Working Mathematically in Year 5

How did you work that out?  These students were keen to demonstrate their mathematical working and reason their answers at the whiteboard. In so doing, they are not only demonstrating their working mathematically skills, but also sharing their strategies with their peers, thus helping them to learn through imitation.

To find out more about learning activities this week, ask your child:

Literature:  Who is Sutton Pufrock?

Critical Reading:  1816 - The Year without a Summer.  What caused this phenomenon?

Viewing & Responding: My life as Google? What is your life like?

First day of 2021!

Wow! What a fabulous first day back (despite having to stay indoors all day). It was so wonderful to see everyone's smiling faces ready for the new year ahead. Oliver, Charlie and Macy were welcomed into to our class and I hope their first day nerves were quashed early on when they realised what friendly, accomodating classmates they have.

We kicked off the day with a 'Code Cracking' collaborative task. Ask your children what they had to do  (some tasks were harder than they looked)...

Today we also began thinking about what an engaging classroom that encourages good learning looks, feels and sounds like. We used these ideas as prompts for what we would like our own classroom environment to be like and began the process of designing our Classroom Contract. The children and Mrs Richards will refine our ideas even further next week.

Thank you for a lovely day Year 5.  Have a great weekend and we look forward to seeing you all bright eyed and bushy tailed next week!