English

English lessons this week have focused on poetry. Children in year 5 have read two poems, both on the theme of stars and space - "Stars" by Sara Teasdale and "A Love Letter to the Stars" by Ruth Awolola.  We spent time picking apart the poems, understanding their meaning and the structure and language used within them. We then spent some time learning the poems by heart and performing them through "Readers' Theatre" - please see the video of three boys from 5R performing part of their poem:

We then used these poems as inspiration for our own poetry, which we will be writing up in neat and publishing on Monday next week. Being so inspired by our space topic meant that writing poems linked to space and the cosmos was easy for year 5 and a lot of fun.

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Maths

In maths this week, year 5 have been working on multiplying fractions by whole numbers, applying their understanding to real life scenarios and problems where possible. Earlier in the week, children got the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding by creating a card game to play with their partners.

 Mr White's learning group has been working on finding fractions of amounts and on Wednesday made a game for their partners to try out - a maze which they had to work their way through by getting to the correct answers. 

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UBBC

This week in To Infinity and Beyond, children have been learning about the orbit of our planet, and the orbit of the moon around Earth. We went out onto the playground, with string and chalk, and demonstrate the orbits using ourselves as the planets.

On Thursday and Friday, we created pieces of art work using the artist Peter Thorpe as inspiration. On Thursday, children completed a round-robin activity whereby they moved between classes and teachers, with each teacher demonstrating a different skill and technique. On Friday, the children then combined these techniques into a final piece of artwork. They are still drying today, but children will be able to bring these home next week.

Daisy Mcleod 5Y

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Home Learning Information

In celebration of this year’s International Women’s Day 2022, your teachers would like YOU to research an inspirational woman who has made an impact on the world. This could be a woman in science, art, music, technology, sport or fighting equality; it is completely up to you!

You can present your work in any format: through art, poetry, posters, writing or using technology. We are going to display those that make us go WOW in the hall!

Helpful sites:

https://www.internationalwomensday.com/

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/history/general-history/international-womens-day/

https://www.science-sparks.com/wonderful-women-in-stem/

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Key Messages and Information for Parents

• Year 5 are very lucky yo have two trainee teachers working within the year group - Miss Franklin has been with us for a couple of weeks now and will be with us until May; Mr Jones will be taking up a more permanent role within the year group after the Easter holidays.
• Next Friday is Red Nose Day - Theme is FUNNY IS POWER! Please dress up and bring in your £1 coin.
• Friday is also the Parent ‘Book Look’ - Parents for children in all years are invited in from 3:15pm to view children's learning.
• Next week, PE will be on Monday and swimming for B&G will be on Tuesday. 

Upcoming dates:

• Parent Teacher Consultations (see previous letter) - Monday 21st March, Tues 22nd March and Weds 23rd March.
• Pupil Council MacMillan Charity Coffee Morning (parents invited) in hall— Thursday 24th March, 9-10am.
• Upton Spring Concert (see latest newsletter), Thursday 24th March.