Diamond Class

Welcome back and a big warm welcome to Diamond Class! It has been lovely meeting all of the new Diamond Class children and I hope they have enjoyed their week as much as the staff have!

We spent much of the week getting to know each other and the routines of year 5 but don’t be fooled into…

Well this week has flown by and the children have been so busy on their two days out. 

The children had a fantastic day Ashton High School, taking part in Science, R.E, P.E, Computing and DT lessons. The children carried out some wonderful experiments with different gases. They went on a …

This week seems to have flown by. The children have started to learn about area, perimeter and volume in mathematics. They have started a new topic in English were they are designing, making and then pitching their idea to a panel of judges. (Dragon Den style)

In science the children have been…

Welcome back :-)

English

We have started to look at a new book about ultimate explorers. We have learnt about an explorer called Ed Stafford and Mary Kingsley who explored the rain forest. We have also learnt about Hiram Bingham who found the lost city of Machu…

Monday

On Monday morning we did English , we were learning about Greek myths and we  was on a page called Pandora's box and the Greek myths were made for ancient Greeks to understand the how the world has bean made. In mathematics we were learning about 4-digit numbers and 1- digit numbers by…

This has been a good week ;-)

English

We started becoming WORD DETECTIVES 

Which includes: Using a dictionary correctly, using a thesaurus & investigating spelling rules. 

In mathematics we have been learning mental methods to add and subtract. 

In science we were looking at…

In English we have been looking at narrative poems like "Millers End " and " By St Thomas water"  and in Mathematics we have been learning about improper fractions and how to convert them to proper fractions e.g 7/6= 1 1/6 In geography we planned routes using co-ordinates. In Science we look at…

Welcome  to my blog this week in diamond class we have been doing about resistance and there are two types of resistance.There is positive and negative resistance.Positive is about helping and doing the right thing and negative is about doing the wrong thing and hurting people.We also have been…

This week in diamond class in English we have been doing some reviews on the museum of fun we are very exited about them and I think that everyone has done a good job and tried their best. We also made a quiz for little children for when they go through the museum they can answer the questions we…

On Friday morning we did a big write competition where we had to write a diary. On Friday afternoon  we learnt about resistance.Where Mrs Keating put MALTEASERS  on our desks and expected us to not eat them. Then she said do not touch them so that was really hard for us especially Oliver. Then we…

What a busy week we have had this week in Diamond Class.

Here are a few of the things we have been up to...

We have been making our own posters in science using the laptops to describe the life cycle of sexual and asexual plants.

In geography we have been looking at what the symbols mean…

Welcome back after the half term. 

This term is certainly going to be filled with lots of fun, laughter and hard work!!

In English this week the children have been learning about the Museum of fun, the children are exploring how to make the museum a more exciting place. They have been…