Welcome to Year 5
English
This week, we wrote the drafts for our suspense stories and began editing.
Maths
This week, we focused on rounding to the nearest whole number and rounding to 1 decimal place.
Geography
This week, we focused on describing the physical and human features of an Alpine region, understanding similarities and differences between the local area and an Alpine area. To understand the human and physical geography of the Alps. We used this information to write a geography report.
Holy Week
This week we began to focus on the events of Holy week. We started with Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday.
Home Learning
Challenge Words– use this to review any words from this week
Words that are homophones or near homophones– spellings for next week
Mrs. Richards
English
This week, we completed our planning for our descriptive recount.
Maths
This week, we explored thousandths as decimals, thousandths on a place value chart, order and compare decimals (same number of decimal places) and order and compare any decimals with up to 3 decimal places.
Science Week
The theme was ‘Curiosity: What’s Your Question?’. This theme gave us the opportunity to embrace our inner inquisitiveness. Over the week we followed our interests, collected data and shared our findings in small presentation groups.
Home Learning
Words that are adverbs of possibility and frequency– use this to review any words from this week
Challenge Words – spellings for next week
Mrs Richards
English
This week, we explored figurative language to create mood/ atmosphere and the technique ‘zoom-in’ to show character emotions.
Maths
This week, we explored equivalent fractions and decimals (tenths, hundredths & thousandths).
RE
We focused on people who help us; at home, in school, in the community and in church.
Science
We focused on the life cycle of plants. In this lesson, we dissected different flowers and compared the reproductive parts.
Home Learning
Words containing ough – use this to review any words from this week
Words that are adverbs of possibility and frequency – spellings for next week
Mrs Richards
Welcome back to a new half term.
English
This week, we started a new unit based on the book ‘The Watertower’ by by Gary Crew. Over the week, we began exploring the text and how the author creates mystery, tension and suspense. We also used some of the author’s style in shared wring activities.
Maths
This week we completed the fractions unit and started the unit on decimal numbers and percentages.
RE
In our first session this week, we focused on Clean Monday, the beginning of lent. In our second lesson we focused on honouring our parents and being grateful about the ways they look after us.
Science
We started the unit on life cycles. In the lesson this week we looked closely at the life cycle of birds.
Home Learning
Words where ough makes an or sound – use this to review any words from this week
Words containing ough – spellings for next week
Mrs Richards
English
This week we completed our drafts, then edited and finally published some amazing non chorological report (NCR). Our final published piece included a front cover and blurb.
Maths
This week in our unit on fractions, we focused on multiplying mixed numbers by an integer, calculating fractions of a quantity and fractions of amounts.
RE
This week, we learnt about the Lunar New Year, we deepened our understanding of the symbols and meanings of this celebration.
Viking Day
We ended the week with an interactive workshop about the Vikings; what they eat, how they lived and their contributions to life today. We were able to handle many replica artefacts that we used to deduce what life was like for the Vikings.
Home Learning
Words where ei can make an ee sound– use this to review any words from this week
Words where ough makes an or sound – Homework Sheet– spellings for next week
Year 5 team
English
This week, we planned our non chronological reports and began to write the draft. We focused on the following language features; fronted adverbials, use of commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity and parenthesis. Next week we complete our drafts, before proofreading and editing. The last step will be to publish the report, including labelled diagrams and a glossary.
Maths
This week in our unit on fractions, we focused on multiplying unit fractions, non unit fractions and mixed numbers by an integer (whole number). We used various models, such as whole-part models, to support our mathematical thinking.
RE
This week, we learnt about different Christian denominations and we also focused on the feast day of the presentation of the Lord.
Science
In this week’s lesson, we explored models that show how the rotation of the Earth causes day and night and the tilt and orbit causes the seasons.
Home Learning
Words spelled with ie after c – use this to review any words from this week
Words where ei can make an ee sound – spellings for next week
Year 5 team
English
This week, we focused on studying the core texts in close detail, recapped glossaries, bullet points to share key information and using parenthesis.
Maths
This week, we solved word problems using multiplication and division. We moved onto our new unit, fractions, we started with multiplying unit fractions by an integer.
RE
This week, we focused the four noble truths of Buddhism and the Three Hierarchs feast day.
Science
In this week’s lesson, we learnt about the movement of the Moon around the Earth and researched the moons of other planets.
Home Learning
Challenge Words – use this to review any words from this week
Words spelled with ie after c – spellings for next week
Year 5 team
English
This week, we completed our persuasive letters, including publishing them using Microsoft word. At the end of the week , we began a new unit on non-chronological reports.
Maths
This week, we focused on short division, divide a 4-digit number by a 1-digit number, divide with remainders, efficient division and solve problems with multiplication and division.
RE
This week, we focused on the Church rules for fasting and Great Lent.
Science
In this week’s lesson, we completed our work in the celestial bodies in our solar system.
Home Learning
Words with silent letters– use this to review any words from this week
List 18 – Challenge Words – – spellings for next week
Year 5 team
English
This week, we continued to plan our persuasive letters, addressed to the Head Teacher or Leadership team, sharing ideas on changes we would like to make. At the end of the week we carefully began our draft writing.
Maths
This week, we focused on multiplying a 4-digit number by a 2-digit number, Solving problems with multiplication and Short division.
RE
This week, we focused on praying with others and by ourselves and how fasting can help us grow.
Science
In this week’s lesson, we began to explore more about our solar system. We used scaling to compare the sizes of planets, using everyday objects and fruits. We also began to create scaled models of the planets.
Home Learning
Words with silent first letters – use this to review any words from this week
Words with silent letters– spellings for next week
Year 5 team
Happy New Year!
Welcome back – we trust you enjoyed your Christmas holiday.
This week…
In English, we started a new unit; persuasive letters. Our focus text is ‘The Misadventures of Fredrick’ by Ben Manley. Over the week, we identified the key writing devices in persuasive writing and began using them to write a book review and a formal letter to one of the characters.
In maths, our new unit is multiplication and division. This week, we focused on written methods when multiplying numbers up to a 4-digit number by a 1-digit number, multiplying a 2-digit number by a 2-digit number (area model) and Multiply a 2-digit number by a 2-digit number using long multiplication.
In RE, we started a unit on Fasting and Prayer. We also focused on the feast of Theophany.
In Science, we started the unit on Earth and Space. In the first lesson, we explored how models of our Solar System have changed over time from the geocentric to the heliocentric model.
Home Learning
Words with silent first letters – Homework Sheet– spellings for next week
Mrs Richards and Miss Oben