Welcome to Year 5
Welcome back to school!
English
This week, our writing to entertain unit was on Cinquain poems. The children enjoyed learning about the features and exploring how to create Cinquain poems. Our poems were linked to Remembrance day.
Maths
This week the children finished the multiplication and division unit. The children focused on cube numbers, multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 and multiplying by multiples of 10/ 100/ 100.
RE
The children started the unit on the Holy Bible. We also covered the Hindu celebration of Diwali.
Science
In this week’s lesson, we explored the hardness and uses of materials and developed the working scientifically skill of evaluating a method.
Next week…
Maths – Unit on fractions; finding fractions equivalent to a unit fraction, finding fractions equivalent to a non-unit fraction, recognising equivalent fractions and converting improper fractions to mixed numbers.
English – Narrative unit linked to the story ‘The Promise’ by Nicola Davies
Home Learning
Y5 – Words ending in -ance and -ancy use this to review any words from this week
Y5 – Words ending in -ent and -ence – spellings for next week
Mrs Richards and Miss Oben
English
This week we finished our current unit with short stories on being resilient. First, the children generated story ideas in teams. Then each team evaluated the ideas from another group and gave them some tips on which ideas to use. Following this, the children independently planned the final story idea using a fall-rise plot. Finally they drafted, edited and made their story into a book.
Maths
In the unit Multiplication and Division the children focused on prime numbers and square numbers.
RE
The children focused on worship and giving God’s gifts in Greek Orthodox and Jewish faiths.
Science
This week, we explored the evaporation process and how it applies to salt plains.
First week back after half term…
Maths – Will move onto cube numbers, Multiply by 10, 100 and 1,000, Divide by 10, 100 and 1,000
English – Cinquain Poetry based around the book ‘Where The Poppies Now Grow’ by Hillary Robinson & Martin Impey.
Home Learning
Please see the home learning criteria stuck into the cover of the book.
Spellings – words containing ‘ant’– use this to review any words from this week
Y5 – Words ending in -ance and -ancy – spellings for next week
Mrs Richards and Miss Oben
English
This week we began a new unit; poetry and short stories. In our first lessons, we explored the text; highlighting our initial thoughts about the book and commenting on the author’s style. As the week progressed, we revisited features linked to narrative poetry and used these devices to create poetry around the story’s themes.
Maths
This week we began a unit on multiplication and division. We deepened our understanding of multiples, common multiples, factors and common factors.
RE
This week we looked into how different faith and non faith communities look after the environment, as part of our Big Questions focus this term. We also explored how faith and belief guide individuals in their daily life.
Science
This week, we explored the factors that affect dissolving, including investigating how temperature impacts the time taken to dissolve.
Next week…
Maths – We will move onto; prime numbers, square numbers and cube numbers.
English – Short stories around the themes from ‘The Tree and The River’
Home Learning
Please see the home learning criteria stuck into the cover of the book.
Challenge Words – Homework Sheet – use this to review any words from this week
Spellings – words containing ‘ant’– spellings for next week
Mrs Richards and Miss Oben
This week…
In English, we completed our two week unit on writing to entertain. Over the week, the children continued to work on writing devices to produce a vivid setting description.
In Maths, we completed our two week unit on addition and subtraction. We covered; inverse operations (addition and subtraction), multi-step addition and subtraction problems, comparing calculations and finding missing numbers.
In RE, our lesson from our topic ‘We Grow by Worshipping God’, was ‘We worship God all year long’. In this lesson we looked at the Orthodox Church calendar and sorted the key feast days.
We also looked at the Jewish festival Rosh Hashanah; a time for prayer and reflection.
In Science, we explored dissolving and solutions and learnt how to observe and describe in detail.
Next week…
Maths – Unit on multiplication and division
English – Poetry based on ‘ The Tree and The River’
Home Learning
Please see the home learning criteria stuck into the cover of the book.
Words ending in -cial and -tial – Homework Sheet– use this to review any words from this week
Challenge Words – Homework Sheet – spellings for next week
Mrs Richards and Miss Oben
This week…
In English, we started our new unit, writing to entertain. In this unit, we will focus on setting descriptions. Our core text is ‘Cloud Tea Monkeys’ by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham and Illustrated by Juan Wijngaard.
