his week Y5 have begun a new English Unit, Persuasive writing.

They have use collaborative learning techniques to identify persuasive devices form several different texts.
For World Book Day the children created their own versions of a Spacecraft on a papier mache base, as a connection with the The Jamie Drake Equation.

In Maths the children have been converting improper fractions to mixed number fractions to answer reasoning and calculation questions. We hope to move to percentages next week.

In topic the children have considered the materials needed to build a house. 5BK were taken out onto the playground, to look at the current building work at the nearby secondary school. We also discussed how a builder follows a plan to construct a structure.