Week beginning 9th June
Year 5 blog
We have been enjoying the wonderful weather and have been spending loads of time in our garden area. We absolutely love being stewards of the Earth, and discovering bees nests, beetles, worms and other interesting invertebrates as we dig!
We have been growing: pumpkins, broad beans, onions, garlic, rhubarb, raspberries, wild flowers, carrots, climbing beans, spinach, tomatoes, salad leaves and dill! In the classroom, our cucumber plants have 3 cucumbers starting to form!
We are selling our produce for compost and seed money; parents have been really supportive of us- so a huge thank you!
In Maths we have been learning about angles. We have been using our sticky knowledge to estimate the size of angles and we are going to be learning how to use a protractor next week! We've already had a little play, but we can't wait to fully understand!
In English, we have been learning informal letters (an informal letter is a chatty letter). We have been writing about our school week and we have learned how to use semi colons and apostrophes for possession. We are showing loads of confidence with our letter writing!
Finally, on Wednesday, 4 of our class went to District Sports to represent our school. They showed amazing resilience, empathy, aspiration, confidence and high expectations all evening. It was a competitive evening and they represented us all really well! Well done!
We also had a visiting Head Teacher from SWR high school come to read us a story and invite us to visit their new football field when we are in Year 6. It was really nice to hear about what it is like going to Secondary School and has made us feel less scared!
See you next week!
Week beginning 2nd June 2025
Year 5 Blog
In Maths, we have been looking at area and perimeter. We have mainly been focusing on area and have been looking at strategies to understand how this works. We know that area is the space inside the shape, and we know that an array (dots in columns and rows) really illustrate that.
In English, we have been looking at an informal letter. An informal letter is a chatty letter! We were doing Kung Fu punctuation when we were retelling the letter because there were a lot of apostrophes! The Kung Fu punctuation helped us to remember where to put them!
In DT, we have started to plan a CAM project. We started off evaluating CAM toys and we LOVED seeing all the different designs. It really inspired us and we have some BIG aspirations now!
In History, we are looking at Benin. This is a bit of "secret" history and it isn't well covered normally. We were debating why it was important to study Benin and we decided that it was important to know about other Cultures that we have never heard of. It is also important because the Victorians destroyed their Civilisation which was really shocking to us. We linked it to our Catholic Social Teaching of Solidarity.
In computing, we have started learning about programming Micro:bits. We learned how to make them say things and play music, and light up with LED lights based on our code. We have to use a lot of resilience because the code doesn't always work first time.
Yesterday, we took delivery of new Bibles for KS2. This will really help us discover more about the Catholic Faith. Thank you to our MAT for providing these resources for us!
Today is our first transition day, where we get a taste of being in Year 6. Wish us luck!