Year 5 - Summer 1 - Week 3
Date: 5th May 2022 @ 9:44pm
A shorter week but still equally full of highlights and achievements for this amazing class of Year 5 children! Here are just a few…
Our Maths lessons became very practical as we explored the properties of 3D shapes. To do so, we were tasked with creating ‘skeleton shapes’ which used art straws and blu-tack to represent the edges and vertices of each shape with everything from a square-based pyramid to an octagonal prism. Not only that, we moved onto exploring shape nets and how the various 2D faces of a shape join together to create the overall three-dimensional shape. Our creations were impressive and even more so with the resilience shown throughout.
Speaking of resilience, our new monthly value for May links very closely to our core school value of ‘Hope’ (of which resilience is an integral part). 'Perseverance' is our value for the month and the children explored this through the practical opportunities that they had in this Maths lesson with a discussion regarding how best to approach more challenging tasks which may require patience, determination and perhaps even a bit of failure before real successful learning can be achieved. This was a valuable lesson and one that we will carry forward for the remainder of this month. Next week’s Maths lessons will focus on co-ordinates and translation of shapes.
In PE, we have been playing different variations of cricket in order to practise our batting, bowling and fielding skills in abundance. 'Diamond cricket' was a particular favourite where the batters had to be on guard at all times as the bowlers shifted between four sets of stumps selecting which was best to target. This was a frantic game that required a real team effort and concentration throughout.
In English, we have commenced our new focus book for this half term. It is titled ‘The Paperbag Prince’ by Colin Thompson. Before reading even the first page, we did a lot of work exploring the upcoming themes and content of this picturebook. Much of this linked to the environment and the importance of reducing both pollution and waste on our planet. To unpick this further, we watched several videos, including David Attenborough’s Blue Planet, which showed the horrors of plastic waste in the ocean and the detrimental effects that this is having on marine life. This led to many passionate discussions and an array of thinking skills were utilised as we reflected on our emotions using green thinking hats and also completed a Diamond 9 model to help further guide our reasoning. We look forward to getting stuck into this book from next week!
Homework will continue to be set via Mirodo (as usual) for this week and spellings will continue to be set via Google Classroom.
Have an enjoyable weekend and I look forward to seeing you on Monday!