This week in Willow Class we will be:
English: In English this week we will be continuing our focus on sentences. We will also be continuing looking at Varjak Paw writing a narrative and a non-chronological report.
Maths: In maths this week we will be starting our new topic on addition and subtraction. Our first lessons will be focused on mental strategies and adding and subtracting numbers with four digits.
Science – Our topic at the present is Forces. This week we will be looking at water resistance.
In our class discussions this week we will be starting to focus on oracy skills.
Have a look below to see what we’ve been up to this week:
In science today, Year 5 conducted an experiment into air resistance. They predicted that the bigger the parachute the slower it would fall. They carefully dropped their parachutes and timed their descents to see if they were correct.