Good morning everyone and welcome to our final blog for the Spring term! We can't believe it's our Easter holidays already!

The children have all enjoyed  the opportunity to swim over the past two weeks in the pop-up pool we've had in school. Thank you for all your support in sending in towels and kit everyday. Everyone who has been in the pool has made great progress with their swimming.

Maths - This week the children have been investigating finding the area and perimeter of rectilinear shapes. In Maths, a rectilinear shape is made up of straight lines. A square and a rectangle are both rectilinear. They have also investigated compound shapes. A composite or compound shape is any shape that is made up of two or more geometric shapes. The red shape below is made up of a square and a triangle. The blue shape is made up of a square and a rectangle. The green shape consists of two triangles.

English - The children have been writing their own persuasive text about The ALPS in school. They have included lots of Y5 writing objectives including modal verbs, parenthesis and relative clauses. Click on the links below for an explanation and a video on how to use these features in writing...

Our certificate winner this week is Alex for being an all round good egg (and not just at Easter) Alex works eggstremely hard, has an eggstraordinary sense of humour AND is a great eggsample to his classmates!  He also went on to be chosen as UPPER PHASE PUPIL OF THE WEEK. Congratulations to Alex. We all agree he is a well deserved winner! 

In addition...

Our Geography Award for this term was awarded to Kian for his wonderful knowledge and enthusiasm during Geography lessons this term. Well done to Kian! 

also...

Our History Award for last term was awarded to Aurora for her passion and enthusiasm when learning about The Vikings. Well done to Aurora! 

and finally...

Our Easter Egg Competition winner was Heidi for her fabulous entry called Bath Time. She has collected her prize from Mrs Baker, which we are sure she will enjoy eating over Easter. 

That's all for this term from 5W. We hope you have a relaxing break and that the Easter Bunny pays you all a visit with some chocolate eggs. School reopens on Monday 15th April. We look forward to seeing you all then for the start of the Summer term.