Welcome to 5C
2021-22
Useful Reminders:
English homework due in - Monday
Maths homework due in - Thursday
P.E - Thursday (P.E kit needs to be worn to school on this day.)
Signed times tables & spelling books due in - Friday
Signed Reading Records - Friday
Please bring your reading book into school every day.
On Wednesday, 5C were invited to participate in the Fairfield High School Commonwealth Games Festival and enjoyed playing lineball, basketball and volleyball. As always, our Aldwyn children did us proud and remembered the importance of teamwork and fair play when competing against other local primary schools. Well done!
Year 5 have been enjoying their 'Journey to Space' topic this half-term and learning lots of interesting facts about the Universe. Ava and Olivia have even brought in some fantastic solar system models, which they've made at home, to show their understanding of how the planets orbit the Sun.
They're out of this world! ⭐️
SPaG Detectives
After an inspiring assembly by Assistant Chief Constable Matthew Burton about his career in the police force, 5C were eager to complete some 'police work' themselves.
Stepping into the role of ‘Consulting Detectives’, the children have been using their SPaG knowledge to decipher clues and solve the mystery of the Chancery Lane robbery.
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Summer Term 2021
Science
As part of our unit on Forces, we designed and made parachutes to help us to understand how air resistance works. We learnt that the larger the surface area of the parachute, the greater the air resistance and therefore, the slower the parachute will fall.
One Goal
We were excited to welcome Ben from One Goal to work with us today. We learnt about 'Team Spirit' and what we should do to work best as a team: have a common goal, show respect, support each other and overcome challenges. Well done to Macey and Harvey who won the class trophies for their excellent team skills. Have a look below at photos of some of our fun, team-building activities.
Maya Masks
Our Y5 home-learners have been busy designing and making Maya masks this week. Have a look at some of the wonderful masks that they have made!
What Have We Been Doing in Year Five?
5C have made a very busy start to the year and are already working hard.
In Maths, we’ve looked at the place value of bigger numbers, we can round numbers to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand and are becoming experts at addition. We’ve also learned enjoyed learning about Roman Numerals and are really good at recognising and writing them ourselves – we have been amazed at how some simple numbers are really long and complicated when written as Roman Numerals.
In English, we’ve been reading a lovely story called ‘Little Albatross’ who was in great danger from a killer bird when his parents flew out to sea to feed. We’re now writing our own stories of animal families who’ve had to rescue their youngsters from danger! We’ve been painting pictures to illustrate where and when our stories are set, using watercolours.
We’ve completed our RE unit of work for the half term on the theme of forgiveness and designed our own logos to help a charity promoting peace.
We’re learning all about the Anglos Saxons and Vikings in Britain long ago in our history topic. So far, we’ve discovered where all the different groups came from who took over Britain when the Romans left. We’re beginning to learn about the jobs that ordinary people did such as blacksmiths, weavers, leeches and wolf- watchers. Even young children had jobs to do every day (or night!) We’re looking forward to finding out about the houses they built and what life was like to live in a house full of animals!
If you are self-isolating at home, then you will find your school work via the 'Home Learning' tab in the 'Children' section and in our Year 5 Google Classroom.
On 25th June, the Government updated their guidance for online education resources for home learning to include additional resources and new tips to help parents and carers with home education.
The list of resources can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-online-education-resources
In order for families and staff to take a break over Whit, there will be no home learning grid posted on 25.5.20 or 01.6.20.
Children who remain at home after 8th June 2020 will continue to be able to access the school learning grids on the class pages of the school website. We would like to thank you for your continuous support in helping your child to learn from home.
Calling all knitters!
If you have access to wool and needles, Mrs. Mottram has found some free patterns that will keep your fingers busy.
Visit https://www.jeangreenhowe.com/ for some lovely little patterns of food items and toys that are made from rectangles of knit stitch (garter stitch) and others using knit a row, purl a row (stocking stitch).
Visit https://knittingbypost.com/ for a selection of free patterns, mainly using stocking stitch, which include hearts, rainbows and some small animals.
For those needing help to cast on or cast/bind off, there are some slow motion tutorials at https://www.youtube.com/user/knittingtipsbyjudy
This channel also has tutorials on increasing and decreasing stitches if anyone needs a reminder.
Here are the resources from our Week 6 Home Learning Grid. There is no requirement to use a printer as activities can be completed in workbooks.
In addition, it is Year 5's turn to have keyboard lessons with Mrs.Smethurst and she has sent through some great tasks to be completed at home. These have also been added below.
A message regarding Parents' Evening:
For any parents who had an appointment for the second Parents' Evening on 25th March, please check your child's Gmail account for an update on your child's progress in English and Maths this term. Thank you.
Useful Reminders:
Library books due in - Tuesday
P.E - Wednesday & Thursday (Kit needs to be in school every day)
Swimming: Wednesday
Celebration Assembly - Friday
Homework due in: Maths - Thursday
English - Monday
Signed times tables & spelling books due in - Friday
Signed Reading Records - Friday
Bring reading book into school every day.
Pupil Voice Reps - Darsi & Max
Sport Ambassador - Ruby
Health Ambassador - Oliver
This half-term, we have been learning about...
English – The tale of Beowulf and researching biographies of well-known figures.
Maths – Adding and subtracting decimals, perimeter and converting analogue time to 24 hour digital.
Science – How our bodies change during puberty.
History – Continuing our work on Vicious Vikings and creating some amazing Viking fact files on Google Slides. See below for a couple of great examples from Alexia and Felix.