Year 5 - Spring 1 - Week 3

Date: 19th Jan 2023 @ 9:21pm

A tremendous week was had in the Year 5 classroom as we continued our learning journey and challenged ourselves across so many different areas of the curriculum.

Our hard work has extended across so many subjects and most definitely within our Maths learning. Here we have been focusing upon comparing and ordering fractions with different denominators. Alongside this, we have also tested our fraction skills in different games such as bingo, loop games as well as online games of Blooket. These were competitive and fun to observe. Such fraction work can be challenging and, as always, the children approached their learning with resilience and built on their understanding and confidence levels.

We have also continued on with our grand, class times table battle with this current series approaching a very dramatic end. Quite unbelievably, there is a tie as we go into the final battle and a tense wait to find our eventual winning team next week. Both teams have given their all…but there can only be ONE winner. Good luck to all involved!

In English, we have continued our focus on the text ‘Arthur & the Golden Rope’. We have enjoyed reading the beginning of this rather unusual myth as well as using it as a stimulus to write a short Norse poem containing adventurous noun phrases and linking in relative clauses from last week’s learning too. We have also honed our skills of speech punctuation and have enjoyed writing scenes involving the characters from Arthur & the Golden Rope interacting with one another about the disaster that hit their Icelandic village.

Our History learning delved into the Mayan civilisation as we considered why exactly we are studying the Mayan empire in school. To do so, we speculated and made deductions from a range of visual clues that were laid at different stations across our classroom. This allowed us to appreciate the range of Mayan achievements and how they were one of the most sophisticated societies of their age with a strong belief system.

In Collective Worship, we considered our monthly value of Humility and how we can apply this within our daily lives. A video stimulus involving a table tennis player over-celebrating winning a point was a good discussion point for how being humble and considering other’s feelings is an important and respectful way to live.  

Once again, another brilliant week with Year 5. Have an excellent weekend everyone – you certainly deserve it!