Class 5 Blog

Highlights: This week has been a busy week with the children all starting their new topics in every subject.  Our circle this morning highlighted that they have particularly enjoyed leanirng about the Tudors especially how brutal they were! We have also started our English and Maths units where we have tried hard with our sentence structure as well as place value to 10,000,000.  They have been brilliant this week and tried really hard – long may that continue.

What’s happening next week: There are no major events taking place next week other than continuing with our leaning. PE days are Tuesday’s and Friday’s so please make sure warm PE clothing is brought in or worn.  We will also be looking deeper into staying safe online with the focus being how to spot when things are not normal.

Spellings: The spellings next week still remain a recap from year 5.  This will look closely at some spelling patterns they should remember.  They did fantastically on the spelling test this week so well done for practising at home with them.

Class Focus:  Presentation will still remain a focus as will the pace in which we work. Getting used to this will take some time.  

Dates for your diary: Here is a reminder of future dates for your diary. .

Highlights: Wow! What a flying start to the year the children have made.  They have been industrious, positive and have thrown themselves into every task I have asked.  I did ask them this morning what their favourite part of the week was so far and most of them said it was getting to sit on the benches in assembly!  However, they have really enjoyed the self-portraits we have done this week as we turned them into a bunch of grapes which is now displayed in the corridor.

What’s happening next week: We will be fully into the swing of everything next week and we are looking forward to it as a class.  Guided Reading (the book is called The Final Year). You may purchase it but please do not read it past where we are in class.  A more detailed overview of learning is written in the curriculum map on the website and also in the class newsletter that was sent out. Any questions please ask.

Spellings: For the next week will be given out on Monday and they will be tested on these on a Friday. The first spelling task is to recap some of the words learnt from Year 5.

Class Focus:  For the next few weeks I will be focusing on children getting into the routines in class 5 with home reading and presentation being a particular focus.

Dates for your diary: Here below is a list of finalised dates for the coming term. There may be odd dates to add in but I will but these on the blog if so.

What a week!

I cannot express how incredibly proud I am of each and everyone of class 5, we have absolutely smashed the SATS!

Everyone has shown such a mature and sensible attitude and have all given 100% for each test and today to celebrate we have ended the week with a fab party, lots of dancing, laughing and eating 😀 💃

Please all have the best weekend relaxing and do not give SATS another thought, they are done and we have so much to look forward to now with Food and Farming next week and starting the end of year play and also all the fun things for transition.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine.

Mr Barnes

and what a lovely warm day it has been. We have ended what has been an extremely busy and “SATS revision” heavy week by having fun with a class 5 game of rounders and wow do we have some amazing batters in our class, they could certainly give me a run for my money!!!!!

We have all worked exceptionally hard over our time at Brandesburton Primary school and never more than this past few weeks, everyone is ready and equipped with all the necessary tools to successfully face the challenge ahead.

We shall all be having a breakfast provided by Mrs Gell before we start our SATS each morning to ensure we are all fully energised and ready to go. Please try to get a good nights sleep and please please do not worry about anything as you are all amazing and I could not be prouder of you all!!!!!!

Please ensure everyone brings a water bottle next week.

Mr Barnes

Have a lovely weekend and let’s hope the weather stays like this.

But we have still had a busy week preparing for the upcoming SATS, not long to go!

In English the children have been enjoying doing some descriptive writing for the setting of Alma, we are all in suspense as to what will happen next.

In maths we are working on “mean” and today we have carried out an experiment on our reflexes for our left and right hands and working out the mean for each.

Hope you all have a lovely long weekend and we will see you all on Tuesday

Mr Barnes

As always we have had a busy week in class 5, we have finished making our Maya design cushions that look amazing displayed down the corridor within school.

In maths this week we have continued our work on area and perimeter and the class have very kindly worked out the costings for new carpets and skirting for my dream home !!!!

We are at this moment all competing in a “Blind GPS quiz” (I’m sure they will explain) in preparation for the upcoming SATs, following on from this GPS homework will be in bags tonight.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I shall see you on Monday.

Mr Barnes

We have had a very creative week in class 5!

Part of our DT topic is Textiles, therefore we have been learning about different types of weaving and we have made our own wooden looms and have weaved patterns based on Ancient Maya Designs. It has been challenging but we have all risen to that challenge and produced some amazing designs ready to sew onto our handmade cushions.

I would like to wish you all a very Happy Easter 🐣 see you all in two weeks ready for the build up to SATS!!

Mr Barnes

It has been a busy week in class 5 and we have all been working super hard!

In maths we are working on calculating and measuring angles, it has been great to see the confidence in this topic and the amazing use of the protractors across the class (which can be tricky).

Our English work is based on writing a piece of descriptive writing for a suspense story based on the picture below. I have been very impressed at some the amazing if not eerie metaphors and figurative language being used and I am very much looking forward to reading the end results.

Please make sure we are all taking the time to do our reading at home and completing a book review for the rest of the class.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend

Mr Barnes

In maths we have been focusing on Ratio and problems involving ratio. In English we have been watching a video clip of “Treasure” and have been writing a diary entry for the main character.

In Art we have been exploring the work of John Dyer and today we have a lot of fun investigating using different materials for printing.

Hope you all have a lovely half term

Mr Barnes/Mrs Campey