Welcome to Year 5!

Year 5 teaching staff:

                                Class teacher - Ms Marskell                                   Teaching Assistant - Mrs Wagadia 

Our learning last week:

This week:

Maths: This week in Maths we have begun our new topic of shape. Students have been understanding and using degrees, classified angles, estimated angles, measured angles up to 180°, and drawn lines and angles accurately.

English: In our English topic we have begun to immerse ourselves in our new vehicle text 'The Rainplayer' 

by David Wisniewski. We made predictions based on images from the text before reading through it and analysing the key grammatical features used by the author and made a decision about which of these to include in our own writing. We also looked at the key vocabulary used and applied this into our own sentences in context.

RE: In Re this term we are looking at the big question 'How far does the mosque contribute to the Muslim concept of Ummah?' We began this by looking at Why is it important for Muslims to have a community building?

History: We have continued our History topic this week by looking at what food the Maya ate and what was the significance of Maize and Cacao the the Maya people. We also completed fact-files looking at the various Gods that the Maya worshipped, we rated what we felt their most significant innovation was and gave reason as to why we felt they should be ordered in this way and we also looked at the various theories regarding why the Maya abandoned their cities in 900AD.

PE: In PE this term we will be doing tennis and cricket.