Newsletter 20.10

Broad and Balanced...
Year 5
Class 5 have been working hard writing non-chronological reports about Cornwall. They have
included many new tricky language devices including semi colons, embedded relative clauses
and subordinate clauses. It has been a pleasure to read such interesting reports about our
wonderful county! We have especially enjoyed reading the children’s paragraphs about pasties
and the great “jam first or cream?” debate!
We also completed our Art unit all about drawing this week. Throughout the term, we have
learnt to create texture in drawings, shade and create shadows using a variety of pencil
grades. It was amazing to see the final pieces of artwork created by the whole class. The
quality of their drawings was fantastic, and they showed off all the skills they have learnt over
the past few weeks.
Year 5 have also been enjoying their learning about forces in Science. We have learnt about
Sir Isaac Newton and how he discovered gravity. To test out different forces, the class made
their own tissue paper parachutes to explore the impact of air resistance. They also made
their own paper rockets to explore the impact of shooting them from varying angles. It has
been great to see so much scientific discussion happening during these experiments.
Finally, in Maths Year 5 have completed their learning on addition and subtraction. We learnt
to use the column method to complete some very tricky calculations. We also looked at
multi-step problems and how to pick out key pieces of information from word problems to
help us solve them. We were so impressed by the mathematical skills we have seen during
our Maths lessons.