For 7 weeks, year 5 have been looking at two genres within English. Both of these genres were based around ‘The Hound of the Baskerville’ a classic Sherlock Holmes story. The children have enjoyed reading some of the original text alongside a graphic novel version. The first genre, a cliff hanger narrative, produced the absolute best writing we have seen since the start of the year. Yesterday, the children were faced with a new genre – a formal event report. This is a tricky concept due to wanting to ‘tell the story’. It takes a different style of writing… all I can say is WOW! The children completed some in pairs, with really in depth discussions and they finished the piece independently. The reports I read were absolutely fantastic. I’ve attached some examples below…

5OP had a wonderful afternoon with a surprise P.E session with a teacher from NGHS!

Who doesn’t want to write on the tables? 5OP had a great time working out the angles today!

The children thoroughly enjoyed the messy maths activities this afternoon! We have looked at a variety of different angles on the tables, estimated and measured the angles, drawn angles on the playground and played an interactive angle estimation game on the NRICH website.

NRICH angle game – https://nrich.maths.org/1235

This morning, the children planned an informative presentation to persuade people to visit the Great Barrier Reef. They presented these to the whole class at the end of the day. Some fantastic art, computing and writing skills were displayed by the children, who thoroughly enjoyed the project!

5M spent the day writing on their desks and then the playground! Identifying and measuring angles as part of their Messy Maths Day – all the children thoroughly enjoyed it!