22/09/17

Year 5 have had a great start to the academic year, settling quickly into the routines and coping with the expectations of year 5.

We have had a busy start to the term and have started getting stuck into our topic work and units.

English

We have been busy looking at the features of a news report, we have created headlines from pictures, looked at how we can include the 5W's (who, what, where, when and why) in our opening paragraph, discussed the difference between direct and indirect speech and looked at how we know if something is a fact or an opinion.

Our news stories are going to be about the beheading of Anne Boleyn, we have researched her death and started the planning process. Next week we will have the finished reports.

Maths

Place value has been the focus of the first few weeks, we have looked at rounding, ordering and comparing, negative numbers and Roman numerals.

Next week is Inspirational maths week and we are looking forward to the practical activities.

History

This terms topic is the Tudors, we have started looking at the Tudor Monarchs and researching the many wives of Henry VIII.

Art

We have started looking at portraits in preparation for our portraits of Henry VII. We began by looking at where the features sit on the face and then have drawn portraits of each other. We look forward to showing off our portraits in our Tudor gallery.

In other news...

Friday was an exciting day as we got to vote for the  year 6 representatives for School Council and Eco council, we then held a vote in class to find our own representatives. Congratulations to Finn, who will represent Polar Bears on the School Council and Logan who will be the Eco Council representative.