Year 5 News - Ms Stuart & Ms Jarvis
This term has flown by! In Religion, we have explored units on Prayer, Lent, Holy Week and God. Our English this term has been focused around the novel, “War Horse” by Micheal Murpurgo. Our vocabulary and knowledge of grammar has been enriched with our weekly focus. We have explored writing at sentence level, working on sentence expansion, adding appositives and coordinating conjunctions such as; and, but, and so. Students have created narrative and persuasive texts.
In Mathematics, we have explored the multiplication and divisions algorithm with regrouping, perimeter, fact families for multiplication and division and equivalent fractions.
Our HASS unit has focused on How the colonies developed after the 1800’s, students have researched the effects of penal settlements, whaling, the Wool industry, exploration and the gold rush on the expansion of the colonies.
In Art, we have explored different sketching techniques to help us sketch an image of a horse inspired by our class novel.