We are chemists!
This week, we have started our next unit in science: reversible and irreversible changes. For this topic we are going to be chemists. Chemistry is the study of the properties of substances and the changes they go through.
In today’s lesson, we tested which substances could be dissolved in water. If our substance did dissolve this meant that it was soluble and created a solution. If it did not dissolve, then the substance was insoluble.
Our scientific enquiry type was ‘comparative and fair testing’.
Help at home: Discuss our new science vocabulary.
PE: Basketball
This half term our new PE unit is basketball. We had our first lesson and we practised our throwing and catching skills whilst in a game setting. Next lesson we will be perfecting our passes and thinking about tactics.
Help at home: Can you name all of the different types of passes?
Moortown Netballers
Some of the netballers from our after-school club took part in the Leeds Well School Partnership Bee Netball competition at Allerton High this week.
This was their first team event and we were very proud of their performance and team work. Thank you to parents for supporting and for helping with transport.
The Tuesday after-school netball club will be restarting in the summer term for those children who would like to come and join.
Netball activities are also available over Easter from Leeds Rhinos Netball.
Big Walk and Wheel final position
After the two week Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge, we now have the final results.
In our category of small primary schools, we finished in 20th place out of 459 schools with an average of 89.81% active journeys to school. We achieved the highest national (20th) and Northern England (3rd) ranking out of those schools in Leeds taking part.
With a total of 1655 active journeys across the two weeks, this is a great achievement and we want to thank families for supporting this challenge.
Help at home: By walking, cycling and scooting to school, you are helping us make a positive change to the school run. With less cars close to the school gates, this is a safer and healthier way to start the day.
Food technology: Egg-cellent Omelette
On Friday, Year 5 made eggs-quisite omelettes.
We worked in small groups to prepare the ingredients and then cook them. We made sure that we washed our hands and wore our aprons for hygiene reasons.
We used the bridge cutting method and the claw cutting method to cut up our tomatoes. These methods are the safest way to cut food as they help us from hurting ourselves! We also grated cheese and whisked our eggs.
The recipe for the absolutely cracking omelette was sent home with your child on Friday, if they wish to make it at home too.
Living and Learning: I can give and receive compliments.
This week, Year 5 discussed what is right and wrong and how right and wrong might look different in a variety of situations. They then talked about how people’s actions can affect others. The children were able to share positive actions that they had done and how it impacted the people around them.
Here are a few examples:
- holding a door open for someone
- buying a blanket for someone in need
- sharing a smile
- saying Happy Birthday to someone
- letting someone play with you
- buying food for someone in need
Year 5 then wrote down anonymous compliments to their peers. We were able to read out a few at the end of the day and we will continue to hear them this next week.
Help at home: Discuss how receiving a compliment can make you feel.
Guided Reading Week 5
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Thursday 28th March:
Divine Freaks: end of book.
Street Child: end of book.
How To Train Your Dragon: end of book.
The Considine Curse: end of book.
Extra Time: end of book.
The London Mystery Eye: end of book.
All guided reading books should be brought back in before the end of term. If you would like to keep your book over the holidays to finish it off, please speak to an adult in Year 5.
Writing: A Promotional Piece
After completing some fantastic narratives that created tension and suspense, we have now started to look at creating a promotional piece of writing. The children will be trying to persuade people to buy their ‘Chatbot Game’ that they have been making in our computing topic.
The purpose of a promotional text is ‘to persuade/sell/promote a product’.
We started by looking at different promotional texts; the children highlighted and annotated them to find the R2s.
Help at home: Find the R2s in the text.
– present tense
– name of product
– slogan
– subheadings
– persuasive language
– figurative language (e.g. alliteration, hyperbole)
– rhetorical questions
– customer review (e.g. direct quotes)
– special offer
– repetition (e.g. rule of three)
Reading Records
This term, some fantastic pieces of homework have been brought in. Have a look at these amazing examples of reading records.
How creative can your next reading record be?
Help at home: Read daily with your child and sign their reading record each week.
Big walk and wheel update
We’ve had a great start to the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge this week.
After the first five days, we are currently in 19th place (out of 549 schools) in the small primary category with an average of 84.76% of our journeys to school being active. This is a great achievement and we want to thank families for supporting this challenge.
To keep up with the leader board for the rest of the challenge, it can be viewed here.
The Big Walk and Wheel challenge continues until Friday 22nd March so we look forward to seeing our progress over the upcoming week.
Help at home: By walking, cycling and scooting to school, you are helping us make a positive change to the school run. With less cars close to the school gates, this is a safer and healthier way to start the day.
