This morning, we had the Steel Pan Agency in to visit the school. The morning began with a whole school assembly showcasing the talents of Shareen and Calvin (our workshop leaders). Afterwards, each of the year 5 classes had a workshop. In the workshop the children learnt a sequence of notes from memory to play on the steel pans. The children were all smiling and dancing along with the music that they were creating. It was a brillaint morning and the children gave glowing reviews of their session.  Enjoy having a look at the array of concentration faces on display below from our sessions this morning. 

Please see below the spellings that year 5 will be working on next week; the week commencing the 24th March.  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 converting nouns or adjectives into verbs using the suffix -ify   The spelling words:  amplify solidify signify  falsify glorify notify testify purify intensify  classify  

Please see below the spellings that year 5 will be working on next week; the week commencing the 17th March.  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 converting nouns or adjectives into verbs using the suffix -ise  Words in  red  are year 5/6 statutory spelling words.    The spelling words:  criticise  advertise capitalise finalise equalise fertilise terrorise socialise visualise vandalise 

 At Nature Club we have looked again for the signs of Spring in the same places as last week and what a change there has been! Buds are opening, blossom is out, bullrushes are poking up, muntjak prints joining the foxes in the sandpit.

  Please see below the spellings that year 5 will be working on next week; the week commencing the 10th March.  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 converting nouns or adjectives into verbs using the suffix - ate  Words in  red  are year 5/6 statutory spelling words.    The spelling words:  pollinate captivate activate motivate communicate medicate elasticate hyphenate alienate validate   

 Yesterday, we had great fun in year 5 during world book day. We discussed what adjectives are and read the word collector story. First, we created our own characters based on an adjective. Next, we wrote our own acrostic poems based on adjectives we liked. Finally, we created an adjective collage using a range of materials. It was great fun. 

Happy World Book Day and what a day it was yesterday, we had a lot of fun in year 5 with our learning. Our theme for this world book day was all around words and the power that they give us. We used the book The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds to show us how words can make us feel and how we can use them in so many different ways.  In the morning, we found our favourite words in the Word Collector book and got creative by creating drawings that represented the words. Afterwards we made acrostic poems based on a word that describes ourselves. We had some brilliant poems created that sum up children perfectly.  After break we explored character descriptions and becoming our character. Once our character was created 5H went down to the nature area and embodied their character even walking to the nature area as their character. We had flexible cartwheelers and sleepy dawdlers.  It was a great day and it was lovely to see so many smiles on the children's faces.