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What a week!! This week we have been raising funds for our Year 6 residential next year. We held a Bake Sale and sold loom bands to help us raise money. We were overwhelmed by how many of you supported us and all our cakes and loom bands were sold out by Thursday lunchtime!
Thank you so much for your support!
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This week we had our Sports Day. Have a look at our photos below.
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This week we have been converting metric and imperial measurements in Maths. The children applied their skills of multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 when converting metric units. Try this on by clicking on the link below.
In our topic we have been learning about William the Conqueror and how he introduced castles to England in order to secure his control of the country.
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This week Year 5 visited Beeston Castle. We had an amazing day. We learnt about medieval castles and how to become a knight. We visited an Anglo-Saxon roundhouse, had lunch in the sunshine and scaled a huge hill to see the different parts of the castle. When we got to the top the views were breath-taking. Look at our photos.
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This week we have been exploring adding and subtracting decimals with different decimal places and sequences of decimal numbers.
In English, we have a new model text called Kidnapped. It is an adventure story about a young girl who is kidnapped but is rescued by a brave young boy.
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This week Westfield took part in National Numeracy Day. The theme for this year was money. The children took part in an interactive online assembly during which they had to make choices when planning for a picnic. Throughout the day Year 5 completed money based activities and completed a Number Heroes poster showing how they will use numbers when they grow up.
You can access activities to complete with your children by following the link below.
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This week we have been exploring the features of instructions as we are going to write a set of instructions on how to catch a mythical creature. We have been writing sentences using adverbials of time and imperative (bossy) verbs.
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This week Year 5 had their final session with HH Kids. We learnt about how to be assertive when faced with tricky situations.
We have also been learning about equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages.
Play this game below.
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Today the children from Year 5F were invited to Deans Trust to take part in a PE lesson. They worked in teams and learnt how to sprint and the best techniques to use when competing in a relay race.
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We hope that you had a lovely break.
This week year 5 were visited by Joanne from HH Kids to learn all about the dangers of smoking. We found out that cigarettes contain more than 4000 chemicals.
We discovered that smoking can damage different parts of your body.
Did you know that if you smoke 20 cigarettes a day it will cost:-
1 day- £12.60
1 week- £88.20
1 month- £390.60
1 year - £4599.00
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This week Year 5 performed their Spring Assembly! They were amazing and made their teachers very very proud.
I school we have also had an Easter Egg competition, well done Millie who won in Year 5F.
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This week Year 5 were lucky enough to have staff from Wigan Athletic Community Trust come to talk to them about careers. Trafford, Leah and Craig explained their roles within the Trust and how working in football doesn't just involve being a player. They described all the different jobs that are available when working in sport.
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In Year 5 we know that being a good mathematician is not all about working with numbers. This week we having been solving picture puzzles in Maths.
Take a look at an example below.
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We have been working hard in Year 5 to improve our handwriting. We have been practising every day to form our letters carefully using new handwriting sheets. We are very impressed with how much our handwriting has improved.
We have also been making a huge push to learn our times tables. We like playing games to help us learn. Click the link below to play one of these games.
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This week Year 5 had a special visitor from DIAS to talk to us about good secrets and bad secrets. We learnt about healthy and unhealthy relationships.
It was World Book Day on Thursday 6th March. Year 5 completed an emoji quiz and took part in a Footie V Bookie live stream event. Look at our amazing costumes below.
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We have been learning formal methods for multiplication and division.
We have been playing games to develop our multiplication and division skills.
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Happy Valentine's Day!
This week Year 5F used the VR headsets to visit different holiday destinations around the world. We used the VR headsets to generate exciting vocabulary, which we then used to create a diary entry.
In Maths this week, we have been focusing on formal methods of multiplication. Some of us have explored short multiplication (multiplying by 1 digit) and long multiplication (multiplying by more than 1 digit.
Look at these examples below.
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This week in English we have been looking at the features of a diary entry and writing diary entries about a seaside holiday.
In Maths, we have been adding and subtracting mixed numbers.
As part of our Earth and Space topic we learnt about the Geocentric and Heliocentric theories about the Solar System. Did you know that people initially believed that the Earth was in the centre of the Solar System (Geocentric) and that the other planets and the Sun orbited Earth? We now know that the Sun is at the centre of the Solar System (Heliocentric) and that the planets orbit the Sun.
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In Maths this week we have been adding and subtracting fractions with related denominators.
We have had to convert fractions to make the denominators the same before we can calculate with them.
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This week the children experienced what is was like to be an astronaut. We took part in an interactive, online lesson organised by STEM called Spaceship Earth. The children helped to launch a rocket ship into space which collected space debris.
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This week we have started to learn our new model text, The Dreadful Menace.
Click on the link below to hear the poem.
The Dreadful Menace
In Maths, we have started to explore improper fractions and mixed numbers.
An improper fraction is a fraction in which the numerator is greater than the denominator.
A mixed number has an integer and a fractional part.
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Maths- In Maths this week we learnt about square and cube numbers. Look at the photographs below showing us make cube numbers.
English- In English we have been looking at the features of a news report. We have been practising using the 5Ws to create a lead paragraph.
Click on the link below to find out more.
In Maths this week we have explored common multiples and factors. A common multiple is a multiple that is shared by two or more numbers
A common factor is a factor that is shared by two or more numbers. The number 1 will be a common factor for every single number!
In English, we completed our independent hot task based on the short video Alma. We used different sentence openers and interesting vocabulary to describe what happened from the perspective of one of the dolls trapped in the shop.
In Maths this week we have started our Multiplication & Division unit. We have started to explore multiples and factors and how they are related.
In English, we have continued to use the video clip Alma to create descriptive paragraphs. Click the link below to watch Alma.
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Maths- In Maths this week we have been looking at Statistics. We have been learning how to read and interpret line graphs and tables.
This week was Anti-Bullying week, our PSHE lesson focused on the theme of 'Choose Respect'. We thought about different scenarios and how we could behave respectfully. Some children acted out their scenarios for the rest of the class.
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We have had a very busy first week back.
Maths- We have completed our unit on Addition and Subtraction. We have been looking at puzzles and challenges this week. Can you work out the examples below?
English- In English we have been writing poems about Bonfire Night. We used onomatopoeia to help us. Find out more about onomatopoeia by clicking the link below.
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Maths - This week the children worked on multistep problems. Can you try the problems below?
English - Children finished their Talk For Writing unit this week by writing a Non-Chronological report all about Westfield.
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Maths - This week the children worked on addition and subtraction. Can you try the problems below?
English - The children have been learning about relative clauses. Can you write any of your own based on the examples below?
