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Over the last few weeks, I have been blown away by the effort the children have put into producing the most amazing pieces of writing. From biographies to balanced arguments, followed by character descriptions and stories – they have all been fantastic. Everyone has worked so hard to include a range of y5/6 grammar and punctuation correctly; the use of features appropriate to the genre has been to a high standard. I am proud of each and everyone of you! Mrs Jackson x
Swimming next week is safety and survival week! Your child will need to bring their normal swimming things plus extra clothes. Clothes can be things such as old pyjamas or a normal tshirt and shorts or leggings. Nothing to heavy please so no jean items and no hoodies or onsies.
I would also send an extra plastic bag for the children to put their wet clothes in.
Thank you
A huge congratulations to every award winner this week- very well deserved!
Nope, it’s not those type of weights! We’ve been getting to understand how different objects have a different mass. We used weighing scales to be able to see this and we used our vocabulary of lighter, heavier and mass to gain more confidence with this. Check out how we got on below!
Today, Class 11 have been exploring different features of narrative writing. We looked at a story about a Flood. We have been looking closely at features like fronted adverbials, conjunctions and what actually makes a great story. This included a setting description at the start to set the scene, a problem that happens in the middle and a resolution (we hope) at the end. What impressed me more though was Class 11s collaboration together. They found so many features and just cracked on with the job.
As part of our second case study in our expedition we are re-writing the story of Man in the Moon. The children are telling the story from the point of view of the aliens and used some amazing adjectives, fantastic conjunctions and wonderful punctuation to write the first part of the story this morning…and this was only the first draft! I cannot wait to see your final drafts after editing and improving tomorrow.
Great job!
In crew this morning we played a game of what 3 words?. This is an opportunity for the children to think about 3 words that describe who they are. A difficult enough concept for an adult let alone a crew of 20 five and six year olds. The children did amazingly well though, and came up with some really insightful adjectives to describe their personalities. I was pleased to see that nearly all the children described themselves as happy, with kind coming a close second. Other words were beautiful, friendly, hardworking and helpful.
I couldn’t agree more guys…and one more word I would like to add to describe you all…AWESOME!
This half term Year 5 will not be taking part in XP Outdoors on a Thursday so children no longer need to bring in a change of clothes to change into.
Kixx has also finished on a Monday therefore PE will take place on a Thursday afternoon. Please can children bring in suitable PE Kits starting from tomorrow.
Many thanks!
Class 12 had a great second day at Austerfield despite the tiredness!
We spent the morning cooking food and lighting fires. Lots of us were even brave enough to try ‘nettle crisps’ and some enjoyed nettles with chocolate spread! To light the fire, we had to go foraging in the woods to collect leaves, sticks and bark from trees.
During the afternoon, we enjoyed shelter building! To test the shelters, water was thrown on them with everyone inside – it’s safe to say some people got a little bit wet!
This morning, the class have been getting their hands dirty with some den building down in the woods! They had to build the best available shelter before testing its effectiveness by having a bucket of water thrown over the top of it!
During the afternoon, the class split in half to practise some different survival skills. Before starting, we went to the woods to collect our firewood. Some children practised starting a fire using a flint and steel, whilst the other half cooked food over the open fire. We were even able to eat some cooked nettles!
