Year 5 - Spring 1 - Week 1
Date: 9th Jan 2024 @ 1:36pm
Wishing you all a Happy New Year and all the very best for 2024!
It was great to welcome back the Year 5 children who were recharged and refreshed after an excellent (and lengthy) festive break spent with loved ones. It is fair to say that we made the most of this first school week of 2024 and it was great to be back together as a class team once again. Here are just a few things that we got up to…
Our new writing theme allowed us to delve into the world of Norse mythology. We expanded our vocabulary and explored the many weird and wonderful beliefs of the Viking people. We enjoyed expanding our vocabulary as we labelled and decorated our own Yggdrasil World Tree before employing impressive thinking skills to create a brace map of the ‘three levels of the universe’ (according to Norse mythology). This knowledge will serve us well as we delve further into all things Norse as we begin our new class text. Our Geography learning also connects seamlessly with our new writing focus where we will be exploring the Scandinavian countries.
In Maths, we have been learning a method for long multiplication. The children have honed their understanding of the ‘grid method’ and can apply their skills with much greater confidence and accuracy. Well done to you all for your resilience and accuracy when approaching this method!
In RE, we also commenced our new unit titled ‘Jesus the teacher’. For this opening lesson, we first reflected on our teaching and learning experiences throughout our lives so far. Using our ‘brace map’ (thinking map), we selected three teachers who were responsible for teaching us an important skill or fact that will always stay with us. A lot of deep and meaningful reflection took place as the children chose a variety of teachers from: school itself; their families; sports clubs that they attend: their friendship circles and even wider!
A great school week to properly welcome in 2024. Enjoy your weekend everyone and see you all on Monday!
Reminders:
-Year 5 PE days for this half term are Wednesday and Friday.
-Year 5 swimming lessons will recommence on 31st January and subsequent Wednesdays following the re-opening of Formby Pool.
-Maths and English Homework has resumed and has been set, as usual, via Mirodo on Friday 12th. This should then be returned on or before the following Wednesday (January 17th).
-Spellings have been set from this week and the weekly test will take place next Friday (19th).
-For more information on what we will be learning about this term, please click here.
-Some recommended Reading at Home resources can be found here.