Well this is it the FINAL blog entry for year 5. A very emotional blog entry for me, as this obviously the second time that I have taught this class, so it really feels like a big milestone to say goodbye to them as they ride off into the sunset and year 6. It has …
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Friday 9th July
This is almost it, the penultimate post of the year! What a year, what a week. From Sound poetry to the Navvies we’ve done it all. Today we had a very internet special talk from a top scientist from the Royal Institute . During which he asked us how to get a telescope into space. …
Friday 2nd of July
And now we enter into the final month of the academic year, but like a perpetual motion machine, we’re still going full pelt. Yes the Year 5 learning machine goes on and on, and this week we have delved into past and looked to the future. We have worked with Roman Numerals and started learning …
Friday 25th June
Almost there the final last few gasps before the glorious summer opens up and year 5 metamorphise into year 6ers. Despite the looming holidays, Year 5 haven’t taken their feet off the pedals, if anything they have been working harder than ever. From creating soliloquies in iambic pentameter, to solving questions of angles around a …
Friday 18th June
Hello everyone, What another interesting week, in Maths we have learnt all about polygons, ( the missing parrot, ahem). We have also started to understand how we age, and the changes to our eyesight as we get older, it was very interesting, but also slight gloomy (especially at my advanced age). But mainly it’s been …
SPORTS DAY!
Sports week actually! I was very proud of all the class for their wonderful spirit and effort. I am sure we have broke some world records today. It was a close run contest, but in Year 5 Roe took first place, over all however, Fallow won. At the end of the day we had a …
Friday 28th May
Happy Half Term! Here is a Lipogram from Erin, can you guess which letter is missing? At this point, this girl was four minus a digit, Matilda had taught Matilda to look at words in a book with cognition, by studying books and daily rags and glossies that lay around this girls drum. At four, …
Friday 21st May
A change to our usual blog today, as we have a pair of Penny Dreadful’s to chill your blood: SWEENEY TODD The city of London was covered in a dull blanket of smog. The smell of smoke drifted through the air and into people’s lungs. Most of the people’s clothes were splattered with grime and …
Friday 14th May
We have been Irish Dancing this afternoon. A fun but exhausting activity. Everyone enjoyed, and I’m sure that there will be few demonstrations this evening. But that is not all, we have also been delving into the dark world of the Penny Dreadful’s and the world of Victorian London. We have discovered how the poor …
Friday 7th May
This week be have been doing stuff, and we’ve been doing a lot of it. It’s been a very busy week. Looking at how to convert between metric and imperial, via the medium of buckets of water. We have created gothic monologues, revealing the internal dialogue of Bess and The Highwayman. In science we reenacted …
