Year 5 Swifts

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Mr Christofa

Swift Class

P.E days: Mondays and Wednesdays - please ensure correct P.E kit is worn on these days with no jewellery.

Pencil case

Please make sure your pencil case includes the following: a blue handwriting pen, a red pen, a whiteboard pen, a pencil, ruler, rubber, a pair of scissors, a sharpener and glue stick

Home learning menu:

English (10 minutes): This week, try to read a chapter and answer 2 blooms questions, rather than one.

Maths (10 minutes): Complete your addition and subtraction booklet, you brought home on Friday. You do not need to bring it back to school.

DT (40 minutes): This week, you have brought home a soup tasting sheet. Please (with the support of your grown ups) cook 3 different soups, taste them, try them and fill in the sheet ready for next week's DT lesson. (Grown ups- you can buy 3 soups rather than make them if you need to).

Picture News

Class Reader

Our class reader this half-term is: The Girl Who Stole An Elephant by Nizrana Farook.

This week's learning question from the Blooms questions at the back of children's reading records should be taken from the questioning section. Remember to highlight the question once chosen, so you can choose a different question next week.

The Autumn reading challenge is still going on! It is attached at the bottom of the page. Good luck children and keep reading!

A taste of our learning

PSHE: Anti-Bullying Week-Race/Nationality

During Anti-Bullying week, we made world maps with a twist. Rather than label the countries with their names, the children had to label them with the nationality of the individuals who live there. For example, rather than label China, they labelled Chinese or rather than label South Africa, they labelled South African. This task was designed to teach children to try and be as specific as they can when referring to another individual's race/nationality. We also covered which terms they should use if they had to make generalisations, for example: black, white, Asian, Middle Eastern, North African and so on.

English: Poetry

This week, Swift class had a poetry week. After exploring a variety of poems by different poets based on a variety of topics, we had a go at writing our own poems around seasons. The children had to try and use different examples of figurative language (similes, personification and metaphors, alliteration) in their work to develop imagery for the reader. Can you see any of these techniques in the example below?

PSHE: Kindness

This week, Swift class spent their PSHE lessons thinking about different ways to be kind!

Science: Evolution and Space

Over the past couple of weeks, we have been delving deeply into scientific concepts from evolution, the wonders of Mary Anning and now space! Here are some examples...

Art: Henry Matisse

This week, the children produced their final pieces of work for their unit on Matisse. To the right is a lovely example:

Computing: esafety

Swift Class embedded their learning in Computing having previously learnt how to be safe online. This week, they created their posters on the computer using Word and Publisher.