National Numeracy Day – 18th May

9th May 2022Rebecca Knowles

We are looking forward to celebrating National Numeracy Day on Wednesday 18th May!

Maths is all around us and in the run up to National Numeracy Day, I would love for you to take some photos of you that link to maths! Maybe it will be a picture of you using money to pay for something in the shop, maybe it will be of how many steps you have walked in a day, or maybe it will be of you practising your maths skills!

How creative can you be finding maths around your home and in the community? Please send all of your photographs to [email protected] so that I can make a video to celebrate maths!

Also, check out the official website (link below) because there are lots of fun activities that you can do with your children!

https://www.nationalnumeracy.org.uk/numeracyday

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Building Background Knowledge- Time!

6th May 2022Amy Faulding

We’ve just started a new unit of work on Time in year 4.

We have covered some of this in Maths Talk, as well as in our maths lessons over the last couple of days but have a go at some of these and either fetch them in to your teacher or take a photo and put them on the classroom (they will be uploaded on there as well). We can’t wait to hand out some HoWL points!

Here are also some helpful links to some tutorials on time too…

Equiano in the hot seat!

6th May 2022Amy Faulding

Yesterday, we were writers in the character of Equiano -who is the main character from our focus text this term. Equiano was a slave from the age of 10 who published his life memoirs in to an autobiography so we are very lucky to be able to unpick his life, what it must have been like for him and read about how he felt during the different stages of his life.

Thanks to Eleanor and Ozzy for volunteering to put themselves in to Equiano’s shoes for the hot seating activity to answer our questions. It was great to see you both think so carefully about your responses to the questions ensuring that you captured his feelings in the different moments of his life.

After this, we all then wrote a letter as Equiano to his parents, recounting what he’d gone through on his journey as a slave so far. I’m so excited to read these and share some on here later on! Watch this space….

We are historians!

6th May 2022Amy Faulding

This week, we have been historians! We have researched three different figures from the past related to slavery and have compared their experiences.

We are truly fascinated by these freed slaves; Mary prince and Equiano and their inspirational life stories. We also looked at the life of a slave trader and how much profit he made by trading goods such as sugar in return for slaves.

Next, we are moving on to the abolition of slavery!

I just want to make a shout out to my crew for approaching such a sensitive and dark subject so sensibly and maturely. I have been blown away by you all and what you have been taking away with you each lesson. Well done! ⭐️

Mrs Faulding x

We built this crew on rock n roll!

6th May 2022Amy Faulding

Throwing it back to last week when it was TT rockstar and world dance day!

Looking like the true rock legends that you all are Crew Faulding and Mrs Hardman looking amazing as always! You guys are smashing it on TT rockstars, keep it up!

Y5 Heart Dissection

5th May 2022Tom Ambler

During our next case study, Year 5 children will be learning about the heart and circulatory system as part of their science curriculum work for this expedition. The children will get the chance to dissect a lamb’s heart. In the past, children have found this session extremely beneficial and gained a greater depth of understanding of the organ and how it functions. We understand, however, that there may be some children who will not feel comfortable with this, and so we will ensure that only children who want to take part in the activities do so.

We will also take all the necessary safety precautions required, purchasing hearts of food quality and making sure that the children wash their hands thoroughly after the activity. Please could you ensure that your child brings into school an apron or an oversized old shirt to protect their school uniform. These activities will take place on Wednesday 11th May. If you have any concerns regarding this activity, please contact your child’s class teacher or through the Y5/6 phase email [email protected]

Thank you and best wishes

Y5 team