Class 5 Blog

Highlights: It has been a super week in Class 5 and all the children have been amazing! In English, we have been writing a newspaper report based on The Lighthouse which we need to finish on Monday, but they are brilliant.  In Science, the children have set up an experiment with bread to see what conditions mould grows best in.  Finally, in Maths we have been working hard to understand and work out angles in shapes.  It has been quite tricky but they have kept at it and have done really well.

What’s happening next week:  Next week is a normal week in Class 5.

Spellings: The children will be tested daily on 10 words from the Year 5/6 statutory spelling list. Please try and learn these for the next two weeks.

Class Focus:  Reading.  Please continue to read with your child and access the website for reading comprehensions as well as the revision books.  If you need help locating the websites, please contact me.

Homework: Children have a GPS booklet to compete for Monday – we will be going through it in the afternoon.  

Dates for the diary:

Highlights: Thank you Class 5 for a super week of hard work; it really has been quite tough. In English, we have been working hard to finish our suspense story openings taken form text Wolf Brothers!  In Science, we had super fun finding out if sugar content of a biscuit affected the amount of times it could be dunked. Finally, in PE we did some orienteering around school, trying to find answers to different GPS questions.

What’s happening next week:  Next week is a super busy normal week in Class 5 – be prepared for more hard work!

Spellings: Please start to learn the Year 5/6 statutory words which can be found on the school website.  We will be testing 10 of these daily for the next few weeks.

Class Focus:  Reading! Please make sure your child has read 4 times this week.  We are also having a big focus in class on answering comprehension questions carefully making sure our answers relate to the questions.  If you could have a practice of these in your revision packs if you have them that would be fantastic.

Homework: Children have a GPS sheet to complete for Monday morning where we will go through the answers together

Dates for your diary: Please see below any important dates for the rest of month

Highlights: It has been an industrious week in Class 5 this week with the children working hard in all areas of the curriculum. In English, we have started our new unit of diary writing using the video Francis as a stimulus.  In History, we wrote a letter home acting as one of the soldiers in WW2 from the point of view as to whether we were for the war or whether we were against it.  Finally, in PE, we have had great fun working as a team completing various activities linked to orienteering.

What’s happening next week:  Next week is a normal week in Class 5, however, just a reminder, it is World Book Day on Thursday. All details are on the newsletter.  

Spellings: The spellings next week are listed below. They are based on words that contain the suffix ent, ence and ency.

Class Focus:  Writing and GPS. We are having a big push on our GPS skills and our writing stamina.

Homework: Children have a Maths sheet and a GPS sheet for Tuesday. Please help your child with these but do not do it for them.

Highlights: It has been an incredibly busy week in Class 5 with the children working hard in all areas of the curriculum. In English, we have been working hard to up-level pieces of “boring” work written by myself and the children have made fantastic jobs of it!  In History, we have started our new WW2 topic with the children researching historic battles and trying to places these correctly within specific time periods.  Finally, in Dance we have started to learn a routine to the Fleur East Song “Sax” with the children really getting into it and enjoying themselves. We may even tempt Miss Northen to come and join our Dance Troop next week!  

What’s happening next week:  Next week is a normal week in Class 5. There World Religion Day on Monday where we as Class 5 will be researching Humanism and creating a “collage of our work” for that afternoon.

Spellings: The spellings next week are listed below. They are based on words that contain the letter string “cial” or “tial”

Class Focus:  Writing!! We are still focusing on our writing skills and presentation.  This week the class have really impressed me with their attitude to their writing and have really started to raise their own standards.

Homework: Children have a Maths and GPS to complete for Tuesday.

Dates for your diary: Please see below for important dates this half term. Please note the baby and toddler groups are on this week as well if you know of anyone who would like to attend

Highlights: First of all, I would like to wish everyone associated with Class 5 a happy New year and thank everyone for the lovely gifts I received over Christmas. We have had a great week back and have kick-started the New year talking and writing about our dreams and goals in Literacy. In science, we had great fun finishing our light unit off by conducting lots of experiments that explored light phenomena – the children really loved this. Finally we all got stuck back into maths and have been adding and subtracting fractions where I have been really impressed with how much they have remembered.

What’s happening next week:  Next week is a normal week in Class 5 where we will be starting all of our new topics for the Spring term.

Spellings: Spellings for next we are listed below.  

Class Focus:  Writing.  We are having a HUGE push in Class 5 and across the school with our Writing skills.  This week, we have made a great start and I look forward to the coming weeks to see further improvements.

Homework: Homework will begin next week (twice a week focusing on SATs revision when we start our new topics in maths and English).

Dates for your diary: Please see below for dates for your diary.  These dates run all the way up to half term.

Highlights: It has been a busy week in Class 5 this week with the children working hard in all areas of the curriculum. In English, we have been working on informal letters and we are just about to write our final piece to the character Skellig from our Guided Reading Book.  In Geography, we have been locating the 10 deadliest Earthquakes that have occurred before explaining why they think the happened in those locations.  In maths we have been working hard on problem solving and trying to understand mathematical vocabulary which will help us choose the correct operation to solve the problem.

What’s happening next week:  Next week is super busy in Class 5. Could we please try and bring in a cereal box in on Monday for a Science lesson and also the items needed for the Christmas Fair. 

Spellings: There are no new spelling this week. Please work on consolidating any words we have struggled with this half term. There will be 15 spellings on Friday from words we have already learnt.

