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Today in Geography we have compared Keswick and Stoke-on-Trent. We have looked at the physical and human features, ability to travel and the population. 

As a part of our citizenship programme, we have pledged to help out at home. We have all individually made our pledge and I look forward to seeing the photographs that’s parent send of their child actioning their pledge.

We have had lots of practise using capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and using our phonetical knowledge so today we have applied it to writing super words/sentences for our class text ‘This is the bear and the scary night’.

This week in Art, we have started to design our packaging for our cereal boxes. The focus of the first week was to draw the key elements of our packing onto the opposite side of our boxes before we add paint and other materials next week. The children worked really hard in this lesson and produced…

We have practically worked out what one less of a given number is using the tens frames and the cubes. We made the number that was written on our tens frame, took one cube away and verbally said what one less of the given number is. 

This week we have been learning about our emotions through the story ‘The Colour Monster’. We enjoyed reading the story and hearing about the different emotions we may feel. We talked about what things may make us feel a type of way and how we express our feelings. 

We have took part in lots of…

We have been exploring our different senses each week. This week we focused on our hearing. As a group we listened to potential sounds we would hear inside and outside. We loved guessing the sounds. We then went on a sound walk to see what we could hear. 

We explored squishing and stamping on…

In PE this week we have been recapping the different movements we learnt last week. We took part in ‘Sticky kids - Let’s go walking’. We had to listen to the song and then move through walking, jogging, marching, galloping and on our tip-toes. The children loved this.

We then moved on to…

During Geography, we have used our iPad to record our voice labelling the features of Stoke-on-Trent. The children enjoyed using this new app whilst using our geographical language to complete their task.

This afternoon as part of our understanding the world topic, duck class have been on a walk around our local area. We discussed road safety and different human and physical features in Hanley. We even got to see some ducks! The children were so well behaved. 

We used 'Talk for Writing' to retell our Treasure Book story, Whatever Next! We thought of pictures to draw for each part of the story and added actions to help us retell it in our own words.

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.