Easter Church service

Today we visited the church for our Easter service. The children all behaved so well. We sang the song “Spring Chicken”.

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We’re starting our summer reading challenge. For your child to get a raffle ticket they need to have read 5 times in a week. Please could you mark this in their normal reading record and on their Summer Reading Challenge record as well. Each raffle ticket they get will be entered into a draw at the end of term. There are two Kindles to be won so the more raffle tickets they have the more chances there are to win. Good Luck!

Term 4 KIRFs

Term 4 KIRFs

Please find attached the KIRFs for Term 4. 

Year 5 - Term 4 KIRFs

Each term we set the children KIRFs which are 'key instant recall facts'. The children should revise these facts both at school and at home. Through focused revision of these areas, the children build their mathematical knowledge and fluency. This makes it easier for them to access new content in lessons as they are not having to rely on their working memory. 

World Book Day 2024

 

Year 5 had fantastic fun for World Book Day this year.

Across the week, we took part in lots of Reading for Pleasure, joined a range of online sessions where we engaged with a variety of activities, such as creating our own fairy tales, drawing comic book characters and listening to famous storytellers.

On World Book Day, we took part in a 'footy and booky' quiz, learnt how to draw characters like the author of Nina Peanut and learnt all about Rosa Parks through the 'Little People, Big Dreams book'. Lots of us dressed up and our costumes looked fantastic!

 Year 5 - World Book Day

Who does the trunk belong to and what is inside?

A massive trunk appeared in the classroom but we didn’t know who the owner was? So the children decided to use clues to predict who it might belong to and what might be in there? The only clues were the trunk itself and a tag with a royal seal.

As a class we decided that we would open the trunk to see if we could find more clues. The children were shocked to find so many pairs of Knickers inside! Not only did they find knickers but they also found the book ‘The Queen’s Knickers’ by Nicholas Allan. Of course we had to read it and the children then completed a book review on what they thought of it.

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What is colour?

Today the children started looking at colour in art. We named the 3 primary colours (red, blue and yellow) and found out they are special, as they cannot be made by mixing other colours together.
To support this the children looked at the artist Piet Mondrian as he mostly used primary colours in his artwork.
The children then had a go at creating their own version of one of his famous paintings by using geometric shapes mostly using horizontal and vertical lines. Here are just a few examples of their artwork, along with the original artwork.

First Week

We have continued to think about our school and class values, had lots of fun with some skittles place value, learnt about aboriginal art and experimented with using different techniques to draw patterns with dots and used thesauruses to find synonyms for our emotions which we are going to use tomorrow to write our own poems!

This afternoon, the children learnt about what app permissions are and how to change them as well as how to create a strong password.

First Day of Year 5

What a brilliant first day back! The children were fabulous!

This week, we are focusing our learning around a book called The Dot. We wrote letters to people who have encouraged us, thought about our school vision and St Barnabas, wrote about our aspirations for the year and contributed to some collaborative art that the whole school are involved in.

Term 1 KIRFs

Please find below a link to our term 1 KIRFs.

These are the key instant recall facts which the children will be practicing in school this term. Please speak to your child about these and practice them lots so that they feel really confident!

 

Y5 KIRFs Term 1