Welcome back year 5!

We have had a great start to the school year and the children have already settled well into the routines of year 5 and their new classes. It has been lovely to see everything the children have been up to over the holidays in their summer learning books and we’ve been really impressed with the amount of effort they have put into their books. They are now in our class libraries for everyone to see!

We have started our new topic ‘Ancient Egypt’ and the children are really excited to find out more about Egyptian Gods and Goddesses and to create their own cartouche’s. We have created a home learning pyramid to give the children ideas about what they could do at home. We have given these to the children but we have also attached it below to make sure everyone has a copy.

Egypt home learning pyramid

The children are still expected to read regularly at home/BugClub and complete Abacus activities regularly. We have updated BugClub and Abacus so the children can get started!

We will also be sending spellings home for the children to learn every Friday, starting next week Friday 18th September.

Thank you to those of you who were able to come to the welcome evening last week. For those of you who were unable to make it, we have attached a copy of the powerpoint we used.

year 5 welcome meeting 2015

Reminder:

There is a Runways End meeting next week – Monday 14th at 6:00pm.

We are looking forward to the year ahead and will keep you updated with the learning we are doing every week on this blog!

Thank you,

Year 5 Team

Magical Maths started on a Thursday earlier this year.

Firstly, we started with games and activities. To be honest, they do teach you a lot: you learn lots of maths and tricks.

It’s fun when we play games because you can play them with friends and family.

On the last day, we played with a giant parachute and two dice. That was a fun game!

By Joey Garvey and Cameron Hill 5C

On Wednesday 24th June, 5C went to Oaklands school to take part in a science workshop.

We did two experiments. When we got to the classroom we paired up with a partner and sat at a tall desk.

The first experiment was making salt out of salt rock. We had small salt rock and we had to smash it up and then boil it on a bunsen burner. While it was burning, we found out how to take copper out of a mineral. It was really interesting how you use a type of liquid.

Afterwards, we went and saw how our salt was going. Mine and my partner’s turned out pretty well and so did lots of other groups’.

Then we did our second experiment, which was seeing the cells of an onion. We also saw cells of a hair and paper towels. It was SO good! I can’t believe that we eat that! At the same time, it was really interesting. I loved visiting Oaklands and I can’t wait til I go there!

Aniela Stunt 5C

I really enjoyed bike ability , I was riding on the road for the first time and the instructors were very clear and informative so I can get things more easily.  I learnt how to, pass a parked car, turn into a junction ,turn out of a junction ,u turn and how to check your bike.

I really think I’m improving my cycling skills and that I’m improving my confidence. The best thing about bike ability was cycling on the road because it was fun turning and the other things we did.

by James Nel

Literacy: This week, we have begun to plan our own type of text based on an assembly from a visitor called Richard Hunt on Tuesday. You could try and find some examples of the type of text you have chosen; adventure story, monologue, shape poem, radio broadcast etc and have a practice at planning/writing one of your own.
In SPAG, we have looked at subject/verb agreement, fronted adverbials (when, where and how) and relative pronouns.

Maths: We have continued to look at the properties of triangles as well as the relationships of angles in different sided polygons. Draw a range of irregular polygons (straight sided shapes) that all have the same number of sides. E.g. irregular hexagons. Measure all of the interior angles and add them together. Are they the same every time?

RE: We have just begun our new unit on sacraments. This week, we looked at the symbols used to represent the seven sacraments. You may like to choose one of the sacraments and research the symbolism of it. Can you find stories from the bible that explain the importance or relevance of those symbols?

5W’s class assembly will be taking place at 9:05am this Friday. I hope parents have received their invites including the dress codes for the children. Thank you so much for your support with this.

Kookaburra class are looking forward to showing you all of the amazing things they have learnt during this year.

We hope you can all make it and we are looking forward to seeing you there!

Miss Whitehead

This week, year 5 started their swimming lessons at Waterlooville leisure centre.

Children arrived at the pool and after changing, were quickly assessed by the instructors, put into groups and then put through their paces.

5W have their swimming lessons on a Wednesday afternoon, and 5C’s are on a Friday afternoon.

Returning to school is always a bit of a rush because it is necessary to make two minibus runs. If there are any other parents who would be able to help to transport children to and from school, it would be much appreciated.

Please speak to either myself or Miss Whitehead if this is something you would like to volunteer for.

Mr C

Thank you to all the children who brought in their home learning for our Ancient Egypt topic last half term. We have seen some amazing models, power points and fact files showing excellent commitment to learning at home.

This half term year 5 will be investigating coasts in the UK and around the world. The children will be using mapping skills, learning about erosion and deposition and how they can sustain our coasts and much more!

They have received home learning pyramids (attached below) in line with this topic and RE focussing on our current unit of Easter. They should choose at least one of the activities to complete by the 22nd of May (the last day of term).

We look forward to seeing what home learning year 5 bring in!

The Year 5 Team

This morning, Dingoes had their Egyptian themed class assembly.

It went brilliantly, with all pupils giving it 100% of their effort and commitment. They had worked extremely hard on it all work, and the script-writing, rehearsal and practice paid off.

Each group chose a popular television show on which to base their act and we had shows like; I’m an Egyptian, Get Me Out of Here, Egypt’s Got Talent, Through the Keyhole, Catchphrase and Fashion SOS.

Thanks to all the parents/carers who helped the children to put their costumes together…they all looked amazing!

Over the past few weeks, some of the year 5 children have been taking part in the Premier League Reading Stars program.

This week, we had our very own poetry slam. A competition to come up with an original performance of existing poems, using any technique imaginable.

All four groups worked brilliantly together, showing great collaboration, commitment and creativity when they performed their ‘slams’ to the rest of the group.

For more information’ go to the Premier League Reading Stars website here.

Videos to follow (if I can figure out how to upload them).

Mr C