Year 5 - Summer 1 - Week 5

Date: 14th May 2024 @ 1:09pm

A typically busy week in the Year 5 classroom! Please see just some of our highlights…

In RE, we continued our focus on Women in the Old Testament as we delved into the lives of a range of significant women. The children completed a range of puzzle activities and matched families together too. Then they were tasked with creating profiles about a significant biblical woman, noting her main biblical accomplishments and life lessons.

In Maths, we have continued our focus on translation and extended this to translation involving coordinates and symmetry. Next week’s Maths will move on to 3D shape, reflection and rotation.

In our English learning, we have begun our new writing focus which is centred around poetry. Using a classic BBC advert used for the Winter Olympics titled ‘The Dreadful Menace’, this encapsulating, eerie advert is narrated by a powerful, domineering voice. This ‘Dreadful Menace’ that promises to ‘summon armies of wind and rain and snow' is, in fact, a mountain. The children loved hearing this poem with the accompanying imagery of the advert itself. They also engaged brilliantly with the opportunity to explore the figurative language and poetic devices used throughout. Next, Year 5 will attempt to create haunting poetic versions of their very own!

An excellent week and we hope that the sunshine returns for this weekend!

Reminders:

-Homework will continue to be set via Mirodo (as usual) for this week and spellings will continue to be set via Google Classroom.

-As per previous reminders via School Spider, next week is RSE (Relationships and Sex Education) week across the school.