Year 5
Week beginning 17th March 2025
Wizz! Pop! Bang! Have been the noises coming from Year 5 this week! Here is what we have been up to in our scientifically spectacular week.
We...
- Made parachutes to see how the size changed the air resistance
- Experimented with eggs to see what liquids were good for our teeth.
- Met a science boffin, made slime and saw how plasma can give us electric shocks.
- We met Mrs Branthingham who taught us all about her military experience and what she does to help keep soldiers save, from silk pants to some very cool but protective glasses. We looked at how we could protect an egg and even threw our soldiers across the playground to test our inventions.
- We met Tim from Wessex Water who helped us to STOP THE BLOCK...looking at what can go down our toilets.
Our project for this half-term is "Mighty Mayans".
Important dates and messages:
Worship theme:
When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
Curriculum:
In our core lessons next week we will be revising core skills and sitting our assessments.
We will also be learning about Microbits and doing some fun coding to make our own mini-computers!
We will be looking at how holes in our parachutes effect the air resistance!
We will also be learning and performing a piece of poetry!
Other news:
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PPA Days - PPA Days will be every other Thursday, and children should come in wearing PE kits.
- PE every Thursday - Children should wear their PE kits every Thursday.
Homework:
- Please find links to the relevant information below for the Project Overview and Homework.
- MyMaths - We will set up MyMaths tasks termly, based on the learning we will be doing this term. Please let us know if you are finding them too easy or tricky, and remember that below, there are many resources you can use to extend your learning from home. Various MyMaths activities have been set for this term. This is to allow children who like to do more to be able to. However, children do not have to complete all the MyMaths activities. One per week is our minimum recommendation.
- Reading books - we would like to remind everyone to have a reading book in school - this can be a school or home book. We want all children to be able to share recommendations and reviews of what we have read recently. We display books we've read in the classroom to get children talking about the stories they love and inspire others to try new titles.
- Reading records - All children should now have a grey reading record in which they can record how often they are reading. They will receive one raffle ticket if they read three times a week and two if they read more than five. At the end of each term, we will draw a raffle to win a trip to Costa. You have to be in it to win it! Activities in the reading records can be completed at home for fun!
Reading:
We are reading 'The Boy in the Tower' by Polly Ho-Yen and using the following Designation Reader sentence stems to start our answers this term. We focus on different skills in each lesson: inferring, predicting, asking questions, evaluating, clarifying, summarising, and making connections.
Spellings:
Our spellings for this term are below (THIS WILL BE UPDATED WHEN WE HAVE OUR NEXT SET OF SPELLING WORDS) . However, we are moving away from weekly tests, using more discreet learning techniques, and applying our spelling words across our curriculum.
Best wishes,
Year 5 Team
Miss Martin and Mrs Fakorede
Learning as a family in Jesus, through Love, Hope, and Forgiveness.
Matthew 19:26: “With God all things are possible.”