Autumn 2 2023

Friday 15th December
We have had a particularly Christmassy week. We used our confidence in our Christmas plays and really enjoyed being on stage. This afternoon we had fun creating and manning our stalls for the Christmas Fayre. Thank you all for coming. We hope you enjoyed them. We also enjoyed making gonks and Christmas cards. Thank you Mrs Adams. We have also written a balanced argument in RE about 'Is God real?'. 
 
Homework
Reading please. See how many books you can complete over the holidays. You will need that knowledge and inspiration for the first two days back.
Friday 8th December
What another busy week. We finished our DT projects and passed them on to class Plym. We have been rehearsing hard and are looking forward to sharing our performance with you next week. Year 6 have been working hard on ratio while year 5 finished their current multiplication and division unit. We enjoyed our visit from Daya on Monday. We were also writing poems in the style of Benjamin Zephaniah so were sad to hear of his death. We have also been planning our stalls for the Christmas Fayre next week.
 
Homework:
Reading as usual - especially your playscripts
No maths
No spelling
 
Friday 1st December
 
This week we had a really good trip to Truro. We got a shout out on the train and enjoyed our tour and workshop at the cathedral.
We made our final products for DT - moving animals using cams and followers. We had to use our tools safely and measure carefully.
We have been doing play practice and are looking forward to having our stage up next week.
 
Homework
 
Reading every day to be signed by an adult
Spelling due Tuesday
Maths due Thursday
Friday 24th November
 
In English we have been enjoying poetry by Ted Hughes. We then used one of them as a basis for writing our own seasonal poems first in a group and then individually. 
In maths year 5 have been learning about different types of numbers and we used cubes to prove why numbers were square or cube. 
We created our own web pages in computing yesterday and linked to sub pages, videos and websites using hyperlinks. We were able to format our text and text boxes.
 
Homework
 
Reading
 
PLEASE LEARN YOUR PLAY WORDS
 
Maths - TT Rockstars due Thursday
 
Friday 17th November 2023
 

In English we wrote a mystery story in the style of ‘The Watertower’ using our own setting. In science we have been separating materials using different equipment such as filter paper, sieves and magnets. We also evaporated salt water to see the salt crystals left behind. We have been practising for our play in the hall pretending to be on stage. We have to project our voice and face the audience when we speak. We have been learning a Gospel song called ‘Why do we sing?’. We looked at examples of Gospel singers and used ideas from them in our own performance.

 

Homework

Christmas Script - Please learn your words and where you come in - we are going script free next week

Reading every day to be signed by an adult

Spelling due Tuesday

Maths - at least 20 mins on TT Rockstars

Friday 10th November
This week in DT we have been learning about followers and cams and have started making our own prototype.
In English we are starting to create a setting for our own mystery story in the style of The Watertower. 
In music we have been learning more about gospel singing and we watched a video of Kirk Franklin and Ray Charles.
In PE were doing circuits and timing how long it took. We tried to beat our scores.
 
Homework
Spelling due Tuesday
Reading every day signed by an adult
Maths due Thursday - at least 20 minutes in TT Rockstars
Friday 3rd November
Thank you to those who have already learnt or are starting to learn your play words. It made the first run through very successful. The sooner you learn them, the sooner we can add in the fun. 
Elsewhere this week:
In English wrote the opening paragraph to our newspaper report about our book. We also made notes to help us for the main body. In PE we did gymnastics. We were travelling across the benches using different moves and learning to hold our stretches. In music we listened to Gospel and spirituals music and talked about what we could hear. In computing we started looking at websites and learnt that they are written in HTML code. 
 
Homework
Reading at least 5 times to be signed by an adult - reading record to be in every day
20 mins minimum of TT Rockstars due Thursday
Spelling due Tuesday