This week we have been busy thinking about action scenes and dialogue for our narratives, based on Ruin. We’ve worked on using line graphs and tables to find comparisons, sum and difference between data. In Science we investigated how to separate a solution – so far, we’ve managed to separate the soil and sand from the solution. Now we’re using evaporation to separate the water and salt.

We were lucky enough to have Mrs Richardson from Oaklands music department come over and work with us, helping us to sing harmonies, rounds and then we started to learn ‘We Are the Champions’ by Queen.

Well done to Eva, who completed her moon diary and bought it back into school. A dedicated piece of moon watching!

** Reminders:

• The clocks go forward this Sunday.

• Both classes will need their P.E. kits on Wednesday 30th March, with CM Sports.

• 5E need their swimming kits, for their last swimming session, on Thursday 31st March.

• Homework is due on Thursday 31st March.

• The next book review is not due until Thursday 7th April.

Enjoy your weekend,

The Year 5 Team

Thank goodness we end the week with beautiful, blue skies after Wednesday’s torrential weather. Science this week saw the children investigating the saturation point of both salt and sugar in our change of materials unit. The children are really enjoying the practical work and are increasing their knowledge and disciplinary skills. Next week we move on to seperating mixtures.

We found out that sugar has a higher saturation point than salt.  We concluded that the solubility of sugar increases much more than the solubility of salt as the temperature of the water increases.

Reminders

Home learning books to be returned Thursday 24th March. No book review due next week.

PE for 5SC is Monday 21st March and Swimming for 5E is Thursday 24th March.

Have a lovely weekend in the sun.

The Year 5 Team

Welcome back to the second half of the Spring term. We’ve hit the ground running this week, with a variety of activities to support our learning. We also had a lovely service for Ash Wednesday, where we received an ash cross on our foreheads.

We started the week with a maths task that really got our brains working hard – we had to think carefully about what we had already learnt and how to apply that knowledge  to solve the problem.

In Science we looked at the solubility of Skittles, making observations over time about the colouring and size of the sweet changing.

World book Day took place on Thursday, where we all looked amazing in our costumes.

** Reminders:

Red homework books are due next Thursday (10th March).

Reading Journals, with a completed book review, are due on Thursday 10th March.

The R.E. task is due by the Thursday 17th March.

5SC need P.E. kits for Monday 7th March.

5E need to remember their swimming kit for Thursday 10th March.

Have an enjoyable weekend,

The Year 5 Team