Year 5 Miss Morley

As part of Art's Week, parents were able to purchase their child's work in a frame. These will be ready for collection from Monday 18th July. As the frames are glass, please ensure an adult can collect these from the school.

Many thanks,

Miss Morley

As part of our RE experience day, we completed an activity based on the Hindu rites of passage. The children worked together to evaluate the clues, in order to sequence the events.

Computing - using Scratch to programme our own quizzes. The children were able to use their debugging skills to check for any errors.

Sculpting and carving Ancient Greek pottery using coiling techniques.

Using carving tools to carve out Ancient Greek tablets.

Around the World Day - Tuesday 12th July

Year 5 - Mexico - further details in the letter below.

Around the World Day.pdf

Spelling Bee Competition

Class hamper - Festive foods

Athletics - Collecting points toward our Athletics Certificate

Testing our parachutes

Science - Air Resistance

Art - Focus on textiles and sewing our own Anglo Saxon shield

English - King Arthur We plotted the main events and then focussed on finding synonyms to support our writing.

History - We looked at the features of Anglo Saxon settlements and created our own maps.

Examples of our work from this term.

Another great week in Squirrel Class. Well done!

NRICH First Connect Three Negative Numbers Play against the computer or download the score card and play against a friend.

A fantastic start to Year 5.

Squirrel Class have made an excellent start to their learning in Year 5 and we would love to share our learning with you.

English - Researching the life of Michael Morpurgo for our biographies.

Maths - Place Value to One Million

Science - Which materials make the best conductors?

Welcome to Squirrel Class.

Miss Morley and Mrs Maxwell would like to welcome you all to our class page.

Welcome to Year 5!

Squirrel Class Organisation and Homework

Spelling

Handed out on Monday and to be returned the following Monday please.

Maths

Handed out on Friday and returned the following week before Friday please so that it can be marked.

TT Rockstars

A fantastic way to help children learn their times tables. Children should have their logins already.

Homework Menu

Handed out half-termly. Children choose three activities in total, Starter, Main Course and Dessert. These three activities need to be completed by half-term please.

Reading

Reading records checked on Wednesdays. Please hear your children read at least three times a week and make sure that reading records are signed. We are pleased to say that children are able to return to changing reading books regularly and independently.

Outdoor PE on Wednesday and indoor PE on Thursday. The children will need black shorts and white tops and warmer outdoor clothing as the weather changes.

Seesaw

Logins will be sent out shortly so that the children can share their work with you.

I look forward to our year of learning together Squirrel class.