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Year 5 - St James CofE Primary School, Wardle : St James ...

Welcome to Y5!

Find out what we have been learning about this Autumn Term.


Week 8; 30th- 3rd November

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We had a fantastic Hop-Tu-Naa in year 5! The whole class got involved in some spooky story telling, and we even had a go at solving some tricky halloween mysteries.

A huge well done, and congratulations to all the turnip competitors.They were all MARVELLOUS!

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Week 7; 16th-20th October

This week we concluded our gadgets literacy topic. To do so, we became real life inventors and created the ultimate spy gadget! We looked at different materials and how we could use them in order to support our design. The super gadgets supported children in composing their persuasive advertisements for their end of unit big write.

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Week 6; 9th -13th October

Year 5 took part in an amazing skipping workshop this week!

The whole class have some new super skipping skills which they have been practicing at playtime.

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Maths Madness!

Year 5 have been facing their partners in a range of mathematical problem solving and concept games to show off their number skills and fluency using the four operations - Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division.

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Week 5; 2nd-6th October

We have been learning about World War 2 and Benji kindly brought in some fascinating original artefacts from the war for us to look at.

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We looked at some World War 2 medals that Benji's great-grandfather won in the war.

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We researched and found the countries (Axis & Allies) who were involved in the war, then located them on the globe.

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