October

We have all settled so well into Year 5 and we are all working so hard. Well done, everyone! 

In maths, we've been working on understanding the place value of numbers up to 1,000,000 and have been learning how to round these numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000! 

In English, we have been reading more of our class book, Fire! Fire! by Stuart Hill and have written amazing descriptions of a setting and we are now working on how to write a diary entry. We are learning lots of new writing techniques, such as parenthesis and how to write relative clauses within sentences. 

Science is one of our favourite subjects and our topic is solids, liquids and gases. We're most happy when we are carrying out our scientific investigations and speaking like scientists. 

Our favourite subject this term is most certainly history, where, at the moment, we are delving into The Gunpowder Plot. As historians, we are looking at a variety of sources of evidence, analysing their significance and presenting our findings. It's all a bit gory with talk of torture and death penalties! 

We're doing well in all other subjects too, and we're covering things like singing The 12 Bar Blues, playing chords on glockenspiels and a keyboard, building robots that we can program, exploring what it means for some people to follow the Jewish faith and learning how to play cricket. 

September

Welcome back to a brand-new year at Jarrow Cross. All the staff in Year 5 would like to give a huge welcome to our new classes and their families as you all join us in this fresh new chapter. 

The children arrived looking fantastic in their new uniforms and certainly appear to be ready to learn, smile and explore the Year 5 curriculum with us. We began the term with a whole school book, ''Our Class is a Family'', which we enjoyed reading and used as a stimulus for a range of writing and drawing tasks. 

For the rest of the term, we will travel back in time to the 1600s, where we will be digging deep into disease, politics and disaster. We have already started our class book Fire! Fire! by Stuart Hill, which depicts the tragedy of The Great Fire of London in an exciting and dramatic tale. A tale which we hope will inspire our own budding authors this year in English.