Welcome to Year 5

Class Teacher - Miss Tolson

Teaching Assistants - Mrs Boden and Miss Watson

   

Maths

Year 5 enjoy the morning challenge of 40 questions in 100 seconds. 

English

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Class Worship

Our first lesson brings us to the important time of Lent, when Jesus was travelling through the desert and tempted by the devil. Our class leaders led the session beautifully, helping other children when needed.

 

Science

Music

We have started our new term looking at a crescendo. It is quite a difficult task but Year 5 have embraced it.

 

 

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Maths

Year 5 started their half-term looking at multiplication and division. We looked at short division with remainders. We then applied our learning to maths problems. Recapping on fractions from just before Christmas, we have moved onto multiplying fractions.

We learnt how to play the fun yet simple game "Shut the Box". A fabulous game to encourage play with number.

Number Day

On Friday 6th February we celebrated Number Day. We rocked with our maths skills, looking at applying our skills to many different maths games. We wore totally awesome costumes too! 

English

We started our half-term looking at fiction, using our book Who Let the Gods Out. We have used this book as a basis for inverted commas, looking at how to use speech marks correctly. We have practised our skill of using speech marks by writing the dialogue to silent animation. 

Our used our knowledge of the Maya to create an information text. Here are some of the work we produced.

Religious Education

What a beautiful set of rules created by one of our pupils, after reading about the New Law.

We looked at the transfiguration of Jesus and created some beautiful comic strips.

We looked at our inner self when learning about what it is like to be a Christian. We then looked at what lights up our world.  

                         

Class Worship

Year 5 enjoy the responsibility of organising the class worship. Each week has a theme and the class join in with the activities.

The Lord is our light, we showed how we can be the light to people in our lives too.

Science

Our latest science topic brought about fun this afternoon, looking at contact and non-contact forces. Iron filings and magnets demonstrated forces in a fun way.

We looked at when forces are equal and how this allows for things to balance.

We looked at friction and the materials that would cause the most friction when pulling a shoe across them. We measured in Newtons by using a force meter. Continuing with friction we made a CD hovercraft to demonstrate how air can create less friction between two surfaces.   

Continuing with forces, we looked at air resistance through an investigation, then we made paper "helicopters" to fly. 

History

Year 5 are looking at the Ancient Maya. We started by located where the Ancient Maya lived on a world map: in Central America. We have also looked at Ancient Mayan Gods and created some of our own too! Did you know the ancient Maya have a base 20 number system. Our children managed to read and create some numbers too. 

Music 

Mr Edge continues to deliver our music on a Friday, teaching Year 5 about reading music: quavers, crotchets and semi-quavers are just a few of the terms we are learning.

We have been introduced to minims. Our singing at the correct pitch and number of beats is improving greatly.

 

Modern Foreign Languages (MFL)

We started our Spanish this half-term revisiting basic greetings and have now progressed onto learning about La Clase (The class). We can now tell you what some of the things in our classroom are called in Spanish.

Art

We've made a cracking start with our art and drew ourselves.

Moving into our next lesson we wrote our names or phrases in the style of our faces. Truly amazing talent we have in year 5. I'm sure you will agree.

Continuing with art we have now added our own background.

We've used the backgrounds we created the previous week and used carbon paper to trace over our self-drawn word pictures. Amazing work!

Experimenting with media and colour, beautiful results.

P.E.

This half-term we have started two different ball games: rounders and netball. Our lovely coach from Rotherham United is teaching year 5 about the rules of netball, whilst Miss Tolson is teaching year 5 about basic throwing and catching skills, which will lead to playing games of rounders.

We got to play rounders outside, which was great fun for us all. Fabulous big hits from both girls and boys.

 

Maths

In maths this half-term we have looked at fractions, column addition and subtraction as well as multiplication and division. Next half-term will see further application of fractions when looking at fractions, percentages and decimals.

We will revisit the four rules of calculation, particularly focussing on division and multiplication to ensure confidence, fluency and application to worded problems.

English

In English, we have looked at different sentence structures and applied this to persuasive writing. We created persuasive posters encouraging Mrs Williams to visit the Amazon Rainforest. This was based on knowledge from our Geography topic where we learnt about Brazil and compared it with where we live in Yorkshire.

Religious Education

What a beautiful time to join St Joseph's with Advent and the celebrations involved. We started our Advent by making a wreath, which was blessed before being returned to class. We have read our short stories from the Bible at the end of each day and hung the appropriate bauble on our Jesse tree.  We visited church for mass as well as making Christingles. We have had a busy half-term!

 

 

Class Worship

Year 5 children are incredible in organising how they wish to deliver class worship, then reading a Gospel and reflecting on this as a class.

Science

This half-term year 5 has explored states of matter: solids, liquids and gases. We have looked at different materials to use as an  insulator, magnets and their uses in industry, as well as materials that are soluble and insoluble.   

Geography

Our topic has been comparing Brazil and where we live. We have learnt quite a lot about the Amazon Rainforest, as well as neighbouring countries and economic activities. We also looked at the water cycle and how rivers are formed from source to mouth. Year 5 worked together in teams to produce some rather awesome-looking models.

Music

Mr Edge from the Hallam Diocese, continues to provide high quality singing teaching. The last day of term we had Christmas music and Year 5 showed Mr Edge how much they had enjoyed the sessions by giving him a hug. We also delivered our fabulous carol concert in our local church where we sang collaboratively with Year 6. Our children sounded like angels.

 

Design and Technology 

Mrs Boden and Miss Watson have modelled and supported year 5 to sew some lovely puppets. For some children this was the first time they had sewn. I am sure you would agree that the children did extremely well.

P.E. & Dance

This half-term we had our lovely dance tutor lead Year 5 into wonderful, short production based on the Amazon Rainforest. 

Library Visits

Year 5 enjoyed visiting the local library where they learnt more about Brazil which is their current Geography topic. They completed different learning activities and even made a Brazilian mask!