17th November 2017

We have had a couple of exciting events this week. Firstly, we had a visit from a tarmac lorry. They talked to us about safety when walking or cycling near a lorry and particularly about blind spots on lorries. We even got to have a look inside the truck and beep the horn.

Friday was Children In Need, we got to wear our pajamas for the day and raise money for a good cause.

Congratulations to Mia for winning the KS2 colouring competition.

10th November 2017

Firstly, apologies for the late blog.


Maths

We continued with multiplication and division this week and focused on the grid method for multiplication. The children have used this method before, but we moved on to using four digit by one or two digits. The children did excellently at this and showed good progress over the week.





















 English 

We have continued with dramatic conventions this week, looking particularly at different styles of news broadcasts. We have looked at phrases that are used in news broadcast and wrote our own news broadcast. After that, we compared different types of news reports, looking at Newsround, sports reports and the BBC World news.

Science

Continuing our topic of Earth and Space, we have looked at why we have day and night both in the UK and across the world. Then we looked at the different time zones across the world and solved problems using this information.





















Computing

Having researched the average number of daylight hours in a month in the UK, we have produced line graphs, from this we are able to analyse the data.

Art

Our Tudor portrait gallery is now on display outside the classroom.

Writing

This week we have started booster writing to help us improve. We began by looking at Expanded Noun phrases and then watched an extract of a video showing the launch of a new book called Tom Trueheart. We then wrote a description of the forest that was shown on the video.


Thank you to everyone that came to parent's evening, it was lovely to meet to all.

3rd November 2017

Welcome back to the new term. We have all made a fantastic start.

This weeks blog has been written by Ella, Lucia and Annabel.

English:

In English we have been learning about dramatic conventions (techniques which are used in radio and TV dramas). We have begun by looking at the difference between a radio and a TV drama. We have listened to a Radio 4 comedy show called Just A Minute hosted by Nicolas Parson.  We have been writing our own scripts based on this show. We choose a topic and have to write a one minute script without using repetition, deviation and hesitation.

Maths:

In maths we have started a unit on multiplication and division. During this week we have looked at prime numbers, factor pairs, common factor, square numbers and cube numbers. What a busy week! To end the week we have been  multiplying by 10, 100, 1000 including multiplying decimals.

Science:

In science this week we have started learning about  Earth and Space. We had a debate about if the Earth was flat or spherical. We then went out to learn about the planets, the order, the size, who is was discovered by and other interesting facts.

Computing:

This half term we are learning how to make line graphs in excel, we will be researching data linked to Earth and Space and producing graphs.

Art:

Our Henry VIII portraits are now finished. Here are a selection of them. They are going to be displayed in our Tudor Portrait Gallery outside our classroom.

Reminder that it is parents evening on Thursday, I look forward to meeting you all then.

13/10/17

This weeks Blog is written by Lucia and Ella


Maths
In Maths this week we have been leaning about rounding to check our answers, then we solved some word problems and decided which calculation to use.


History
We have started learning about the Spanish Armada, we began by drawing a timeline of the events, then using atlas' we marked out the route that they sailed across. We found out that they started in Lisbon and then ended up back in Spain.

PE
In PE we performed our Tudor dances and we were filmed. We performed them to Greensleeves.

English
In English this week we have been learning about instructions. We have played card games and evaluated the instructions, we then went on to create our own games and wrote instructions on how to play them. We then had a chance to play each other' games.

Art
In art we continued painting our Tudor portraits, look out next week for some finished pieces.


Reminders
Wednesday 18th is our school trip to Strangers Hall, children will need to wear school uniform and bring a packed lunch.

Friday is a non pupil day.

6/10/17

Another busy week.

Firstly thank you to all those who supported us at our Harvest Festival celebration, it was lovely to see you all.

This weeks blog has been written by Charlie and Mia

Maths
This week in maths we have been doing the column method, both addition and subtraction. We have had Flugtag (German event where people fly their homemade, human powered, flying machines) as the theme.we have been adding and subtracting numbers from 1000 to one million.


English
This week in English we've been writing our own cinquain poems ( they have 5 lines, a syllable pattern and do not rhyme). We based them around autumn and Tudors. We also looked  at instructions and the key facts about them. We also played some card games and then assessed them to see which instructions were the best.

Art
In art we have started our Henry VIII paintings on canvas and making skin colours, it is very tricky.

French
In french this week we did Rigolo and looked at numbers to ten and instruments, it was fun and we all enjoyed it.

Spelling
In spelling we have been looking at the spelling pattern -able and the silent 't' sound. We have been doing different activities.

Dance
In Tudor dance we have been putting all our moves together and getting them in time to Greensleeves, which has not been easy. We are now going to film our dances.

Other News....

Lucia won work of the week for here Autumn Cinquain.

Thank you to everyone who supported our cake sale.

29/09/17

Wow! what a busy week.

Maths

This week has been inspirational maths week, the children have shown great teamwork. They have faced lots of challenges and at times have really had to think. Their brains have definitely grown this week, I think mine has to!

This challenge was to use a 6ft piece of string to create 2D and 3D shapes, but there were rules. Each person in the group had to hold the string and there had to be no string left over. We were great at the 2D shapes, but the 3D shapes were definitely a challenge.

English

We have come to the end of our English topic this week, resulting in some excellent news reports on the beheading of Anne Boleyn

Tudor Dance 

Over the last few weeks we have been putting together a Tudor dance, thinking about the speed of the movements. This was particularly important when thinking of the rich Tudors as the ladies wore large gowns and the men carried swords. Next week we are going to put all our moves together and then try them in time to the music.

Art

We have been colour mixing this week, particularly thinking about skin tone. This is ready to paint our portraits of Henry VIII.

French

The children have been introduced to some french over the last few weeks. Hopefully now we are able to say hello and goodbye to each other, ask what each others names are and how we are feeling.

Other news....

Hautbois House letters have gone out this week, there is a meeting on Thursday 5th October at 6pm to discuss this further.

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.