At the first sign of Summer Year 5 has started to learn cricketing skills. Today's initial session was dividwed into four discrete games aimed at developing different skills around retrieval, co-ordination, team work, reacting to changes, accurate throwing and bowling. Reaction and retrieval Teamwork and co-ordination Aiming, bowling, teamwork Accurate throwing, teamwork and competition Mr Hopegood :)

S tory focus : Cottonwool Colin by Jeanne Willis and The Lion Inside by Rachel Bright.  Literacy focus : we have daily Phonics and handwriting sessions.  We now have a Literacy session where we discuss a picture, compose sentences and then write them.  We also have individual reading sessions, practising our blue Phonics book or reading books.  Maths focus:  doubles; composition (including odds and evens); counting  We noticed that some Numberblocks have a flat, even top and that some have an odd block. We could also see doubles within some Numberblocks (even numbers).  PE focus : we have started a new unit called Crawl, Climb, Collect. We have to practise our bear crawls which is fantastic for developing our core strength, as well as for crossing the midline.  Understanding the World focus: baby animals (linked to Spring) and animal classification/grouping. We had a special visitor - Ziggy the Bearded Dragon - which was a lovely starting point f...

 Today, we continued our exploration of using the computers to make sound and music.  We placed squares onto a chart creating different tones and pitch.  We also chose which group of the orchestra played the music - woodwind, percussion or strings. We challenged ourselves to write our names and see what they sound like!