Please see below the spellings that year 5 will be working on next week; the week commencing the 24th February.  If you could support your child by practicing these spellings with them it will aid their confidence in spelling these words in conjunction with our practice in class.    The spellings all follow the pattern of words with an /or/ sounds spelt with 'or'  Words in red  are year 5/6 statutory spelling words.    The spelling words:  forty  scorch  absorb decorate afford enormous category tornado according opportunity 

 This morning, classes 6L and 5H shared their writing with each other. 5H read their defeating a monster story to their Year 6 partner and listened to some Year 6 writing which included some poetry, stories and descriptive recounts. The children had the opportunity to say what they had enjoyed about their partners work and provided a great purpose for their writing.

This afternoon the children were able to perform their Macbeth Rap in a Year 6 'Rap-Off'. They were excited to see what their friends had created and we were astounded by the creativity and range of techniques and skills used. This was a great way to end our topic and use language in a new and interesting way.

  Book focus : Mad About Dinosaurs by Giles Andrae. We have been learning and performing some poems from this book.  Maths focus : revisiting the principles of counting; ordering numbers (noticing the staircase pattern); using the stem sentences 1 more than ___ is ___ and 1 less than ___ is _____; begin to see numbers over 5 as being made from 5 and a bit. Science focus : investigating fossils.  PE focus : we used the trolleys to play a treasure game; they are great for our core muscles, strength and coordination. PSCHE focus : internet safety. We read a story about a girl who saw something on her Ipad which made her feel scared and frightened. We discussed that if you see something that makes you feel funny in your tummy then you should tell a grown up about it so that they can help you keep safe. We asked the children about what they liked to do on their IPad. Lots of them talked about watching You Tube and playing games. However, some of the children were talking ...

 For being resilient.

 Today we revisited our learning by solving problems together with money.  We looked at the first step before moving to the second step, making sure we had read the question carefully and used the correct coins!