Cross Country League - Week 2

Even thought half term kicked in at 3:15 on Friday, the school cross country team were hard at work at the Sports Centre.

Week 2 of the schools' cross country league was dry and the sun was out - ideal running conditions. Lots of Team Oakwood used the conditions to improve on their week 1 positions.

See how well we did this week below, and remember there's just 2 more weeks of the league to go.

Curriculum Bulletin: Year 5

Autumn 2 
Maths 

This term we will be looking at:

• Written methods for multiplication starting with expanded method (click here for an example ) , moving to long multiplication (click here for an example)
• Written methods for division (click here for an example of the bus stop method)
• Revisiting our knowledge of the 4 operations
• Using our number and operation skills to problem solve, thinking about how to select operations and solve problems

It is really important that even if your child already has their Bronze Table Log that they continue to practise as their recall needs to be as quick as possible to assist the mathematical methods we are using.

English

In English we will be working on the following:

• Developing a point of view on an issue to form an argument, debating and writing to persuade
• Writing to inform (creating a fact file) using features including subheadings and headings
• Revising different types of word class to help our sentence work (adjectives, verbs, prepositions, adverbs, determiners, pronouns, nouns, proper nouns) 
• Using speech in our writing and punctuating it correctly
• Revising using an apostrophe to omit (form a contraction) and show possession 
• Identifying the difference between a clause and a phrase 
• Using a comma to separate clauses
• Developing our independent editing skills as part of our writing process, using our ‘Nuts and Bolts’ to help us

Reading
We will be studying the Power of Reading text Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill (linking in with our Fierce Earth topic).

Our class novel and shared text will be Northen Lights, by Philip Pullman.

During our shared reading sessions we will be focusing on building and developing the following reading skills:

• Responding to the text, drawing on reading and research
• Retrieving information from a variety of texts (newspapers, narratives, non-fiction and poetry)
• Identifying and understanding the features of text
• Identifying the intended audience of a text and the purpose of a text (e.g. non-fiction texts are to inform the reader, fiction books are to entertain the reader)
• Reflecting and asking questions around a text

Fierce Earth is a geography based topic, where pupils will learn about the following:

Mountains

• What is a mountain and how are mountains formed?
• Study famous mountains and mountain ranges around the world.
• Study famous explorers and mountain exhibitions.
• To understand why certain plants and animals are best suited to the mountain environment..
• Look at how climate change is impacting on the mountain environment

Volcanoes

• How are volcanoes formed?
• Where in the world are volcanos?
• What does the inside of a volcano look like?
• What happens when a volcano erupts? This includes an explosive investigation! Take a look at last year's BLOG post.

Earthquakes

• What is an earthquake and what are tectonic plates?
• What happens when an earthquake strikes?
• How are people's lives affected living in an earthquake zone?
• How do people try and survive earthquakes?

Key dates for your diary
Monday 12th December- Christmas production (afternoon and evening performance)
Homework will be set weekly on Thursdays to be due in the following Thursday
Reading logs will continue to be checked every Monday. As with last term, we are looking for 4 reading entries a week
PE days will continue to be Mondays and Tuesdays

Solubility scientist in action!

In Year 5 over the last couple of days we have being very busy scientists. We have being revisiting the properties of different materials, looking at how we can sort materials based on their properties.

Then we have learnt about solutions and mixtures: how they are formed and what makes a material soluble or insoluble. Next we were set the task of designing a fair test experiment to test if several substances were soluble or insoluble. We had a great time predicting and getting stuck into our investigations.

Finally, we looked at reversible and irreversible changes and how solutions and mixtures can be separated (using evaporation, magnetism, filtration and sieving).

Year 3 VE Tea Dance

Year 3 learn a little poem!

Be Bright Be Seen

Our Travel Team took charge of their own assembly this morning to bring us a very important message. Cyclists and pedestrians must always wear bright clothing to be safe on the road in the evening - especially if they want to grow up to be able to do all of this:

Titanic Exhibition

Our homework this half term was a home learning project based around our history topic, The Titanic. This was a great opportunity for us all to get creative and have some fun with our learning.

KS1 Athletics Festival

On Monday 10 children took part in an athletics festival with other schools from across the city. The children had a go at all the activities, including long jump, shot put, target throw, ball bounce and speed bounce. The children scored points for their achievement and effort on each station.

At the end they had a go at racing in teams against other schools which was fun and competitive!

Oakwood 1 - 1 Shirley

The final league game of Oakwood's Autumn season ended in a draw as Oakwood and Shirley played out an entertaining 1-1 draw.

Both teams looked dangerous in the opening exchanges, but it was Oakwood who tested the oppositions 'keeper first. Oakwood were dangerous down the left of the pitch: with Alan, Jenson and Jack all linking well. It was this combination that bought Oakwood's goal. Alan setting Jenson off down the wing, who then crossed for Jack to tuck home.

Despite taking the lead Oakwood, could not find a second goal and eventually Shirley found a goal after an Oakwood mistake.

The game continued to be end to end, but finished 1-1.

Well done to Oakwood's scorer - Jack and Man of the Match - Marcus

All aboard!

Today in Year 5 we have been celebrating our Titanic topic coming to an end with our Titanic day. We have all been Titanic passengers and have being taking part in lots of fun activities. This afternoon we have been in the hall where we ate the scones we baked this morning and performed our historical dances (The Waltz and The Irish Jig) as if we were on board the Titanic.

We have had a fantastic day and had lots of fun dressing up. Take a look at our outfit and the fun we got up to!