Sunday, March 26, 2017
6th - 24th March
One of the highlights of the past couple of weeks was our visit to Southwell Minister, time travelling. We joined over 300 pupils from other primary school at the Minster that day and enjoyed six, varied activities which involved us learning about the Minster building (including the architecture and the stained glass), activities that go on in the building (including prayer and communion) and charitable work (such as The Children's Society and Fairtrade).
In English, we have written a series of non-chronological reports. Latterly, we have been writing about the life cycles of different types of animals; frog (amphibian), peregrine falcon (bird) and butterfly (insect). This work links with our science curriculum for Year 5 and the English focus has been on the structure of our writing and on the editing skills.
Our maths has covered a number of areas. These have including finding fractions and percentages of amounts (including money and lengths), reflecting and translating shapes, properties of 3D shapes and negative numbers.
In history, we have learned about the Anglo-Saxon tribes that migrated to this country, thinking about the reasons why they came and the areas that the different tribes largely settled/ We have also considered how the general pattern of larger and larger kingdoms developed, including the Heptarchy.
We have completed our "bodkins" work in Design and Technology, which relates to our weaving work from last term. Having designed our own bodkins, we tested and evaluated them. After making improvements we tested them again to help us understand the iterative nature of the design process.
In English, we have written a series of non-chronological reports. Latterly, we have been writing about the life cycles of different types of animals; frog (amphibian), peregrine falcon (bird) and butterfly (insect). This work links with our science curriculum for Year 5 and the English focus has been on the structure of our writing and on the editing skills.
Our maths has covered a number of areas. These have including finding fractions and percentages of amounts (including money and lengths), reflecting and translating shapes, properties of 3D shapes and negative numbers.
In history, we have learned about the Anglo-Saxon tribes that migrated to this country, thinking about the reasons why they came and the areas that the different tribes largely settled/ We have also considered how the general pattern of larger and larger kingdoms developed, including the Heptarchy.
We have completed our "bodkins" work in Design and Technology, which relates to our weaving work from last term. Having designed our own bodkins, we tested and evaluated them. After making improvements we tested them again to help us understand the iterative nature of the design process.
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