Welcome to Year Five

Staff team: Mrs Taylor, Mr Kaczmarek, Mrs Henderson, Mrs Bell and Mrs Peace

This page will contain class newsletters, photos of interesting activities and useful links.

PE Days: Monday (swimming) and Friday

 Week beginning 21st April

Welcome back everyone. This week was Geography week and in our lesson we had fun guessing which country a person came from by looking at the things that they touched in a typical day. Their clothes and sports equipment were good clues! We then found the country in an atlas and identified the continent. On Thursday, the classroom was buzzing literally as we had a bee workshop with a real enclosed hive and many bee related activities which were very enjoyable. The children dressed as beekeepers and made wild flower bombs among other things. It was a great experience for children and adults alike!

 Pupils of the Week

Bella P - for her enthusiasm and geography skills

Olivia - great geography skills and work in our Bee Workshop

 Always person

Jensen

 Week beginning 31st March

A great final week to the Spring term. We have been looking at performance poetry in English and the children did an absolutely great job of performing the poem 'Sick' by

Shel Silverstein our class poet. There was some amazing acting and they really captured the spirit of the poem. Maths has been rounding fractions which the children have managed very well. We also celebrated our pupils of the term children, Daniella and Isaac, in a special assembly on Friday. They both received a certificate and a chocolatey reward for their outstanding effort and hard work this term. Finally, we rounded off the term with our amazing Cobden's Got Talent Show. Well done to everyone who took part especially our Year 5 participants. We hope you all have a good Spring break and see you next term.  

 Week beginning Monday 10th March

We've been looking at decimal numbers in maths this week learning about reading and relating them to fractions. In English, We have been writing a biography about Dr Barnardo linked to our history topic. We're looking forward to Cobden's got talent next week with our 2 acts chosen after auditions.

Pupils of the week

 Bella P - resilience when developing paragraphs and publishing.

 Olivia - real focus when developing biography and improvement in publishing.

  Always Person

  Bella H - Silver

 Week beginning Monday 10th March

This week has been science week in school. We have been thinking about 'adapting and changing' whilst looking at a current problem in the world - microplastics. We thought about the issue before trying to investigate a solution to filter microplastics from the ocean. We used different materials to create filters before filtering a solution with sand acting as microplastics. We then saw how much sand was left after. 

In maths this week we've done great at identifying and plotting coordinates in the first quadrant. In art, we've been looking at Victorian rag rugs before trying to make our own.

Pupils of the week

 Isaac - fantastic investigative work in science 

 Daniella - fantastic investigative work in science 

  Always Person

  Harper

Week beginning 27 January

We've continued our learning about Victorians this week, understanding what life was like and what they built. This has been supported through our reading of Street child which we are really enjoying. In English, we have been learning about playscripts and will be trying to write our own playscripts from Street child. 

 Pupils of the Week

   Ronnie - great resilience when learning division methods 

   Aleighcia - excellent independence in her learning this week

      Always Person

   Isaac

Week beginning 20 January

This week, we've been learning about reversible and irreversible changes in science. We learned about how, once toasted, bread can't go back to being bread again. However, ice can be melted and then frozen to change back to ice making it reversible. We had D:side in to teach us about internet safety - they gave us lots of information and explained the dangers of social media and especially adding random people online. Also, we had a Mindmate workshop where we learned about feelings and how some are good and bad and how to deal with these. 

Written by Safira and Ronnie

 Pupils of the Week

  Krishna - fantastic science work and his presentation in all subjects

  Amelia - for excellent ideas and input into discussions with our visitors

      Always Person

  Jordan 

Week beginning 13 January

We've had a great extended art week (due to the snow) these past few weeks in school. We've taken the theme of winter art to practise drawing pictures of a winter tree. We looked at the idea of Austin's butterfly and how, with feedback from peers, we can improve work. Every single one of us agreed we'd improved the tree drawings over the week. We loved having parents in to see our art gallery in the hall to end the week too!

 Pupils of the Week

  Jordan - developing his art skills to the final piece

  Jensen - developing his art skills to the final piece

      Always Person

  Nicole 

Week beginning 6 January

A very cold, snowy and icy week was not what we had planned! A shortened week has been filled with opportunities to get out in the snow and take in the surroundings, leading in to some poetry style writing on Wednesday. We've been using our imaginations writing stories about the snow in English, too. We're hoping everyone is able to get in on Monday for arts week!

