Class 5
Friday 22nd September 2023
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Another fabulous week of learning and fun here in Class 5!
We have been looking at poetry in our English lessons this week! We read a poem titled ‘6 Ways of Looking at The Moon’ by Pie Corbett which uses metaphors to describe The Moon. We then used this as inspiration to create our very own metaphors for The Moon, The Sun and the stars. One of my favourites was ‘The Sun is a giant fiery meatball sitting up in the sky’.
Finally, we put all of our metaphors together to create a final, 3-verse metaphor poem.
We have continued our work on place value in maths, this week looking at how to add and subtract numbers both mentally and using the written method. The children REALLY impressed me with their knowledge and skill in this area.
I couldn’t speak about this week without mentioning our very exciting science lessons! We have been learning all about the phases of The Moon and why we have seasons here on Earth. We even used chocolate biscuits to show the 8 different phases of The Moon. It was interesting AND delicious!
Class 5 have also REALLY impressed me with their incredible gymnastics’ skills! WOW! We created our very own gymnastic sequences using different balances and shapes we had learned last week. I was absolutely blown away with the high-level performances.
Keep up the GREAT work Class 5, I can’t wait to see what amazing learning we get up to next week.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone,
Miss Eastwood
Friday 15th September 2022
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Good afternoon everyone!
We have had another fabulous week in Class 5, which has been jam-packed with lots of new and interesting learning. I have seen lots of smiley, happy, curious, and excited faces all week and it has been wonderful to see such enthusiasm and joy for our learning.
In English we have been continuing to work on our setting descriptions of the planet Mars. We learned how we can edit and improve our work but focussing on changing nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs to make out writing more interesting and how to re-arrange our sentences so that they have the best effect on the reader. I have been SUPER impressed with the range of vocabulary and the incredible imagination that the class have put into their work.
In Maths we have continued to look at place value and identifying the value of a digit depending on where it is placed in a given number. The class have really impressed me with their place value knowledge, we definitely have some mathematical wizards in Class 5!
We have also started to really delve into our ‘Earth and Space’ topic, learning about lines of latitude and longitude, why we have day and night and indeed time zones. We finished our lessons off by telephoning Miss Eastwood’s friend, Joe, who lives all the way in Malaysia! We worked out what the approximate time would be there based on our new learning and asked Joe if we were correct – we were!
On top of all of that, we have also managed to squeeze in some amazing PSHE lessons all about how we are each unique and special, some gymnastics and netball lessons in PE, and learned about online safety in our Computing lessons.
A fabulous week!
Well done Class 5!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Eastwood
Friday 8th September 2023
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Wow, what an amazing start to a really exciting year here in Class 5!
It has been SO wonderful getting to know all of the fantastic new children I have in class and I have been truly blown away by the amazing behaviour, enthusiasm for learning, beautiful manners and friendly faces that I have come across this week. I am so excited for what we have in store for the rest of the year. I already know we are going to have lots of fun and learn many new things!
We have really hit the ground running already with our learning, spending time generating exciting vocabulary to describe an imaginary visit to the planet Mars in our English lessons and practicing how to lay out of work in Maths in Year 5.
We have also introduced our brand-new class topic ‘Earth and Space’ in a very creative way… by making papier mâché sculptures of the different planets in our Solar System.
I hope all of my students have enjoyed the week as much as me.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 14th July 2023
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I can’t quite believe I am writing the blog for our penultimate week in Year 5! We have had a fantastic week filled with lots of fun and lots of learning.
This week in English, the children have been writing letters to their future selves full of advice and friendly words of encouragement they may need as they approach the end of their time in Netherthong next year. The idea being that they open the sealed letters in exactly one years’ time. The children designed their own colourful envelopes too and the letters have now been locked away ready to be returned in 2024.
We have also spent our week in maths revising various topics from the year including area and perimeter and place value.
We have had a REALLY interesting week in art too. We created pictures in the style of Hans Holbein The Younger but with a fun twist. Instead of drawing different monarchs in their fine robes and crowns, we replaced them with our own pets dressed in fancy royal attire! The results were amazing with some really fabulous pictures being produced and it was so lovely to see so many pictures of the children’s lovely pets!
Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to take part in our KS2 sports day this week due to the weather but the children did spend the earlier part of the week practicing all of their races with some really amazing results. We will cross our fingers that the weather improves ready for Monday.
Overall, we have had a wonderful week and we are all looking forward to next week where we have lots of fun activities planned!
Miss Eastwood
Friday 30th June 2023
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I know I seem to write this every week but, WOW, what another amazing week in Class 5!
The children have blown me away with their hard work, writing, behaviour, enthusiasm, maths work and their PERFORMANCE skills this week and I couldn’t be prouder.
As you all know, on Tuesday, the children took to the Town Hall in Huddersfield centre to practice the 12 musical songs they have been rehearsing in school for the past few months in preparation for their big performance in front of you parents that evening. We took the public bus there and back and had to walk a short distance through Huddersfield Town centre to reach the Town Hall.
The children were impeccably behaved and represented the school so beautifully. They were quiet and respectful of other passengers on the bus journeys and thanked the bus driver there and back too. They were so sensible when walking through the busy streets and were cautious not to block the pathway for other shoppers. It was such a joy to see.
THEN, they spent the entire day singing, dancing and performing a multitude of songs with such enthusiasm and such AMAZING singing voices. They really stood out amongst all the schools and put a tear in my eye. It was brilliant.
FINALLY, I want to discuss the incredible final performance in the evening and say a huge thank you to all of the children and parents who attended. I am sure you enjoyed the show and felt just as much pride as myself to see Netherthong children up on the big stage singing their hearts out and playing their brass instruments to such a huge crowd. I HAVE to also say a special well done to our very own Sophia Tame who bravely got up and sang the final solo of the evening. It was spectacular.
I would like to finish by saying on final WELL DONE and THANK YOU to all the Class 5 children this week.
Miss Eastwood
