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Reminders/Class Notices:
P.E. - Until the summer we need to wear our PE kit EVERY Monday and Wednesday.
Swimming - we are swimming at Archway Wednesdays 1st May, 8th May and 15th May, we need to bring our kit in a carrier bag and make sure long hair can be tied back
Forest School - we have Forest School every Tuesday for 5 weeks from Tuesday 30th April (last one 4th June). The weather should be getting better and we should all have wellies in school anyway, but remember even if it's raining we will be outside so please make sure we have our coats.
Reading Records - signatures will be counted each Thursday. We can read to ourselves but the record must be signed by an adult.
Help with practising your spellings.
Here are lots of games you can play to practise your spellings.
Adding suffixes to root words ending in -fer
https://wordwall.net/resource/67172890 https://wordwall.net/resource/67172861 https://wordwall.net/resource/67172568
https://wordwall.net/resource/67172548 https://wordwall.net/resource/67172126
Time adverbs
https://wordwall.net/resource/67174458 https://wordwall.net/resource/67174317 https://wordwall.net/resource/67174122
-ibly and -ably adverbs
https://wordwall.net/resource/67105101 https://wordwall.net/resource/67104905 https://wordwall.net/resource/67104827
https://wordwall.net/resource/67173534
-ible and -able adjectives
https://wordwall.net/resource/67041165 https://wordwall.net/resource/67173585 https://wordwall.net/resource/67040263
https://wordwall.net/resource/67040333
-cious, -tious and -ious adjectives
https://wordwall.net/resource/60631423 https://wordwall.net/resource/60634114 https://wordwall.net/resource/60634737
https://wordwall.net/resource/60342854 https://wordwall.net/resource/60341193 https://wordwall.net/resource/67173715
-tial and -cial words
https://wordwall.net/resource/61948476 https://wordwall.net/resource/61948090 https://wordwall.net/resource/61947206 https://wordwall.net/resource/61947798
-ant, -ent, -ance, -ence, -ancy and -ency words
https://wordwall.net/resource/64224448 https://wordwall.net/resource/64224237 https://wordwall.net/resource/64224237
https://wordwall.net/resource/63258721 https://wordwall.net/resource/63258721 https://wordwall.net/resource/63258478
https://wordwall.net/resource/63258478 https://wordwall.net/resource/64225338
silent letters - some at the start and some in the middle
https://wordwall.net/resource/67834784 https://wordwall.net/resource/67834582 https://wordwall.net/resource/67835559
Wednesday 9th April
We have had a very busy term finding out all about World War II. We have finished off this week by writing some texts about Evacuation and in History writing all about the impact that World War II had on the British people. We have also enjoyed spending time outside at forest school in the sunshine this term!!
We hope you have a lovely Easter break and look forward to seeing you back at the end of the month.
Monday 17th March
We loved our trip to the Swindon Steam Museum in March. We got to experience being evacuated, found out about the role of women during the war and found out about the railways during the war. Check out the pictures below of our trip.
Monday 3rd March
We are really looking forward to our trip to Swindon Steam Museum tomorrow to kick off our topic on World War II. We will post some pictures soon. We are really excited about this book and topic. We have some really interesting History and Geography to do around the war. Check out what we are learning this term below.
Friday 14th February 2025
We have had a great term in Year 5 finishing with our class assembly today. Thank you very much to everyone that came and watched, the children loved performing to an audience.
It was all about our Mental Health and I have included the pics below of us doing the things we like to do to help improve our mental wellbeing!
Have a great half term!
Friday 31st January 2025
What a busy month we have had in Year 5! We have made Gliders for a STEM competition and visited the Bristol Beacon for an orchestra performance on top of all our usual work in class! We are really enjoying our book Wonder, we have written some really interesting persuasive emails to the characters and some diary entries from the point of view of the characters. It is really important that we consider our own mental health and this book is giving us a great opportunity to do this. We are also loving our computing unit this term we were are using crumbles to create our own computer generated circuits. Look out for more on this as we will be sharing our finished fairground rides soon!!
Wednesday 15th January 2025
This term our book is Wonder. See below for our topic web showing you what we are learning this term.
We have had a really busy start to the year. Today we have taken part in an online STEM workshop all about Gliders. We designed and made our own Gliders in pairs. On Friday, we are really excited to be going to Bristol to watch the Bournemouth Orchestra perform. We are also taking performing a couple of songs that we have been learning with Mrs Mason.
Monday 25th November
We have had a great couple of weeks in Year 5. Our main focus has been bridges, in DT we have been finding out about Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the bridges he designed and made. We have been designing our own and on Friday we had great fun working on different designs using spaghetti and marshmallows. Over the next couple of weeks we will be refining these designs and making our own bridges using straws and paper.
Monday 11th November 2024
This term our book is Street Child. See below for our topic web showing you what we are learning this term.
We have had a really busy few weeks either side of half term. We visited skill zone last term and last week we went to the Museum in the Park in Stroud to find out about the changes that happened in Stroud during the industrial revolution. Check out the pictures below
Monday 21st October 2024
In Year 5 we have been doing a science experiment, growing our own spider plants. Below are our first pictures. We will be observing how they grow over the next few months. In Maths we have been looking at multiples this week, next week we are looking at factors. In our writing we have been writing persuasions to stop deforestation (after our assembly we thought it was a really important part of our topic). On Friday we are off to SKillZone. It should be a really great morning.
Monday 7th October 2024
We have been super busy in Year 5. We have been visited by some students and teachers from Stroud High school who have done some science activities with us for the last couple of weeks. They will be joining us most Wednesdays in October and November before we visit them at the end of November for a festival of learning. We have also been writing some really interesting newspaper reports about the children from our book being stranded in the Rainforest.
This Friday we have our class assembly, we really hope you can join us to see how hard we have been working!
Wednesday 18th September 2024
What a fantastic start to Year 5 we have all had. We have started reading our book, The Explorer by Katherine Rundell, and have been doing lots of topic work based on the book. You can see all the work we will be doing this term below.
We have been busy doing some writing about what it is like in the Rainforest, what we would need to help us survive and some letters to get people to rescue us!