Year 5

Year 5 Homework Blog

• 14 May – Mental Health Week and Baroness Floella Benjamin
  This week, we have focused particularly on our wellbeing in celebration of Mental Health Week. We have spent time thinking about the 5 ways to wellbeing (connecting with others, being physically active, learning new skills, giving to others and being present) and are working to produce our own mental health toolkit, illustrating it with ideas of how we can improve our wellbeing. The children have impressed me with their historical skills when investigating the mystery of who was buried at the Anglo Saxon burial site in Sutton Hoo and making their cases as to which actions truly made ...
• 10 May – Number Day (part 2)
  Good morning Year 5 families, I thought you might like to see just a quick selection of some of the photographs from our Number Day last week. I hope you all had a super weekend! Kind regards,Mrs Hunter
• 7 May – Number Day, Coming to England and Rugby
  We’ve had an exciting week in Year 5 which started off with the launch of our whole school literacy focus on Floella Benjamin’s ‘Coming to England’ biography. The children have been captivated by her story and it has been wonderful to see how engaged they are in their learning. Tag Rugby continues to be a hit within Year 5 (see the photographs below) and it is fantastic to see the Two Waters values of co-operation and resilience coming to life with the team spirit the children are showing in their drills and matches. Today, we celebrated Number ...
• 30 April – Rainforest adventures
  This week, the children have been writing their own rainforest adventure stories, inspired by the visual and written texts we have explored over the past couple of weeks (Henri Rousseau’s Surprise, Rubens’ The Lion Hunt and The Eye of the Wolf by Daniel Pennac). They have worked incredibly hard to put all their recent learning into action and have focused on their individual literacy targets too. They have continued to practise their rounders skills using space effectively when fielding and learn the offside rule in tag rugby. In RE, we are exploring the idea of belonging and ...
• 23 April – sunshine and computers
  We know it’s nearly summer at Two Waters when the field is opened up for break times and lunchtimes again! This week, the weather has been beautiful and the children have thoroughly enjoyed the outdoor space. This has also meant another two fantastic PE lessons which saw the children practising batting skills in rounders, and attacking and defending in tag rugby. Another highlight of the week was our computing lesson where the children used the fantastic new Chromebooks (thank you FTW!) for the first time (photos below). They considered the importance of efficient design in computer ...
• 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.