Class 5
Friday 21st June 2024
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What a FANTASIC WEEK we have had in Class 5!
I must start by talking about our day time trip to the Town Hall to practice for the Kirklees Primary Music Festival on Tuesday. All of the children in class attended and we took a public bus there and back. Myself, Mrs Parker and Miss Robb were absolutely blown away by the impeccable behaviour, wonderful manners and interaction with the public and the amazing efforts that everyone put in to their singing for the entire day, WOW! It was such a pleasure to accompany the class to their rehearsal. Not only that, but a whopping 25 pupils also came to the evening production where they performed a total of 12 songs along with 3 musical pieces on their brass instruments. It was so wonderful to join them up on stage and I was beaming with pride for days afterwards – in fact I still am! Thank you so much to all the parents and carers who came out to support on the night, it was wonderful to see so many faces in the audience. Thank you also to Mrs parker and Mr Brown for all of their efforts in preparing the children for the brass performance and for organising the night too.
In between all the musical fun, we have also had time to revise our knowledge of shape with area and perimeter in Maths, learn all about the Act of the Union and why the flag of Great Britain looks the way it does in history and even write a diary entry in English inspired by our poem, The Highwayman.
We ended the week today with our fantastic sports day. Just like the start of the week, the children were absolutely amazing, they represented the school and their house teams wonderfully and put in so much effort and hard work for all of their races. It has been wonderful watching them practice all week and to see the final races today – well done Class 5! And thank you to all the parents and carers who came down to watch and support.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone.
Miss Eastwood
Friday 14th June 2024
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2 weeks of our last half term in Year 5 down, 5 to go!
It has been a wonderful week here in Class 5.
We have continued our work on the amazing poem, The Highwayman and even started writing our own narratives of the poem from the point of view of Tim The Ostler. I have been so impressed with the children’s enthusiasm towards this piece of work this week – so many of them have come up to me throughout the week to tell me it’s their favourite piece of writing they have ever done! Not only that, but when I have been marking the work, it’s clear how much effort has been put into it by everyone as the work was just amazing.
In maths we have been converting between different units of measurement all week – a very tricky topic! We have been changing from mm to cm and m, from g to kg and from ml to l. The children have worked so hard and really helped each other with this learning too with lots of tables working together to solve complex problems. It has been great to see.
On Tuesday we were treated to an afternoon of environmental adventure. Mrs Oddy in reception arranged for us to have a visit from a local biodiversity company who helped us learn all about the different wildlife within our school from plants and trees to animals. Birds and insects. It was wonderful for us all to get out into nature and explore our wonderful surroundings.
History has also been a very exciting subject this week. We have been learning about absolute rulers of the UK along with constitutional monarchies too. We looked at the signing of the Magna Carta which the children acted out in their own dramatizations and we have also been learning more about Henry VIII and the English Reformation.
What a fabulous week!
Enjoy your weekend everyone.
Miss Eastwood
Friday 7th June 2024
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Welcome back to our very first week of our very last half term in Class 5!
What a week it has been!
We kicked things off on Tuesday by starting our brand-new English topic – The Highwayman. I have to admit, it’s one of my most favourite topics that we cover all year and I think the children might well agree, give how enthusiastic and engaged they have been with the topic all week. I have been blown away with some of the ideas that have been shared by the class when reading and analysing the poem. Not only that, but I also challenged the children to visualise the poem by drawing what they thought the scene would look like. The artistic skills were just incredible!!
In maths it has been decimals galore! We have bene adding, multiplying, subtracting and dividing all sorts of numbers which include decimal points. Everyone in class has worked so hard and the progress has been fantastic to see, well done, Class 5!
We have also started our brand-new topic this half term, Great Britain! We kicked things off by looking at the chronology of Monarchs of Great Britain right from 1066 up to present day. Each child created a poster/posters of their given monarch/monarchs and we made a huge timeline. We also learned some very interesting facts about lots of the different monarchs, for example, did you now that William the Conqueror’s body exploded at his funeral! Yikes!
PE this week has focussed on our athletic skills in preparation for our upcoming sports day, this week we looked at fine tuning our running skills by playing some really fun games of tig.
Finally, in our assemblies and in class this week we have of course been discussing the 80th anniversary of the D Day landings.
Overall, it has been another wonderful week in Class 5!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 24th May 2024
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This half term has absolutely flown, I can’t believe it has been 7 weeks already! Not only that, but we only have one half term left and then my wonderful Year 5’s will be moving on to become amazing Year 6’s!
It has been such a fun half term this time around and the class have thoroughly enjoyed our topic, ‘Our World’. We have learned about natural resources, renewable and non-renewable energy, global warming and more! I have been so impressed with how engaged all of the class have been throughout all of our topic lessons and especially with how well they have understood the topic too.
Throughout science this half term we have taken part in various science experiments looking at properties of materials from mixtures to solutions. We learned how to reverse changes of materials, sperate materials and recapped our knowledge of solids, liquids and gasses and their particles from Year 4.
This week we have been rounding up our topic work by creative sustainable phone cases by designing and sewing them out of felt! I have been unbelievable blown away with everyone’s phone cases, their amazing design skills and their sewing skills – and I don’t think I’ve ever threaded to many needles in my life!
We also waved off 8 of our class members this week who went over to Huddersfield University on Wednesday to record a video for a Mandarin competition they are entering as part of our MFL lessons – they were fantastically behaved and the songs they were recording sounded phenomenal – good luck to them in the competition!
Finally, in our English work this week we have been completed formal, persuasive texts to try and convince the world to switch to clean energy and in Maths this week we have been practicing rounding numbers to estimate our answers before moving on to some multi-step problem questions which the children tackled with such gusto!
Thank you, Class 5, for another awesome half term – you have kept me laughing and smiling each and every day.
I hope you all have an amazing half term break!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 17th May 2024
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I can’t believe how quickly Friday has come around again this week, I think the weeks are flying by so quickly because we are having so much fun in Class 5!
This week, in English, we have been working on PowerPoint presentations to persuade people to switch to green energy, as part of out topic work ‘Our World’.
The children spent time researching the benefits of green energy and the dangers of fossil fuels before putting al of their amazing information into a PowerPoint presentation. On Wednesday, they presented these to the class, and I was so impressed with everyone’s efforts, they were a joy to watch!
In Maths, we started the week by taking another look at place value. We then progressed onto some tricker, reasoning style questions before I gave the children a very tricky maths riddle! I have put a copy of the riddle below for any parents that would like to try and work it out. I was so impressed with how the class worked systematically to try and obtain the correct answer!
We have also been conducting various science experiments this week too, from the irreversible change of lighting a candle, to conducting a scientific enquiry into plastic, we have really been busy!
We also had a very interesting and informative PSHE lesson, looking at different substances and how they can be harmful. I was very impressed with the sensible attitude and maturity that the children showed during this lesson.
Of course, we also squeezed in some fantastic PE lessons too. Tennis and Gymnastics and I must say, I was extremely impressed with the gymnastics performances this week. The children worked in groups to create symmetrical and asymmetrical routines using various pieces of gymnastic equipment. They worked so well and the routines were fantastic!
Well done for another wonderful week, Year 5!
Enjoy your weekend, everyone!
