Year 5 trip to Painesbrook

 

This half term our Geography topic has been Rivers.

To apply our learning so far, we are going to go on a walking trip to nearby PainesBrook on:

Tuesday 5th October 2021 

The children will be led to the entrance on Petersfield Avenue and taken along the brook to see our learning in real life! We hope this will be a really informative short field trip and a great chance for the children to put their Geography vocabulary they have learnt to good use.

The children don't need to bring anything else as long as they've got comfortable walking school shoes on and, weather depending, a thick coat. 

Any questions please email year5@broadford.havering.sch.uk

Fact Finding in Year Five!

 

Year 5 Literacy Today

This week, we have started looking at Non-Chronological reports in Literacy. Today, Year 5 enjoyed hunting for all the features in a range of Non-Chronological reports and colour coding them once they had been found. 

We will now be planning our own non-chronological reports on the Amazon Rainforest before we begin writing them next week. 

As a reflection at the end of the class we discussed 'which do you think is the most important feature and why?'

"I think that having a text that teaches the reader something is most important otherwise why would someone bother reading it?" - Madalina

"I think the clear title is the most important because how will you know what you are reading about or about to read about if you don't have a title?" - Caden

Budding Historians in Year 6!

This afternoon, the children in year 6 worked hard to develop their historical skills and knowledge through their learning of Mayan culture. They investigated a range of sources that revealed information about the game Pok-ta-Pok (a significant ball game to the Maya people). 

Like true historians, the children were able to interpret the evidence in front of them and infer what the game might have looked like and what it meant to the Maya people. 

It was wonderful to see the children developing their own theories and making their own conclusions based on the sources of evidence. 

"I can see that the players are all wearing knee pads and protective gear, that suggests that the game might have been dangerous" Oliver, Almond

"I agree that the knee pads suggest that the game was dangerous, but it also might mean that they used their knee to hit the ball, rather than their head." Katlyn, Oak

The children were also able to compare Mayan culture with modern day Britain by highlighting the similarities and differences to Pok-ta-Pok and modern day games, such as football and basketball.

"Pok-ta-Pok is similar to football because it has a bouncy ball, but it is different because you cannot use your feet or head to hit the ball." Jeremiah, Oak

"I noticed that the ball in the picture looks similar to a football and the hoop on the wall reminds me of a basketball hoop. Perhaps the game was like a mixture of football and basketball." Gabriela, Almond.

Some outstanding work today year 6! Here are the sources of evidence the children used to make their conclusions about the game:

Year 6 Spellings - W/C 27.09.21

Please find below year 6's spellings for this week. Please encourage your child to practise their spellings every evening, so that they are prepared for their spelling test on Friday. 

Year 5 Spellings WB 27.9.21

 

	A	B	C	D
1	breezily	happily	badly	you
2	cheekily	angrily	sadly	then
3	sleepily	merrily	correctly	were
4	frantically	cheekily	something	made
5	dramatically	sleepily	suddenly	just
6	accidentally	sadly	stopped	looked
7	bravely	badly	window	your
8	angrily	boldly	therefore	with
9	anxiously	bravely	different	little
10	beautifully	finally	naughty	people
11	rounding	negative
12	divisible	seize
13	numerals	vulture
14	multiples	rainforest
15	developer	commutative
16	determined	occasionally
17	language	height
18	profession	eighth
19	sincerely	business
20	yacht	strange

Year 6 Certificates 24.09.21

  Year 6’s second week back has, again, been a successful one. The children are settling in outstandingly, and presenting themselves as role models for the rest of the school. 

E for Excellence

These children have put in 110% effort this week and really showed us how in the green zone they were with their learning. Thank you for your incredible hard-work.

Congratulations to: Ellie, Shauna, and Moyin

Star Writer

In Literacy this week, we've been justifying character's traits, and writing true letters to Stanley's mum. These children have thought hard about their justifications and their word choices! 

Congratulations to: Monsur, Aaliyah-Shae, and Fola

The 4Rs 

We want to recognise the students who really exemplified the 4Rs this week, both in and out of class. 

Reciprocity

Congratulations to: Lilly-Anne

Reflectiveness

Congratulations to: Ollie V

Resourcefulness

Congratulations to: Divine

Certificate of Presentation

These children have worked exceptionally hard on their presentation in Maths or Literacy this week. We can't wait to see soon who will be earning their pen licences for outstanding presentation.

Congratulations to: Klaidi, Jennifer, Giada, Charlie, Nela, and Gabriela

 

Times Table Rockstar Certificates

Well done to the children that have worked on their times tables this week, you have levelled up!

