English: Throughout the week, we have been focusing on phrases and clauses and how to improve our sentences. We have also begun looking at examples of persuasive texts and finding the key features of a persuasive text. Our reading sessions have been starting to pick apart the skills involved in…
Maths Throughout this week, we have been looking at adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators. We have also been recapping our formal and mental methods for all operations. Speed, accuracy and efficiency has been our main focus for fluency sessions and we have greatly improved during the week. English…
Maths: In maths this week we are currently doing ordering fractions on a number line and a bar model. We have learnt that when you order fractions on a number line it is a lot easier to do an even number of squares. English: We have been learning what grammar…
Maths: This week we have been learning about equivalent fractions. We have learnt to make an equivalent fractions and compare them using the bar model. You can also multiply the denominator and the numerator to get an equivalent fraction. In fluency, we have been recapping what we have done in…
Maths In maths, we have been looking at factors, multiples and factor pairs. Mr Morton has shown us the Mr Silvester Way to find multiples and factors of numbers (it can be complicated!). We are also… organising and making stalls for the Christmas fete! We are competing against each other…
THE VERY LAST ONE FROM US……. 25th July 2018 On the last day of school being year 5s, we are having some fun. The first lesson is playing games, pretty much break in doors. Then we had C.W. After that, we had a free lesson to do what aver we…
Review of the Year 5 trip to Youlbury 2018 By AB and SP and AM Youlbury is an activity camp for people of all ages. You can chill out, have fun and do some unforgettable adventure activities. It has 42 acres of woodland including; indoor accommodation and outdoor camping. Location…
Maths We have been continuing our data handling and making charts and graphs on Excel to include on our Geography Local Area Study. English We are continuing to complete our age appropriate story writing tasks. Geography – Multicultural Day *Italy – we made salt dough architectural structures *Brazil – carnival…
Maths In maths, we have been doing a percentages work. The three difficulties were mild, spicy and hot. One of the questions was to work out which one was the odd one out 40% of 900, 90% of 400, 60% of 850 and 25% of 1440. We took stopwatches outside…
Maths In maths we have been looking at percentages and how to find percentages of a number. Macey We have also looked at ways of finding different numbers by using 1, 5 and 10 percent. Gabby Grammar In grammar we watched Elisabeth explained to the class what a correlative conjunction…
