2021- 2022

Australasia are being taught by Miss Loom

and supported by Mrs Willis and Miss Baker

We have had a fantastic start to Year 5 together! We have enjoyed being able to play with all the children in our school each morning as we come into school, break time and lunchtime. It has been wonderful to share collective worship in the hall together and to be able to sing our favourite songs. In class, we have started to explore our new topic of Ancient Egypt as we consider "Could Ancient Egypt be designed by the stars".

In our first week we have explored who the Egyptian were and what information we already knew. In Maths, we have started to explore a range of numbers up to one million. In English, we are trying to stretch our vocabulary as we learn how to use a thesaurus. 

In our second week we have looked at rounding numbers in Maths, and we have started to explore how to use expanded noun phrases to create our characters. In our topic lessons we have explored the Egyptian pyramids, and we were able to build our own in Outdoor Learning. You can see some of our pyramids on Seesaw. 

In our third week of Year 5, we have been learning more about rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000 and 10000 which is a little tricky, but we are persevering. In our Outdoor Learning we have explored the River Nile while learning about the black and red lands of the Nile in our topic lessons. Some of us had some fantastic ideas about how to create the different banks, see if you can spot these on our pictures via Seesaw. 

In our fourth week of Year 5 we have moved on to looking at addition in Maths. So we have looked at how to add number with more than 4 digits while having to make more than one exchange. In English, we have been learning element to help us persuade Miss Loom and Mrs Willis to let us sit with our friends. We are hoping our rhetorical questions and modal verbs work! In Outdoor Learning it was a little windy this week, but that did not stop us creating a shaduf to transport water like the Egyptians. We also took part in Harvest Live this week and got to see a calf being born! 

This week we have been working hard to improve our narrative writing. We were all teachers when deciding how effective our writing was, and then we have made lots of improvements before writing up our final version. In maths, we have been learning about subtraction and then estimation. We had great fun at our harvest festival and would like to thank you all for coming too. 

We have had another busy week in Year 5. We have moved on to learning about line graphs in Year 5, and we have been working hard to extract information as well as drawing our own line graphs. We have been learning about poetry this week including rhyming, onomatopoeia and alliteration. We are all looking forward to our next week together before a well deserved rest at half-term. Remember, no forest school or homework next week!

 

Autumn Term 2

We have had a very busy but great start to our second term in Year 5. We have been learning about factors and multiples in maths and have started to learn our prime numbers. For our writing this week we focused on learning about the Egyptian gods and goddesses and created our own fact file about them. 

This week in Year 5 we have been working very hard to learn some new types of numbers in maths. We have been learning how to identify square and cube numbers, and now we need to remember these to help with recall of information. In writing this week we could select our style to show Miss Loom and Mrs Willis how amazing we can make our writing. We used a picture as our inspiration and lots of us decided to create a narrative. We also started to learn about the afterlife for the Egyptian. We are looking forward to learning about mummification next week. 

We have had a great week in Year 5. We have had a new addition to our classroom, which is a space for reflection. We have been working hard in Maths to understand how to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000. We have been learning about mummification in our topic lessons and outdoor learning. We set up our own mummification experiment which we will keep you updated with on Seesaw. We also enjoyed wearing our own fancy clothes for Children In Need. 

This week has been a busy week in Year 5. We have been working hard to develop our description ready for our writing this week. We have been learning about perimeter in Maths. We have been able to measure perimeter, calculate perimeter and look at how to find the perimeter of compound shapes. In Outdoor Learning, we have designed, created and evaluated our work this week on building canonic jar heads. We also had a quick look at our mummified fruit to see the changes so far. Our fruit it is starting to shrivel, but it does smell a bit!

Another fantastic week in Year 5. We have had challenge week this week which has been tricky for us, but we have all tried our very best. We have also been working on developing our kindness this week as we completed our challenge that Inspire+ set us to spread kindness. You can see pictures of our creations for kindness on Seesaw. We were very excited to put up our Christmas decorations and start our reading advent this week. We have been sharing a book or an extract each day while also trying to predict what book might be wrapped up. Keep up to date with the books we have opened on Twitter. We are very excited about the final 2 weeks of term and have started to think about our Christmas service at church. 

