Year 5 have been learning about place value, including decimals and rounding. This week, we have started to look at columnar addition and using this skill to solve problems.

Here are some games to help you practice these skills at home:

Rounding game:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/rocket-rounding

Bar model prractice:

http://ssjx.co.uk/games/educational/singapore_maths_bar_model.php

If you would like to revisit and practice your place value knowledge, try these sites:

Place value to 1,000:

http://www.hbschool.com/activity/numbers_to_1000/

Place value with decimals:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/place_value/play/popup.shtml

As part of Year 5’s learning about forces and air resistance, we are designing a fair test to find out what makes the best parachute. First, we learnt about how gravity and air resistance interact and used this to form scientific questions. Then we drew on our knowledge about gravity, mass and surface areas to help us make hypotheses about which parachute would work best. We worked in groups to carry out our scientific method, thinking carefully about constants and variables. Now we are ready to test and make observations about the parachutes that we made.

Thank you to those who were able to meet with us last week at the Parents’ Evening. Wee hope you found the information useful. As discussed, reading skills and the love of reading are an important part of learning. To support your child even more, you can also listen to audio books online. This is a fantastic way to learn new words and heard how intonation is used in storytelling.

Here are some websites that you can visit for free, good quality audio books:

http://www.storymuseum.org.uk/stories/audio-stories/

http://www.storynory.com/

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Year 5 are learning the poem ‘Silver’ by Walter de la Mare and practicing reciting and using different intonations, rhythms and volume.

We also discussed the author’s use of poetic devices and vocabulary. We used some of these skills to write our own description of the images from the poem.

Welcome to Year 5! This week Year 5 have been settling into their new classroom and thinking about aspirations for the coming year. We have been working on being a team by being excellent communicators and collaborators. We have also been thinking about having a growth mindset and persevering with our learning.

Reminders:

Year 5 have P.E. on Monday and Thursday

Parents’ evening is on Wednesday 12th September

In science, Year 5 were given a challenge. Children had a range of mysterious materials

and had to investigate them and classify them. They began by making drawings of the materials and looking at their hardness and transparency. They then investigated which materials were magnetic and which conducted electricity before studying a map of Alchemy Island and labelling where they thought the mysterious materials could be found.