The Blog of Cathedral Primary School's Class 5
Stars of the Week: Amelia and Shaye
This week, Class 5 started experimenting with coil pottery. They used clay to make coils and wound them up to form patterns. Class 5 will be using this same technique in the coming weeks to make their own pots in the Native American style.
Stars if the Week: Morraya and Shia
This week, Class 5 visited a workhouse. They took an interactive walk around the building on the laptops. As they went through each room, they wrote what they saw down. They then used their notes to write a setting description of a workhouse, thinking about how it would look if it was still used.
In History, Class 5 learned about what it was like to be a child in the Victorian times. They were all very shocked to hear about the jobs that children would have to do if they were from a poor family.
Next week, we will be using the BBC:Microbits to make our own flashcards to help memorise different fruits in Spanish.
Stars of the Week: Fintan and Funmi
Class 5 have started the term with making art about the London Skyline. They searched for images of famous London landmarks and buildings and then practiced drawing the outlines. Afterwards, they drew the images onto watercolour paper and painted them with reflections below to show the Thames. Class 5 are excited to show their artwork on display in the hall.
Stars of the Week: Polina and Thomas
This week, Class 5 have looked at Brazil in Geography. They spent some time researching facts about Brazil and looked at different landmarks. They then wrote a postcard as if they had been there on holiday and all of the things they got up to.
Stars of the Week: Noella and Fintan
Class 5 have been working hard on their newspaper reports in English this week. They decided what story they wanted to write about and they planned their report. After interviews with other children and a couple of members of staff, Class 5 wrote their reports and edited them.
Have a look at our Christmas display that we made with Class 6!
Stars of the Week: Noella and Martha
This week, Class 5 had the pleasure of visiting the Unicorn Theatre. They watched Pinocchio which has inspired them for their own Christmas performance. Class 5 were very well behaved throughout the whole trip. They thoroughly enjoyed the play and will be writing a review of what they saw in extended writing.
Stars of the Week: Terrence and Bea
This week, Class 5 have been learning about South America. We plotted South America on a map of the world and then looked in detail at its features. We then used an Atlas to look at the physical and political features of the continent so that we could make our own maps of these. Everyone in Class 5 were especially skilled at matching up places from the Atlas (which showed the map with the curvature of the Earth taken into account) onto a flat map.
Stars of the Week: Annamaria and Parker
This week, Class 5 have taken part in Bikeability. They have learned how to cycle safely on roads, making sure that they give the correct caution to hazards, such as cars. They have also learned how to indicate on their bikes to show which direction they are turning.
In maths, Class 5 have focused on the long method for multiplication. They have all worked really hard to improve their accuracy of multiplication.
Spellings for this week:
(Main)
wrestle
wrapper
island
aisle
debris
mortgage
Christmas
yacht
guarantee
guilty
–
decide
describe
different
difficult
disappear
Alpha to Omega:
son
among
front
Monday
honey
ton
amongst
income
dozen
sponge
Stars of the Week: Ben and Amaris
This week, Class 5 have started lots of different topics. In Geography, we started looking at North America. We used an atlas to find where North America is in the world and what countries it includes. We then made our own political maps and we will make physical maps of the area.
Class 5 also started looking at forces in science. We had a look at the forces that would act on a car, including air resistance, gravity, friction and the driving force.
Next week we will have Bikeability!