a great show, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone.
Thank you,
Miss Eastwood
Friday 9th February 2024
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Well yet again we have had another wonderful week here in Class 5!
It has been our last week of the half term and it officially marks half way through the year which is bitter sweet.
We have been very busy, writing letters of complaint to Rishi Sunak about the issue of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest, writing a non-chronological report all about the amazing David Attenborough and some children have even written school council speeches too. Lots of writing in class this week!
We also held a democratic vote in class today to allow each child to vote for who they would like to be their school council leaders. I was so impressed with every single child who had the courage and determination to write and speak their amazing speeches, it was so wonderful to see. Well done, everyone.
In maths this week it has been decimals, percentages and fractions central! We have been learning how to convert between each of them and even answering some tricky word-problems about them too. The children have blown me away with how well they have taken to the topic, very impressive!
We also completed our artwork this week by using watercolour paints to paint our Henri Rousseau inspired drawings of the rainforest.
All in all, a jam-packed week full of fun and learning.
I hope you all have an amazing half-term break and enjoy a well-deserved rest.
I already can’t wait for the first day back where we will be starting our brand-new topic all about The Maya!
Thank you,
Miss Eastwood