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Autumn 1
Friday 6th September
It’s been a great 1st week back. Everyone has settled into year 5 extremely well and it has been a pleasure getting to know the children.
In maths, we have been looking at place value. This has included, reading and writing large numbers, ordering numbers and finding missing numbers. Next week, we look at counting in 10s, 100s and 1000s.
In English, The children wrote a holiday recount, with a catch. It didn’t have to be true. We hope they weren’t true because some children saw zombies, chased lions and even went to space. We also looked at a fantastic short film called The Wish Granter. The children used their skills from year 4 to write a recount of the story and a diary entry from the point of view of the Wish Granter.
Fallen Fields is the name of our project unit and it is all about World War 1. This week we learned about the significance of the poppy.
Science is all about the human body and the changes humans go through as they age. We had fun trying to guess baby pictures of staff members.
Music focuses on a song that we’re sure you know… Bon Jovi’s Livin’ On A Prayer. This week we listened to the song and tried to work out what instruments were being used and even how the hair styles looked in the glam-rock era.
Friday 13th September
In English, we have started our narrative writing unit on the fantastically illustrated book: The Barnabus Project. After reading the story, we did a deep dive into the main character; Barnabus. The children did a fantastic job of writing a detailed character description of Barnabus.
Maths this week has been looking at implementing a range of mental strategies for subtraction and addition. We used number lines and rounding to help add or subtract large numbers.
In project, we learnt about primary and secondary sources. We also learnt the importance of using a range of sources to learn about a historical event. We learnt that sometimes bias is used when recording of historical events and we learnt about propaganda.
Spanish was quite tricky this week, learning masculine and feminine adjectives, which is quite different to how we describe nouns.