The children have thoroughly enjoyed our first unit of the year, Poetry, with a focus on our model text, a poem about Medusa. We have had lots of fun collaboratively, generating interesting language to use in our own poems about the Minotaur (shared write) and a Siren (hot write). For our first hot write of the year, the children planned and wrote in pairs – this generated extremely high-quality poems, which we look forward to completing, editing and celebrating on Monday!
We have enjoyed our creative writing this week, exploring Ancient Greece and the language we can use to create detailed, interesting character description. We have been learning the Medusa Poem, with actions, to help us understand the model text.
A fantastic first week in Year 5! A highlight of our first week was the Arithmetic Olympic, where we worked in teams against the clock, running and completing a range of Maths problems.
5P thoroughly enjoyed their Samba sessions with music specialist, Mrs Cossavello. They quickly learned their parts, creating a wonderful, collective sound.
We had the most fantastic time celebrating and raising awareness about Mental Health Week! We took part in the school-wide Big Sing, enjoyed the story trail and took part in Wear It Green day!
After a lengthy process of planning, manipulating cardboard and layering Modroc, the children reached the final stage of painting their sections of Mars. I was so impressed with the children’s use of colour to replicate texture!
The children are truly flourishing during our CUPS editing lessons. Each child is becoming more confident at successfully and accurately editing their writing work. Here, the children are editing their shared writing, in their table partners, using the CUPS method.
As part of our Art unit term term, the children explored, discussed and created, what might be, Mars surface. The children knew from their work around Curosity (the rover) and Space, what Mars’ surface might look like. Moving onto the next lesson, we will further explore our ideas with relief and modroc work!
5P thoroughly enjoyed their local visit to Moor Allerton Library. We met a librarian and discussed our favourite books. She also talked us through how to find books in a library and what systems are used. The children then were given a opportunity to explore the children’s section of the library and reas a book!
5P have been flourishing in their Decimal and Percentages unit. The children’s understanding has evolved through the power of concrete manipulatives. Here, they’re exploring percentages and their equivalent in decimals and fractions. 5P made fabulous links in this unit and this shone through in their fantastic post unit assessment!
