Tag: Class 5
Believe in Your #SELFIE
We're learning how important it is to believe in yourself and your abilities in Class 5. We've discussed why it's so important that we always try our hardest in every lesson whilst making sure to not compare ourselves to others around us. We know that if we have tried our very best, then we…
Category: Class of 2014
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Spelling
In Class 5, we believe that practising our spellings can be fun. Over the past couple of weeks, we have tried a few different strategies including: pyramid writing, rainbow writing, drawing a picture around the word and even some mnemonics. These are all strategies that can also be used at home to…
Category: Class of 2014
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No Pen Day
Class 5 had an unbelievable No Pens Day! They put their active listening and speaking skills to great use so that we could all enjoy the day fully. As a whole, our favourite activity was voting with our feet.
The children were given the statement: 'Anyone can be a positive role…
Category: Class of 2014
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Speaking and Listening Skills
In Year 5, we have been learning why speaking and listening skills are so important. Speaking and listening skills are super important for our debating units of work but in Class 5, we know that the more we actively listen, the more we learn and by following our speaking skills, we can help embed…
Category: Class of 2014
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Welcome to Class 5
A big welcome to our new Class 5!
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The children have settled quickly in to life as a Year 5, making themselves at home in the reading corner!
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We spent our first day getting excited about the responsibility that Year 5 holds, including announcing results in assembly, going on…
Category: Class of 2014
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Gardening
We thoroughly enjoyed our afternoon gardening with Mrs Kennett last week. We have planted some lettuce and can't wait to see them grow over the next 4-6 weeks. Due to the surprisingly sunny weather, we have some watering monitors who are ensuring our lettuce get watered every day!
Whilst…
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Relaxation Music
Year 5 have been composing and performing their own relaxation music. We have learnt that long, soft notes work best for this genre of music and have spent lots of time practising and combining different instruments together. We definiltely have some budding musicians in the class, I can't wait to…
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Angles
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Yesterday we started our topic of angles in maths and today we learned how to measure angles with a protractor!
Using a protractor is vital to succeeding in this topic and any practising at home will certainly help to improve our accuracy. Learning all of the tips and rules below should also…
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Debate Competition
Following our debating topic in January, we were provided with the opportunity to go to a debating competition!
Once we were told that we would be proposing the motion 'mobile phones should be allowed in schools', we quickly began to research some evidence for our argument at debate…
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World Book Day in Class 5
WHODUNNIT?!
What a fantastic World Book Day experience!
Class 5 were amazing right from the start and maintained their detective personas all day long! It was wonderful to see everyone in character, taking notes in their notebooks and putting all their efforts in to solving the crime.
Our…
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Greek visitor & DT day!
What a fantastic week we have had in Class 5!
We kickstarted the week with a Greek Visitor who showed us lots of interesting artifacts from Ancient Greek including: weapons, medical supplies and even some ancient games. We studied the artifacts, sketched them and tried to predict what they were…
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Mystery Boxes
Today we became scientists - real scientists with very real hypotheses!
We were given 6 mystery boxes which were superglued shut; there was no chance we were going to be able to open them!
Our job as scientists was to work scientifically using our observational skills along with everything…