Toys
In our topic lessons, we’ve been looking at and playing with Victorian toys. The children had to reason about what the toys were and how children would have used them. If they didn’t know or couldn’t figure it out, they used secondary sources to find out. The whip and top foxed them the most!
13 May 2016
This week’s creative homework is due on Wednesday 16 May.
To be able to name and describe the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.
Next week’s Maths will be all about shape. In Year 5, we need to be able to identify what 3D shape a net will make; identify and measure angles; and say whether a shape is regular or irregular.
Before we can do any of that, we need to be confident naming and describing 2D and 3D shapes and their properties. These are the 2D shapes we should be able to identify and describe:
- triangles (equilateral, isosceles, right-angled, scalene)
- quadrilaterals (kite, rhombus, trapezium, parallelogram)
- pentagon
- hexagon
- heptagon
- octagon
- decagon
We should be able to discuss ‘LADS’:
- Lines – how many, equal lengths, parallels?
- Angles – how many, which type, equal opposites, right-angles?
- Diagonals – how many can we spot by joining vertices?
- Symmetry – does it have any lines of symmetry? Where? How many?
We should also know the following 3D shapes:
- sphere
- cuboid
- cube
- prisms (pentagonal, hexagonal etc…)
- cylinder
- pyramid
- tetrahedron
13 May 2016
This week’s practice makes perfect homework is due on Wednesday 18 May.
To be able to describe the position of a shape, reflect it and translate it.
These are all of the skills we’ve been learning during Maths this week. We’ve been remembering that we need to go along the x axis then the y axis for co-ordinates and making sure we know the difference between reflection and translation.
13 May 2016
This week’s spellings are to practise changing …ble to …bly. Note how each word initially ends in ‘e’ but this is removed when the ‘y’ is added.
- possible, possibly,
- impossible
- horrible, horribly,
- terrible, terribly,
- visible, visibly,
- invisible
- incredible, incredibly,
- sensible, sensibly
These words will be tested on Friday 20 May but, don’t forget, the point of learning these spellings is to spell them correctly – not to do well in a test!
The words have now been added to Spellodrome so there are plenty of different ways we can practise our spellings.
Brilliant Homework
WOW! Year 1, I am so impressed with you! You were very creative and have made some wonderful things about your favourite toy. I particularly liked Ethan’s edible homework which unfortunately had to go home, but we have a photo on the wall. Rayn’s rocket is eye-catching and he used lots of different materials to create it. Pollyanna created a marble run which you can really play! Hifza made a hobby horse which is so pretty and shows off lots of skills. Everyone should be proud of their work this week. Well done!
National Smile Month
As part of National Smile Month, we will be having a calcium filled lunch special menu on Tuesday 24 May.
If your child would like to have a school meal on this day, please inform the office as soon as possible.
Bonsoir
Year 3 were developing their conversational French this afternoon including greetings, how they were feeling, numbers and their age.
With some children holidaying in France this year, they were keen to learn more so this website covers some of the basics.
À bientôt!
Films in the making
As part of our child-led film topic, we’ve been working on creating our own stop motion animation films. We worked really well together today to develop some short films that we’ll share with you soon.
We’re going to try our hand at some editing next to see if we can give them a more professional finish and audio too. We’ll then analyse our efforts, think about what we need to improve and have another go at it before half term to see if we improve. …Just like they’d do in the films!
Creative Art Homeworks
Here are our favourite homeworks from last week. They were all great so it was very hard to choose!
Fun in the sun
We had some fun in the sun today and we had some very proud moments. Children who, in the past, couldn’t jump up high enough to reach the higher equipment in the playground can now do it! We’ve been determined and resilient… and we’ve grown a bit taller too! 
As the sun was glaring down on us, some children made a safe choice to enjoy their fruit in the shade.
