Rosie'sYear 5 blog

This week in school we have been looking at some aboriginal art and painting our own picture about a story that we made up. I drew a picture of aborigines sitting round a camp fire.  We also designed one in are learning log at the weekend.

As well as art we do lots of fun P.E with Mr. Eadie.  We have been playing netball and football.  My favourite is netball because I am good at it. We do it on Thursdays and Mondays every week.

In English we have been reading, performing and writing poetry which is super fun. The best part of it was when we had a slam poetry competition, when we all wrote our own poems based on anything we liked. We all voted for the poem and performance we enjoyed most – Madeline was the winner.

In maths we have been doing work on place value and column addition and subtraction using very big numbers!  In my opinion this is not the best subject because I find it hard.

My favourite day is Friday because for lunch we have a choice of pizza, burger, fish fingers and sausages.  We also have a yummy roast dinner on Wednesday which is 100% delicious!

By Rosie

This week we have been doing PE with Mr Eadie, it was great!  We did dodge ball and kickball.  What will we do next!  In maths we’ve been learning new ways to multiply and we’ve done ‘Times Table Torture’.  One person in our class can do all their tables in 3 minutes and 11 secs which is amazing!

We did science this week with Dr Bedi, (one of the dad’s in our class) he works at a space and satellite place.  We learnt so much.  Thanks again Mr Bedi.  We also did topic work, our topic is Australia so we built an aboriginal shelter with sticks and leaves.  In RE we started learning about a Jewish festival Sukkot.

By Tegan

Year 5 blog by Oliver Johnston

Year 5 summer term has certainly been action packed!  Here are a few of the activities that we have enjoyed.

On Thursday the 19^th June, Year 5 took a trip back in time to the Tudor days at Kentwell Manor in Suffolk.  We all had to dress in Tudor clothes.

We had the opportunity to learn how Tudor food was prepared, how to make a ruff and clean them

properly.  We learnt that every family had a shield or emblem unique to them and we were shown

how to make marzipan flowers.

Outside the manor house we met people who taught us how to fight in the war, using a Tudor tool.

My favourite part of the day was learning about all the different herbs and the benefits to people’s 

health in that time.

Last week was sports week at school.  I had a fantastic week and really enjoyed trying out some new

sports.  Year 5 had inter-house tournaments with elite, karate lessons with Mr Methven (where we

learnt how to behave ourselves!), golf at Aldwickbury golf club to improve our chipping, putting and

straight hitting and tennis with Mrs Kershaw and Mrs Drake which I enjoyed the most.  We tried a

forehand shot and a game of wipe out which was a draw.  Finally, we had a yoga session with Mrs

Herries where we stretched ourselves out and came out taller!  

This is number three of the class blogs, so let’s say Samuel is finally absolutely recovered but sadly, Phoebe has now hurt her ankle - what an annoying thing.

This week in Yr5 we’ve had a lot of fun!  Except in maths …

Topic 1 – Maths

In maths, we’ve been doing angles!! Really not my thing at all, but really Mrs Ashman is such a great teacher especially with subjects you’re not comfortable with. But angles really? It’s all just a blur to me – Acute? Obtuse? Reflex? The only one I’m ok with is the right angle!!! Not fun.

Topic 2 – English

Now after maths, English is an amazing subject. We’ve been researching information for our class debate - should every child have their own iPad in school? I am personally against because it would be 

1.    Smashed in the matter of a couple of weeks

2.    We would lose it

3.    And we don’t want the whole of our generation to be relying on the internet

Topic 3- P.E (No!!!)

Now P.E - get this straight, is not a good subject for someone with legs as short as mine. Ok – Mr M is a good teacher, but come on, getting hot and sweaty, not my idea of fun………we finished are gym routine -  so that is that.

Topic 3-Art

We are now starting to finish our barrier reef!!! Such fun!! This is my favourite subject, but fish? I prefer to draw portraits.

Thank you for reading our blog.

By Isabelle Methven

Post 2

This is the second entry into the Year 5 blog, so I’m going to fill you in with all the laughs and tears of the last two weeks. The first thing I need to say, is that Hop-along aka Samuel is off the crutches - Hooray!

Well, it’s time to mention the work, so let’s start with topic 1 - Maths.  Oh Gosh, not my favourite subject, that I’ve got to admit.  I mean shapes they are not for everyone.  Polygons, tetrahedrons, trapeziums, parallelogram -  the list is endless.  But over the past few lessons the class is now starting to understand it.  The next task is to learn to spell them correctly. Which is going to be a bit of a task, but I am sure we’ll do it. We have just started a new topic in Maths which is reflecting shapes & translating them. It was fun, but now most of us are tired as we have done them so often. But with Mrs Ashman on our side, it has been a fun week of maths and I can’t wait for next week.

Topic 2 - English, the past two weeks have been really fun.  We have been learning about William Shakespeare.  Looking at stories like Romeo and Juliet, we have just started a new story written by Shakespeare which is Macbeth.  Although it is a really good story the words were really difficult to understand for the whole class.  So Mrs Ashman decided it was easier if we all wrote her a play of Macbeth so she put us into groups of threes and gave us a scene.  My group was with Polly, Emily and me.  We got a piece of lined paper and we started writing it on  our own. IT WAS SOOOOOOO MUCH FUN.

Topic 3, my favourite subject PE (yeah).  We have Mr M who teaches us gym on a Monday, we have been doing balancing, making routines up and climbing the ropes and balancing on them.  On a Wednesday we have Mrs Ashman teaching us Netball but if the weather is horrible we go inside and play silent bench ball which is really really fun.

Topic 4 - Australia, we have been looking up famous landmarks in Australia so we can make a leaflet and put on our board in our classroom.   My friends have been looking up lots of information so we can have a really nice colourful board.

Topic 5 - Art, we have been looking at aboriginal art.   We have been painting our own aboriginal art and they are now in our cloakroom with a little message saying what each picture is about.

By Mary Kershaw