Hi all, massive congratulations to everyone in class 5 for an amazing week! You’ve all worked really hard and have produced some fantastic work.

In English we have been focusing on letters. We started by having a brief recap around the features of this genre and discussed which features we may have to slightly adapt due to the setting of this piece of work. We identified that soldiers writing home during WW1 would be forbidden to reveal their exact whereabouts, or any other sensitive details about life in the military, as this could lead to a negative impact on the war effort if the information fell into enemy hands. After this the children picked the evidence they wanted to use out of the text so they could plan their letters. They wrote a first draft which resulted in amazing pieces of work and have since evaluated and started to edit their initial piece of writing, expanding on the work they have already produced. We’ll complete this on Monday before moving onto a diary entry for next weeks genre.

In Maths this week we rounded off our work on perimeter before moving onto looking at the area of rectangles. The children have worked incredibly hard on this and have shown a great amount of accuracy and efficiency in their work. Some of the problem solving tasks they have been working on required a large amount of investigative skills and they have risen to the challenge, producing some outstanding work that we will build on next week when we move onto looking at the area of compound and irregular shapes.

Just to note there will be a slight change of schedule next week due to our languages day visit at the Corbet school on Friday. Because of this we will be doing our weekly spelling test on Thursday 14th.

Have a fantastic weekend,

Mr Sudlow.

Well done to class 5 for working so well this week.

Our English focus has been on character description. We began by recapping the key features of the genre before planning the extended writing pieces using evidence from the text to support the description of the character. The children have worked incredibly hard on this and they have shown a deep understanding of the genre which has resulted in fantastic quality within their final draft.

In Maths we have been working on perimeter and how to calculate unknown dimensions as well as converting between units of measurement to help solve problems. Some of the reasoning problems we have been working on have required a lot of perseverance through trial and error, which the children have really risen to and their understanding over the course of the week has grown impressively, this is down to their hard work so well done.

Have a fantastic weekend,

Mr Sudlow.

Well done to everyone in class 5!

This week in English we have been working on instruction writing. The children have excelled with this topic identifying the features of the genre before extracting evidence from the book that they could use in their writing . They have planned, written, reflected, edited and improved their work with the end results being fantastic.

In Maths this week we completed our first multiplication tables test before moving onto measuring perimeter. The children have shown a tremendous amount of resilience this week as this topic required lots of trial and error with multiple step problems. However through their hard work and determination they have produced some really high quality work and should be proud of their achievements.

A letter about our homework project was given out to the children today, please don’t hesitate to call into class either before school or at the end of the day if you have any questions.

Mr Sudlow.

Well done everyone on a great week! You worked so hard and produced such amazing work and this is all down to your focus and effort levels in class.

In English last week we were focusing on newspaper reports. We started the topic by recapping the features of a newspaper report and the children did really well to research, using first news, before identifying what they would need to include in their work later that week. They used peer and self-assessment to establish what they had done really well and what their next steps needed to be before putting that into practice during both the planning and writing phase of the week. Their finished work was informative, detailed, well planned and well presented.

In Maths we focused on factors before progressing onto common factors. The children showed really secure understanding of these topics using their prior knowledge to push themselves on later in the week as they progressed through the topics. They have shown tremendous amounts of resilience and mathematical thinking by extending their work to create their own problems for peers, by questioning concepts and ideas as well as thinking deeply and exploring different possibilities within problems. This has resulted in really high standards of work.

This week we are looking at non-chronological reports in English along with prime numbers and square numbers in Maths before breaking up on Friday ready for Christmas.

Mr Sudlow.

Well done class 5!

We have had a great week, the children have worked so hard and tried their best throughout assessment week and this is all down to their positive attitude towards their work.

In Maths we have moved on to our new unit of work which is multiplication and division. We have been looking at multiples and the children have excelled in this topic area, working with great confidence and accuracy whilst showing resilience as they tried and tested different methods. They have displayed their table knowledge and this has helped them to succeed and show a good level of understanding.

In English we have continued to read Journey to the River Sea which the children are all completely enthused with as we near the end of the book, making some very sophisticated predictions about what may happen to conclude the story. We worked on wanted posters for one of the characters this week with the children producing some accurate and arty designs. The level of conversation and understanding in class while exploring new words has been really high with the children showing maturity and greater levels of independence driving their own learning by utilising the resources in the classroom.

Well done to everyone for Thursday’s theatre trip. You were a credit to our school, you set a good example for the younger classes and I’m glad you all enjoyed yourselves. A big well done to Martin as well for his air guitar performance onstage!

Have a great weekend everyone and I’ll see you Monday.

Mr Sudlow.