Polar Bears

What a wonderful first week back the children have had. We launched our new topic - Beast Creator - by conducting a mini beast hunt on the common. The children found numerous species of creepy-crawlies, including spiders, woodlice and centipedes. When we returned to school, we created a key of where these were located and analysed our findings. On Thursday afternoon, we were visited by some mini-monsters. Ed shared his knowledge of them, expertly answered our questions and enabled us to get close to these magnificent creatures. In our other Topic work, we looked at the different groups of mini beasts and used their characteristics to make a flowchart to help us classify some of the creatures we found on the common. In Maths, we have begun to explore angles. We have learnt about the different types of angles and have mastered using a protractor to measure them. In English, we have looked at a range of stories which explain how animals got their signature

Polar Bears have been learning all about the Hakka in PE. Today they had a 'HAKKOFF' with Penguins class!!!

Our English work this week has continued to focus on balanced arguments with the children writing a balanced argument for the question 'Have books become obsolete?'. In Maths we have finally finished our unit on fractions, decimals and percentages. The children have grasped the relationship between these and produced some aspirational and collaborative work on their equivalences. Following our outdoor exploration lesson on Thursday, we are looking forward to some work based on the geometry of shapes next term. We have had some Easter fun this week with egg and spoon races and various Easter crafts. We hope you all have a wonderful holiday and come back ready to work hard for the final term in Year 5. As part of our English work next term we will be making story pebbles in the first week back. Please can you help your child to find 2 large and flat-ish pebbles that a small picture can be painted on, we need the children to bring these in on the first day back