Summer Term 2024
Reminders
PE is on a Monday and a Tuesday.
Homework will be set on Purple Mash on a Friday and is due in the following Friday.
Children will be given spelling sheets, with spelling to practice every night, this needs to be returned on a Friday.
Children are asked to read at home a minimum of five times a week, please log reads on the Boom Reader App.
W/C 29th April
Year 5 have worked hard again this week. In Maths, we finished off our work on Geometry by completing work on regular and irregular Polygons, parallel and perpendicular lines and then 3D shapes. We then moved onto our next unit on Position and Direction, starting off by reading and plotting coordinates before solving problems with cooridinates.
In English, we completed the last four sentence stacking lessons, linking to our book, 'The Nowhere Emporium.' We then started our independent write, by recapping all of our work and creating our own success criteria.
In RE, we started our new unit on Hinduism. We looked at how Hindu's worship, both in the Mandir and at home.
In Science, we started our new unit on materials. We looked at how we can group materials. We took a variety of materials and tested them for different properties, before grouping them in different ways.
In Music, we finished off our lesson where we had to learn a song on the glockenspiel. We practised on our own and worked with a partner to keep in time with one another. We then performed as a class.
W/C 22nd April
Another great week in Year 5. We have produced some fantastic writing in English and enjoyed two experience lessons. We have used verbs, dashes for parenthesis, prefixes, synonyms, adjectives, prepositions and rhetorical questions. In our experience lesson we took part in a Police interview and looked into bullying and the emotions involved.
In Maths, we have continued our work on shape. We carried on with measuring angles, looking at measuring angles up to 180 degrees. We then had a go at drawing different lengths and angles. Finally, we looked at finding angles around a point, on a straight line and in shapes.
In History, we looked at the Mayan creation story and looked at the Maize God and what this meant to the Ancient Maya.
In Geography, we looked at what it is like in Mexico City. In Art, we started our work on the Illuision movment.
W/C 16th April
A great first week back! We have thoroughly enjoyed starting our new English! We are completing our work based on the book, 'The Nowhere Emporium'. This week we have looked at Time adverbials, Similes, Relative Clauses, Dialogue, Modal verbs and Alliteration.
In Maths, we have started our unit on Shape. This week we have been classifying and estimating angles, before spending time looking at measuring acute angles.
We have also completed our first lesson of our new Geography unit, What is it like in Mexico? We used atlas' to identify Mexico and describe it's location using compass points.
In History, we started our new unit on the Ancient Maya. We looked at where they fit on the History timetime and where in the world they lived.
