WELCOME TO YEAR 5

Each week we will be keeping you up to date with a "Wow of the Week". In addition to this, please read our half termly curriculum map to find out what will be happening in Year 5.

Important information

PE - Monday and Friday. Please come to school in your PE kit on these days. 

Books - Change books on Thursday. Your child will come home with new reading books and a library book every Thursday. Please make sure you have been reading at home at least three times a week. Please record any reading you have done in your reading diary. Your reading diary must always be in your bookbag so that we can read with you in school. 

Spellings - New spellings given every Friday. Please see below our spelling page where you can easily access the spellings every week. Spelling tests will happen every Friday.

Weekly Attendance WC 30/09/2024 is...

98.9%

Westroyd Learners:

Emilia for her positivity towards completing her writing and making it even better.

Elliot for listening to advice and implementing changes this week

Wow of the Week

Autumn 1

Week 5

This week, we completed our hot write. The quality of writing from all children was phenomenal with everyone making sure all the skills we learned were included as well as making sure basic skills such as punctuation and spellings were as good as they could be.

In Science, we learned about water resistance and how it was similar too and different from air resistance. We completed an investigation to see if the shape of an object affects the rate at which it falls through water. Take a look at the pictures below to see what we did.

Week 4

In Science, we made parachutes to test air resistance. Although the investigation didn't show us the results it should have, we now know that the larger the parachute, the slower if will fall.

We finished planning for our diary entry writing next week. We have learned a lot of skills and will be applying them for our final piece of writing. Keep an eye on the blog to see the finished results next week.

Week 3

This week, we held elections for our new school council representatives. Each child who wanted to be considered wrote a manifesto to present to the class. The quality of manifestos was extremely high and all presented with passion and confidence.

Congratulations to Ayaan and Audrey who are now our elected school council representatives.

Week 2

This week, we began our ukulele lessons. We learned how to hold the ukulele correctly and began to play the different notes. We even had time to make up our own short tunes!

In English, we have been working on expanded noun phrases. We have been using them in sentences and then a short paragraph as we work on our diary entries.

In Science, we learned about gravity as a force and conducted an investigation. We also learned about Sir Isaac Newton and how he discovered gravity.

Week 1

What a great start to Year 5! We have hit the ground running and already shown off our positivity in all the work we have done this week. 

Our main focus has been learning about the Zones of Regulation. This helps us to better understand our feelings and how we can regulate ourselves depending on what zone we are in.

We have also been learning more about British values and protected characteristics. We worked in groups to think about how our lives might be if one of the British values were missing. We produced dramas to show this. Take a look at one of our videos below - can you work out which British value is missing?