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.
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...
Christmas Craft in Elms
On Monday, we had a lovely morning creating Christmas crafts with our parents and carers, who came in to help us create some beautiful baubles!
Take Care of Yourself Week in Elms
This week, the Elms have been working on rights respecting projects. In our class, we have written to the Prime Minister to persuade him to help the Syrian refugees who are living in polythene tents. Today, everyone has written to the Prime Minister and we hope he...
Children In Need
On Friday, we had a fantastic day celebrating all things Children In Need. We dressed up as superheroes, or our own heroes, and took part in an enterprise challenge. We had to design and market a product before pitching it to Mrs Hope, Apprentice-style! W used the...
Welcome to the Elms!
Welcome to Elms! We’ve been back to school a month now, and time has flown! All of the children in Elms have made me feel very welcome, and have really helped me to get to know Windy Nook. Our school council elections took place last week. It was great to see so many...
Researching Writers
This week in Elms we have been conducting research on Lewis Carroll as it is the 150th anniversary of his celebrated story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. What has been the most interesting fact you have discovered about him so far?
Researching Writers
This week in Elms we have been conducting research on Lewis Carroll as it is the 150th anniversary of his celebrated story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. What has been the most interesting fact you have discovered about him so...
Victorians in Year 5 and 6
This term we will be learning all about the Victorians and the influence that they had on Great Britain and the wider world. Please take some time to click on the links below and find out more about them. http://victorians.swgfl.org.uk/...