Up, up and away!

We are flying in Class 5 this week! Well, only metaphorically, but if everyone seems a bit tired this weekend hopefully this blog will explain why!

In English we have been looking at how we need to change our writing when we are writing formally. We had great fun translating phrases into ‘posh’ synonyms, adding relative clauses, creating informal language, seeing how commas clarify meaning, and discovering 12 (that’s right 12) different tense forms!

Our focus in maths was multiplication this week. We had the opportunity to develop our times tables skills to be able to tackle problems involving the dreaded decimal numbers! Some of us also cracked (and then secured) how to use the short and long written methods in our arithmetic (and Miss Vidler’s bid to get children to rely less on the grid method in year 5/6).

In theme we carried on with our geography, first collecting up statistics about the UK and the USA in comparison. We then studied tectonic plates, to help us get a better understanding of why natural disasters occur in the USA – more on this next week!

Year 6 had great fun in science creating working models of the lungs, showing how our diaphragm plays a key role in getting air to go in and out of our lungs.

We have also got started on our independent projects this week – pupils have been enjoying exploring a part of the USA that interests them. We look forward to seeing some fantastic fact files about American holidays, dancers, animals and transport soon!

We have had a great response to our new homework books this week – and more homework has been set today. Also don’t forget to log in to your activelearn accounts and do the tasks set to you – I will be allocating more next week and you don’t want to be left behind!

Have a restful weekend,

Miss Vidler