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Year 5
Welcome to the Year 5 blog.
PE days for Otters and Stoats are Tuesdays and Thursdays. PE days for Polecats are Mondays and Thursdays.
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What a fantastic start we have had to Year 5! The children have settled brilliantly into their new classrooms and routines. They have been busy exploring some exciting, new topics across the curriculum.
In Writing, we have been enjoying the wonderful Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. The children have been writing in role as Michael, using effective verbs and carefully chosen adjectives to create atmosphere and bring their writing to life. We have also been exploring the idea of ‘show, not tell’ when describing emotions, thinking carefully about how characters might behave, move and react rather than simply telling the reader how they feel. The children have started exploring metaphors and have had great fun experimenting with figurative language in their own short poems.
In Maths, we have been developing our understanding of place value, working with numbers all the way up to one million. We have been identifying and placing numbers on number lines and exploring what happens when we find 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 or 100,000 more or less than a given number. The children have also been practising reading and writing large numbers in both numerals and words.
In Science, we have launched (excuse the pun) our new topic, Earth and Space, which has already captured the children's curiosity. We have started exploring our incredible universe and have enjoyed thinking about the Earth and its place in space. There have been plenty of fantastic questions!
In History, we have travelled back in time to begin learning about the Maya civilisation. We have been finding out where the ancient Maya lived and comparing this with where Maya people live today. The children have enjoyed locating places on a variety of maps and in the atlases to start building their knowledge of this fascinating civilisation.
Weekly spellings for the children to practise are uploaded weekly to SpellingFrame. Children will have weekly access to this during school time but it would also be great if they could continue their spelling learning at home at least once a week using SpellingFrame.
Times Table Rockstars - it would be great if children were accessing TTRS 4 x weekly for around 5-10 minutes.
Reading - reading is so important to your child's education. Please read with your child daily for 5 - 10 minutes. This can include them reading aloud to you and you reading aloud to them.
Please check back later for information about 5Fest.