Welcome Back!

Sunday 12 Nov 2017

Welcome back after the half term break!  We hope you all had a lovely week off, and have come back refreshed and ready for this very busy half term!

In Maths this week, we started our next unit of work - Statistics.   We have been drawing and interpreting line graphs, reading two way tables, and using our addition and subtraction knowledge to solve problems.  

In Literacy we continued to analyse persuasive adverts in preparation for writing our own adverts for our innovative gadgets next week.  

We also took advantage of our amazing outside space by going outside to draw the big tree.   We will be using our observations in an ongoing art project which will be explained to the children this week.    It was enlightening to see how many mini Monets we have amongst us in Year 5!

On Thursday we held our school Harvest Festival Day.    Each year group had its own theme to consider.  In year 5, we thought about and dicsussed the idea 'What happens when Crops Fail'.   We were impressed with the children's maturity as they engaged in discussion and debate about a very complicated issue.   In the afternoon, the chidlren choreographed their own rain dances.    The sight of all the children in the playground, dancing and leaping, playing drums and shaking rainmakers was something to behold!

Lastly, we'd like to say a big thank you for all your donations, which were collected by a representative of the Salvtion Army.  He was very impressed with the enthusiasm shown by the children in school and the generosity of donations.  Thank you all for your ongoing support!