Year 5 Class News

Reading challenges…

Posted on Monday 20 September 2021 by Mr Roundtree

Check out this photo of some Year 5s completing the reading record challenge ‘read in an unusual place’…

Can you think of a more peculiar place to read a book?

Reading records

Posted on Monday 20 September 2021 by Mr Roundtree

Last Friday, your child was sent home with a brand new reading record. This is an exciting new scheme that has been introduced this year for KS2.

The new reading records offer the following benefits:

  • it is a place for children to record the books/texts they’ve read and rate them out of five stars
  • there are a range of activities your child will accomplish throughout the year based on what they’ve read (each week, details of this task will be posted on class news)
  • it gives children a chance to enhance their love of reading during our weekly book club sessions in school
  • it gives children ownership and responsibility of their reading
  • it allows children to practise their oracy skills during book club sessions when they share what they’ve been reading
  • it can be a place for parents to share with teachers the wonderful reading their child has been doing at home

If your child would like to complete a reading activity for this week – please feel free! We will decide on our whole class reading activity for next week, tomorrow.

You can find more details about this in the activities section of the reading record.

Any questions, please ask!

Happy reading!

Living and Learning: 8Rs for learning

Posted on Monday 20 September 2021 by Mr Roundtree

Last week, Year 5 were focussing on the Eight Rs for learning. The Eight 8rs for learning are good learning behaviours that we aim to demonstrate during every lesson.

Challenge your child to name the Eight Rs for learning as fast as they can!

During our Living and Learning lesson, we were challenged to order the Eight Rs in order of importance. This was a particularly difficult task as all the children recognised the importance of each R. We engaged in a thoughtful and interesting debate where children were able to argue why they thought a particular learning behaviour was of paramount importance.

 

Our Science and Geography vocabulary

Posted on Thursday 16 September 2021 by Miss Wilson

This half term, our Science focus is States of Matter and we are chemists!

Take a look at our list of vocabulary that we’ve been learning about in class. How well would you say you know their definitions?

Some of them are quite tricky. Can you remember the actions we’ve done in class?

dissolve when a solid mixes with liquid to make a solution
mixture two or more substances that can be separated
chemical reaction a process in which one or more substances are converted to one or more different substances

 

soluble when something can dissolve
solvent usually (liquid) that does the dissolving
reversible  a change that can be undone or reversed

 

insoluble when something can’t dissolve
solution mixture of solid and liquid (you might not be able to see the solid)

 

irreversible a change that can’t be undone or reversed

 

 

We’re also Geographers this half term and we’re learning about urban green spaces and city expansion.

What small activities could you do at home to help you remember this list of vocabulary?

national park an area set aside by the government for the preservation of the natural environment
six figure grid reference contains six numbers which give a precise location on a map
city expansion also called urban sprawl, this is the increase in a built-up area
urban green space

 

any vegetated land or water within an urban area
carbon stores

 

  places where carbon is stored in the environment
quantitative data

 

data which can be written in numbers
qualitative data

 

data that can be written in words, not numbers
soundscape a qualitative record of the sounds in any environment
sampling   a way of collecting fieldwork data without measuring everything

Netball coaching and half term camps

Posted on Wednesday 15 September 2021 by Mrs Taylor

We are looking forward to having some coaching in school from Elite Netball Academy in the next few weeks.

Elite Netball Academy run weekly netball classes on a Saturday morning at Gateways school and they have an early bird offer for their October half term camps held locally at The Grammar School at Leeds- £25 per day if booked by 17th September.

Week 1

Posted on Tuesday 14 September 2021 by Mr Roundtree

Hello everyone!

I can’t believe that we are already in our second week! Year 5 have demonstrated fantastic attitudes towards their learning and I look forward to seeing how this will help them progress throughout the year.

So far, we have enjoyed…

Practising our linguistic skills in Latin…

Fine tuning our pocket passes in rugby…

Learning as part of a team…

And finding a quiet moment to enjoy some reading or drawing!

Looking ahead, we have a lot of exciting learning to look forward to this half term.

In maths, we’re learning about decimals and fractions.
In writing, we’re learning about how to write a diary entry. Ask your child if they can remember any key features of a typical diary entry.
In reading, we’re recapping how to answer retrieval, inference and choice questions. Our class novel this half term is Survivors – a fascinating read packed with short stories of bravery, resilience and danger. Ask your child if they can use their summarising skills to retell one of the short stories we’ve read so far.
In topic, we’re learning as geographers about the world we live in.  Check out this tool on Google Maps to see how school has changed over time. You could see how your own front garden has changed, too!
In science, we’re learning as chemists about the properties and changes of materials. Watch this space for reports on some exciting science experiments!

As of this week, Year 5 also have an in house TTRS competition. Every week, the child who has spent the most time on TTRS is able to randomly shout out a times table of their choice for the class to answer. Please encourage your child to log on so they have a chance of having ‘the power’!

As always, please don’t hesitate to get in touch if there is anything that I can help you with.

Miss Needham

Welcome back!

Posted on Sunday 05 September 2021 by Mr Roundtree

Hello Year 5!

I hope you’ve had a happy and healthy holiday and are looking forward to coming back to school. I am really excited to have you as my first class (as a teacher!) at Moortown. I know we are going to make a great team!

A few things to note:

  • Mrs Russell and Ms Canning will be working with us this year.
  • School times are back to normal. The school day will start at 8:50 and end at 3:15.
  • PE is on a Monday and a Thursday. Your child should come to school in their PE kit on those days. We will be doing PE as normal tomorrow. 
  • The school uniform policy is on our website. Please check if you are unsure about any items of clothing or footwear.
  • If you have come across any reading books or library books please bring them into school.

Please do ask if you have any questions or concerns.

See you tomorrow!

Miss Needham

 

Tennis opportunities

Posted on Wednesday 21 July 2021 by Mrs Taylor

If your child enjoys tennis or wants to try it out, tennis camps are taking place locally at these clubs over the summer holidays.

Roundhay tennis club

Chapel Allerton tennis

Adel Tennis Club

Thanks to Roundhegians

Posted on Tuesday 20 July 2021 by Mrs Taylor

We are very grateful to Roundhegians Rugby Club for hosting our sports days once again this year and allowing us to use their excellent facilities.

Roundhegians have a variety of rugby training sessions, from under 6 through to under 17, and these sessions will resume on Sunday 5th September.

For more information, please contact their chair of junior rugby, Chris Fongwah (fongers.cfw@gmail.com).

Multi-sport summer camps

Posted on Friday 16 July 2021 by Mrs Taylor

White Rose Rugby, in partnership with Moortown RUFC, have been delivering some great rugby sessions in school this term including sessions as part of our Being Healthy themed week.
Over the summer break, they will be running multi-sport camps locally at Moortown RUFC. To book, click on this link