We have been very busy this week in Year 5. We have been learning about the importance of money and how to calculate profit in our finance lessons. We have taken part in Internet Legends Day. We took part in lots of different activities including playing the Interlands game and creating a comic strip about being safe online. We also worked on our resilience in outdoor learning with our tower challenge before enjoying a marshmallow treat. We are looking forward to our final week together on Autumn term and enjoying some Christmas activities including getting ready for our Christingle Service. 

We had a fantastic last week of term together having lots of fun and enjoying our Christmas activities. 

 

Spring Term 1

We have had a lovely first week back. We have all worked very hard this week to show we are ready for a new term and some new learning. We have been recapping our multiplication knowledge ready to learn long multiplication next week. We have started learning about our Eco topic of marine life which had meant we have been exploring plastic pollution in the sea. 

Another fantastic week in Year 5. We have all worked very hard in maths this week as we have been learning about long multiplication. We have found this very tricky but have listened carefully to help us remember each step we need to take. We have also had a busy week in which we have been learning lots of ways to keep ourselves safe in different situation. Also, we have explored how to make our own pulley system to make a flag pole. You can see pictures of what we created on Seesaw. 

This week we have been learning more about long multiplication, and we have started to learn about division. In our writing we took on the role of Michael from Kensuke's Kingdom to write our first diary entry as we have arrived at the island after falling off our yacht. We are all very excited about our trip next week to Buckminster Estate to learn about climate change and the impact on our forests. Remember the weather can change quickly at the minute, so we need lots of layers to help keep us warm but also, so we can cool ourselves down if we get too hot. We also need a change of shoes because it will probably muddy.

We have had a fun filled week in Year 5. This week we went on our first school trip to Buckminster, where we were learning about climate change and the impact on our environment. We focused on learning about carbon, and we all measured how much carbon was in different trees. We also looked at different uses for trees.  This week we have also been working hard on working together in different activities, including creating our own yoga flows in PE. 

Another fantastic week in Year 5. The children have been very helpful this week during what has been a rather busy week. We have started to learn about fractions in maths. In English, we have been learning how to use dashes for parenthesis, which was very tricky, but we are starting to understand how to do this. We enjoyed some knot tying and den building in our outdoor learning lesson too. 

Spring Term 2

We have had a good first week back. This week we have continued to learn about fractions as we have started to look at adding different fractions. In English and reading lessons we have continued to read Kensuke's Kingdom, and we have been writing as if we were Michael. This week we wrote a letter from Michael to someone back home. We have been working hard on developing our friendships and kindness after exploring how our actions can impact how others feel. We are excited about World Book Day next week!

We have had a great week this week. We had lots of fun on World Book Day exploring Beegu and writing our own version of Beegu or a second book to go alongside the original. We all looked fantastic in our book characters. We have been adding fractions this week and are ready to start subtracting fractions next week. 

Another busy week in Year 5. We have had challenge week this week, where we have worked very hard to show what we can remember in Maths, Reading and SPAG. This week we have also started to learn about symbols we can use on a map, and we have been learning how to use a compass to find north, south, east and west. Also in outdoor learning, we have planted our sunflower seeds from the PTA, so we are now making sure we water and care for them as they hopefully start to grow. 

We have had a busy week again in Year 5. We have been learning about multiplying fractions this week which we have started to understand. In English, we have been learning about similes and a new form of poetry, cinquain. We had a Mini Police session this week, where we were learning about discrimination. We all enjoyed wearing our own clothes and something red for Comic Relief. We are all enjoying the return of tuck shop on Fridays. Our Sunflowers have started to grow as we can see them sprouting. 

We have had an amazing end to the term. It has been very busy with bikeability, growing sunflowers, Easter service, DT sculpture making, learning about money and the quick changing of weather. We were all ready for the Easter holidays but are looking forward to the summer term and hopefully some better weather.  Have a fantastic break! 

Summer Term 1

We have had a great first week back. We are all trying to get ready for Year 6, which is not too far away now. Those of us who are swimming really enjoyed our first session. We have started cricket and tennis this term so both our PE lessons will be outside (we are all hoping for the sunny weather to continue). In English, we are looking at developing our vocabulary for description. In maths, we have started to learn about the value of decimals and the equivalent fractions. 

