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...

Firstly we would like to thank all the parents who were able to attend the Maths cafe on Thursday this week. We hope you all enjoyed working with your child and learnt some new games to help the children to continue to learn their times tables at home.  We have also sent home some slips with ideas for online games involving times tables and included a copy of your child's login to Education City  with this. In the feedback for the Maths cafe it was mentioned that it would be useful to know the calculation methods the children use in school so parents can support at home. Below are the main methods used and more detail can be found in the calculation policy which is on the school website   https://mulbartonprimary.norfolk.sch.uk/Newsite/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Calculation-policy.pdf   In English this week we have been discussing: Have books become obsolete? The children have thoroughly enjoyed debating this question and have begun to look at balanced ...

In Maths this week we have moved on to improving our understanding of decimals. We have been looking at the place value of decimal numbers (up to and including thousandths) and have been able to represent these numbers in a variety of ways.  We have used Numicon to explore decimal and fraction equivalence and have mastered converting between the two. In English we are writing about the viewer featured in our Power of Reading text and using this to write about a historical character being sucked into the gaps in time! The Alchemists have been busy sending us messages again this week and asked for our help in making a torch to use late at night. We had a very basic set of equipment to work with and found making the connections in our circuits tricky but we reflected, collaborated and problem solved.

In Maths we have concluded our work on fractions by consolidating our previously learnt skills and exploring fractions of amounts and solving problems related to this. In English we enjoyed finding out the ending to our short story and have begun to look at different characters' perspectives: first of all interviewing Tristan's Mum and writing this as a script. As artists we used a range of tools and techniques to create paintings of portals - watch this space! We thoroughly enjoyed creating dance routines on Tuesday afternoon - thank you for teaching us Mrs Bidder!

This week in Maths, we have concluded our work subtracting fractions and have begun multiplying fractions by integers (whole numbers). On Thursday, we enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day. Our theme was 'Horrible Histories' from which we have a range of characters! We completed a scavenger hunt in the library and we were challenged to tell a story in one picture. Here are some of our attempts! In Topic, we have been exploring the features of Alchemy Island. We expertly sorted these into human and physical features and described the location of them using grid references. We assisted Miss Argyle in combining the materials given to us by the alchemists to create the 'Fountain of Gold' and investigated how to make magic crystals grow.