Year 5 have come back well rested and with a fantastic attitude! Although this term is a short one, it is chocked full of learning and fun events that promise to make it fly by! Let’s have a look at our learning this week!

English
This week, we have begun reading Street Child, which tells the story of Jim Jarvis — a real boy from the 1800s — who lives in poverty in Victorian London. With his mother very ill and their family made homeless, Jim must find a way to survive without anyone to help him.

In our writing, we have been creating character descriptions based on the people we have met so far in the story. Our focus has been on using figurative language, including similes, metaphors, personification and hyperbole. The children have shown fantastic creativity when crafting vivid images for the reader, and it has been wonderful to see the variety of ideas shared across the class. Check out some of the ideas we collected below:

Next week we will be writing setting descriptions.

Maths
In Maths this week, we began by recapping Roman numerals before moving on to sequences. The children worked on identifying missing terms and, importantly, explaining the rule of each sequence. This has been a great opportunity to practise key skills such as addition and subtraction, as well as developing pattern recognition — especially as the sequences are not always as straightforward as they first appear.

Here is one of the trickier sequences we explored:
5  2  11  6  17  10  23  14 …

Can you work out the next two numbers?

Next week we will be working on multiplication and division skills.

Thematic
Our new thematic topic for this term and next is Tides of Change, where we will explore the history and geography of Ramsgate. We began by travelling back to the Middle Ages, when Ramsgate was a small fishing town known as Rammesgate. Interestingly, this name does not come from ‘ram’, but from ‘Raven’s cliff gap’.

We then explored how Ramsgate developed over time, including the building of its port, and how by the early 1900s it had become a thriving seaside holiday destination.

Spellings

This terms red words to practise are:
Mr Oxley and Mrs Mirza’s groups:

Cemetery, aggressive, disastrous, determined, nuisance, persuade, desperate, average, stomach, opportunity

Challenge words: suffocating, whistling, shovelling, rhythmic, exhausted

Miss Isaac’s group:

Where, here, poor, children, clothes, caught, special, potatoes, naughty, difficult

Love to Learn

We would like you to continue to prepare for the activity below. This is a school-wide activity.

 

 

Dates to remember:

Monday 4th May – Bank holiday, school closed for all

Wednesday 6th May – Year 5 class assembly at 2.50pm (parents invited)

Friday 8^th May – Year 5 trip to Ramsgate Harbour

Monday 11th to Thursday 14th May – Year 6 SATS taking place

Thursday 14^th  May –  Year 5 Carroty Wood talk at 2:45pm (parents invited)

Monday 18th May – Year 5 and 6 Viking Games at Upton (packed lunched required for year 5 and 6 and these children to wear sports kit)

Friday 22nd May – Be here, be you, belong parade on top field from 2pm. Children to wear clothes that they feel express who they are, this could be from an outfit from a hobby they have, to bright colourful clothing. All parents invited to watch.

Friday 22^nd May – End of Term