Blog Author: Molly Olenczuk

This week in Maths, we have been focussing on using the inverse operation to check our answers. This is something Year 5 found quite difficult at first but have shown great resilience within their Maths lessons.

We have been very impressed this week with the independent writes Year 5 have produced, they have used some fantastic high level vocabulary!

This week in writing, year 5 have been focussing on understanding what paragraphs are and how to use them; to make our writing more cohesive, by grouping ideas together.

This week, in reading, we have started reading our new non fiction text all about sharks. Year 5 have really engaged with this text, it has been lovely to see!

In History this week, we have been learning all about how the city of Baghdad became the city of new knowledge, as books were brought over from the library of Alexandria to the House of Wisdom. 

In writing this week, we have been focussing on using high level vocabulary to describe the tower in Rumaysa. We have created some fantastic vocabulary word banks!

This week, in Maths, we have been using our place value knowledge to find 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, and 100,000 more and less than a number.

This week in writing, Year 5 have been writing a character description based on their text, Rumaysa. We have been focussing on using high level vocabulary to describe.

This week in Geography, Year 4 have been learning about what plants and animals live in a desert!

This week in Maths, Year 4 have been focussing on translating coordinates on a grid!

This afternoon, we had a lovely time celebrating Eid Mubarak! Thankyou Miss Nisa!

This week in Maths, we addressed our misconceptions surrounding symmetric figures!