Year 5 - Autumn 2 - Week 6
Date: 5th Dec 2023 @ 11:10am
Another week races by in the Year 5 classroom with Advent upon us and Christmas now ever closer! As always, we have achieved so much throughout this week with lots of highlights. Here are just a few…
In our English work, we reached the culmination of our work on the twisted fairytale, ‘The Lost Happy Endings’. Using inspiration from the story-within-a-story, where the witch ultimately meets her downfall, the children used their imagination and creativity to write their very own versions of Jub’s ‘Golden Pen Story’. You could hear a pin drop in the Year 5 classroom as each child was determined to make their stories the very best that they could be, with creativity and imagination in abundance. Before writing them up in our Author Books next week, the children had the task of accompanying their work with some artwork and illustrations. The stories are a credit to the hard work that the children have put into this work throughout this half term and we look forward to seeing their completed Author Book pieces early next week!
Building upon the enjoyment of last week’s music comprehension lesson, we used Christmas music as our inspiration for one of our reading lessons this week. If the children won’t already hear this song enough over the Christmas period as it is, at least now they also have a full grasp and understanding of all of the lyrics!
In Maths, we have focused on calculating the area of rectilinear shapes whilst also competing in a team scavenger hunt within the classroom to find the area and perimeter of different shapes. Next week’s Maths will be festive themed!
Thursday brought our school trip to the British Music Experience in Liverpool City Centre…and what an experience we had! The first part of our day was a fantastic workshop and quiz all linked to British pop culture, from wartime to the present day. Then we had the chance to ‘Dance the Decades’ in a designated room, watch a hologram of some famous musicians performing songs, the chance to try an array of instruments within the studio and also a musical tour through the ages complete with costumes and props. What a fantastic day and the children behaved impeccably throughout and were a real credit!
This term (so far) has been brilliant with this class of amazing, hardworking children. To have watched them flourish from the start of the school year has been a privilege and they continue to make us so, so proud.
Roll on next week and please see below for some reminders of just some of our festive fun in the final full school week of 2023…
Reminders
-Wednesday 13th December: Christmas Dinner Day & Year 5 Secret Student Reward morning* & Swimming
*As per text on School Spider, the children have the opportunity to bring in a game from home should they wish (i.e. board games, toy etc). We ask that electronics are avoided please.
-Friday 15th December: Christmas Jumper Day & Christmas Party Day