Year 5 Update Wk 3
Friday 9th September – PTA Bowling
Thursday 15th September – Mid-Autumn Festival Market at school…please bring a small amount of money to spend at our market
Friday 16th September – Mid-Autumn Festival holiday…school closed
Wednesday 21st September – International Day of Peace
Tuesday 27th September – Parent Consultations 3-Way Conference…book via The Gateway soon
Thursday 29th September – Parent Consultations 3-Way Conference...book via The Gateway soon
Wednesday 5th October – Camp Information Evening 7pm…in the hall
Thursday 6th October – BHS staff training, school closed
Friday 7th October – BHS staff training, school closed
Saturday 8th October to Sunday 16th October – half-term holiday
Monday 17th October – ESF staff training, school closed
Year 5 have enjoyed exploring our Mind Up through Drama, Yoga, Art, English and Probability this week. We identified that Yoga can help us to find calm and relax through a series of poses, as well as helping us concentrate on our breathing. Our vocabulary for different emotion words has broadened this week as we have shared our knowledge about a wealth of words and deepened our understanding about what they mean. It has also been a busy week as we continue to make connections between our own experiences and feelings and identifying the link between the Ínside Out’ movie and this unit of inquiry.
Transdisciplinary Theme: Who We Are
Central Idea
We can understand and develop our emotional well being to lead a balanced life.
Lines of Inquiry
- Managing and understanding our emotional wellbeing (form, function)
- Developing and maintaining positive relationships (connection)
- Ways to apply mindful behaviours (connection)
- Ever wondered what the brain does, how it works, or how it controls the rest of the body? We are going to start exploring the theories of the brain and look at the important role it plays when dealing with emotions. The children have shared some lovely ideas about what they do to feel calm and relaxed, so we will explore this further through Mindfulness in education.
Year 5 have so far displayed some good knowledge of decimal fractions- we shall continue to build our knowledge through partitioning, ordering and recognising patterns. Get ready to share your thinking and show your working!
We will continue to make connections with the language of probability and our experiences of different emotions. In class we are discussing and tracking the likelihood of different feelings.
Modern Narrative
The children will start to think about writing their own short modern narrative using the language features we have learned over the last couple of weeks. There will be a big focus on the build up and describing the problem through detail and adjectives to really capture the reader’s interest. We will look at examples of short stories for inspiration!
Congratulations to our 3 Golden Book Winners this week.
5P-Samaa Asif: for her ‘have a go’ attitude when solving problems in maths
5M- Ibrahim Kashif: for being kind and helpful towards other members in his class
5Y- Sasha Sing: for sharing wonderful insights and understanding about emotional well being.
Children need to be bringing their own hats to school each day. They are not permitted to play in uncovered areas at break times if they do not wear a hat. Please make sure they are clearly named.
A reminder that no nuts are allowed for snacks, and that whenever possible snacks are healthy and nutritious.
