​Welcome to Year 5! We hope you’ve all had a fantastic summer and are feeling refreshed and ready for the exciting year ahead!
 
As we start the new academic year, please note our PE days:
 
Outdoor PE will be on Mondays. As the weather gets cooler, please ensure you come prepared with jogging bottoms and a jacket to stay warm.
 
Indoor PE will take place every Wednesday.
 
Homework:
Homework will be distributed every Wednesday and should be returned by the following Monday. Homework will support what we’re learning in class and will also revisit learning completed. We also ask that you also make time each day for reading and practicing times tables on Times Tables Rockstars to reinforce learning at home.
 
If you have any questions or need support as we begin this new year, please don’t hesitate to see us. We are excited to make this a fantastic and successful year for everyone!
 
Thank you,
 
Mrs Powell and Miss Ramsden

​Today, we were learning to use cubic cm in our maths lesson. This was a brand-new concept and we all did fantastic. To finish our lesson, we completed a reasoning question. We used the cubes to make different cuboids from 12 cubes to help us with this. 

Today, we had a special visitor in our class who delivered a workshop on the life and faith of James Hudson Taylor (or JHT for short). JHT was inspired by many people to do great things, and in turn he inspired more people to do courageous things. His Christian faith gave him strength and guidance throughout his entire life. We learnt that his life was truly remarkable and inspiring.

As a class, we discussed the question - Do you want to live an inspiring life? We had lots of important and meaningful discussions about how we can lead an inspiring life that can have a positive impact on the world.

We then discussed who inspired us, making links to the religion Judaism, as well as what we aspire to be when we grow up.

In our computing lesson this week, we had our first lesson with the Crumbles!  This was some new learning for us all and we had great fun programming the Crumbles to make the LED lights flash different colours.
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We had a fantastic afternoon den building!  The children were in mixed teams across different year groups and worked together to create their most water proof dens before they were tested!
Great fun was had by all!

In RE this term, we are looking at recognising the qualities of inspirational leadership and to contemplate some unanswerable questions.

Today we focused on Abraham, who was the founder of Judaism and was the first to make a convenant to God. We learnt that ​Abraham was the first person to teach the idea that there was only one God; before then, people believed in many gods. Abraham is a significant character in other religions - not only Christianity but Islam too. Muslims know Abraham as Ibrahim, and regard his as an important prophet of their faith. 

We watched a short video clip of God's promise to Abraham, God's Promise for Abraham | Stories of the Bible (youtube.com) then completed a comic strip of our own interpretation of the story!

In Science this week, we have been learning about how the sun, moon and earth move.  We were fascinated by how we only ever see one side of the moon, even through it rotates on its own axis. 
We spent some of our lesson in the playground recreating how the moon rotates and orbits the earth,  at the same time as the earth rotates and orbits the sun!   

This week, Year 5 have been involved in level 2 bikeability training.  
This has involved learning the correct way to turn right and left, U turns, correctly reading traffic and understanding the rules of the road.
​All the children involved have had an amazing few days!