What another wonderful week of learning from Year 5!

English 

This week, we have continued our learning on ‘The Highwayman’. Throughout our English lessons this week, we have focused on persuasive writing using persuasive sentence openers, persuasive language and continuing to use conjunctions and modal verbs. We are going to be writing a persuasive letter to the judge to persuade our audience to show our opinions on if the soldiers are guilty or not of murdering the highwayman.

Next week, we will be finishing our persuasive letter to the judge and starting a new poem called Lady of Shallot where we will be focusing on setting descriptions.

Maths 

This week, we have been learning all about tables and graphs. We began by reading and interpreting bar chats and then creating our own bar charts by gathering the information ourselves. Towards the end of the week, we then moved onto line graphs and then reading and interpreting timetables.

Next week, we will be moving on to using the four operations with money. Looking at adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying with problem-solving questions.

 

Thematic 

This week, we have been learning about the force of friction and how it affects movement. We have explored both the useful and not-so-useful effects of friction in everyday life. We have completed this by experimenting how different shapes can fall to the ground with air resistance and attaching an egg to a parachute that we have made from different shapes to test which material is best.

Next week, we will be focusing on DT and we will be looking at levers and pulleys.

 

 

Love to Learn 

For this week’s task, create a restaurant menu for your favourite type of food. It must food and drink prices. Once you have created this menu, answer the questions below.

What is your most expensive item?

What is your cheapest item?

What is the different in price between the two?

After, create your own addition, subtraction, multiplication and division questions about your menu.

 

Key dates 

Term 6 Dates for your Diary 

1st July – Music evening at 6pm 

4th July – Summer fair from 3.30pm 

10th July Sports Day – KS2 9.15-12 Reception and KS1 1.30-3 

11th July – Reports go out to parents 

14th, 15th 16th July – Transition days; children to spend these days with their new class teachers 

17th July – Inflatable fun day in school for all children 

17th July 3.15pm-5.30pm – Year 6 Party at school 

18th July – School finishes at 2pm for Reception to Year 5 

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Isaac, Mrs King, Miss Barnett and Mr Cook