Year 5 Blog 24.10.24

Date: 24th Oct 2024 @ 7:04pm

Welcome to our Year 5 Blog.

What a quick week that was….. Oh yes, it was only a 4-day week for the children. But they sure deserve it after a long half term of learning. We are so proud of how well they have settled into life in Y5 and adapted to the learning expected from them. You are all Y5 SUPERSTARS!

In English, we finished editing our Pok-A-Tok instructions and worked on our year 5 grammar, including relative clauses and modal verbs & adverbs. We ‘certainly’ did!

In guided reading we spent time exploring inference and deduction and donned our detective hats to go in search of evidence to support our answers to some testing questions. Lots of reading of non-fiction texts at home will enable the children to develop these skills more naturally.

In maths, the children developed their skills of multiplication by finding the ‘product’ of 4-digit numbers and 1-digit numbers. E.g. 1312 x 3 (without renaming) and 3628 x 4 (with renaming). The children decided whether to use a formal method (long / short multiplication) or to do it in their heads. After half term we will be multiplying 4-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers.

In computing, we concluded our unit on ‘systems and searching’ with a mini assessment, and were pleased with how well the children had remembered what they had learnt over the previous 6 weeks.

In PE, the children continued working in their larger groups to piece together their ‘choice’ choreography before sharing this with their peers. After half term, we will put all the dance sequences together to produce a whole ‘British Values’ performance.

In games, we were finally blessed with sunshine after a very heavy night of rain. To conclude our basketball unit of work, we had a tournament. 6 teams of 4/5 players competed in short games against each other. It was fantastic to see the skills that the children had developed over the 6-week block coming together in small sided games. We sure have some budding basketball players. However, at times, found it tricky to remember that they could dribble with the ball!

In Latin, the children further developed their skills of translating Latin sentences to English, remembering their verb endings and the subject/object noun endings. They also had to remember to translate Latin adverbs too.

During worship with Rev Matt, we were reminded of the time Adam and Eve sinned and did what the snake asked, which wasn’t what God wanted. We were encouraged to resist temptation to do wrong even if it is a difficult choice. Rev Matt as always, dramatised this really well, using a stuffed snake toy to represent sin.

While there is no formal Home Learning set, we would advise children to keep on practising key skills (times-tables, spelling, reading etc.) little and often over the week off.

Have a safe, enjoyable and well deserved half term break.

The Year 5 Team.