Week beginning 16 December

What a last week of term! We’ve really enjoyed some festive work this week finishing our cards and calendars. On Wednesday we had Christmas dinner which was delicious! We had our Christmas party full of games and party food which was great fun! Then to end the week with the Christmas sing-a-long was the perfect way to end the term and see in Christmas. Have a great festive break!
 

Pupils of the term 

😁 Katya and Casey

Week beginning 9th December

We've been getting festive in the lead up to Christmas completing some Christmas art and craft activities. In English we have been reading a really good book linked to Christmas called The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey. We've been looking at features of diaries and are going to be writing diary entries from a character's perspective next week. We've continued being resilient with our conversion of measures work with some of us becoming confident problem solving when converting is required. We are really looking forward to Christmas singing next week and Christmas dinner too!

Pupils of the Week

  Krishna - great positive attitude towards all his work.

  Amelia - Always giving 100% and being an excellent role model.

      Always Person

  Amy

Week beginning 2nd December

We really enjoyed sharing our Storyful way and Robinwood experiences with the rest of the school as well as our parents and family members during our class assembly on Tuesday. We made our own crests which represented our time at Robinwood to show. We all talked about our highlights and the activities we enjoyed the most. In English, we have been writing letters to say thank you to our activity leaders. In maths this week we've been converting measures for length.

Pupils of the Week

  Kyle - being responsible and having a great attitude in all lessons

  Casey - being kind, caring and having an excellent learning attitude

      Always Person

  Alexis

Week beginning 25 November

Great week this week, with lots of time to reflect on Robinwood. We've been finishing our biomes work, creating information booklets with facts we've learned and researched. We loved having parents come in Friday afternoon to show what we have been learning and the work we are proud of!

Pupils of the Week

  Olivia - great attitude and resilience on residential

  Safira - excellent attitude in all subjects

      Always Person

  Bella H

Week beginning 19 November

It's been road safety week in school this week. We had road safety workshops from the road safety team where they taught us how to be safe on the road. Most of our week has been preparing for residential this weekend which we have been so excited for! We can't wait to share our stories and pictures with you!

Week beginning 30 September

We loved our Lego workshop on Friday where we used coding to add movement, sound and colours to our Lego models. This year, we first had chance to explore symmetry with our spinning designs, getting used to the programming software, before we followed instructions and made drumming monkeys. In history, we've been researching Queen Idia from Benin which we are finding really interesting! We tried our hands at basketball in PE on Friday - we found it tricky to start but showed great resilience and we all thought we had improved.

 Pupils of the Week

  Ronnie - coding work in ICT

  Sally - coding work in ICT

      Always Person

 Katya 

Week beginning 23 September

In science, we've been learning about how we grow and the different stages of growing from babies to old age. We are going to be investigating different things linked to age in the coming weeks. In maths, we've continued our learning on rounding and feel more confident. We've been continuing reading Room 13 which is getting exciting but also very tense - we can't wait to read more!

 Pupils of the Week

       Riley-Jo - excellent writing 

       Katya - excellent writing

      Always Person

      Kyle - silver!

Week beginning 16 September

We've started our class novel, Room 13 which is set where some of us have visited before - Whitby! Our maths numbers have been getting smaller this week as we venture in to negative numbers.

 Pupils of the Week

       Bella H - excellent understanding of place value including negative numbers.

       Amy - Excellent effort and attitude in maths lessons. Resilience with place 

           value work.

      Always Person

      Jensen

Week beginning 9 September

Another great week in school this week. We've continued learning about our class artist Kimmy Cantrell and started to design and make our own masks in his style. We really enjoyed our visitors who came to deliver PSHE where we built and flew kits on the school field!

 Pupils of the Week

       - William - all round great attitude and effort throughout the week.

       - Daniella - excellent work ethic and produced work taking time and care.

      Always Person

      Amelia

 Welcome to Year 5

Welcome to Year 5 everyone!

Thank you for a great first week - we have had a busy four days. Along with creating our class charter, we have reviewed place value in maths, looked at co-ordinating conjunctions in English and had fun playing counting games in Spanish. 

      Pupils of the Week

          Lexi-Anne - for a brilliant attitude and great work this week. 

          Reggie - for some super work this week and a great attitude.

      Always Person

          Kyle

Below are some of the exciting memories that children who are currently in Year 5 have experienced since starting school.