Year 5 - Autumn 1 - Week 7
Date: 19th Oct 2022 @ 11:47am
We can’t quite believe that it is already the end of the first half term of the school year! Time has absolutely raced by and it is more than fair to say that Year 5 have worked extremely hard and have already achieved so much.
In our English work, we completed our first Author Book pieces of this year based on our focus text, ‘Queen of the Falls’. The children completed their final pieces of writing with such focus, care and pride and each was a pleasure to read. These diary entries have made an excellent opening page to our Year 5 writing journey. Well done, Year 5!
In RE, we continued to explore the Christian Bible with its many books and stories. We considered the word ‘sacred’ and its meaning and what it takes for an object to be thought of in this way. To do this we thought of items that we hold dear and that are treasured within our own lives. We then connected our items to the sacred nature of the Bible by making comparisons and establishing differences.
In Maths, we have focused on inverse operations and multi-step word problems involving addition and subtraction. We enjoyed putting our skills to the test through some different Maths games too including a spooky, themed game on Blooket where frighteningly quick Maths was the aim of the game.
Our final day of this half term brought our Computing focus day which centred around the world of vlogging and what it means to be a YouTuber. We learned a lot about the positives and negatives of this career path, lots of safety tips and we also created some video logs (vlogs) of our own.
Thank you, Year 5, for a great first half term where I have loved getting to know each and every one of you. There are plenty more highlights to come throughout the rest of the year but, in the meantime, go and enjoy the half term break!
Some reminders for after half term:
- Spellings have been set as usual via Google Classroom and will be tested at the end of the first week back at school after half term.
- There is no set homework for next week, however the Year 5 ‘Virtual Classroom’ has been updated and attached to this blog, which includes links to a variety of websites and resources. All pupils' individual passwords can all be found on Google Classroom. Don't forget, there is also the ‘Practice’ section on Mirodo where the children can choose any topic they wish to practise for Maths, Reading, SpaG or Science.