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We have begun our new class text this week - Owl Babies. We have used Talk for Writing and role play to show our understanding of the book, the characters and their feelings. We can recall key elements of the story in order!

We have used double sided counter to practically find all of the number bonds for a given number. We were then able to write them into a number sentence, working systematically helped us to find all of the possibilities!

For Children In Need, we have been busy! We have come to School wearing yellow or something spotty and collected money donations to send to the charity. We have completed a walking challenge - where we did four laps of the running track outside. We have spoken about what charity is and looked into…

We have used part whole models and cubes to practically make number bonds within 10. We have shown different ways to make the same number. Some of us even wrote the addition number sentence for each one! 

Today we are celebrating children in need. We have been very busy this morning with learning all about children in need and how we can make a difference. We took part in a mile walk around our field and this afternoon we will take part in some creative activities linked to children in need.…

This week we have been learning about Bonfire Night. We have discussed  through books, videos and songs what bonfire night is and how different people celebrate. 
We used our senses to experience a bonfire night. We listened to different types of fireworks and used great vocabulary to describe…

Our new topic in Maths this week has been fractions! We are really proud of how well Year 5 have been able to recall their prior knowledge of fractions and apply their skills to find fractions that are equivalent.

This week in Geography year 5 really enjoyed our lesson surrounding oceans and the climate, we have been learning all about warm and cold currents!

In writing we have created our own story map to support our retell writing. We have broken the story into parts, wrote sentences/ captions for each and then drew images to remind us what happened during each part.

In Science this week, we learnt about Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. We learnt that Darwin had studied finches on the Galápagos Islands and noticed that each island had a different type of finch that had evolved depending on which food was available! We conducted an investigation to explore…

This week is anti-bullying week and in recognition of this day children came to school wearing odd socks! It was great to see so many children wearing their odd socks!