Year 5 – 07/10/22

Well done, Year 5, on your reading, acting and singing in this morning’s class assembly about St Francis; you conveyed the life and message of St Francis clearly and beautifully!

Also this week:

In English, the children began writing their own explorers’ guide

In Maths, we have been working with negative numbers

In Science, we did further graph work, this time looking at how the length of a baby changes over time

In RE, we analysed the beliefs we get about the nature of God in the Creation story

In Geography, the children learnt why there are volcanoes in Heimaey, Iceland

In RHE, we discussed the changes to boys’ and girls’ bodies during puberty. Please note: we will be continuing this discussion and answering further questions the children have on Monday. Here are the login details to access the TenTen parent portal:

In Art, the children designed their own typefaces then combined them to make different words:

And then I was rickrolled 🤣

Here is this week’s home learning:

Maths	Compete against Year 6 on Times Tables Rock Stars by logging in and joining the battle! Mathletics assignments: ·        Numbers to 100,000 ·        Negative numbers in context
Reading	5 tests on Readtheory OR a daily entry in your reading record.
Spelling	Log on to Spelling Shed using your EdShed login, and play a variety of games to practise this week’s spelling rule: Words ending in ‘-tial’   potential essential substantial influential residential confidential preferential torrential circumstantial impartial

Enjoy your weekend!

Miss Donatantonio