Remembering the week gone by...

This week has been one of reflection and remembrance - although we still found time to learn something new!

Our week began with a Music Festival for Year 6. Despite Miss Vidler only going through the words with us at the last minute - we still did a great job and enjoyed practicing songs with other local primary schools. Year 6 really showed what amazing ambassadors of the school they can be, proven again on Wednesday as they represented the school in the village Remembrance Service by the war memorial.

Meanwhile Mrs Martin stayed with the year 5s and completed a constellation project. As part of this we got to design our own constellations and decide what animal or object they represented. Our writing work was to write an imaginary myth about our constellation, and our maths was to practice estimating and measuring angles between each of the stars. All resulted in some great work!

Constellation Project Work

Once we were all back together we could begin our writing focus on non-chronological reports. We started by writing one of our own about Fordham School, and reminded ourselves these texts needed to be more impersonal and include introductory paragraphs! We studied the pages of some of our space books to spot these features, and ended the week by beginning our design of our own planet ready to write our own page of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.

In maths we began looking at algebra forming missing number problems. Although most of us understood how to use inverse to find the answer we were sometimes thrown by questions that involved decimal numbers and even fractions! We have all shown great perseverance and growth mindset during these tricky lessons.

We continued our exploration of space by looking at the scale of the universe. First we stood out on the playground to work out relative distances of planets in our solar system, then we made our own planets and showed how the compared in size to each other. Our astonishing efforts are currently on display on the classroom ceiling!

The size of the Sun compared to the inner planets is mind-blowing!

Class 5 Solar System - compete with asteroid belt!

We also looked into the space race and used our computing skills to research on the internet the important dates of space travel and the heated competition between the USSR and the USA. This gave us a great excuse to revise how to display a timeline, something we had already worked on as a class during our Greek topic. We also continued our astronaut training program in PE, by doing push-ups, squats and crunches to help build our core muscle strength!

We had to calculate the radius and use compasses to work out the scaled-down size of the planets

Feeling the burn!

Just one more!

Homework also went out this week. Every pupil in the school has been asked to come up with a piece of homework that persuades people to look after our planet! This fits with our powerdown week in a few weeks time. Our 'unofficial' homework as a class was to also continue our discovery of our new planet - again using any type of medium that we thought appropriate!

Another great week Class 5, lets hope next week we can share stories of kindness as we enter Friendship Week!

The Class 5 team celebrate Children in Need!

Miss Vidler