Year 5

In our Literacy lessons we have written an extended Narrative for the book ‘The Promise’ by Nicola Davies. We continues the story by writing in the voice of the next thief… we have really enjoyed this Literacy unit, and were really engaged with the book and explored Nicola Davies’s style as an author, trying to use it in our own writing. A writing lens we have been focussing on in the unit is the use of ‘Pathetic Fallacy’, this is quite a challenging writing skill, but we did so well at trying to include it in our writing…to help show the mood/feelings of a character. We have also been working together to provide feedback to help improve our writing further. Are attitude in our writing sessions has been wonderful, and a lot of pupils have even shared their work on the ‘Author’s spot light!’ As part of the unit, we also had a debate on the question: ‘Is stealing ever right?’ in which we all shared are views or agreed/disagreed with others. What are your views, is stealing ever right?!

At the beginning of the year, not everyone in our class was reading at home, and Book Talk sessions were not very successful, as not everyone could join in. This made Mrs St.Hill feel a little sad. However…… we all now have a reading buddy, to encourage and support one another to read. In our last Book Talk session, everyone – yes everyone had been reading at home. This made Mrs St. Hill really proud, and we are now really enjoying our Book Talk sessions, as we are now all joining in!

In Maths, we have continued to work on multiplication and division. We have explored multiples and factors in detail and enjoyed doing this. We also began work on square and cube numbers. We found this really tricky, however Mr Thirsk was very impressed with the resilience that we showed during these lessons. We are now looking at securing our knowledge of the formal method of multiplication before moving onto division.

In History, we have continued our work on the Romans. We have learnt why they invaded Britain, what improvements they brought to the country and what life was like as a Roman. During these lessons, we enjoyed practicing our research skills using a variety of different methods.

In Computing we are learning to program games on Scratch, using our knowledge of algorithms.

In French we have been learning to talk about ordering French food! 

In Music with Miss Thompson we have been exploring dynamic and texture and how this affects our singing and playing. We are also playing basic notation using tuned percussion instruments.