Year 5 – 08/09/23

It has been an extremely busy first week of Year 5!

We began by choosing our first class novel in a World Cup of Books. It was tight competition, but the winning book was Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun, which we have been enjoying reading in the Peace Garden this week. We have also launched straight into our English unit this week, which is based on the novel The Boy at the Back of the Classroom.

We kicked off our Year of Diversity on Monday by discussing people’s differences and why it’s important to have diversity in our community. We thought about what makes us unique, and how boring and frustrating it would be if we were all the same. Today, we explored the different languages spoken within our class, and looked on a map at the different countries in which our parents were born.

On Tuesday, we began our Art unit for this half term: Mixed Media Land and City Scapes. We looked at two contrasting artists and discussed their styles and techniques, which will hopefully inspire our own art in the coming weeks.

On Wednesday, we made a start on our first Music unit, which is all about sea shanties. We had fun finding the beat, and singing the words and learning the meaning and background to What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?

Thursday saw our first Computing lesson about vector drawings. The children got to grips with the concept of a vector drawing being a combination of shapes and lines by turning a 6 shapes in an image of their choice. Next time, we will see how this translates on the computer.

Maths this week has consisted of reading and writing numbers up to 1,000,000, with place value being the foundations of nearly all other concepts in the subject.

PE this term will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, so please ensure that children are in their Pope Paul PE kits on these days.

Dates for your diary

No home learning this week (make the most of the final weekend of summer weather!) but please enjoy sitting in the shade with a good book!

Miss Donatantonio 🌞