Year 5 - Focus Week
Over the past few weeks, Year 5 have been enjoying their new Science topic and have been dissecting flowers and plants to learn more about reproduction in plants. Additionally, they have made sundials and explained how they work as part of their Science topic. During Children’s Mental Health Week, we went out and had fun in the outdoors as well as taking part in some Mindfulness Yoga and creating some ‘I Am Special’ bunting. As part of this week, some of the children in Year 5 sold cakes in aid of the ‘Young Minds’ charity.
Earlier this month, we took part in a whole school Online Safety Day, where the children created posters to advise the younger children in the school how to stay safe online. We learnt about the importance of passwords as we tried to guess the password to enter our classrooms. The children’s guesses were very telling!
In literacy, we have been reading about ‘Curiosity - the Mars Rover’ and have written narratives about a little blue alien who lands on our planet.
We have been journalists writing about Curiosity’s achievements.
We have designed, painted and described our own character from ‘The Lost Thing’ - about which we are now writing a narrative.
In Maths, the children were excited to learn how to multiply fractions and are keen to test their parents’ knowledge - so beware! We have completed our topic on multiplication and division and some of the children have been keen to learn long division. In PE we have been honing our gymnastics skills and have started lacrosse for our Monday PE session. We are looking forward to our trip to the Natural History Museum, where we will experience life in the oceans and what we can do to protect it.
