Friday, October 21, 2016
17th to 21st October
Our last week of school before our October half-term holidays has been something of a "test week", with short tests in reading, maths and story writing.
We did another piece of writing to our unit of work on creating well-organised paragraphs, writing about our achievements in 2016 which we subsequently improved. In maths, we were thinking about multiples and factors, also finding common multiples and common factors of pairs and sets of numbers.
We made a start on a new science topic (Forces) this week. We began by thinking about the forces we know and then thinking about "pushes" and "pulls" in a little more detail. Following that, we spent some time talking about friction before doing an experiment to investigate the grip of different types of shoes on different surfaces. The following day we wrote this experiment up in a science report. We also used this work to discuss fair testing and the importance of repeating tests to ensure the reliability of results.
On Thursday, we have a special morning in school when everyone was learning about "British Values". Year 5 was thinking about democracy and our class linked this with work done in Year 4 about life in ancient Greece. We played a simulation game in which we had to run a city-state (polis) and we did this in three ways: with a monarch, with an oligarchy and with a democracy. We reflected on how these worked and how we felt about the decisions and the decision-making. We also discussed the development of democracy in the United Kingdom and the importance of involvement. In the afternoon on Thursday, we made clay pots ready to decorate with the designs we have been preparing in art.
We finished the week by making a start on our design and technology project - which will involve making a woven panel. We measured, marked and sawed some lengths of wood which we will use to make our weaving frames and we also produced some design ideas as part of the planning for our panels.
We did another piece of writing to our unit of work on creating well-organised paragraphs, writing about our achievements in 2016 which we subsequently improved. In maths, we were thinking about multiples and factors, also finding common multiples and common factors of pairs and sets of numbers.
We made a start on a new science topic (Forces) this week. We began by thinking about the forces we know and then thinking about "pushes" and "pulls" in a little more detail. Following that, we spent some time talking about friction before doing an experiment to investigate the grip of different types of shoes on different surfaces. The following day we wrote this experiment up in a science report. We also used this work to discuss fair testing and the importance of repeating tests to ensure the reliability of results.
On Thursday, we have a special morning in school when everyone was learning about "British Values". Year 5 was thinking about democracy and our class linked this with work done in Year 4 about life in ancient Greece. We played a simulation game in which we had to run a city-state (polis) and we did this in three ways: with a monarch, with an oligarchy and with a democracy. We reflected on how these worked and how we felt about the decisions and the decision-making. We also discussed the development of democracy in the United Kingdom and the importance of involvement. In the afternoon on Thursday, we made clay pots ready to decorate with the designs we have been preparing in art.
We finished the week by making a start on our design and technology project - which will involve making a woven panel. We measured, marked and sawed some lengths of wood which we will use to make our weaving frames and we also produced some design ideas as part of the planning for our panels.
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