Friday 20th December 2024

What a lovely week! Year 5 had their Design and Technology day on Tuesday, where they worked in teams to create their Viking Longhouses using hacksaws and glue guns.  The children have been writing up their non-chronological reports on Winter and have solved the problem of the missing Christmas jumper in Maths. 

                      

Friday 13th December 2024

This week, year 5 wrote non-chronological reports about winter. They have been investigating a plethora of winter foods, sports and activities. In Maths, we spent the week consolidating our understanding of fractions and using our multiplication knowledge to find the equivalent fractions so that we can subtract or add them. 

The children were put into their groups for Design and Technology and have worked well together to arrive at a design which they will make and evaluate in our DT day on Tuesday.  In PE, the children were pleased to see that their scores had improved during the 6 weeks of Health Related Exercise. 

Last Friday, in Science, the children created and dropped parachutes, looking at the effect of air resistance. They are enjoying the practical nature of physics through the fair tests. I am sure they will enjoy water resistance this week. 

Friday 6th December 2024

This week, year 5 have explored formal language and had a noun hunt in English, using magazines to find one of the six different types of nouns. 

In Maths, we are continuing to develop and master fractions and the children are understanding how their timetable knowledge can be applied. 

The children used hacksaws in DT on Thursday, showing clear understanding of the safety needed, and have been successful in sawing similar sized pieces of wood. 

Friday 29th November 2024

Year 5 has begun to understand the importance of redrafting and have been introduced to the Ernest Hemingway quote: 'The only kind of writing is rewriting'.  In Maths, the children have been adding fractions, changing denominators where they needed to. 

We had an exciting afternoon of Design and Technology, where the children explored structures and how to strengthen them using triangles. We are hopeful that this will lead to stronger longhouses in the future. 

        

Friday 22nd November 2024

Year 5 have written their explanation texts this week, exploring how a Viking really works. They are busy editing them, looking for ways to improve their sentence construction and their vocabulary. 

In Maths, we continued to explore fractions and have begun to add fractions together successfully. 

We have begun our Design and Technology unit on structures, where we explored different types of structures thinking about the purpose and the design features of them. We are looking forward to designing and making small Viking longhouses in groups in the coming weeks. 

        

Friday 15th November 2024

This week, year 5 started fractions in maths, looking at equivalent fractions and understanding how useful their times table knowledge is. In English, the children have begun planning their explanation text about Vikings. 

Having been Anti-bullying week this week, the class have shown expert understanding of how to treat people and what they should do if they see people being bullied. They enjoyed looking at different scenarios and discussing ways to solve them. They even had a Skills for Life starter in PE exploring ways to treat people in sporting activities. 

Friday 8th November 2024

This week, Year 5 have begun investigating explanation texts, creating a short text based on a Wallace and Gromit cracking contraptions. They also completed a present tense treasure hunt around the playground, looking for auxiliary verbs and suffixes, as well as identifying the four different types of present tense. In Maths, the children have been multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 and spent Thursday's Maths lesson outdoors writing their workings in chalk on the playground. 

The children finished their clay pendants and brooches, taking time and care to produce Viking-inspired art. They should be really proud of them: they look great. 

                          

                      

Thursday 24th October 2024

Year 5 have been writing Kennings poems this week about a topic of their choice. We have had Viking-inspired poems about everything from beloved pets to their favourite food. In Maths, the children have been investigating square numbers and cube numbers, using their knowledge of factors and multiples to help them. The children have created their Viking pendant out of clay, which will dry over half-term, ready to be painted carefully in November. 

                      

                                         

Friday 18th October 2024

Year 5 have been working hard to finish and edit their own chapters of Viking boy this week. In Maths, we have explored multiples and factors. 

Of course, the highlight of the week was taking the class to Hazard Alley in Milton Keynes. The children were very well-behaved and some of the volunteers came to say how well they had done, which was lovely to hear. The children learnt how to put people into the recovery position, why it is important to wear a cycling helmet, as well as making a simulated 999 call. The children were very good at spotting the hazards and knowing the right thing to do in different situations. 

 Friday  11^th October

Year 5 have been authors this week, inspired by the visit of Matt Brown and the book Viking Boy. We have planned our own chapter, and we are working towards a finished story by the end of next week.

In maths, we have been exploring multistep questions in addition and subtraction. The children have begun to see the benefit of setting their workings out neatly and showing their workings.

We looked at the Viking Gods, making our own vocAPPulary sheet with the names and information about them. The children were extremely interested in the beliefs of the Vikings and shared information.

Friday 4th October 2024

This week we have been looking at vocabulary in English, exploring expanded noun phrases and writing diaries to demonstrate feelings. Year 5 have shown great enthusiasm for netball and have improved their passing and teamwork skills this week. 

In Maths, we have continued to add and subtract, culminating in multistep problems and the use of the RUCSAC acronym. 

We are continuing to explore Viking design through clay and the children enjoyed experimenting and learning how to use, mould and mark clay. 

 

Friday 27th September

This week we have been finishing our place value unit by rounding numbers up to one million. In Art, we have been drawing Viking-inspired dragons and concentrating on our line work and mark making ahead of the clay work in the next few weeks.

We managed to beat the rain and enjoyed netball outside on Wednesday. This was after the school photos, so no need to worry! The children’s understanding of the game has become much more focused and some of them are really learning to communicate with their teammates effectively.

Our English lessons involved writing a description of a setting and looking at characters. Having read some more of the book, we analysed the character of Rurik in Viking boy. 

Friday 20th September 2024

This week in English Year 5 have been working on punctuating speech accurately and thinking about how authors show character in their writing. In Maths, we have been continuing with Place Value, ordering numbers up to 1 million.

On Friday, we spent the day hoping for sunshine so that we could carry out our shadow experiment for Science, mapping the length and the rotation of shadows at different times of the day to show the rotation of the Earth.

Friday 13th September 2024

This week Year 5 have been continuing with their work on 'Viking boy' by Tony Bradman, looking at characters and how we could describe them using expanded noun phrases and relative clauses. 

In Maths, we have been exploring the value of digits up to one million and looking at the powers of 10. 

The children have been enjoying the Viking topic, creating Viking-inspired knots in their sketchbooks. They really showed resilience in creating their art, some preferring small intricate knots and others preferring larger knots, where they could experiment with colour and pattern. 

  

Friday 6th September 2024

Welcome back to school and welcome to Year 5!

We hope you had a lovely summer break, and we are looking forward to lots of exciting learning this year.

From the whole of the year 5 team.