Year 5 WC 14th October 2024
Date: 17th Oct 2024 @ 3:50pm
A very exciting week in Year 5 as we launched our new project, Art of Brilliance, this week. Year 5 and 6 took part in three workshops led by Will Hussey on Tuesday and Wednesday mastering the art of being brilliant.
We started our first workshop by being give 5 buttons: relationships, money, happiness, health and success and Will asked us what order we'd put them in of importance. There was no right or wrong answer but we were asked to give a reason for our answers. Another question which made us all think was 'Could you be happier if nothing in the world around you changed?' encouraging us to think about how happiness comes from the inside out. We learnt so much from our sessions with Will and are looking forward to seeing where it takes us this year. I hope the children came home from these workshops enthused and excited about what they had learnt.
In English we have started our next writing unit which will lead to writing a biography about Harriet Tubman, a ensalved woman who not only escaped but went back several times to help others escape too. We have been exploring new vocabulary and looking at the features of a biography.
In Maths we have been finding missing numbers and comparing calculations. The children have found representing the questions as bar models very helpful as this enabled them to see the maths they needed to do to solve them. This week there has been no Maths homework in the book. Instead I have asked children to spend some time on TT Rockstars practising their timestables ready for our next unit on multiplication and division.
In history we have been learning about the abolition of slavery and why people fought for it to be abolished, The children then created posters and leaflets to persuade the government to make it illegal.
For our final science lesson of this term, we investigated how to make an object 'hydrodynamic' i.e. how to make it move through water easier. (Thank you for all the empty plastic bottles, very much appreciated!). It was nice to end the week with some active learning and we managed to keep most of the water in the plastic bottles! When we next have science we will be investigating pulleys, levers and gears.
In music this term the children have been learning about repeated rhythms and today, using percussion instruments in small groups, they created instrumental pieces of work based around an element of nature (mountains, oceans, fire etc).
We hope you all have a restful weekend and we will see you next week.
Mrs. Field & Mr. Cotton
