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During their trip to the Ragged Trouser Museum, as part of their Victorian studies,
Year 5 students explored the rich history of Victorian Schools in their local community.
Overall, the trip was a delightful blend of history and roleplaying engagement, leaving
the students with a deeper understanding of Victorian life. For International Family
Week, children participated in hands-on sewing activities, stitching flags to their tie-
dye T-shirts. This experience not only taught them practical skills but also fostered
teamwork and creativity.

Literacy

In Year 5 during Spring 2, we celebrated World Book Day by decorating story spuds,
turning potatoes into our favourite book characters. We also created a stop-motion
animation using our spuds as the main characters! For International Week, we
researched Spain and Greece, learning about their cultures and traditions. We then
designed informative brochures and shared them with other students during Mini
World. It was a fantastic way to celebrate books and global cultures!

This term, the children have been completing their learning about fractions by
exploring fractions of an amount. They also started learning about perimeter and spent
time thinking carefully about what perimeter is and calculating perimeter of shapes. All
children have been developing their reasoning skills in math and this can be seen in the
challenges that they have attempted and the journaling explanations that accompany
their calculations. This has allowed each child to apply their core skills of problem
solving and resilience to maths.

Topic Year 5 consolidated their learning about the Ancient Greeks with a Now Press Play experience. They found themselves immersed in Ancient Greece, helping on an important Quest. As part of their final outcome, the children made clay pots in the

Topic This term, year 5 experienced sports day and geography day. The children were allowed to display their sportsmanship alongside their parents and get stuck in doing all sorts of competitive games. They enjoyed baseball, egg and spoon, relay a

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This term, year 5 children have been continuing their learning about the Victorians and understanding how the Docklands were important during this period of history. While learning about the theatre in history, they used drama to act out a play by Oscar Wilde – The importance of being Earnest.

 

In the run up to international week, children have also learnt about sewing techniques and used this to sew their flags onto their t-shirts. Parents were invited in to help their children and other children in the class to do the sewing.

 

 

Literacy

This term, year 5 have been reading their class texts. Children have been focusing on understanding authorial intent and learning the context behind words chosen by the authors. Each class has tremendously enjoyed reading their book. 5CB has been reading Kensuke’s kingdom, 5T has been reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone, 5PB has been reading Stormbreaker and 5C has been reading Boy at the back of the class. This term has also been world book day and all children created story jars of their favourite story. This has fostered a real love for reading.

 

 

Maths

During our maths lessons this term, Year 5 has been learning about fractions, decimals and percentages. They have learnt the links between the three and started applying them to real life situations. Children are able to see that 50 percent is the same as half and that is 0.5. This information has been particularly useful when talking to the children about money and converting between pounds and pence.

 

 

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This term the children have continued exploring the life of the Ancient Greeks. They looked at different sources to find out how the Greeks lived, dressed and were educated. They had conversations about the Minoans and understood the importance of trade for the people of Crete. They explored the difference between Sparta’s and Athens’ government systems and what this meant for their citizens. Children had some time to think about the similarities and differences between these two Greek states as well as how our modern day Britain is in comparison.

Literacy

Children have been reading their class book and are writing a descriptive piece based on a section of this text. Their grammar and reading skills have all been focused around enjoying and understanding the texts they have been assigned. 5CB is exploring Boy at the back of the class, 5T is sinking their teeth into Stormbreaker, 5PB is enjoying Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone and 5C are diving into Kensuke’s kingdom. All children have spoken about the atmosphere in the text and the words chosen by the author to draw a reader in.

Maths

In year 5, children have been learning about the four operations in more detail. They spent some time on each operation and have used their problem solving Curwen core skill to answer questions using these. It has been very important to understand the vocabulary required for each question and to focus on recall of past learning. Children have been able to show off the prior learning of vocabulary related to maths and of strategies needed to solve mathematical problems.

Literacy and Maths

In literacy and maths, Year 5 has been revising in preparation for the assessments. They have worked extremely hard this year, and this was reflected in their assessments. They have also continued reading the class books: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (5B); Kensuke’s Kingdom (5L); The Boy at the Back of the Class (5T); and Alex Rider: Stormbreaker (5C). This term, Year 5 were learning ratios and proportion. They began with an exploratory lesson that got them to visually see that ratios meant ‘for every’ and proportion meant ‘out of’ the whole.

DT

This term for DT, children learnt about sustainability and created windmills. They measured their materials required to create the windmills. Then they used tools (saws and bench hooks) to cut the wood into the appropriate sizes before assembling it into the frame for their windmills. The children then used computers and the software TinkerCAD to design the sails of the windmill, which was 3D printed for their design. As part of the DT Children also took part in food technology where they explored the different produce in the UK and made Pizzas using local ingredients.

  

 

RE

After learning about Islam, the children took a trip to the mosque, a Muslim place of worship. The Imam presented information about Islam and children were given the opportunity to witness prayer and to take part if they wished. After this, children presented an Eid assembly to their parents via zoom, to showcase their learning and to pass on the information about the prophet.

 

  

Geography Day

For Geography Day, year 5 went to West Ham park to do a quality survey of their local area. Children had to think about the traffic on the road, how clean their environment was, pollution in the area and if there was evidence of eco solutions along the way. They collected things in the park for their journey stick and compiles a tally chart which they turned into a bar graph showing the number of vehicles they saw on the road.