Year 5 - Friday 27th May 2022

Date: 26th May 2022 @ 4:35pm

Welcome to this week’s Year 5 class blog

The children have had a great half term, working hard and showing improvement in all that they do.  I hope you all have a lovely half term and look forward to seeing you all for our final few weeks, after the break!

This week in year 5

In Maths, we are back on place value.  We have been looking at numbers up to 1000000, reading, writing and comparing them.  We have also been counting forwards and backwards in powers of 10 e.g. adding 10, subtracting 100000, adding 1000.  The children were really good and were able to count and find tricky patterns. On our Jubilee day the children completed a maths challenge, ‘Who made the Queen’s cake?’ they had to solve a series of mathematical problems to eliminate suspects, they thoroughly enjoyed this task.  Finally on our last day we had a spirited ‘Pirate Game’, where the children have to use quick addition, subtraction, doubling etc. to ‘steal’ the most points.

In English we have started our new novel Varjak Paw by S F Said. We have made predictions for the story, deciding who is the mysterious man, who are the strange cats, what is Varjak going to do? They have used the first 2 chapters to find examples that tell us about the characters, what type of cat are they, how do they feel, how do they act, what are they thinking? 

In Science the children have begun to look at life cycles.  We have looked at how some animals give birth to live young and some lay eggs.  We have compared the life cycle of 2 metamorphic animals, the European common frog and the Monarch butterfly. The children used research skills to find facts and then wrote a comparison of the two. 

In RE we read scripture relating to the 10 commandments, we discussed how the Israelites might have felt when they were asked to keep these rules and why they agreed to them and then we looked at how we could keep the commandments in this present day.  We also attended Mass on Thursday for the Mass of the Ascension.   

In French, we learnt when to use Je joue and when to use je fais with sports words. Then we wrote a paragraph incorporating these new verbs, the sports vocabulary and our opinions. Great job, year 5!

In PE we played playground games and worked on teamwork and cooperation.

On Wednesday we had a lovely day celebrating the Queen’s jubilee.  The children took part in Jubilee maths, Jubilee comprehensions, we made a red white and blue profile collage of the queen and we joined the whole school for a 7 decade sing-a-long, where we sang ‘Help from my friends’ from the 1960s.  We had a picnic outside where the queen joined us for a quick photo shoot (see attached).  It was a lovely memorable day for the children.

DON’T FORGET

Common exception words have been sent home and the final test for these will happen shortly after our break.

Please encourage your child to read over the break so they can change their book on the first day back.  Times tables are also something the children can continue to practise over the break, there are lots of fun games online that they can use to practise (top marks maths has some good games to keep them occupied)

If you want some extra work there are English and Maths Challenges on Sumdog that are available at all times.  Once the children have completed the assessment, challenges will be set at their level.

Online Safety Update

This week, our update is focused on keeping children safe when accessing online content. A lot of platforms that our children use are dependent on uploaded content. Due to the sheer number of videos added to these sites, moderators find it almost impossible to stop all harmful or distressing content from reaching your phone or tablet screens. The guide below outlines ways in which you as parents and carers can limit the risk.

Have a lovely break.

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