Welcome to Year 5!

CLASS ASSEMBLY - 11th November at 8.50am

Year 5 will be leading Collective Worship on 11th November. Parents are very welcome to attend.

DT - Corrugated cardboard needed for after half term.
We will be making a 'rat catcher' as our DT project next term. This requires corrugated cardboard (the thicker and stronger, the better) rather than cereal box cardboard. We have a couple of weeks after we get back before we start this project but I wanted to give you as much notice as possible.

Our value for this term is trust.

Our learning this week:

English Writing: This week in writing we wrote a setting and character description in preparation for writing our own adventure narratives based in the world of The Queen's Token. Year 5 utilised some fantastic vocabulary and I was very impressed with their efforts.

Guided Reading: We continued reading Pig-Heart Boy and this week the book dealt with some challenging events including the main character Cam being assaulted by a stranger who threw pigs blood over him. We will be finishing this book next week.

Maths: This week in maths we continued our Factors and Multiples unit and learnt about prime, square and cubed numbers. These were challenging new topics but the children did a fantastic job.

Science: In Science, we started our new unit 'Growing and Changing' which covers human growth and development across the lifespan. This week focused on how babies grow and develop over the first year of life.

Art: This week in art, we explored a famous portrait of Queen Elizabeth I painted shortly after the defeat of the Spanish Armada. We then went on to learn about the artist Hans Holbein and explored some of his most well known portraits focusing on the texture and detail he includes in his artwork. We completed a number of sketches of an object within the classroom using different techniques including continuous line drawing, alternative hand, tonal shading and blind contour sketching.

PE: In PE, we have started our new gymnastics unit and this week we focused on shapes and jumps.

PE Lessons:

Our PE lessons this term will take place on a Tuesday afternoon and Thursday morning. We will be focusing on gymnastics. Please ensure your child arrives to school dressed in their PE kit on these days.