Welcome to Year 5!

                     Class teacher - Miss Quinby                      1:1 Teaching Assistant - Mrs Sengupta

Our value for this term is thankfulness.

Our learning this week:

This week began with our second day of immersion for our 'Off with their heads' topic. The children completed their coat of arms, mapped out their own family tree after learning about the line of succession and designed and created their own Tudor jewellery.

English Writing: This week we began our new writing topic, exploring our vehicle text 'The Queen's Token', and having a go at writing a newspaper report about the events of Chapters 3 and 4. We also produced a diary entry based on the same events, allowing us to contrast these two different writing styles. I was extremely impressed with the effort and enthusiasm of the whole class and can't wait to read their final newspaper reports at the end of this unit.

Guided Reading: In guided reading, we began reading our new book for this half term: Pig-Heart Boy. The children made predictions about the story based on the title, front cover and blurb before we read Chapter 1. We continued to explore two more chapters of the book, answering questions about the characters and learning the meaning of new vocabulary.

Maths: Despite some initial challenges accessing Magma, the children have successfully started to explore numbers up to 100,000 as part of our place value unit. We also revisited our prior knowledge around Roman numerals before introducing two new numerals - D and M.

Science: We began learning about the circulatory system this week, focusing on the heart, lungs and blood vessels. The class demonstrated the movement of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood around the body by creating a moving model of the circulatory system. A number of children acted as the heart, the lungs and the rest of the body, whilst the rest of the class were the blood with either pink (oxygenated) or blue (deoxygenated) post-its. They entered the heart, were 'pumped' out towards the lungs and exchanged their blue post-it for a pink one before returning to the heart. They were then once again 'pumped' out to the rest of the body to exchange their pink post-it for a blue one, before returning to the heart to start the loop again.

History: Our history lessons explored the War of the Roses and how the Tudor family came to power before moving on to Henry VIII and his six wives. We also discussed the reformation of the church and the roles of Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell.

PE: In PE this week, we started our tag rugby and football lessons. Tag rugby focused on tagging our opponents and the attacking and defending roles, whilst in football we practiced dribbling with control.

Our learning last week:

It was lovely to welcome everyone back to school after the summer break and to dive straight into our 'Off with their heads' topic, exploring the Tudors. The children all looked fantastic and coped brilliantly with the transition back to school.

We spent the first part of the morning learning about the origin of the Tudor rose before creating our own Tudor roses out of scrunched up tissue paper. After this, we moved on to exploring the meaning behind the colours, patterns and animals on a coat of arms and the children started to design their own coat of arms to represent themselves or their family.

PE Lessons:

Our PE lessons this term will take place on a Tuesday and Thursday, focusing on football and tag rugby. Please ensure your child arrives to school dressed in their PE kit on these days.