Welcome to Year 5

Below is our most recent blog from Year 5.  This includes a summary of the last two weeks including any important information for the coming weeks (reminders etc).  These will be updated every other Friday.

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Friday 17^th May 2024

On the Tuesday after the bank holiday, we visited the Stanley Picker Gallery as part of our Kingston topic. We explored the gallery looking at the art work produced using Kingston as a stimulus and then after a lovely sunny lunch by the river, we visited the community garden. At the garden, the children planted sunflowers and learnt about lifecycles (plants, tadpoles and flowers) at the garden. Using the Hogsmill River as a stimulus the children then made notes and sketches in their home made scrapbooks.

In English, we have started our work on biographies looking firstly at Jane Goodall and moving on to David Attenborough. We will be writing David Attenborough's biography over the next few weeks looking at skills like adding quotes, using colons correctly and constructing adverbial phrases.

We have been learning all about angles in Maths - drawing, measuring and working out angles round a point and on a straight line. The children have mastered using a protractor quickly and have been able to use what they have learnt in previous years about angles (acute, obtuse and reflex) to help them with this new learning.

We have been dissecting flowers this week in Science to learn about the female and male part of the flowers responsible for reproduction and understanding how pollination occurs.

Our focus in Geography was Clarence Street and how it has changed over the years. We discussed the traffic issues that Kingston has had over the years and still has, thinking of solutions for the problems which I suggested they pass on to the local council!