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Friday 12th July

On Thursday we went to watch the Year 6 play around 10am. We started to watch the play and everytime they did a dance we clapped. It was very hot in the hall but it was very fun. Everyone enjoyed it so much and the Year 6 were fantastic! We can't wait for our turn next year!

Wednesday 10th July

Year 5 have been making Greek pots out of clay. We used the coil method and took our time to make the base then coil up the sides.

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Friday 5th July

On Thursday 4th July 2019 we had Transition Day. Year 2 went to Year 3, Year 3 went to Year 4, Year 4 went to Year 5 and we went to Year 6. It was a fun day, we did a buddy leaflet to give to our new buddies in Year 3. We met our buddies and took them around school. We had a picture taken of us and we had to sketch the other side. We are all now looking forward to year 6 and sitting on the benches in the hall.

Friday 28th June

Sports Day!
Wednesday in the morning we took part in a variety of activites such a Football dribbling, basketball shotting etc. In the afteroon we took part in lots of running races. We raced in our houses, in races like long distance, obstacle course and relays. Water won but we were happy to take part!

In our class Mrs Mountjoy and Mrs Kirk awarded certificates to children for their attitude during sports day.

Teamwork - Caine
Enthusiasm - Sabrina
Best performance - Leo
Sportsmanship - Taylor
Determination - Thomas

Well done everyone!

Friday 21st June

Today we took part in a House Art morning. This was something new and we loved it. This is what each house took part in:
Air - Islamic art, colouring and painting.
Water - Kente weaving and origami.
Fire - 2d/3d building
Earth - African background

'I like using all the different coloured sugar paper for our backgrounds' Sam.
'I liked that we had to work in teams to complete our piece of art' Taylor.
'I liked how we didn't work with our friends, we experienced time with other children in different year groups.' Charlie

Friday 14th June

On Friday we went to CCGS for the STEAM day. We took part in:
Cooking

Maths

Science
Screen Printing

Making a keyring

Our favourite was Science as we went panning for Gold! We also enjoyed the screen printing and got to take home our t-shirts.

Friday 10th May

Literacy
In Literacy this week we have been writing a draft newspaper report about the Iron Man.

Maths
This week in maths we have been learning how to do multi-step problems using fractions.

Science
This week in Science we have been planning an experiment. We have taken a bottle and using different materials to wrap the bottle up, we have investigated which materials are conductors and which are insulators.

Topic
In Topic we have been writing about information on Greek Gods and we drew a cool picture of the God.

Friday 3rd May

Maths
This week we have been learning how to divide and find fractions of amounts. For example, 393 ÷ 5 = ?

GPS
In GPS, we have been learning about Fronted Adverbials, what they are and how to use them in our writing and work. For example - as quick as a flash, I ran to school.

PE
This week we have done Athletics, running, jumping and have been practising for Sports Day!

Friday 26th April

This week 5M have been learning the following:

Maths
This week we have been learning how to multiply fractions like this 2 1/3 x 5 = 11 2/3. We were given a sheet of problems that we had to work out involving fractions like that.

Dance
With Ms Morgan we practised a dance based on ancient Greece myths. We were given a script about a myth and had to choose our parts.

Music
We have been learning 3 different chords on the ukelele with Mrs Keen.

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Friday 22nd March

This week in English we did a cold write and a plan for a diary entry. We had to plan a diary based on ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.’ We had to describe what it would feel like if you were entering Narnia for the first time, like Lucy. We also designed a poster on the features of a diary, we drew spider diagrams and features that will be included in our diary.

This week in 5M we have been writing a balanced argument in Literacy. We had to argue for and agaisnt Lucy going to Tea with Mr Tumnus. In Science we were looking at the phases of the moon - do you know how long a Lunar month is? It is Red Nose day today and we came in our own clothes to raise money for the charity. Hopefully we raised a lot!

This week we had to write about The Wardrobe from 'The Chronicles of Narnia'. We had to use descriptive language to describe going into an imaginary world. Later in the week, we had to write about The Professor or his house. Here are two sentences from our descriptions, 'He had shaggy white hair', 'The old, mossy country mansion was owned by a shagged haired, old Professor.'

Friday 8th February

This week we have been finishing our Egyptian topic. We have written biographies on Cleopatra and leaflets persuading people to go on holiday to Egypt in Literacy. Did you know Cleopatra spoke 7 different languages!?

In Maths we have been starting our Unit on fractions, with equivalent fractions. Would would you rather 1/2 of a pizza or 2/4? It’s a trick question as they are both the same!

This week in our Topic we have had our French speaking country week. Year 5 researched Belgium while the other years did Switzerland, Madagascarsca and Canada. On Friday the whole school went to different classes to read other children's research on the French speaking countries. It was super exciting. If we do it next year, we hope we can research Switzerland. We already know loads about it. Spoiler alert (sorry) they make Toblerone.

At the beginning of the Term, Year 5 started to write an adventure story. We were exploring the features of an adventure story and some of the features are:

-speech

-short sentences

- imagery

- rhetorical questions

- cliff hangers

We were also looking at story mountains, opening, dilemma and resolution. We wrote our own setting descriptions on Egypt and had to think about Special Sentences to use. When writing our setting description we had to think about the vocabulary we would use such as beige, tall, pyramids, scorching, golden and sparkling. 

