Well done to everyone in Class 5 on a fantastic action-packed week!

Last week in English the children finished their story writing. They have taken the events of our class novel and used them as a base for their work, building on the storyline by adding extra detail or changing small aspects of the plot to incorporate their own ideas, resulting in a more exciting adventure. The children have been challenged to think really creatively, using a wide range of punctuation and vocabulary to make their writing interesting and engaging for the reader.

In Maths we worked on rounding decimals to the nearest whole, tenth, hundredth and thousandth. We recapped the rules of rounding and used this prior knowledge to great effect with the children producing accurate work that was supported by detailed yet concise reasoning, explaining their calculations and the thinking behind their answers.

A big thank you to the children for their excellent participation levels on activity day and sports day. It was a remarkable effort because not only did you take part in lots of different activities that were quite challenging, especially in the hot weather, but you also played a crucial role in running the events by helping the younger children and taking on extra responsibilities to help all of the adults. You set a fantastic example last week and should be proud of your involvement.

This week in English the children are going to be working in pairs on play scripts. They will have a choice of which events in our novel they want to base their work on before planning, writing and performing collaboratively. In Maths we will be finishing off our unit of work on decimals and percentages.

This week we will also be going for our final swimming session and if you have any questions regarding the football tournament at Baschurch Village Hall on Thursday, please do not hesitate to pop in and see me either at the start or end of the school day.

Thanks… Mr Sudlow.

Well done Class 5 for a fantastic week!

Our focus in English has been on story writing. The children have used our reading from this week to identify the key events that they needed to get into their writing. From there they have been able to plan changes to those events that they could incorporate into their story in order to make it even more exciting. The children have planned ideas using a wide range of descriptive techniques and vocabulary so they could make their writing detailed and interesting. This is a large piece of work and the children will be carrying on with it next week with our main focus being on proof-reading, analysing and suggesting ways in which the children can edit and improve their first draft.

In Maths we have looked at working with decimals that include thousandths. The children have demonstrated a really secure understanding of place value, working with confidence across a range of question styles. We have looked at equivalent fractions and the relationship between fractions and decimals.

Have a great weekend everyone, I’ll see you on Monday.

Mr Sudlow.