This week in Year 5 we have been enjoying creating our friendship bracelets for our Maths Enterprise week, ready to sell at the Expo next week. We have also been lucky enough to visit our local church - St Matthew’s in Ashford - where Father John taught us about baptism and gave us an insight into Christianity and how they show worship to God. In Geography, we have been making our topographical maps using salt dough, showing the physical features of Antarctica and the different heights of the surface. 

Spellings: Silent letters at the beginning of a word. 

Knight, knife, mnemonic, knowledge

This week in Year 5 we have been taking photos of all of our learning for our facebook takeover! In these photos you will see we have been very busy starting a new topic in Maths, where we have been learning to identify, compare and order acute, obtuse and reflex angles. In Literacy, we have been understanding and demonstrating the emotions felt by the crew of the Endurance when the ship got stuck and they had to live in Antarctica. We have also been investigating what soluble and insoluble materials are in Science by conducting an experiment where we put solids in water and measure the results. 

Spellings: To spell words with suffixes where the base word ends in

‘-fer’

conferring, difference, inference, preference, preferred, referee, reference, referring, transference, transferring

This week we have been writing persuasive letters to Shackleton in Literacy, trying to convince him to pick us as one of his crew members on the Endurance. We have also been using our scientific enquiry skills to predict what will be good conductors and insulators in Science, by wrapping cups of hot water in different materials. In Maths, we have been deepening our knowledge on fractions, looking at converting improper fractions to mixed numbers, and converting decimals to fractions. 

Spellings: Adverbials 

afterwards, earlier, eventually, finally, immediately, previously, recently, tomorrow, whilst, yesterday

This week we have continued learning about fractions, involving equivalent fractions and tenths and hundredths. In Literacy, we have been revisiting fronted adverbials and including these in our diary entries, as if we were on the Endurance in ‘Shackleton’s Journey’. We have been looking at our own dreams and goals in PSHE, including what jobs we would like in the future and the steps you would need to take to achieve them. 

Spellings: words ending in '-able' where the 'e’ 

agreeable, changeable, irreplaceable, knowledgeable, manageable, microwaveable, noticeable, rechargeable, replaceable, salvageable

In Year 5, we have started the term off by introducing our Power of Reading text, ‘Shackleton’s Journey’. We have used our oracy skills to predict what is going to happen in the story, by looking at the front cover and pictures of the real event, and we have written up our predictions using relative clauses. In Maths, we have been recapping fractions, and identifying what components make up a fraction and why we use them. We have been looking into properties and their changes in Science. Children have used their enquiry skills to identify the properties of materials by sieving solids, melting ice and testing insulators and conductors in a circuit. 

This week in Year 5, we have been writing our letters to a care home! In our letters, we have explained what we have enjoyed in Year 5 so far and our plans for Christmas. In Maths, we have continued to learn about finding the area of a shape. Excitingly, in Science we have conducted an experiment using tin foil to create boats. These boats would help Zoe escape from Eel’s island! 

Spellings: Words ending in -able and -ible

This week in Year 5, we have been writing a newspaper report based on our Main character Zoe discovering Eel’s island. This enabled us to think back to the previous chapters where Zoe found Eel’s island and further then predict what we think will happen next for Zoe. In Maths, we have been finding the perimeter and area of rectilinear shapes which everyone excelled in! In science, we have been looking at the three different types of mechanism and found it interesting how Eddie Hall (the world's strongest man) didn’t use a mechanism to pull a lorry! 

Spellings:Words ending -ent and -ence

This week in Year 5, we had our riverwalk trip! We enjoyed looking at the different features of a river and enjoyed bringing our learning to life. In Literacy, we have been writing balanced arguments to argue if our main character Zoe should leave Eels island alone or take the Eel island leader Dooby. In Maths, we have been continuing to work on long multiplication with 2 digits by 2 digit numbers. 

Spellings: Words ending in -ance and -ancy

This week, we have been reading more of our text ‘Floodland’. At the beginning of the week, we were able to summarise the first two chapters which then led us into writing diary entries in the perspective of our main character, Zoe. In Maths, we have continued to develop our knowledge on multiplication and division. 

Spellings: Challenging words.

This week in Year 5, we have been writing reports using dialogue on the Apollo 11 mission. We have been focusing on using inverted commas correctly, using year 5 and 6 spelling words and a range of fronted adverbials. During our Maths lessons, we have been recapping our knowledge of addition and subtraction and using the column method to support our working out. In RE this week, we have been looking at biblical stories and how ‘salvation’ (rescue) is a common theme in the Bible.

Spellings: Words ending in ‘tial’

This week in Year 5, we have been creating our own planets and have written amazing reports on this. The children were able to use a range of features to describe their planets and were able to present them using key organisational devices. We have also looked at how to uplevel our writing by editing and checking our work. In Maths, Year 5 have been developing their learning on adding and subtracting up to 6 digit numbers. 
Spellings: words ending in ‘-cial’

This week in Year 5, in Maths, we have been looking at recognising and comparing 6 digit numbers which year 5 have done really well in! Excitingly, we have also started to read our new power of reading text ‘Hidden Figures’. From this, we have written a job advert for NASA and a persuasive letter to convince them to hire one of the main characters from Hidden Figures. Throughout the week, Year 5 has also begun to learn about the Anglo- Saxons and have been looking at who they are and where they came from! 
Spellings: Words ending in ‘tious’ and ‘ious’