Year 5 Class Page

This term we will be looking at -

English – writing Persuasive Text.

Scientists have  invented a featherless chicken . This new genetically modified chicken has lots of advantages but also some disadvantages. Students will be using the stylistic cues of ‘Persuasive Writing’ to debate whether the new ‘featherless chicken’ is a good idea.

Mathematics

We are looking at data handling and have investigated data relating to foot sizes in Year 5. We have calculated mean, mode,median and range of the children’s feet – it was a very smelly lesson…

Inquiry

We are investigating how energy is obtained from our food and have calculated the average length of the digestive system of Year 5 pupils and what each part of the digestive system does. Your digestive system is longer than you think. We calculated that from start to finish it is somewhere between 8-10 metres long…