Year 5/6 are making links through expedition and working with our local community to support the miniature Railway. We will be hosting a range of exciting stalls for you to get involved with and all proceeds will be donated to keep the miniature railway running.
Please come along at 15:00pm on Tuesday 12th October and support us!
I am thrilled to be running and supporting the Green Top Learning Council this year and I am so excited to see what is in store for us!
The Y5/6 Learning Council members have their first appointment tomorrow where they will be speaking to visitors and leading a tour!
Here they are planning for their upcoming engagement!
Watch out for further blogs and pictures of events that involve the Y3/4 Learning Council members too!
In maths we have kick started our decimals unit with multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. To help us consolidate our place value knowledge, we used place value sliders which were a book support to help us visualise numbers getting smaller or bigger.
Some children were already really confident with this skills so moved straight on to some other reasoning and problem solving challenges.
Great work Crew Knowles!
As part of our science learning, we focused on the properties of stainless steel today and why it is such a useful material in the rail industry. We learnt about Harry Brearley and how stainless steel was invented just up the road from us in Sheffield!
Grace fetched in a HUGE cake for her Year 6 friends today to celebrate her 2 year anniversary of being tube free! Those that know Grace will know how special this is for her!
Congratulations Grace!
Yesterday, Crew Knowles were planning for their writing touch downs which is a descriptive recount of their first time entering Hogwarts’ Great Hall!
Today, they have started their writing and I am really enjoying reading them so far! They have used lots of figurative language and ISPACE openers which is making their writing much more detailed and descriptive!
I can’t wait to read the finished writing!
This term’s homework is now accessible on our online classrooms. To access the online classrooms you will need to ‘log in’ on the Green Top website. You can log in using the icon in the top right corner of the page.
username: [email protected]
password: password
Year 5 – Please remember to add the number ‘30’ after your name.
Year 6 – Please add the number ‘29’ after your name.
Once you are logged in, click on the ‘gmail’ icon at the top of the page (it looks like an envelope). You will have an email inviting you to the online classroom. Please accept this invite to access the classroom.
If you are isolating and well enough, you will also find copies of the week’s slides on there too. If you are poorly there is no expectation that you will access any online learning.
If you need any more support with this please speak to you class teacher and they will be happy top help you with this.
Thank you
The Y5/6 Staff Team
In our expedition lesson yesterday, we conducted an investigation to look at the solubility of different materials. We investigated dissolving different solutes (materials) in a solvent (water) and then recorded our results. We also had great fun whilst doing it!
As part of our chemistry case study, we have been looking at the different states of matter as well as reversible and irreversible changes. We have looked at how steam locomotives work and used our knowledge to conduct an investigation to find out whether the properties of steam would make our pin wheel candle holder spin!
As part of our English cycle we completed our Red Box lesson today which focused on figurative language.
We looked at lots of different language techniques but focused more carefully recognising a hyperbole, simile, personification and metaphor!
