Welcome to Year 5!

Our value for this term is: service.

Our learning this week (week ending 19/6/26):

Reading: This week we have continue reading extracts from The Call of the Wild and have been focusing on learning a number of new and challenging words and their meanings.

Writing: In writing, we have begun to work on an explanation text about the Maya sport of pok-a-tok, beginning with creating simple step by step instructions of how to play.

Maths: This week we concluded our second decimals unit, focusing on multiplying decimals by 10, 100 and 1000. We will now move on to negative numbers.

Science: We have begun to look at electricity and simple circuits this week, focusing on the universal symbols used by scientists, engineers and electricians for drawing a circuit.

Computing: This week we concluded our computing unit by adding lighting to our Oliver backdrops on Scratch. We were able to program the lights to flash different colours and to turn on or off when the correct switch was pressed on our control panel, simulating a real life lighting and sound board.

PE Lessons:

Our PE lessons continue to take place on a Tuesday afternoon and Thursday morning. This term we are focusing on orienteering and dance.