In reading, we have continued with our class text Skellig, which we are all really enjoying. We have been practising answering different types of questions in readiness for our up and coming SATs tests. [gallery ids="8580,8581"]...
Year 5 have been enjoying a spot of mindfulness practice after lunch everyday. We have been practising different breathing techniques. This is helping us to be focused and ready for learning. Mindful breathing allows us to focus our attention on our breathing to its natural...
This week in computing, we have been learning how to change digital images by rotating and cropping them. When you ‘crop’ an image, you delete a part of an image that you don’t want. You do this to improve the quality of the image. Next...
In science, we have continued our friction exploration by planning and conducting a fair test to see how different surfaces affect the speed of a vehicle. We worked in groups to collect data and make scientific observations which we presented in charts. [gallery ids="8563,8564"]...
This week in maths, we have been learning to identify and recognise one half, one quarter and one third. We have learnt when something is split into two equal groups, each equal group is a half. When something is split into four equal groups, each...
This week in computing, we have been learning how to use a keyboard to type words on a document. We know the buttons on a keyboard are called keys. We practised writing short sentences leaving spaces between words. We successfully used the space bar key...
On Monday, we had an amazing time at the Discover Centre. We worked together to build our own story and enjoyed exploring the story centre. We really enjoyed using our imagination and creativity to invent new stories. It was also lots of fun riding on...
This week, we have continued taking inspiration from our class text Aaaarrrggh Spiders! We have been developing our marking skills drawing spider webs. We used circles and lines to draw our webs. In maths, we have been focusing on counting. We picked up a spider...
In reading, we started our new text Skellig, by David Almond, which we are all loving. The story is about Michael, who moves to a new house and this coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain. Then, exploring a...
In geography, we are answering the question: what makes Brazil a diverse and unique culture? Before they can tackle this, we first had to locate where Brazil is and understand its topography using atlases. We enjoyed using the atlases to examine and explore different types...