Welcome to the last Class 5 blog of the term! A third of your Year 6 year has already been completed! We have an exciting week – exhibiting our theme work in the museum on Monday, serving and providing the catering for our museum cafe as well as dancing the 1940’s ballroom jive whilst the museum is open is just the beginning of a hectic week. We have our Christmas lunch on Wednesday and our KS2 Christmas party on Thursday, followed by the carol service on Friday. Class 5 will be part of the Carol Service organisation as usual.

Splitting eggs  - rising to the challenge!

Baking melting moments for the museum cafe.

Chocolate torte chefs!

Chocolate torte, strawberry pavlova and melting moments - enjoy on Monday everyone!

All donations will go to Help for Heroes.

Homework  15/12/14 

English

Homework this week and over the holiday is to write a review in your opinion of how the All Saints whole school museum was received. Can you explain why the work was completed linked to the theme?

I am still expecting a book review each week on the blog when you have finished a Bug Club book. L6 books may take a fortnight to complete.

Maths

Your homework over the holidays is to explain and learn the equivalence chart for percentages, fractions and decimals to an adult at home and learn it off by heart. This knowledge and understanding will have a significant impact on your mental maths ability, speed and calculations in maths next term.

I would like to wish you all a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We have arrived at the penultimate week of the Autumn Term. We will be organising and preparing our museum exhibits this week, polishing our ballroom jive skills and mapping a magnetic field around a magnet in physics. Weather permitting we will be having a hockey match to prove our skills and studying the Battle of Britain during WW2. Long multiplication practice and application along with reading large Roman Numerals will be our focus in maths. We are continuing to study Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse, adding more to our knowledge of the First World War as well as grammar and phonics skills.

You have been allocated Abacus homework online this week. Go to our Class blog and click on the Abacus maths link. Alternatively, you can log on to www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login

Username: first name and first 2 initials of surname all joined up, eg:elsiewa

Password: changeme

School code:fasc

Then click on ‘my stuff’ (remember you must allow pop ups at this stage if in Chrome).

Do the tasks and have fun!

   Homework  08/12/14 

   Due in on Friday as homework will be given out on Mondays, due in on Fridays.

 

English

Bronze and Iron Age Groups

Homework this week is to write a sentence using each of the homophones given to you. These are different homophones to last week’s homework and quite a challenge. This will clearly show that you can use the words in the correct context.

Neolithic Group

Drop the ‘e’ or add the suffix challenge.

Maths

You have all been allocated online maths homework , calculating subtraction including decimal subtractions for the Iron Group.

Practice specifically your 8x and 9x tables this week as well as all of the others now.

 

Our 1940's ballroom jive is coming on!

Class 5 and Class 1 made Christingles together.

Our Christingle Service

   Homework  01/12/14 

   Due in on Friday as homework will be given out on Mondays, due in on Fridays.

 

English

Well done Class 5! Those of you who have commented on your presentations have understood how to improve for the next one. You all handled a nerve wracking experience extremely well. They were extremely informative too. If you haven’t commented on the blog, please do so as it was your Literacy homework last week.

Homework this week is to write a sentence using each of the homophones given to you. This will clearly show that you can use the words in the correct context.

Maths

You have all been allocated online maths homework , calculating angles in a triangle and quadrilaterals.

Practice specifically your 6x and 7x tables this week as well as all of the others now.

We have a busy week ahead, making our Christingles with Class One, carrying out an experiment proving that a magnetic field becomes weaker with distance, continuing our hockey and ballroom jive skills and completing our Stonehenge models. We are beginning our historical narrative War Horse study in depth with Michael Foreman's War Games which continues our WWI and WWII studies. 

Measuring force in Newtons

Mastering hockey skills

Pudsey in coins - well done Fordham!

Marilyn brought in fascinating and rare documents.

We all learnt so much - thank you Marilyn.

A postcard from a German prisoner of war camp that Elizabeth brought in.

One of Class 5's Inspiration mindmaps being developed.

Welcome to the weekly blog for Week 4 of this half term. Class 5 had an eventful week as it was Friendship week with a wide variety of activities and fun outside the classroom. They learnt how to dance under their partners arm and twist in the ballroom jive; had a stimulating and surprising science lesson learning about magnetic force and the week culminated in their presentations to an audience.

I would like to say congratulations to Class 5 for the effort and preparation most pupils put into making their presentations as interesting, varied and as professional as they could.  Their photos are here on the blog and each member of Class 5 is going to write about what went well and how they can improve for their future presentations.

This week is Powerdown Week and I’m sure that the results of monitoring our use of energy within the school will be an eye opener, especially our no power day on Friday! How much will we save this week?

Homework  24/11/14 

   Due in on Friday as homework will be given out on Mondays, due in on Fridays.

English

Well done Class 5! Your presentations were effective, interesting and a few were completely professional! Please write on the blog this week which areas of the Success Criteria for presentation worked well and one area that you know you need to work on. Your photos are on there, it was a nerve wracking experience but an essential skill for life. If you haven’t written a book review on the blog for last week’s homework, please do so whilst you are on there.

Maths

Neolithic Group – Angles in a triangle. Bronze and Iron Age –angles in a triangle and around a point. 3x and 4x tables need to be fluent and known so well that you can go up and down at speed. We will be doing this together this week too.

Class 5 would like to say a huge thank you to Marilyn Beard from Oaks and Acorns who spent the afternoon sharing her family WWI and WWII family history.The fascinating and rare documents and photographs helped to bring it all alive and the learning experience was invaluable.
Doris Beard visited us to share her WWII memories a few weeks ago and we would also like to express our thanks from all of Class 5 for that experience too.

Does particle size affect solubility?

 Explain to anyone at home why the surface area of the particles affects solubility.

Welcome to our third week already this half term! It has been a busy time!

 I was extremely proud of you all at Fordham War Memorial on Tuesday and it was lovely to watch you all play a part in helping David to plant the flowering cherry on Jubilee Green afterwards. The plaque read ‘We Will Remember Them’ and I am sure you all will - you have learnt and understood so much.

The Copford Music Festival was thoroughly enjoyed by all and you sounded fantastic.

This week we continue with our study of WWI and have a visitor tomorrow afternoon, Marilyn form Oaks and Acorns who will be telling us about her WWI and WWII local family experiences. It is Friendship Week, during which we will be focusing on how to look after and protect ourselves and our friends. A few pupils in our class will be rising to the challenge of the national maths competition 'The Primary Maths Challenge' this week. Keep a cool head, think things through  and we know you will do well! 

   Homework  17/11/14 

   Due in on Friday as homework will be given out on Mondays, due in on Fridays.

English – two weeks for this assignment, ready for next a presentation from 17/11/14

This was your brief two weeks ago. The presentation will be Thursday after break. Your homework is to practice this, time it and be thoroughly prepared. Please complete one book review on the blog that you have read from Bug Club before Friday.

Research exactly what Boudica’s role was in burning down Roman Colchester. You will need to find interesting information for a speaking presentation to the class in two weeks time and have your information neatly presented in whatever format you wish, (printed or handwritten) ready to exhibit in our museum. You will need to time your presentation so that it lasts no more than three minutes and can be less. You can make or find artefacts or pictures to show us too if you wish.

Maths

Neolithic Group – page 15. Bronze and Iron Age – pages 14 and 15 of Rising Stars, negative numbers. The 12x table this week must be fluent.

Bronze Age and Iron Age Group - p14 and p15 of Rising Stars  negative numbers. 

Concentrating hard on creating fantastic music

Robyn laid our wreath