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Year 5 News

May 2021

  • Last week before Half Term!

    Published 28/05/21

    What a fantastic final week before Half Term! We continued our learning of life cycles in science as we learnt about the gestation period of mammals. The children were able to interpret data and use this to create a bar graph which we then analysed and subsequently discovered that an elephant has a gestation period of around 22 months! We also finished reading our class text, Journey to Jo'burg, which centres around 2 children as they navigate apartheid in South Africa. The children subsequently wrote a diary entry as the character, Tiro, which retold the events of one of the chapters. 

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  • Erosion Animation

    Published 21/05/21

    This week has been another very productive week in Year 5. We have continued to learn about how coastal features are formed, in particular caves, stacks and arches. To enrich our learning we have used the Chromebooks and had a very exciting time learning to use stop start animation and play dough to create a short film showing how the geographical features are formed over time. 

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  • OS Mapping

    Published 11/05/21

    As our Global Trade geography topic has come to a close, we have started our new unit which focuses on map skills and the physical geography of our coasts. During our first lesson we learnt all about OS maps, what scale is, how to use a key and symbols and how to give a four or six figure grid reference! What a lot of new information. The children really enjoyed using the OS maps and were surprised to see how much bigger Richmond Park is compared to the common. They, of course, all enjoyed locating their houses and our school too. 

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  • Attack of the Clones!

    Published 06/05/21

    We are enjoying learning all about reproduction in plants. After finding out about how flowers use sexual reproduction to make seeds and how these seeds are dispersed, this week we found out about asexual reproduction. We were amazed to learn that plants can produce offspring that are exact copies of the parent plant (clones) and were impressed to see this in action. Ask your child all about the advantages and disadvantages of both sexual and asexual reproduction. 

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May 2021