Year 5
Classteacher : Mrs Gillespie
PPA cover: Mrs Outram (Wednesday morning)
TA: Miss Koeber
If you are having to self-isolate or work from home for any reason, use these resources for the first few days. The class teacher will then be in touch regarding with subsequent days' work.
Homework
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Monday – spellings set (to be revised each day – please help by testing your child at least twice during the week).
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Wednesday - Minute maths
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Friday- Topic
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Homework set on a Monday is due the following Monday, set on a Wednesday, due the following Wednesday etc. In addition please encourage your child to read every day.
Investigating surface tension of water.
How many drops of water do you think you can put on a penny?
Spectacular Science Week
We made paper airplanes that flapped like birds and talked about aerodynamics.
We looked at structures and built our own - tallest and strongest.
We made our own Explorify - Zoom in, Zoom out pictures.
Incredible information all about satellites
Learning the Time in Spanish!
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Music
Our amazing djembe drumming!
African Dance
Mrs Outram helped us to learn African dancing with the use of a clock face, we were really good and kept in time!
Science:
We have learnt all about flowering plants this week. Look at our detailed flower dissections.
Life Cycles
We have learnt about the unusual life cycles of frogs, newts, butterflies and dragonflies today. We had to find the fact cards carefully hidden in the nature conservation area, to help fill in the missing facts on our sheets.
Geography: We used a compass today to find north and then, used it to help us draw the letters below.
The simplest letter was a C -follow these instructions to draw one:
2m N
150cm E
50cm S
1m W
1m S
1m E
50cm S
150cm W
Geography:
We are consolidating our knowledge of continents and oceans. We had a great lesson hunting for pieces of the world jigsaw hidden around the field - we then had to check we had the correct pieces and put the map together.