Over the week, we took a close look at the authors use of figurative language and began to experiment with these devices in descriptive writing.
In Maths, we started a unit on addition and subtraction. This week we used mental strategies, rounding and column method to solve calculations with 4 or more digits.
In RE, we focused on the feast day for our school Patron Saint St Cyprian. We also looked at living the liturgy everyday.
In Science, we explored the process of filtering, this was a very engaging lesson that took us out in the playground to find materials to create a filter.
Home Learning
Please see the home learning criteria stuck into the cover of the book.
Words ending in -tial – Homework Sheet– use this to review any words from this week
Words ending in -cial and -tial – Homework Sheet– spellings for next week
Mrs Richards and Miss Oben
This week in year 5…
In English, it was our final week on non-chronological reports. We completed our drafts, edited & proofread with feedback from our peers and our teacher. Then we published our writing and it was put together to create a class anthology.
In Maths, we finished our unit on place value; comparing and ordering numbers to 1,00,000, rounding numbers to the nearest 10/ 100/ 1000/ 10,000/ 100, 000.
In RE, in our unit ‘ We grow by worshipping God’, we focused on the gifts we present at the liturgy.
In Science, we explored the process of sieving and learnt how to draw and annotate a diagram to explain a concept.
Home Learning
Words ending in -cial – Homework Sheet – use this to review any words from this week
Words ending in -tial – Homework Sheet– spellings for next week
Mrs Richards and Miss Oben
This week in year 5…
In English, we are continuing the unit on writing to inform (non-chronological reports). At the start of the week, we focused on adverbial phrases and how parenthesis can be used to add details. In the latter part of the week, we began to plan and note initial ideas for non-chronological reports.
In Maths, our unit is ‘ place Value’. We have deepened our understanding of the following; reading and writing numbers to 1,000,000 (as numerals and in words)/ powers of 10/ 10/100/1,000/10,000/100,000 more or less (recognising patterns and completing sequences)/ partitioning numbers to 1,000,000 / number lines to 1,000,000 (recognising the intervals and increments and placing values accurately on number lines). There is more opportunities to practice these steps for home learning, this weekend.
In RE, in our unit ‘ We grow by worshipping God’, we focused on the divine liturgy and how this service is the work of all the people.
In Science, our unit ‘Materials: Mixtures and separation’. We explored different types of mixtures by making and researching some common examples. Then we explored the process of sieving and learning how to draw and annotate a diagram to explain a concept.
Home Learning
Homework Sheet wk 2 spellings – Words ending in -cious – use this to review any words from this week
Words ending in -cial – Homework Sheet – spellings for next week
Miss Oben and Mrs Richards
Welcome to Year 5!
What a fantastic start to the new year – keep it up!
This week in year 5…
In English, we started our unit on writing to inform – Non Chronological Reports. Over the week, we explored the features of ‘The World of the Unknown: Monsters’ by Carey Miller and ‘The Book of Mythical Beasts and Magical Creatures’ by Stephen Krensky. We used this research to outline the purpose & audience for non-chronological reports and to then revise different writing devices to create creature descriptions to engage the reader.
In Maths, our unit is ‘ place Value’. Over the course of the week we’ve covered Roman Numerals up to 10,000 and place value of numbers up to 1,000,000. Our home learning this week will give us more practice on theses steps.
In RE, we focused on the feast day ‘The Nativity of the Theotokos’ and the first lesson in the Unit ‘ We grow by worshipping God’.
Home Learning
Homework Sheet wk 1 – Words ending in -tious and -ious
Homework Sheet wk 2 spellings – Words ending in -cious
Have a great weekend,
Miss Oben and Mrs Richards
Dear Ydra Class,
Another brilliant week!
In maths we continued learning about negative numbers. In English we worked collaboratively to plan our Dragons’ Den pitch. We included facts and figures to support our opinions and emotive language to evoke a reaction from the investors. Well done!
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Oben
Your homework is below
Dear Samos
We will not have homework for this weekend because of the Year 5 Residential Trip.
Please revise your spellings for a spelling test next week.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs Tsiama