Congratulations to: Malachi, Israel, Bella, Katlyn, Frankie, Andrew, Blake

Year 5 Certificates 24.9.21

Well done to these amazing Year 5 children this week - 

Maple: 

Star Writer - Tyler

E for E - Aarna

Presentation - Mia

Reciprocity - Mimi

Reflectiveness - Lilly W

Resilience - Daisy

Teacher Happy - Hamza

Redwood: 

Star Writer - Kyriq

E for E - Madalina 

Teacher Happy - Jason

Willow:

Star Writer - Laura

E for E - Nicole 

Resilience- Tavia 

Resourcefulness - Ryan 

Recycling needed for Year 6's Science Experiment!

Dear adults,

Please could your household start collecting recylable material, for example:

• foil,
• plastic milk bottles,
• boxes,
• straws,
• card,
• and any other bits of recycling.

Year 6 pupils, you will need to bring your materials in by Wednesday 29th of September for our science experiment. 

Thank you very much,

Year 6 Team

Mighty Maths in Year 6!

This week in Year 6, the children have been using their resources to help their understanding with mathematical concepts.

For example, Oak class looked at the composition of 1,000 and 1,000,000 using dienes. 

"I know that one quarter of 1,000 is 250, because four lots of 250 is equal to 1,000" - Katlyn

"5 two hundreds make 1,000. You can see it can exchange to one thousand!" - Oliver

At the end of the lesson, the children were able to discuss how 1,000,000 is divided into two, four, five and ten. We also learnt that we can use our place value and power of ten knowledge to help us with the composition of 100,000, 10,000, 1,000 and 100. 

The children have also been working hard at ordering and comparing 7 digit numbers, thinking carefully about the value of each column. They thoroughly enjoyed applying their understanding to a competitive game, where they used a 9 sided dice to generate a number each - the biggest number won! 

The children loved creating their own rules with their partner to make the game even more interesting. Some even chose to put a digit in their partner's number (especially if it was a low one).

"I knew that my partner had won straight away because they had a 9 in their millions column and I had already placed an 8 in it! It was so much fun!" - Ollie, Almond

Uplifting Upstanders in Year 6!

Last week, Year 6 learned about how upstanders (witnesses to bullying who try to positively intervene). 

The children discussed how it's not always appropriate or safe to publicly intervene bullying, so upstanders can make the choice of privately intervening, too. 

 

When discussing private upstander actions, Oak class came up with:

• Ask how they’re doing in a text or direct message.
• Say something kind or complimentary in an anonymous post, comment, or direct message (if you’re using media that lets you stay anonymous).
• Tell them you’re there for them if they want to talk after school.
• In a quiet conversation in person or on the phone, tell them you thought the mean behavior was wrong and ask if they feel like talking about what happened.

Lime class came up with these actions when intervening publicly:

• Call out the mean behavior (not the person), saying it’s not cool.
• Say something nice about the target in a post or comment.
• Get friends to compliment the target online, too.
• Offline, you can invite the person to hang out with you on the playground or sit
• with you at lunch.

Almond class said, "No matter how you choose to be an upstander, you have both public and private

options for reporting. This could mean reporting bullying behavior via a website

or application interface, or reporting what’s going on to an adult you trust."

By the end of the lesson, Year 6 understood that they had choices as a witness, and they should always try their best to positively intervene and be an upstander!

Oreo Moons in Year 5

Oreo Moons in Year 5 

In Year 5, we have continued our topic of 'Space' and learnt about the different moon phases. We watched a video that explained why the moon appears to be different shapes at different points in the month. To help our understanding, we used Oreos and ate away at our moons until they resembled each moon phase.

"I've made a Waxing Gibbous!" Ife.

"I've made a new moon!" Iyinope. 

Year 6 Spellings - W/C 20.09.21

Please find year 6's spellings for this week below. Please encourage your child to practise every evening, so that they are prepared for their spelling test on Friday. 

Year 5 Spellings - 20.9.21

 

	A	B	C	D
1	autograph	biography	great	what
2	autopilot	autobiography	green	went
3	automatic	autobiographies	grow	people
4	autocue	autopilot	hard	with
5	autobiography	pilot	has	because
6	automobile	autocue	hat	suddenly
7	automatically	cue	he’s	she
8	autonomy	automatic	head	house
9	automate	automobile	home	there
10	autocracy	mobile	horse	where
11	atheist	explorer	decide
12	theist	power	fruit
13	agnostic	expanded	group
14	million	phrase	guard
15	Jupiter	adverb	guide
16	embarrass	material	heard
17	equipped	medicine	early
18	especially	mention	eight
19	exaggerate	minute	history
20	excellent	natural	grammar