Year 5 Friday 11th March 2022

Date: 11th Mar 2022 @ 12:38pm

Welcome to this week’s Year 5 class blog.

This week in Year 5:

In Maths, we have been learning how to plot coordinates with simple shapes and how to translate them (move them around the coordinate grid). The children have been remembering to to move along the corridor (x axis) and up the stairs (y axis).

In English we have completed our novel, ‘Why the Wales Came’. The children really enjoyed this book with the main characters learning about trust and friendship. The children have written superb book reviews, which will be sent to Sir Michael Morpurgo.

In Science this week, we have celebrated National Science Week (with the theme being on Growth). We carried out a pattern seeking investigation to test the hypothesis that people with longer legs can jump further. We though we knew the answer already but we had to provide the evidence to prove it. Our scatter graph showed that there is indeed no link between leg length and how far you can jump.

In RE, we have discussed the forty days of Lent and made a Lenten calendar to help us prepare for Easter.

In French, we learnt that there are 3 words for the –le, la or les, depending on whether the noun is masculine, feminine or plural. We practised choosing the correct form and giving our opinion of different things. We also read some short texts in French and tried to understand them. We realised that you can work out what unknown words mean from the sense of the sentence.

In PE, the children had a very successful hockey session, focusing on how to work as a team when attacking and defending.

DO NOT FORGET

Borwick Hall trip next Friday. A kit list has been explained in detail on the newsletter.

All children need to provide a disposable bag for their packed lunch.

Please meet at school at 7:45am for prompt leave at 8:00am.

We return to school at 9:00pm.

Home Practice

This week’s tasks:

• Read every night for 15-20 minutes
  • Reading is the key to unlock all your learning potential
• Maths
  • Every child knows their tables target so please practise this daily
  • Counting – decimal numbers
    • Start from the number 4, 7, 9 and count up and down in 0.2s, 0.02s and 0.002s. Write them out, just like we do in class.
  • Sumdog
    • Spelling challenge
    • x6 and x12
    • Shapes, translations and angles