Year 5 – 26/04/24
Another busy week has flown by in Year 5! Here’s a quick rundown of what we’ve been up to:
RE: This week, we continued exploring God’s plan for redemption. We connected the dots between ‘Original Sin’ and the Second Story of Creation, and we talked about how Jesus brings hope and restores our relationship with God.
Maths: Fractions have been our focus in maths, and we’ve been getting better and better at adding them up. We started with adding fractions that have the same denominators, then moved on to adding fractions with different denominators (where one is a multiple of the other), then on to adding mixed numbers. It’s been great to see everyone’s progress in this area!
English: Our journey through “Hidden Figures” continued as we explored the key themes of discrimination and segregation. We discussed why the women in the book are such important role models and started learning about the features of newspaper reports.
PE (Physical Education): We’ve been keeping active in PE with our athletics unit, this week focusing on throwing techniques.
Science: Things got interesting in science as we looked at evidence for both flat Earth theory and spherical Earth theory. It sparked some lively discussions and got us thinking about how we know what we know about the world.
Here is this week’s home learning:
| Maths | Mathletics assignments:
· Adding fractions within 1 · Adding fractions with total greater than 1 · Adding two mixed numbers |
| Reading | 5 tests on Readtheory or 20 minutes of reading per day |
| SPaG | Either:
· Edshed.com quiz: Brackets, dashes and commas to indicate parenthesis Or: · Spag.com task: Parenthesis & commas (B) |
| Spelling | Log on to Spelling Shed using your EdShed login, and play a variety of games to practise this week’s spelling rule: Words with ‘ie’ after ‘c’
· ancient · glacier · science · scientists · species · sufficient · efficient · emergencies · deficient · inefficient |
Y5 dates for your diary for this term:
| Thurs 9th May – 10am | KS2 attend Mass at OLASV Church to celebrate the Feast of the Ascension |
| Thurs 6th June | Year 5 Trip to Bayfordbury Observatory |
| Fri 7th June – 2.30pm | Blessed Sacrament Procession – Please collect your children from the church at 3.15pm |
| Tues 11th June – pm | Sports Day: KS2 in the afternoon |
| Mon 17th June – am | Other Faith Visit to Twelve Apostles Greek Orthodox Church |
| Thurs 4th July | Year 5 Trip to Aylesford Priory |
| Fri 12th July | Year 5 to Building The Kingdom Event in St Albans |
| Thurs 18th July – 2pm | Year 5 Mini police assembly |
A huge well done on your 100% attendance this week, Year 5! Have a lovely weekend and see you all on Monday in your summer uniforms.
Miss Donatantonio
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