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!