Year 5 Learning

Making 3D Boxes

Year 5 were set the challenge of making a structurally stable 3d box this week using paper but no scissors, glue or sellotape. They had to use conjecturing, working backwards and visualising skills. Well done Year 5- we ended up with some beautiful gift boxes to go under the tree!

Year 5 EAL – Autumn 2021

Our Year 5 children who are were new to English in September have been making working so hard! Here is some of the activities we have been doing and their BEAUTIFUL stories about a Viking warrior, which they independently sequenced and un-jumbled the sentences for. We are so proud of their amazing progress.

English – Viking Character Descriptions

In English, we have produced amazing Viking Character descriptions using expanded noun phrases, relative clauses and powerful vocabulary to add details.

We got inspired by images and stories of mighty Viking and Anglo-Saxon warriors.

Viking Art Work –

In Art, we have created portraits of warriors and images of Viking Long boats.

The children loved their final results!

Reading – Wolf Brother – Autumn 2021

This half term, our class read is WOLF BROTHER.

Wolf Brother is the first book in the series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Pave. The children are enjoying this page-turning novel so much that they have started reading  other books of this amazing saga.

What’s Been Happening -Year 5 – Autumn Term 1

Written by Year 5 reporters.

In Year 5 this half term, our topic has been Space. We have been learning lots of incredible things about our super Solar System.

In Maths this half term, we began by learning about place value up to a million including negative numbers and rounding. After that, we learnt methods for addition and subtraction and finally we learnt about different ways of representing data in statistics. We have drawn and interpreted tables and line graphs.

This half term in English, we wrote a narrative about a lonely baboon on the majestic moon. We have also been writing a newspaper report about the moon landing in 1969 and the 3 American astronauts who went on the Apollo 11 mission.

In Science, we have learnt mostly about the three celestial bodies which are the Sun, the Moon and the Earth. We have learnt that there are different phases of the moon depending on which lit up part of the Moon we see as the Earth spins on its axis. We know about the relative sizes of the planets in our Solar System and the orbital paths of the Earth and Moon.

We hope you enjoyed hearing about our amazing work in our classes. Here are some pictures for you to look at.