28.3.25 Year 5 Weekly News
Term 4 Week 5
English
This week, the children finished and edited their narratives, and then published their writing. Next week, they are going to be writing instructions on how to build a CAMS model, following on from DT day this week. They are going to focus on imperative verbs and adverbs.
Maths
This week, the children have been problem-solving with percentages and started their new unit, translations. They have learnt how to describe a translation of a shape and to explain the co-ordinates.
DT day
On Tuesday, the children had DT day! Their task was to build a working CAMS model to represent a Greek invention. We focused our designing and building on Greek theatre. The children designed their models using sketches and exploding diagrams. After break, they built their models using CAMS. Every group built a moving theatre, in which the characters pop up. During the afternoon, they evaluated their designs using spider diagrams.
WOW day
The children carried out five different activities across the day including; Greek food tasting, Greek dancing, Greek theatre, Olympic games and Ancient Greek pottery designing. It was a fantastic day and the children looked amazing! Thank you all so much for the fantastic costumes!
Sir Link Alot
This week, year 5 are recapping double consonant words.
Key Dates
Monday 31st March- Parents evening 1.15- 5.30pm
Tuesday 1st April- Parents evening 3.15- 6.30pm
Thursday 3rd April- last day of term
Tuesday 22nd April- first day of term 5
Monday 28th April- B and R classes to the Spitfire museum
Tuesday 29th April- G and Y classes to the Spitfire museum
Homework
- Please read with your child at least 3 times a week.
- All children have been given a ZPD to help them identify the correct books for their reading level. Once your child has read their book, they will need to complete a quiz on it before getting a new one. These quizzes can be done either in school or at home on Accelerated Reader using the log-in codes found in their reading records.
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- Children should be playing TTRS at least 3 times a week to build their confidence and fluency with time-tables knowledge.
- Mathletics homework has also been set for the children to complete by next Friday.
- Please see the homework menu attached for our thematic homework. This can be completed in the homework book provided if you wish.
The Year 5 team
