Elms (Y5)
Mrs HopeWelcome to Elms
We are the Elms and are looking forward to working hard in Year 5 our teacher is Mrs.Hope
Resources:
https://www.purplemash.com/sch/windy-ne10
https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login
https://www.conquermaths.com/login/
Important Information:
Homework will be given out on Friday and will be due in on Wednesdays. Homework will comprise English, Maths and Spelling. Spellings will be tested weekly on Fridays.
Reading should take place at home every night, and diaries should be completed and brought into school on a daily basis.
P.E. is on Fridays each week. Please ensure your child has in school a full P.E. kit, including trainers. P.E. kits will be taken home after use.
Please ensure all school lunch money is paid weekly on a Monday morning.
Year 5 Cricket Festival
Year 5 have had a fantastic day taking part in the Gateshead School Sports Partnership cricket festival. Three teams took part, and all played very well. It was excellent to see how our players developed over the course of the day, as they improved with each game. Our...
Battle of the Somme
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Year 5 visit to Gibside
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The Road to Rio…
Elms have gotten on the Road to Rio in preparation for the Olympic Games this summer. Here are some of the Olympic torches we created for homework – it’s not too late to enter a torch into the competition – make sure it’s in school by tomorrow and your design will be...
Ancient Greek Sculptors
Today we used our clay modelling skills to create busts in the style of the Ancient Greeks. We produced some fantastic work, although it took a lot of patience to get it right! [gallery link="file" size="medium"...
Improving our writing in Elms…
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A busy start to Summer term…
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World Book Day in Elms
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Tonight on the News at Six…
Today in Elms we have been using ‘The Lion King’ as our inspiration for television news reports. After the tragic death of Mufasa, we wrote news reports and recorded them using the iPads. We then used the app iMovie to edit them and make sure our reports were good...
Debating in Elms
Today in Elms we held a debate about the British dairy industry and food miles, linked to our topic work. We thought about different points of view in the debate and the reasons why British farmers want fairer prices for their milk and dairy products, as well as the...
Happy New Year!
We have had a fantastic start to the new year in Elms. We’ve done lots of work with measures in Maths, including solving some tricky problems. We have started our new topic, and produced fantastic mind maps which show how our personal carbon footprint is created....
A busy week in Elms…
It’s been a busy week in Elms and Christmas fever has definitely begun! We have continued using ‘The Man on the Moon’ advert as our focus for English and have turned journalist to write newspaper reports about how the man was discovered. On Wednesday, we visited...