Year 5 have been working so hard these past few weeks. We have been focusing on addition and subtraction and looking at various methods we can use to effectively solve different calculations. We’ve even begun looking at simple algebraic equations – ask your child to give you an example! This past week we have focused on decimal numbers and begun to investigate prime numbers, multiples and factors getting us ready to begin looking at more advanced multiplications and divisions. As you can see on our class timetable, we now have maths sessions both in the morning and also right after lunch to ensure we are covering key skills and keeping our mental maths calculations always simmering.
Our focus on Rivers and study on the River Singers novel, has seen us debating about the Water Voles vs. Mink and working towards writing persuasive letters to Tom Moorhouse about this issues. This has tied in nicely to our Geography work where we have been researching rivers and around the world and the countries they are in to create persuasive holiday leaflets on the computer.
Our field trip to the River and Rowing Museum has been a brilliant way to end this topic and the children thoroughly enjoyed the visit. We had a museum tour, a guided walk along the river and learnt about different aspects of rivers through hands on experiments.
There will be a new homework grid on the website when we return which I will inform you about with the class newsletter in the new term.
It would be great to see some Easter journals when we return, with some writing about what you have been doing over the two weeks. Also, we are running a sunflower growing competition – so hope you get involved!
We are looking forward to next term and hope that you and your families have a wonderful Easter break.
