Friday 4th February 2022

The children in year 5 have been working hard on their learning. In maths this week, they  continued their learning and practice with column addition and subtraction. In English, they have just started reading a new book: The London Eye Mystery; this is continuing their learning about mystery and suspense writing. They also learnt how to write a kenning poem, which was Viking in origin, in which something or someone is described using a sequence of two-word phrases.  The poem, which should be spoken out loud, is a riddle, the listener has to guess the subject of the poem. In History, their learning about The Vikings continued.

For RE, the class focus was on Candlemas, the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus Christ, which occurred on Wednesday this week. The children have created, using paper and watercolours, their own lovely images of candles. Please see the photo below. The children have also been working on a really large Rangoli artwork, as part of their study of Hinduism, following their visit to the temple last week. A photo of which is below. Each person in the class coloured in one section of the artwork, which is now proudly on display in the class.

For Science, we conducted a fair test to see which material: wood, plastic or metal, was the best thermal conductor.

Just to let you know, we were hoping to put up a link to a PDF of lots of lovely photos of the children on their Viking Day, but, at present, we are experiencing some technical difficulties.

Wishing you all a good weekend,

Mr. Holmes

For home learning this week: spelling words, homophones: aisle, isle, alter, altar, knew, new, steal, steel, lead, led, wait, weight.

Mathletics and Read Theory and Times Tables Rockstars.

In recognition of The Queen’s forthcoming Platinum Jubilee (1952 – 2022), we’d like the children to design a learning poster about The Queen, this should include a timeline.