We also learnt how to punctuate sentences uses dashes, brackets and paired commas.

Next week we will start writing our own stories based on 'Secrets of a Sun King'.

This week Year 5 went to the Pantomime to watch Cinderella. We are writing about it next week in our Literacy lessons. When we were on the train we got to sit and talk to our partners. When we got there we were listening to Christmas music, had our picture taken outside by the Christmas tree, ate our lunch and watched the show. We sat in the upper circle which was very high. At the end it was upsetting. Poor Buttons didn't get the girl.

Friday 30th November

We are starting to get busier as Christmas gets closer. This week we have finished our Christmas trees that are decorating our class hoop in the hall. Our hymn was 'Oh Christmas Tree'.
On Wednesday, a few of us stayed late in school to help Mrs Mountjoy show off our classroom and what we do in year 5. Well done Emese, Riley, Sophie and Charlie for representing 5M.
Next week will be even more exciting as we are going to watch the Panto in Canterbury! Oh no you aren't.... Oh yes we are!

Friday 16th November

This week everyone has been taking part in Recycling Week. Year 5 have been doing PowerPoints about recycling, asking questions about why we recycle and looking at the data. We have used ICT a lot to help us to do this, designing PowerPoints and graphs to represent the data. On Friday, we made posters to encourage people to recycle in school.

This week in Year 5 we are learning about Ancient Egypt in Topic. We looked at the different jobs during that time and their job descriptions. We matched up the different job and had to write a little letter with a reason for which job we would like and why we wanted that job. ​ We also watched a video about an explorer, Tadeo Jones. We had to write a recount from his point of view, thinking about his movements and feelings.

On Friday, we watched a video about WW1 and the soldiers that have died for us. We are thankful for everyone that fought for us.

Friday 2nd November

This week in English 5M are reading the book 'Secrets of a Sun King' by Emma Carroll. Over the past few days we have been writing newspaper reports on Egypt based on the book. We highlighted and looked at real newspapers and identified the different features.

On Friday we designed and made ships, thinking about our book from last term 'The Wreck of the Zanzibar'.

Thursday 18th October

We visited the church for our RE lesson this week. We all went and drew pictures of the church features. Some of us drew the stained glass windows and some focused on the lectern. I enjoyed drawing the cross and Riley enjoyed drawing the Lectern. We also looked at the altar and choir stalls.

This week in Year 5 (5M) we were looking at the main features of a church. The features we looked at were:
· The Lectern
· Choir stalls
· Organ
· Pulpit
· Stain glass windows
· Pews
· Altar
· Font
The Lectern is the place where you get bread and wine for Holy Communion. We pray to give our messages to God. Next week we are visiting the church to look at these features some more.

This week in Literacy in 5M, we are writing about The Wreck of the Zanzibar. Next week we are going to be writing diaries about it. On Thursday, it was National Poetry Day so we have been writing poems about Change (like seasons) as well as working on The Wreck of the Zanzibar.
So far in the story, the two twins Billy and Lauren have been separated because Billy went away with Joseph Hannibal to travel around the world to explore but Laura didn't bring Billy . This book is set in 1907 and to find out more about the story you will have to wait until you are in year 5!

Term 6

As part of our Aspirations week, Year 5 had our very own Mr Gorham and Mr Milligan come in and tell us about their careers and their career journeys, which ranged from the RAF, construction and a pesky pop up ad designer. The children were very interested and asked a lot of great questions. Thank you both for taking time out of your day to speak with us.

Year 5 have brought their Local Heritage project to a close, looking at Census data back to 1871. This took a lot of resilience as older Census can be hard to read but once the children had decoded the handwriting they were hooked! We may even have some family tree enthusiasts in our midst. Please ask your children about this project as they know a lot about St Laurence now and the award we are hoping to win based on our work.

Term 5 - Dover Museum

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Term 3 - Exploring Artefacts

In Topic this week, year 5 were exploring artefacts and practising their questioning skills. Each group had a mystery Egyptian item and they had to try and work out what it was.

Term 3 - ICT

In ICT this week the children had to design their own small game. They then got the opportunity to test out each other’s games and see who could score the most in the limited time given. Made more difficult if you couldn’t reach the top of the board.

Term3 - Posters

Year 5 have been looking at real leaflets, picking out the features and persuasive techniques. Then they made their own posters explaining the different techniques seen.

Term 3 - Ancient Egypt research

Year 5 are using the laptops to write up a set of instructions based on our Topic- Ancient Egypt. Do you want to know how to build a pyramid? Ask any of our Year 5 children!

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Term 3 - Gymnastics

Year 5 started Gymnastics this term. With their partner they had to come up with a four sequence routine and then perform it to the class.

Term 3 - Drama in Literacy

Year 5 were exploring the features of adventure stories by using drama and freeze frames. Can you guess what their characters were doing?

Term 2 - BBC live

5M took part in a BBC live lesson to celebrate the WW1 centenary. They had to produce their own haikus to help us say Thank you and remember those who fought and died.

Term 2 - Laptops

5M used the laptops this week to research and produce PowerPoints to try to encourage people to recycle.

Term 1 - Church visit

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5M science term 1

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