This week, we have been celebrating black history week and focusing on Martin Luther King’s inspiring speech 'I have dream'. The children have been researching about other famous black people and learning about their accomplishments and achievements. We then discussed and created a display about ‘our dreams’. The children have come up with some fantastic ideas which is displayed in the Year 5 classroom.
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As part of our Kensuke's Kingdom, the children create models of Kensuke's Island as part of their project homework. The models look fantastic and are on display in the main entrance, in the school library and in the classroom. Thank you to parents who helped support their child in the making of the superb models.
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Today, Year 5 have been working in partners on their mental arithmancy skills on the four functions. They rolled 4 dice between them and their partner and then decided what they wanted to do with them. E.g. 9, 16, 14 and 2. 2+14x9-16=? Their first task, was to get as many numbers on a number square circled in 10 minutes, then we challenged them to 4 in a row. Super team work by all pairs of children.
Welcome to Year 5. This half term we will be focusing on the fantastic novel Kensuke’s Kingdom By Michael Morpurgo. What will happen to Michael? What will he do? Will he and his dog Stella survive?
Year 5 had a fanatstic day yesterday during Bikeability. They all passed level one and two, ensuring that they're safe to go onto the roads.
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All the children from Nursery through to Year 6 had the pleasure of Anthony the Skipping Coach showing us how to skip properly. What was an amazing day concluded with an assembly and the school has also purchased class size packs of skipping ropes so we can continue to be active and master our skipping skills.
The Year 5 and 6 Girls enjoying the break in the weather to hone their bowling, batting and fielding skills. Bring on the competition in a few weeks time.
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Well, Years 5 and 6 were well and truly put through their paces by Danny and Jack from the Little Rocky's Boxing Team. All the pupls and staff learnt how to jab, punch straight, one-two combo, upper-cut, dodge-and-move, as well as being put through our paces with burpees, bear crawls, a skipping test and even an arm-wrestle!
What a fantastic start to our final term in Y5 we've had with the start of our Anglo Saxon topic. Look out for our newsletter where you'll be able to read all about the fabulous things we'll be learning. Ask your child about their scale drawings of an Anglo Saxon village; about their Anglo Saxon quest story and their map skills related to the Anglo Saxon invasions of the British Isles.
Year 5 are starting the summer term off with the new topics of Rivers and Mountains and Forces. We are looking forward to investigating and discovering all the aspects of Mountains and Rivers and the relavent Forces that are present. What an exciting half term it will be.
