Year 5

We have been learning about the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama – Princess of Polka Dots.

First, we learned about her life and then we explored some of her art.  One day Yayoi had a vision in the field. The flowers seemed to have become thousands of dots that continued on forever and Yayoi felt as if she was being ‘obliterated’. This moment has inspired lots of her artwork.

We then applied this style to some of our own ideas.

We have been busy exploring place value in preparation for learning long multiplication.

Happy New Year and welcome to Term 3.  We have another very busy term ahead of us.  Here is an overview of what we will be learning about this term:

Here is a copy of the KIRFs for this term:

Term 3 KIRFs

We will send home regular activities linked to these.

We are incredibly pleased with our finished cushions!

We have had an incredibly busy end to term 2.

We wrote letters to and made Christmas cards for the local charity ‘CARM’.

We enjoyed making our Christingles for our church service.

We enjoyed making Christmas decorations and writing prayers or wishes.

We looked at different kinds of maths problems.  This included finding all possibilities and looking for patterns or rules.

In PE, we had to ‘buy’ equipment with a budget of £5.00.  We then created a maths themed activity, for example two teams answering times tables questions, with the fastest person to be correct shooting into a basketball hoop.  The children then reviewed each other’s activities and linked this to the cost of the activity.

We revisited the names and order of the planets.  We then looked at the size of the planets and created a mode to represent this using balls of different sizes.  The children discuss the distance between the planets and created a scaled diagram back in class.

One of our pupils made a model of the solar system at home.

We have been learning about what the different coloured poppies represent. The children then wrote prayers and messages to war veterans and those who are still involved in war.

We practised the blanket stitch.

We celebrated that it’s okay to be different by wearing odd socks.