Year 5

Year 5 Homework Blog

• 16 April – first week back!
  It was lovely to welcome the children back after the Easter break and hear all their news (and how many Easter eggs they managed to consume!). This week, we started our two new PE units (rounders and tag rugby) and the children are enthusiastically honing their running, throwing and catching skills. Congratulations to Charlie who impressed both Mr Stubbs and I with his rugby skills and was awarded the Sports Certificate this week. In literacy, the children are practising their inference skills through visual texts and have written some fantastic poems to describe the painting ‘The Lion ...
• 26 March – Year 5 Art Week
  The children have worked incredibly hard this week to complete their biographies of famous personalities such as Mary Jackson, JK Rowling and Tim Berners-Lee as well as practising their subtraction of fractions. In art, we have focused on the skills required to create perspective (such as foreshortening, plotting vanishing points and horizon lines and creating construction lines). The children have created landscape sketches, a street sketch and then used their new skills to create a drawing of the Titanic. Below is a selection of just a few of the final pieces – but they are all gallery ...
• Friday 19 March – Year 5 update
  It has been lovely having all the children back in school for the past two weeks. I am so proud of how well they have settled in and are focusing on their learning in class. In Year 5, we have been honing our history and geography skills through our study of the Titanic. This has absolutely captured the children’s interest and we have had some lively debates as they sort through primary sources to decide why the titanic was so significant and why so many lives were sadly lost. In Maths, we are looking at fractions ...
• Spring 1 (part 4)
  The children have been working their socks off each day in our Maths lessons, tackling perimeter, area, multiplication and division. They continue to practise their number skills each morning in our fluency focus sessions. Some children have been putting their maths skills to good use when cooking at home, weighing ingredients and calculating timings before enjoying the fruits (or cakes) of their labour!
• Spring 1 (Part 3)
  Our second topic was World War II. The children learned about how the war began, the countries involved and how people’s lives were affected both at home and abroad, including the holocaust. They considered the policy of evacuation and what it might have been like to have left their homes for the countryside. They also explored propaganda and music and entertainment during the 1940s.
• Spring 1 (part 2)
  In Geography, we have been focusing on ‘Extreme Earth’, exploring earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis as well as investigating the water cycle and exploring dramatic weather phenomena such as tornados. Linked to this, the children have explored 3d tornado art work and studied the famous painting ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ by Katsushika Hokusai.  
• Spring 1 (part 1)
  This half term, in literacy, we have been reading Shaun Tan’s Tales of Suburbia and using this as inspiration for writing in a range of genres including recounts, monologues, setting descriptions and journey stories. Below is a selection of the fantastic work the children have produced.
• May the force be with you (18 September)
  Dear Parents, We have been so lucky with the weather this week and the children have been out on the field, enjoying the return of summer and sunshine! In class, they are working hard to write a portal story, continuing the adventures of the characters we have met in our class text – The Journey. Science has seen the children continue to investigate forces, exploring friction and hypothesising about which surfaces create more or less friction. In Netball, children have been practising throwing, catching and pivoting. We had our first spelling test this week and many ...
• Welcome to Year 5 (11 September)
  Dear Parents, Now we have completed our first full week back at school, I wanted to write to say how proud I am of Year 5. They have settled in very well and are already working hard across the curriculum. We are currently reviewing key maths concepts from last year, using the book ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker as our inspiration for literacy and have started to explore Brazil as our current curriculum project. In science, we are investigating forces and had great fun measuring the weight of classroom items using Newton Meters. Kind regards, Mrs Hunter
• To parents/carers and children
  Dear parents and children. I wanted to write to say a huge thank you for the lovely gifts you gave me at the end of term. They are much appreciated! I hope you all have a very restful summer and look forward to seeing you in September. Mrs Hunter