This week we have all been learning more about decimals and how to order and compare them. In English, we continued to look at The Watertower while thinking about the 2 characters we were introduced to and what type of narrative we are going to create. Next week, we will be developing our ideas for the narrative and then writing our own, before finally reading the narrative.  We are enjoying learning about birdhouses in outdoor learning as part of our DT project this term. 

Another fantastic week in Year 5. We have all been working very hard in maths to learn about the equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages. In English, we have written our own narrative for The Watertower, before finally getting to read the narrative which left us with so many questions. In Outdoor learning we have designed our own bird houses and are ready to explore some wood work skills we will need next week. We are all loving the warm, sunny weather as well! 

This week we have been very busy and have enjoyed the sunshine in many of our lessons. We have been learning about adding decimals and have started to look at how to use this learning in worded problems. In English, we explored The Lost Words and have created our own poems about the kingfisher. In outdoor learning, we used different tools when learning about wood work skills and all managed to saw, hammer and glue. We are very excited for our trip on Monday to Peterborough Cathedral too. 

 

 

 

 

 

2020 - 2021

Australasia are being taught by Miss Loom

and supported by Mrs Anthony.

Throughout the Autumn Term we are learning about the Ancient Egyptians. We have started to look at the pyramids, some of the gods and the importance of the River Nile. Throughout this term we are going to be exploring what happened during mummification and the tombs. 

  Egyptian Pyramid

 

 This term we have started to learn about numbers to one million, addition and subtraction to a million and different types of numbers such as prime numbers, square numbers and cube numbers. We are continuously recapping these numbers to help us learn them. In English, we have been looking at sentence structure, especially for our exciting writing. We have been working on producing quality writing with expanded noun phrases. In Science, we have been exploring space with Mrs Webb. We are enjoying having lots of discussion and finding out the answers to our questions. 

Summer Term

We have had a fantastic start to the Summer term. In Year 5 we have been learning about Ancient Maya and how they lived their lives. We have started to learn about their writing system, their gods and where they lived. As we continue through the Summer Term, we are going to be learning about their temples, number system and their calendars. 

In Maths, we have been learning about decimals, fractions and percentages. Now we can convert fractions into decimals and percentages. In the next term we are going to be learning about angles and shapes. In English, we have been continuing to learn ways to improve our writing and have been looking at non-fiction writing. We have been having lots of fun in Science with Mrs Webb as we have been investigating in our different science experiments. We have also been learning how to write up our experiment reports. 

At the end of this term we had sports week. We all really enjoyed the different activities and tried everything. We all received a class Well Done for our amazing attitude and sportsmanship. Both myself and Mrs Anthony were very proud of the class and cannot wait for another fantastic term!

We have had a fantastic first week back for our final term of Year 5. We have started to learn about angles in maths, and we have written our own tanka poems this week. We have enjoyed the lovely sunshine this week in our PE lessons and break times. 

This week we have been learning more about angles as well as learning about perimeter and area. In English, we have written a new non-chronological report about the Maya. We have enjoyed Forest School where we made our own Chichen Itza. We have shared these pictures on Seesaw.

25th June

This week we have been working hard to apply our knowledge of perimeter, area and angles to a range of 2D shapes. We have also looked at nets for 3D shapes. In Forest School we built our of Maya style house using natural materials. You can see some of our creations on Seesaw. In our writing this week we have been learning about how to use different punctuation, and we have tried to use the punctuation in our character and setting descriptions. 

2nd July

We have had a busy week in Year 5. We have had bikeability this week. We all worked very hard and listened carefully while out on the roads of Baston. We have also completed our art projects this week which meant we had to create a meal using different media including cardboard, paint, string and any other materials we could find. We will be brining home our art work to share with our families.

9th July

This week we have continued to work hard in Year 5, and we have completed our challenge week. In maths, we have been learning about converting measurements which we are continuing next week. We had our last lesson of Forest School this week. We built dens with a Maya link. Some of us included the material doors, headdresses or having family within the foundations.  We have also decided how to spend our £30 from winning the PTA walking challenge. Look out for further information in the next week.  

16th July

This week we have worked hard to complete our maths lessons on converting measurements including time. We have also enjoyed our final art lesson where we got to select our own mediums to recreate different food items. You can see some pictures of our work on Seesaw. We also explored what the inside of a pomegranate looks like which linked to a book some of us have been reading called “The Boy at the Back of the Class”.  We had a great day on Friday completing our vector drawing in computing.