Today in class, the children who had prepared and planned their school councillor speeches had the chance to speak to their peers about why they should be chosen as Year 5 school councillor. The children showed so much confidence! We have so many children who have put...
English
Our Year 5 Collective Worship Assembly
This morning, Year 5 took part in their first collective worship assembly of the year. The theme for our assembly was ‘Kindness.’ First, as a whole school, we sang a hymn called ‘Who put the colours in the rainbow?’. We chose this hymn because we as children, a school...
Computing – Systems and Searching
Our Computing topic this half term is ‘Systems and Searching’. First, we discussed the question, ‘What does the word system mean?’ Some comments included: ‘A journey’ ‘A system will be used for apps such as YouTube and Amazon’ ’The World Wide Web plays a part in lots...
Rivers
In Geography this half term, we are learning about Rivers. Last week, we answered the question; ‘Where are the world’s major rivers?’ We used atlases and google earth to find these rivers and learnt that lots of these major rivers are found in the continent of Asia....
Phonics
We are now in week three of our Phonics work. We are super speedy at recalling the graphemes we have learnt. We are all working extremely hard on our letter formation as well. We have been playing snap with the graphemes cards that we have learnt so far and also using...
What we’ve been up to this week…
This week in Year 5, the children have worked incredibly hard in each of their lessons. In Science, we looked at the human cycle. We discussed what happens to our bodies and how we grow and develop as we get older. In English, we continued our topic of ‘Fairytales’,...