Class 5
Welcome to Class 5!
Teaching Staff
Class teacher - Mrs Leach
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Smith and Mrs Reid
Policy for children walking home and permission form
Meet the Teacher - Mrs Leach
Above you will find the PowerPoint from Wednesday's 'Meet The Teacher'. Was lovely to meet you all.
Weekly update: Friday 16th May 2025
This week…
In Maths, we started the week by looking at the area of compound shapes, before moving on to estimating area. The questions posed some interesting conversations, as for some shapes like islands and symbols, we had to look carefully at the smaller parts that take up part of a square. We then did the End of Unit quiz. For the rest of the week, we started the new unit of Statistics. The class learnt all about drawing, reading and interpreting line graphs.
For English this week, we have continued to focus on persuasive forms of writing. We started on Monday to look at features of speeches and saw the similarity between written adverts and speeches. We watched a famous Tedtalk about a child asking for more break time! The class found features such as repetition, rhetorical questions and imperative verbs. The rest of the week, we looked at fronted adverbials in persuasion and then started to plan the Enterprise week advertising!
The sound of this week was /ee/ as in mischievous and conceive.
In other areas of learning:
- We had two PSHE lessons this week. The first one looked at cyber-bullying and internet safety. We watched three videos based on what could happen online, with people commenting and posting on private or public platforms. In the second lesson, we had some scenarios (paracetamol, abandoned liquid bottle in a park etc.) and had to decide how to deal with them.
- For Science we ended out unit of Animals and Living things, by doing a mini quiz and the Hot Task.
- In RE, we looked closely at the remaining Five Pillars in Islam and learnt in detail about Hajj – the pilgrimage to Mecca and discussed why this is an important part of Islam.
- On Monday, the class had a whole afternoon of Cricket with Gary and really enjoyed it. In Athletics this week, the class did the bleep test after a yoga warm up and cool down.
- Across the week, we have also started to plan and work on our Enterprise ideas. You will find out more information about this in the school newsletter.
Have a good weekend,
Mrs Leach
This week's sentences:
On the top of the hill, the medieval castle stood with its: turret, drawbridge and flag on display.
Inside the treehouse, the mischievous pixies: Iris, Elderflower and Peony, were playing a game of hide and seek.
On the supermarket shelf, was a watermelon: next to the kiwis, grapes and dates.
Wary
Weary
Mischievous
Committee
Accompany
Conceive
Perceive
Medium
Medieval
Mediocre
Hierarchy
Maths:
- From now on the Maths homework will be based on Purple Mash, not Mathletics. I will still be setting it in the same way on a Friday, due for the following Friday. All the children have/know their log-ins
- Do not forget to get rocking and use https://play.ttrockstars.com/ It is a fantastic way to consolidate and practise all the Times Tables.
- app.sirlinkalot.org - for spelling practice .