Dear parents and carers,

The weeks are flying by in Year 5. This week we have continued our work on multiplying and dividing by 10/100 and 1000. The use of practical place value grids has really helped a number of children to visualise what is happening.

In reading we have finished our unit, ‘The House With Chicken Legs’, which the children have thoroughly enjoyed. We have also been writing our portal stories this week.

In Art we have been paper-plate weaving, which a lot of children have found very enjoyable.

 In History, the children tackled the difficult question of ,’Why the Maya left their jungle cities?’ It became clear that there were a number of contributing factors, rather than just one.

In D&T we completed our structures unit with the children making their own small-scale structure for the purpose of a new piece of equipment for the Forest School area. The results were excellent and we definitely have some budding engineers. 

The children had a second tennis taster lesson from the fantastic Andy and we enjoyed to finally be outside without it raining!

We continue to practise the carols for the KS2 ‘Carols Around the Tree’ next Thursday afternoon.

Have a festive weekend.

The Year 5 Team