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6 years ago
Posted on 07th Dec 2018 by

Class 5 weekly update

Well done class 5!

We have had a great week, the children have worked so hard and tried their best throughout assessment week and this is all down to their positive attitude towards their work.

In Maths we have moved on to our new unit of work which is multiplication and division. We have been looking at multiples and the children have excelled in this topic area, working with great confidence and accuracy whilst showing resilience as they tried and tested different methods. They have displayed their table knowledge and this has helped them to succeed and show a good level of understanding.

In English we have continued to read Journey to the River Sea which the children are all completely enthused with as we near the end of the book, making some very sophisticated predictions about what may happen to conclude the story. We worked on wanted posters for one of the characters this week with the children producing some accurate and arty designs. The level of conversation and understanding in class while exploring new words has been really high with the children showing maturity and greater levels of independence driving their own learning by utilising the resources in the classroom.

Well done to everyone for Thursday’s theatre trip. You were a credit to our school, you set a good example for the younger classes and I’m glad you all enjoyed yourselves. A big well done to Martin as well for his air guitar performance onstage!

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

Mr Sudlow.

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6 years ago
Posted on 05th Dec 2018 by

PANTOMIME

PANTOMIME

THURSDAY 6TH DECEMBER 2018

Just a reminder that this Thursday we will be going to the Pantomime.  We will be leaving school at 9.30am and returning at 1.00pm. Children will need to bring a packed lunch to eat when we return to school. They can bring a snack to eat (nothing containing nuts please) during the interval.

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6 years ago
Posted on 23rd Nov 2018 by

Class 5 weekly update

Well done to everyone in class 5 for an amazing week!

In Maths we have been working on statistics and data. The children have shown a really high level of understanding regarding the features that must be included in a line graph. We have discussed how it shows the progress of something over time and how it is important when working with line graphs to pick out the units of measurement as well as reading and interpreting the data itself. Next week we will move from analysing line graphs to drawing them ourselves.

In English this week we have been looking at report writing. The children did some brilliant research for their homework task and this led us nicely into the topic. As we read on through our class book we looked at the features of both a scientific report and a newspaper report. The children were then able to pick which one they would prefer to focus on, thinking very carefully about the reason behind their decision. They then wrote a small proposal that detailed what direction they wanted to go in and why. We used Ipads and laptops to research the subject of their report, which was a rare butterfly that is discovered in our class book by one of the characters. The children thoroughly enjoyed the freedom of directing their own learning whilst using varied approaches and this has been reflected in their finished work. They have worked extremely hard and with great care on their final writing pieces using the features they identified in their book, along with their research and notes they have made to produce amazing reports.

The homework this week is based on creativity in their writing. The task is to write a letter that captures the first impressions and feelings of one of the characters from our class book, as he has moved back to England. They need to predict how they think it will go before we read on next week, focusing on detailed description along with all of the techniques we have been working on over the last few weeks. These are detailed on the task sheet in their homework books.

Have a great weekend everyone, see you on Monday,

Mr Sudlow.

6 years ago
Posted on 09th Nov 2018 by

Class 5 update

Welcome back everyone I hope you all had a great half-term!

The children have really thrown themselves into the week working ever so hard, picking up where they left off before the holidays so well done.

A massive well done to everyone regarding the school trip to Chester Zoo as well, your behaviour was exemplary setting a good example for the younger children and drawing some nice comments from zoo staff. I hope you all enjoyed the trip and learnt some cool new facts about the animals we saw.

This week in English we have turned our attention back towards diary entries and the children have been looking at fronted adverbials and relative clauses. They have produced some fantastic work using great creativity to generate some really interesting pieces of writing which has resulted in some very effective diary entries.

In Maths we have been focusing on two-way tables and using them to pick out key information as well as coming up with our own questions to put to others, reasoning by using the information to decide whether they agree or disagree with statements and why they have reached that conclusion as well as completing tables that have missing pieces of information by using the data that they have been provided with. It has required some really deep mathematical thinking with lots of trial and error, the children have shown great perseverance and have done some brilliant work throughout the week.

The homework this week revisits letter writing. This is something we focused on just before half-term, with the pupils producing some amazing work. This time they need to apply it to their Chester Zoo trip as opposed to our class book.

Have a fantastic weekend and I’ll see you all on Monday,

Mr Sudlow.