Class 5
Friday 20th October 2023
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Class Blog – 20.10.2023
Wow, what an incredible penultimate week we have had here in Y5!
We started the week with a bang by introducing our brand-new English genre for our writing lessons this week – a science fiction narrative. We began by watching a short video clip called ‘The Eye Of The Storm’ to inspire our stories and have worked on including really ambitious vocabulary, year 5 spelling words and even amplification within our writing to really excite and entertain the reader. I am SO looking forward to reading the final finished pieces next week, I just know they are going to be amazing.
In Maths we have been looking at different styles of numbers questions, ranging from negative numbers on Monday, to Roman Numerals on Thursday! I have been so impressed with how well the children have worked in Maths this week, they have been enthusiastic, sensible and helpful towards each other. How wonderful!
Our topic lessons have taken a focus on Art this week. We have been using chalk to create detailed images of The Moon. The creativity and care that has been put into the artwork by all the children has been absolutely amazing to see and I am so proud of the finished pieces. They are incredible!
Of course, we have also continued with our amazing brass lessons this week and our Mandarin lessons too. The children are really coming on in both Music and Mandarin – well done everyone!
With next Friday being an INSET day, we also completed our final PE Netball lesson for this half term by applying our netball skills to a game of bench ball as due to the poor weather we were unable to go outside and complete out netball tournament. The children have worked really hard on learning the different types of passes, footwork rules, their defence skills and even the positions and areas of play on the netball court this half term – you should all be so proud!
Overall, a fabulous week in Year 5.
Well done everyone!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 20th October 2023
admin on: Class 5
Class Blog – 20.10.2023
Wow, what an incredible penultimate week we have had here in Y5!
We started the week with a bang by introducing our brand-new English genre for our writing lessons this week – a science fiction narrative. We began by watching a short video clip called ‘The Eye Of The Storm’ to inspire our stories and have worked on including really ambitious vocabulary, year 5 spelling words and even amplification within our writing to really excite and entertain the reader. I am SO looking forward to reading the final finished pieces next week, I just know they are going to be amazing.
In Maths we have been looking at different styles of numbers questions, ranging from negative numbers on Monday, to Roman Numerals on Thursday! I have been so impressed with how well the children have worked in Maths this week, they have been enthusiastic, sensible and helpful towards each other. How wonderful!
Our topic lessons have taken a focus on Art this week. We have been using chalk to create detailed images of The Moon. The creativity and care that has been put into the artwork by all the children has been absolutely amazing to see and I am so proud of the finished pieces. They are incredible!
Of course, we have also continued with our amazing brass lessons this week and our Mandarin lessons too. The children are really coming on in both Music and Mandarin – well done everyone!
With next Friday being an INSET day, we also completed our final PE Netball lesson for this half term by applying our netball skills to a game of bench ball as due to the poor weather we were unable to go outside and complete out netball tournament. The children have worked really hard on learning the different types of passes, footwork rules, their defence skills and even the positions and areas of play on the netball court this half term – you should all be so proud!
Overall, a fabulous week in Year 5.
Well done everyone!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 13th October 2023
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This week has been out sixth week in Year 5 and what a fab week it has been!
We have been completing our final, written up biographies of Tim Peake and then moved on to our new writing genre, a writing competition! We have been creating imaginative, unique stories which we will enter into the BBC’s 500 Words writing competition with a chance to meet Queen Camila at Buckingham Palace – WOW! I have been SO impressed with the children’s enthusiasm for this and I am SO excited to read all of the finished stories!
In Maths we have been doing lots of work on fractions! We have been looking at how to find an equivalent fraction, ordering fractions with the same denominator and ordering them with different denominators. It has been fractions central around here! I have been so impressed with how the children have listened and focussed during our maths lessons this week as fractions can definitely be tricky but the children have been fantastic and leaned a lot!
The music lessons have continued this week with our visiting music teacher and the children definitely seem to be getting to grips with their instruments now. It’s so lovely to hear all the wonderful music coming from Class 5 on a Thursday afternoon!
In science we created and conducted a scientific investigation using shadows to prove that the Earth rotates on its axis. Unfortunately, due to the lack of sun this week, our experiment kind of failed! But nevertheless, we enjoyed planning it and have definitely learned a lot from it!
And finally, we have continued to work on our gymnastics and netball skills in PE.
Another jam-packed week filled with fun and learning.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 6th October 2023
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We have had yet another lovely week here in Class 5 and I can’t believe that we are officially over halfway through our very first half term together. Time is flying!
We have been continuing our wonderful work writing about the British astronaut Tim Peake and I have been so impressed with the outcomes! If you are interested in Tim and his life, I would definitely recommend reading some of the Class 5 biographies about him as they are so full of detail and extremely interesting, well done, Class 5!
In maths we have started looking at long multiplication which can be notoriously tricky! I have been SO impressed with the amazing hard work and efforts the class have put into learning this brand-new maths skill, I am so proud!
We completed our amazing pieces of artwork linked to identity in PSHE and even began writing non-chronological reports about terrestrial planets and gas giants in our science lessons.
After reading some of the reports this week, it’s so clear just how much effort the class have been putting into our Space topic this half term because I was blown away with the level of detail they knew about their chosen set of planets – amazing work, Class 5!
Of course we have also continued our PE topics of netball and gymnastics this week learning about different positions in netball and counterbalances in gymnastics.
It has been a week jam-packed with fun and lots of learning.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 29th September 2023
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We have been pretty space obsessed in Class 5 this week!
In our English lessons we have been researching the amazing, British astronaut, Tim Peake. We have learned all about his early life, his career in the army, when he joined the European Space Agency and all of the amazing things he got up to on the ISS (International Space Station). We have read lots of books, articles and watched many videos to make sure that thoroughly conducted our research. We will be putting all of this research to great use next week when we write biographies about his life. Exciting stuff!
We had a very interesting science lesson this week too where we used sheets of toilet paper to map out the distances of the planets from the sun. It was great fun and we learned so much about our solar system in the process.
Maths has been fun this week to, we started the week by learning about rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 and 100,000 before looking at multiples and factors. I have been so impressed with the maths work that the children have produced this week – we clearly have some maths wizards in Y5!
Our PE lessons have continued to focus on gymnastics and netball, and we started a piece of artwork in PSHE which will represent our individual identities.
The children also continued their Mandarin lessons this week where they were each given their own ‘Chinese name’ place cards. They really enjoyed learning and practicing to speak their names in Mandarin.
All in all, a really amazing week in Class 5!
I am so proud of each member of our class in how hard they have worked, they efforts in all subjects and their kindness to each other – keep it up!
I hope you all have a lovely weekend.
Miss Eastwood
