Hello families and friends of Year 5, 

What a busy start to the term, it is hard to believe we are halfway through term 1. Thank you to all of you for the support, it has made each child’s entry into Year 5 confident and calm.  

Across English, the students have been deconstructing narrative texts to identify the structure, including orientation, complication, series of events and resolution. We have drafted and published stories together and now the students have a chance to get creative and sizzle their sentences. To make our writing more engaging, we can use a sizzling sentence that may include speech, sound words, lists or explanations.  

Over the last 5 weeks, the students have been touching on a range of topics in Maths. For example, we have looked at 3D objects and creating nets to match the object’s features. We have also looked at decimals, percentages and fractions and how we can represent class data, such as our height or our eye colours with these attributes.  

In Science the students have been exploring different types of matter and how we can perform reversible and irreversible changes. We have looked at what happens to balloons when they are exposed to heat vs when they are not exposed. Students have also planned and conducted their own experiment, where they needed to find out the quickest way to turn ice into water using different sorts of heat. An important part of this process in ensuring our experiments are a ‘fair test’, which means that there is only 1 independent variable that changes across the entire experiment.  

Year 5 did a fantastic job on assembly during Week 3, where we spoke about our Religion topic ‘love’ and a key scripture from John’s Gospel about Jesus’ new commandment.  We will continue to look at ways we show love through action, especially Project Compassion and the work they do to help those in need.  

Moving forward across the end of the term, the students will continue to receive homework on a Monday and visit the library for a book on a Friday. Thank you to all of those families who have taken swimming into their stride! It is great to be able to watch the students develop their swimming skills, even if the water does appear a little cool! 

In Week 10, Year 5 will be leading the Stations of the Cross in the lead up to Easter. There will be more information on this as the time gets closer.  

Gentle Reminders: 

- Homework given out Monday 

- Spanish is Wednesday 

- Art is Wednesday 

- Sport uniform Thursday (swimming gear labelled please!) 

- Homework due Friday 

- Library is Friday 

- Technology is Friday  

- Stations of the Cross – Week 10  

Wishing you all a safe and happy weekend!  

Kind Regards,