Class Focus:  Christmas Fair Preparation!  For the Christmas Fair and the stalls, we are going to run in Class 5, please could we work together as a team and bring in the items below to make it a success. We will need to run our stalls:

Jam Jar filled with sweets / boxes of chocolate (everyone – for a tombola, bring nearer the time).

10 empty and CLEAN tin cans.

Some small/light branches for reindeer ears.

Please can these be brought in this week so we can start to organise ourselves.

All this would be hugely appreciated.

Homework: Children need to learn the songs for the Christmas play.  We will be singing them without the words on Monday.  

Dates for your diary: Please see below for dates for your diary.  There is a change to the Christmas Fair date with that now being on the 17^th of December.  Also Ks2 Christmas performance will be on Wednesday 18^th December (9.30am and then again 10.30am).

Highlights: It has been an industrious week in Class 5 this week with the children working hard in all areas of the curriculum. In English, we have been working hard to finish our persuasive leaflets about Brandesburton which are very good read!  In Geography, we have been using atlases and world maps to locate the 10 deadliest Earthquakes to happen on Earth, whilst learning why they are more likely to happen in certain areas around the world.  Finally, in Science we were understanding how shadows are formed before conducting an experiment to see how and why shadow lengths change – the children really impressed me this lesson with their knowledge.

What’s happening next week:  Next week is a normal week in Class 5, however, just a reminder, it is non-uniform next Friday.  Also again on Thursday, there is a coffee morning where all adults are invited – please just come and turn up at 9.00am!

Spellings: The spellings next week are all about consolidating words from this half term. We will focus on 20 of the tougher ones and the spellings will be given on Monday.

Class Focus:  Christmas Fair Preparation!  For the Christmas Fair and the stalls, we are going to run in Class 5, please could we work together as a team and bring in the items below to make it a success. We will need to run our stalls:

Jam Jar filled with sweets / boxes of chocolate (everyone – for a tombola, bring nearer the time).

10 empty and CLEAN tin cans.

Some small/light branches for reindeer ears.

All this would be hugely appreciated.

Homework: Children have a maths sheet to complete for Tuesday focusing on word problems.

Dates for your diary: Please see below for dates for your diary.  There is a change to the Christmas Fair date with that now being on the 17^th of December.  Also PLEASE check the NEWSLETTER for important information around dates for KS2 Christmas performances!

Highlights: It has been a busy week in Class 5 this week and we have worked hard on becoming more independent with our work which has proved tricky at times. In maths, we have been fabulous at learning how to do long division and I have been really impressed with how quickly we have learnt this. In RW, we have been exploring how different faiths express their beliefs through the clothes that they wear.    Finally, we are really enjoying our science unit all bout light and the children have been creating fair tests and setting up investigations to decide on which material reflects light the best.  

What’s happening next week:  Next week is a normal week in Class 5.  However if we haven’t already done so could we please bring in something blue for the raffle prize box  Also again on Thursday there is a coffee morning where all adults are invited please just come and turn up at 9.00am!

Spellings: The spellings next week are listed below. They are based on words that contain the letter string “ough”

Class Focus:  Writing! We are really going to be looking at our writing and also how we make our sentences flow!  The special mention next week will be picked form children whose writing has a superb flow to it.  

Homework: Children have a maths sheet to complete for Tuesday focusing on long division.

Dates for your diary: Please see below for dates for your diary and the next week in Class 5 section. The next date for the diary is the Christmas Fair and we have come up with some ideas we would like to do as a class.  Please be prepared to receive some news next week on what this may entail.

Highlights: We have had a really good week in Class 5 and the children have worked really hard. We have been working on our formal methods for multiplication in Maths and have been using these to solve some quite tricky problems.   We have also started our new geography unit all about earthquakes and have learnt how these are caused and whereabouts the are likely to occur in the world.   Finally, we have also had the school nurse come to visit to talk to us about growing up.  I would just like to congratulate the children for being very grown-up and asking lots of sensible questions on quite a sensitive topic.  

What’s happening next week:  Next week is a very busy week in Class 5! Remember it is the Championing Maths Morning where parents are invited to walk the school and see Maths in action. Also on Thursday there is a coffee morning where all adults are invited please just come and turn up at 9.00am!

Spellings: The spellings next week are listed below. They are the words from the statutory words list.

Class Focus:  KINDNESS! We are having a real focus on being kind to one another and to our community. Children have to display on act of kindness in school that they can talk about during RP circle time on Weds morning. That gives them two school days to do it!

Homework: Children have a maths sheet to complete for Tuesday focusing on Long multiplication.

Dates for your diary: Please see below for dates for your diary and the next week in Class 5 section.

Highlights: Art week has hit hard in Class 5 – the carpet is testament to that. The children have worked fabulously hard creating our Tudor crime and punishment scene.  The skills they have learnt have been fantastic and all are now real dab hands in creating sculptures from tin foil.  We will post some pictures of our final scenes after half term – we are currently waiting for them to dry!

What’s happening next week:  IT’S HALF TERM! Please enjoy a well-earned break, stay safe and come back with lots of stories of things you have done.

Spellings: These will be given the first Monday back.

Class Focus:  KINDNESS! We are going to still be focusing on this the first week back with a particular focus being “how to be a good friend”.  Maybe over the holiday we could think of some ways we could answer this and even better show it.   

Homework: There are some mini Maths test and GPS to complete for the first Tuesday back.